Lao Tzu · translated by James Legge
Tao Te Ching
The Book of the Way and of Virtue, one chapter a day.
The highest excellence is like that of water.Epigraph · chapter 8
ContentsThe 81 slips
The oldest known copies of the book were written in ink on strips of bamboo, found by archaeologists in 1993 in a tomb at Guodian. Each slip on this tray opens its chapter in the scroll.