# Huai - nan Tzŭ — Tao Te Ching character guide

> Huai - nan Tzŭ in Tao Te Ching by Laozi.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Huai - nan, Huai

**First appearance:** 0005-tao-te-ching

## Who they are

Han dynasty prince and patron of Taoist philosophical works.

## In the story

### [The Texts of the Tao Te Ching and Chuang-Tzŭ Shu, as Regards Their Authenticity and Genuineness, and the Arrangement of Them](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tao_te_ching_se/chapters/the-texts-of-the-tao-te-ching-and-chuang-tz-shu-as-regards-their-authenticity-and-genuineness-and-the-arrangement-of-them)

Author of the Huai-nan Tzŭ; his many quotations from the Tao Te Ching are used as evidence of its early circulation.

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