Editing Taoism (section)

===Chinese classics===
[[File:Anonymous - Zhenwu with the Eight Trigrams, the Northern Dipper, and Talismans - 1999.566 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg|thumb|Daoist deity [[Xuanwu (god)|Zhenwu]] with the Eight Trigrams ([[bagua]]) from the ''Yijing'' and the Northern Dipper, surrounded by Taoist talismans.]]
Taoism draws on numerous [[Chinese classics]] that are not themselves "Taoist" texts but that remain important sources for Taoists. Perhaps the most important of these is the ancient divination text called the ''[[I Ching|Yijing]]'' (circa 1150 BCE).<ref>Pittman, Allen. [https://books.google.com/books?id=HG-fUg2TqRQC&pg=PA21 ''Walking the I Ching''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018093755/https://books.google.com/books?id=HG-fUg2TqRQC&pg=PA21 |date=18 October 2015 }}. Blue Snake Books, 2008. p. 21</ref> The divination method in the ''Yijing'' and its associated concepts of yin and yang mapped into 64 "[[Hexagram (I Ching)|hexagrams]]"—combinations of the [[Bagua|8 trigrams]]—has influenced Taoism from its inception until today.<ref>Wing, R. L. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Mw-KtYRQHhoC&pg=PA15 ''The I Ching Workbook''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017045900/https://books.google.com/books?id=Mw-KtYRQHhoC&pg=PA15 |date=17 October 2015 }} Doubleday, 1979. pp. 15, 20.</ref><ref name="ClearyTIC">e.g. Cleary, Thomas, tr. [https://books.google.com/books?id=w9NFEyUKfQkC&pg=PT17 ''The Taoist I Ching''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101080655/https://books.google.com/books?id=w9NFEyUKfQkC&pg=PT17 |date=1 November 2015 }}. Shambhala, 1986. p. 6.</ref>

Taoism also drew on other non-Taoist Chinese classic texts including:{{sfnp|Kirkland|2004|p=2-10}}{{sfnp|Kohn|2008|p=23–33}}<ref name="Robinet 1997, p. 62"/>
* The ''[[Mozi]]'', which was later adopted as a Taoist text by Taoists (who also saw master Mo – Mozi – as a Taoist immortal and included the ''Mozi'' into the Taoist canon).{{sfnp|Kirkland|2004|p=26}}
* [[Confucianism|Confucian]] classics like the ''[[Analects]]'' and the ''[[Mencius (book)|Mengzi]]''.
* ''[[Guanzi (text)|Guanzi]]'', which includes Taoistic ideas in several chapters.
* The ''[[Han Feizi]]'' (''Writings of Master [[Han Fei]]''), a Legalist work that also contains key Taoist themes, such as wu-wei.
* ''[[Lüshi Chunqiu]]'', which is widely quoted in early Taoist sources.
* ''[[Huangdi Neijing]]'' ''(The Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor),'' an ancient Chinese medical text that was influential on Taoist inner cultivation theory.
* ''[[Huainanzi]]'' ({{circa|139 BCE}}), an ancient source that includes [[Taoist]], [[Confucianist]], and [[Legalism (Chinese philosophy)|Legalist]] ideas.
* ''[[Guiguzi]]'', which its ideas were integrated into Taoist writings
* ''[[Heguanzi]]'', a collection also contain Taoist writings