Despite getting distorted and mixed up with religion and politics in the Han dynasty, when this philosophy was applied to art it produced a type of emotion that could be enjoyed as a value in itself, not as an instrument for achieving something else.
它所成就的是藝術。基本上來說，道家的這種思想，到了漢代被人曲解，與宗教政治結合，發生了別的作用。