PC: Taoist China

Is there any good PoD or set of events for China to be both majority taoist and controlled by an institutionally taoist state?
Could the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the early 3rd century be a good starting point?
 
Already happened in early Han Dynasty,but the Confucians later hijacked the state.In OTL,the elite of early Han Dynasty were predominantly Taoist.Zhang Liang,the chief early Han Dynasty strategist spent the rest of his days meditating and trying to become a Taoist god.
 
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Skallagrim

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To some extent, I must disagree with the assessment that Taoist China already existed under the earlier Han dynasty in OTL. The early Han dynasty itself was Taoist, deriving from Chu, where Taoism was historically powerful. China in its entirety was another story, though. It's not simply a case of "Confucians hijacking the state": Confucianism was the predominant philosophy throughout China already. The Qin had introduced their own preferred ideology, legalism, to a greater audience. Neoconfucianism, which eventually won out, was mostly a successor of earlier Confucianism, merged with legalist influences and Taoist infuences. It wasn't a hijacking so much as semi-deliberate syncreticism to end up with a philosophy that served the intersts of the state while uniting China to a greater extent (through the forging of a united philosophy for the entire country). It's not as if the Confucian and legalist influences were absent under the early Han dynasty. One might argue that outside the state apparatus, they were even then considerably more prominent than Taoism itself.

A true Taoist China, where Confucianism and legalism get entirely or almost entirely wiped out, is a completely different thing. Instead of looking at the Han dynasty, however, I think the best way to get it done remains the obvious one: have the state of Chu unite China. Ideally, this can and should be achieved by preventing the rise of legalism in the state of Qin. Its rise was fundamentally engendered by one reformer (Shang Yang), so killing him off as a child does the job. This allows for a situation where Qin is defeated by Chu, which gives Chu the added power base to ultimately unite China. Since there is no legalism, Taoism only has to contend with Confucianism as its main rival. (There are other schools of thought, but these historically faded out or were absorbed by one of the big ones.) The result of such a Chu-united China could well be "Neotaoism" instead of "Neoconfucianism". That is: a Taoist philosophy that absorbs some elements of Confucianism (and possibly some other philosophies), while Confucianism itself ends up marginalised.
 
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