Welcome back with you again.

Thanks for finding some time to listen to the China History Podcast.

We're knee deep in the history of Chinese philosophy.

Last episode we studied Laoza'u and today without further ado let's not waste one more

moment of time and get straight to Ju'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'

his book, The Juangse, is sometimes referred to as the second book of the Dau.

The Dau de Jin and the Juansu are the two core books that make up the earliest works of Taoism.

For Lau-Juan Taoism, these are the holiest of holies.

We closed last episode explaining the two different schools of Taoism,

La Joang and Huangloa.

Huangloa for Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor.

Huang Zui lived around 369 to 286B. This puts some smack dab in the middle of the warring states period.

He was born, Guangzhou. Joe was his given name as the story goes. He came from Song State, present-day Anhui

province from the town of Mengchung. Although Confucius was born in Lou

State in Shandong, his ancestry went back to Song State.

We know about Juang Tze, the same way we know about Laud-Se, from

Sima Chien's Sher-G, are records of the Grand Historian.

Sima Chien said that

Huangse worked in a so-called lacquer garden,

but there's no explanation as to exactly what a lacquer garden was.

Huangseh completely exactly what a lacquer garden was.

Huangse completely rejected a life in government, despite his renown as a respected wise man of letters.

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