Daosskaya religiya byla tesno svyazana s magicheskoy kul"turoy i arkhaicheskimi verovaniyami Drevnego Kitaya. Dinastii In" i Chzhou vpitali v sebya tayny neoliticheskikh kul"tov, a takzhe ezotericheskie znaniya drevnikh magov i shamanov-gadateley. Izyskannyy religioznyy tseremonial i liturgika soedinilis" s videniyami mediumov v uchenii o misticheskom Dao. Na etikh stranitsakh chitatel" otkroet dlya sebya osnovnye postulaty drevney religii kitaytsev, uvidit otrazhenie etikh idey na protsesse formirovaniya daosskoy traditsii i sovremennogo mirooshchushcheniya vostochnoaziatskikh narodov, osoznaet krasotu i mudrost" drevnikh vostochnykh obychaev pokloneniya predkam i dukham umershikh.