Abstract：According to the 734 works by the 26 Taoists of the pre-Qin period collected in “Treatise on Literature” from Book of Han， it can be identified that 701 articles were written by the 22 Taoists of Song， Wei， Zheng， Chen， Qi and Chu， accounting for more than 84 % of the total number of Taoists in the pre-Qin period and more than 96 % of the total number of works collected in the book. The reason for the states of Song， Wei， Zheng， Chen， Qi and Chu producing so many pre-Qin Taoists and works was that the basic population in these areas descended from the ancient Zhuanxu clan， and there was some natural “historiographical” consciousness of “studying the relationship between heaven and man， and understanding the changes of the past and present” in their genes. “The stream of Taoists originated from historiographers”， which means “the stream of Taoists originated from the Zhuanxu (Chong， Li) clan， the officials of heaven and earth”. Since the ideological and cultural genes of Zhuanxu Taoism had a relatively pure inheritance in the three States of Chen， Song and Chu，the Taoism of Laozi and Zhuangzi's “emptiness and inaction” and “to be reclusive and nameless as a matter of business” were popular here in its origin. By contrast， the Taoism in the states of Wei， Zheng and Qi had the prominent characteristics of the fusion of Dongyi culture and western Yanhuang culture. Therefore， under the name of Taoism's “Tao”， the Taoists in this area also sought the mutual adjustment and integration with Confucianism， law， criminal law， name and other ideas.
高华平. 道家的文化基因——先秦道家与上古的氏族、部落及国家[J]. 华中师范大学学报（人文社会科学版）, 2023, 62(6): 119-137.
Gao Huaping. The Cultural Gene of Taoism——The Relationship between the Pre-Qin Taoism and the Ancient Clans， Tribes and States. journal1, 2023, 62(6): 119-137.
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