A Wikipedia article on Laozi, the traditional founding figure of Daoism and putative author of the Tao Te Ching. Alongside its account of his life and disputed historicity, the article carries a Ming-era portrait of Laozi captioned as a venerable sage, illustrating the same tradition of devotional and semi-divine Daoist-immortal portraiture that later gilt icons such as museum-held Ming figures of Laozi continue. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the Ming-era Daoist immortal portrait convention Laozi belongs to, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue naming and dating an actual figure made under that convention. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Laozi, Figures This source names Laozi directly: "A Wikipedia article on Laozi, the traditional founding figure of Daoism and putative author of the Tao Te Ching."
Source Laozi (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Figures, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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