Central to Taoism is the idea that everything is in a continual state of flux, ceaselessly changing and adapting. Thus, no single idea or thing is to be attached to. Nothing is to be forced in or out of place. All is to be permitted to run its natural course, subject to the one, constant, unchanging truth: everything changes. And so, it is perhaps nothing but a confirmation of this idea that the interpretation of Taoism’s ideas, in some sense, changes over time.
