Daoism also spelt Taoism, indigenous religious and philosophical tradition that has shaped the Chinese life for more than two thousand years. In the best adherence to this sense a Taoist attitude towards life is joyful and carefree and upholding the morals and duty-conscious that ascribe with Confucianism. Daoism also set considerations to the occult and the metaphysical. Daoism can be defined as the ideas and attitudes peculiar to Laozi which is just the classic of the powers. Taoist religion does not bear of gods but are concern with the ritual worship of the Dao (Ames).
Daoism has been viewed as a link between the Confucian tradition and folk tradition. Taoist tradition is more favored and spontaneous, than the Confucian cult and less diffuse and structured like the folk tradition. Daoism has had its influence all over Asia in such countries as Japan, Korea, and Vietnam (Ames).
Daoism holds its strength in the attributes of its followers and it does not teach of the existence of a supreme being that is responsible for the design of the world. The Daoism and Confucian traditions hold the same ideas about man, society, heaven and the universe.
Daoism and Buddhist elements have co-existed without clear distinction in the mind of worshippers. This is as a result of mutual borrowing and numerous superficial similarities (Ames).
*Ames, Roger T. Daoism.