「The philosophy emerged at the time of Confucius in the 5th century B. C. with Laozi and Zhuangzi as the two representative thinkers, but the institutional religion made a start only seven hundred years later by its founder Zhang Daoling. 」
道家学说大约兴起于公元前5世纪孔子的时代,老子和庄子是道家学说的有代表性的思家。道教是7百年后由张道陵创立的。