Which rings more true to you: Taoism or Confucianism?

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I tend to think that Chinese civilisation, in the long run, struck a wise balance in seeing these as complimentary traditions, with Confucianism a resource for social and ethical life and Daoism a resource for bodily health and natural attunement, rather than conflicting.  I sort of hold them in that kind of regard now. That said, in early China, particularly from the Warring States to the Tang Dynasties, these traditions were diametrically opposed to one another, in terms of their respective political and social visions, forms of personal cultivation and cosmological outlooks.  I've also come in recent years to have a great deal of respect for the early Mohist tradition, despite its relatively short life, from Warring States to early Han, before the 20th century witnessed a revival of interest in it.  Early Confucian and Daoist thought have very different meta-frameworks for evaluating social norms, but the Mohists, who accept the need for social norms, are much more precise ethical critics of Confucian ideas as well as developers of their own system.