国家小，人民少。《道德经》为远古华夏语录体著作。《道德经》第八十章是为小国设计，为小国提供自处的一个方案。但是她更多的是为大国，比如《道德经》六十章治大国若烹小鲜。然后接下来有好几张都是为大国。《道德经》不仅谈小国、更多的是谈大国。小国、大国老子都提供了方案。
我们小国寡民，加上生育率偏低，更需要这么做。
All the more so for us, as we are a small country with low birth rates.
而我们生活的世界是否能通过自 然 之道达到小国寡民的理想世界， 这正是老子生命哲学的基本课题。
However, by the ministries of " the natural way, " our living world could attain to an ideal world of "small country and few people. " This is the fundamental issue of Lao zi's philosophy of life.
此外，“小国寡民”是老子设想的理想世界、桃花源，这与我们现在所说的“小的是美好”的思想不谋而合。
Besides, "small territory and population" is the ideal world imagined by Laotse which happens have the same view with the thought we are talking now "small thing is the niceness".
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