Dao De Jing is very popular among my friends last year. when we gather together, they always state their feelings after reading the book. I think the group of people who like to read the book is between 40 and 50 years old.

dao de jing is a philosophy of Loser so,not fit the young student. in school,the philosophy of Confucius is very popular

I think dao de jing is not being read among young people and common people in china nowadays.At least it isn't embodied by the national middle and primary schools' chinese language textbooks.in this case many students will not learn it in the classes.on the other hand,for dao de jing is ancient prose at all ,it is hard to read for modern people so many people often read the modern texts edition.In my eye though many people don't read dao de jing nowadays ,what one will do and look on the things are all based on the dao de jing if one is moral.Dao de jing includes some philosophy theories that are the base of the chinese culture.

Even its not the popular book in China,its still a so usefull and religious book,you will know many principles by your heart every time when you read it.

i am a junior in my high education. i noticed that students in my age show little interest on that. in china now,it is not a complusory course for us.we students are encouraged to read some other works of confucious ,like analect of confucious. however,our Philosophical teacher are obsessed to it. she taught us something about it and Taoism. i feel it's mysterious.