Taoism is one of the mainstream cultures in China. When people talk about Taoism, they always talk about "Laozi and Zhuangzi". Laozi was a Taoist master and was later regarded as a Taoist leader. Zhuangzi is a master of Taoism. Laozi and Zhuangzi are carriers of Taoist philosophy. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin strongly advocated Taoism because he wanted to climb his ancestors with Lao Zi. Laozi is called Tao Te Ching. By the time of Xuanzong in the Tang Dynasty, Zhuangzi, also known as the classic of southern China, had become a must-read for Taoism. The original work of Laozi is only 5,000 words, and the book Zhuangzi has only 33 articles. Some people say that they are good articles, covering an idea in one sentence, summarizing the wonderful meaning of San Xuan's three essentials in one sentence, and telling us many laws. For thousands of years, everyone has been studying Laozi and Zhuangzi. In modern times, many foreigners, including people from Japan and South Korea, as far away as Europe and America, and even Oceania, also like to study Laozi and Zhuangzi. So, as one of the three pillars of China traditional culture, does Taoist philosophy have any influence on art design? The answer is yes. Let's discuss the profound influence of Taoist philosophy on art design. Ji Xiaolan, a famous scholar in Qing Dynasty, once commented on Taoism in eight words: "comprehensive and profound." To say that Laozi and Zhuangzi's philosophy is all-encompassing, this is not to link Laozi and Zhuangzi's philosophy with eastern mysticism. Laozi and Zhuangzi talk about conforming to nature, which is the biggest "Tao" of Laozi and Zhuangzi. The so-called "Tao gives birth to one, life gives birth to two, life gives birth to three, and life gives birth to everything." Everything is negative and positive, and it is urgent to think that it is peaceful. "This is the truth. Cathode is Yang and anode is Yin, which is the basic concept of "Yin and Yang rise and fall" in the Book of Changes and the basic philosophical thought of Taoism. Using this philosophical thought, many problems in practice can be solved easily. If Yin and Yang are too abstract and "metaphysical", then we can look at nature. The sun rises in the east in the morning, and it is the roundest and hottest time at noon, that is, the total solar eclipse, but if it continues, it will be "sunset", and if it continues, it will be "thin moon and thin stars". So is the moon. The seventh and eighth days are the first quarter moon, then the fifteenth month, then the twenty-third and twenty-fourth first quarter months. Therefore, the ancients said that "the monthly surplus is a loss, and the water surplus is an overflow." Laozi said: "Whether there is mutual strength, mutual difficulty, long and short consistency, high and low competition, sound and harmony." Just explain this natural phenomenon clearly. These problems can be solved easily by explaining the dispute between "ism" and "genre" in art design with the philosophical thoughts of Laozi and Zhuangzi. Modernism and anti-classicism, from tedious decoration to no decoration, finally pushed art to nudity and blank. Classical architectural art has always been full of metaphors, allusions, myths and legends. Builders deliberately pursue the symbolic meaning of stones, carving mythical figures, complex patterns and gorgeous decorations on the walls. Modernism hates this, and their slogan against decoration is: less is more. Revolutionaries stripped buildings of their beautiful clothes and left them naked. Their skin was smooth or rough, but in their view, it was true and should be praised. Therefore, albert camus, the master of existentialism, visited yves klein's experimental installation exhibition in Iris Claire Gallery and wrote a famous saying that he would read for a while in the future: "Only its emptiness is the most powerful." In fact, this extreme approach is the most undesirable. If we find a middle way between art and technology, wouldn't it be an ideal solution for both? This is not eclecticism, but a kind of "law heaven and earth, law nature" of Laozi and Zhuangzi. In Bauhaus, Gropius repeatedly emphasized "the unity of art and technology", which is actually a reflection of Laozi and Zhuangzi's philosophy. Chapter 25 of Laozi says: "The old road is big, big, big, and the National People's Congress. There are four big ones in the area, one of which is inhabited by human beings. Man's law is based on the earth, the earth is based on the sky, the sky is based on the Tao, and the Tao is natural. " It is regarded as "the greatest humanistic thought" and "the thought most in line with sustainable development" by many western modern artists and designers. Building space should first consider how to meet people's needs, and at the same time, there should be a very harmonious relationship among people, architecture and environment, which is what the ancients often said about heaven, earth and people.