What's the History of Taoism in China?

The way works in China is that all Chinese religions are based on some kind or another of animism, right? That's sort of the general beliefs across China as being some type of shamanic animistic beliefs. So they mix traditional animism in China with Confucian philosophy, boom, you've got Confucianism as a religion. People like Taoist stuff, so they mix the animistic stuff with Taoist principle, and you got Taoism asa religion. To me, the philosophy is the core. It's like that's the one that you can do without. The other ones is a little bit of a shopping cart. You decide, yeah, I like these

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