老子,姓李,名耳,字聃,又称老聃,是春秋时代人,生卒年不祥。据史书记载,老子曾做过周王朝的史官,在他的晚年由于看到了周王朝的日趋没落,便辞官回到他的家乡楚国苦县(今河南省鹿邑县)过隐居生活。由于老子生活在奴隶制生产关系逐渐崩溃,封建制生产关系逐步产生的时代,所以 Lao Tzu, surnamed Li, the name ear, the word 聃, also known as Lao Shao, is the Spring and Autumn Period, birth and death ominous. According to historical records, Lao Tzu had been a historian of the Zhou dynasty. In his later years, seeing the dynastic decline of the Zhou dynasty, he resigned from his hometown of Chu County in Ku county (now Luyi County, Henan Province) to live seclusion. As Lao Tzu lived in an age where the relations of slavery gradually collapsed and the relations of feudal production gradually came into being,