Wang Fuzhi had a critical attitude towards Laozi in general,which was mainly embodied in two aspects of close connection.One was laozi's philosophical view.The fatal shortcoming of laozi's philosophy was the separation of Tao and the object,and the sec-ond is that laozi's movement must return when it reached the pole and the tao used its weakness,There are limits to both.Two was laozi's view of society.The laozi inaction,actually was nothing to do but wait It's done by itself,it abandoned the Confucian benevolence and class level,there was no sense of social responsibility indifferent and selfish,not only such,laozi in life,there were many"insidi-ous".Wang Fuzhi tried to restore the origin of Lao Tzu's thought and made a more objective analysis of its advantages and disadvan-tages,especially the understanding of the shortcomings of Lao Tzu,which was the most profound and systematic in the history of the Lao Tzu research,and the most thorough criticism of it,which also changed the direction of the academic thought from the empty Mind to the pragmatism in the late Ming and the early Qing Dynasty.It was of great significance.