You see quotes, the Tao is really the way, it's all about harmony with the universe. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations, the Tao Te Ching. Now later on, Buddhism, it's interesting, Buddha lives at around the same time, once again his birth and date under a little bit more contention, as Confucius and he lives in Northeast India, Nepal area and Buddhism really comes about in India but it eventually makes its way into China especially as we get into the first millennium CE and in modern day China, a lot of the culture and the philosophy and the religion is a combination in particular of Confucianism most strongly but also Taoism and Buddhism but there are other philosophies. For example, Moism is a quite interesting one. I encourage you to look at it but it's all about this notion of impartial love. It actually has a lot of similarities, parallels with the teachings of Jesus as told by the gospels but that notion was viewed somewhat impractical by many of the followers of Confucius and especially the legalists and Moism really didn't last much beyond the Qin Dynasty but one way to think about it is legalism allowed the Qin Dynasty to really end the warring states period and centralize China but then that short-lived dynasty as they transitioned to the Han, the Han took over the administrative structure and the stability of the Qin to a large degree but then they made Confucianism really the state philosophy and you could even say the state religion and to appreciate the importance of Confucianism to Chinese culture, I'll leave you with this last quote by the historian Huston Smith.