In facing the radical changes in China during the Six Dynasties, especially in facing the political division between both sides of the South and North Dynasties for three hundred years, Taoism as a national religion had to elaborate a creative interpretation of its doctrine of salvation: that is, saving people from calamity. The theological foundation of Taoism is based upon these concepts of “calamitous turn” and “fateful calamity,” upon which we can say there is a kind of “Chinese eschatology.” This eschatology has its essential dogmas; it is different from the Christian version, although the framework of presentation is more or less the same. Both are worked out on two models, the cosmological and the soteriological. The cosmological model: Taoism has inherited a traditional Chinese vision of cosmic origin and structure. According to it, the cosmos follows a cyclic order within which the rhythmic dialectics between Yin and Yang take place. The Yang pole, when pushed to its radical state, interpreted by the number 9, represents the calamity of drought; whereas the Yin pole, radicalized to the state interpreted numerically by 6, represents the calamity of flood. The doctrine of sensitive interaction between Heaven and Man is derived from this organic cosmology. Here we have another vision of mutual influence between natural disasters and human morality, the latter being characterized by either trespass and sin, or merit and virtues, provoking thereby either punishment or reward from the cosmic process. The oppositions between “permanence and change,”as well as “normal and abnormal,”constitute a basic conceptual structure in Chinese philosophy. Confucianism is for the permanent and the normal, whereas Taoism is more on the side of change and the abnormal. That is why it concerns itself with drought, flood, illness, collective death and the end of dynasties, etc. It combines the eschatological concept of “end” with the catastrophic concept of calamity into the concept of “Catastrophic Ending,”which is also considered as the right moment for punishment or salvation by the Omnipotent God. The soteriological model: Taoist wisdom is a type of learning about tackling radical changes. Its main concern is how to return from the abnormal to the normal. Those who follow the Way become the “seed people”: elected people in the Taoist sense, to be rewarded by entering the world of immortals, transcending all life and death in spatio-temporal process. This will be a world of happiness and harmony. Those who, abandoning themselves in evil and sin, do not follow the Way, are to be abandoned again by Heavenly God. Combining both models, Taoism sees the world as an unceasing recurrence of fateful calamity and salvation from calamity. Under this main concern, new sects of Taoism tend to emphasize the role of Savior, but the aspect of cultivational practice, although often neglected by scholars of Taoism, is also essential for salvation from sin and evil.