The Tao Te Ching, (also Daode Jing) is a Chinese classic text composed of eighty-one short poems. According to many sources, the text's true date and authorship are still widely debated, but commonly believed to have been written by a wise man named Laozi in the 6th century BC. The book is composed of a combination of two major strategies; the first, being short, declaration statements and the other as intentional contradictions. The ideas are singular, rhetorical styles of both Tao meaning the way and Te meaning virtue. Taoism, or Daoism is strongly correlated with Confucianism as two of the great religious and philosophical systems in Chinese life. In ancient China, the political suggestion of Taoism was mainly an opposition of authority,