Who was the ancestor of Taoism?

The ancestor of Taoism was Zhang Daoling.

Zhang Daoling, whose real name is Fu Han and original name is Ling, was the founder of Zheng Yi Meng Wei Dao and was born in Fengxian County of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The old gentleman in Taishang "taught Buddhism for three days, and made his life a heavenly teacher", while the later Buddha called it "the bodhi old zu heavenly teacher", "the righteous man is a real person" and "the exorcist who teaches exorcism for three days", a wise god, Zhang Tianshi.

The book "The Old Xiangzi Jules" has more than 3,000 disciples and 24 schools, which laid the foundation of the Stone Heaven. Zhang Daoling, Ge Xuan, Xu Xun, and Handcudgel are called the Four Kings.

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Zheng He is a religious organization founded by Zhang Daoling and handed down from generation to generation by his descendants, with Laozi as the leader, Zuo Fu as the highest belief, Zuo Fu as the mode of communication and the pursuit of immortality as the highest realm. Since Zhang Daoling began to practice alchemy in Longhu Mountain, Longhu Mountain can be called the first Taoist mountain in China. Zhang Daoling is the founder of the road to justice. He is the ancestor Shi Tian, also known as the first generation Shi Tian.

Tianshidao has a history of nearly two thousand years in China since the formal establishment of Zhengyi School in Zhang Daoling in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the process of his own inheritance and development, Zheng He constantly absorbed the essence of China traditional culture, which is one of the main ideological pillars of China traditional culture.

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