A promise made easily means that a promise made easily is bound to lack credit. From the sixty-third chapter of Laozi: "If the world is difficult, it will be easy; Great things in the world must be done in the details. Therefore, a saint is not great after all, so he can become great. It is easy and difficult for a husband who promises lightly to break his promise. It is still difficult to be a saint, so it is not difficult in the end. "

The translation is: the difficult things in the world must start from the relatively easy places; The world's major events must start with small things. So saints never do great things, but in the end they achieve great things. If you make promises easily, there must be a breach of contract; Seeing things too easily will inevitably lead to more unexpected difficulties. Therefore, saints always see things as difficult, but in the end there is no difficulty.

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Laozi's articles are literary and have a great influence on later literature. First of all, Tao Te Ching played a highly specific literary and social role and played an important role in people's understanding of natural phenomena and social life at that time. Literary works are the image reflection of social life, and good literary works actually reproduce various scenes in natural and social phenomena.

It reflects the economy, politics and culture in a certain historical period, describes the mental outlook of different classes, strata and figures, reflects people's various realistic relationships, and enables readers to obtain various correct understandings about history and reality, society and life. Laozi has made great achievements in these aspects.