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Started in the 4th or 3rd Century B.C.E., but is still practiced in some parts of the world today.

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Zaozi

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Mainly China, but spread into Southeast Asia

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- Dao (the way): everyone has a path planned out for their life
- These paths lived in harmony with one another and the cosmos
- They believed in the concept of yin and yang, where everything should be balanced.
- Mountains and rivers were sacred in their religion because they represented harmony and serenity in the real world, and this was a model for Daoist's spiritual lives.

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Daoism was a gender-neutral religion, which is very rare for the area of which Daoism was practiced. They understood that women played an equal role in spiritual life.

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In Daoism, the leader wasn't intervened with. A good leader was respected by the people and the people were willing to follow his laws.