An information sign on the side of the
    Laozi Hut, the site where the old
    Daoist master wrote one of the most
    famous books of all time, the Dao De
    Jing,  a collection of 81 chapters of
    semi-mysterious, semi-paradoxical
    writings of ancient Chinese wisdom.
    This book, which was actually written
    on bamboo strips tied together, was
    inked out nearly 2,500 years ago or
    so.
    That makes the "old boy", as the
    name Laozi is literally translated, a
    contemporay of Gautam Buddha in
    India.
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