Daoism, China's oldest surviving religion, goes back thousands of years. Its most sacred site is Wudang Mountain. Monks there have long perfected Kung Fu. (2:26)
The Hanging Temple was evicted during the Cultural Revolution, but one monk still lives in a nearby monastery. He describes the Daoist philosophy towards nature, emphasized in the Shanxi Mountains. A BBC Production.
With Confucian ideal as a backbone for Chinese life, a contrasting religion emerges. Daoist ideals prefer to see man as a part of nature. The first book of Doaism is called the Lao-Tze, written during the Tang Dynasty.
