Nine schools and a hundred schools

…In China, there are nine schools of thought. They are also called the Nine Schools of Thought. In the early Western Han period, the academic studies of the various schools that developed around the same time were summarized into the Six Schools of Yin and Yang, Confucianism, Mo, Ming, Law, and Morality in the book “Essay on the Six Schools” by Sima Tan, the father of Sima Qian. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Nine Schools and Hundred Schools" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…中国，諸子百家の9種の流派。九流百家ともいう。前漢初期，前後して展開した〈諸子〉の学術を，陰陽･儒･墨･名･法･道徳の〈六家（りくか）〉に要約したのは，司馬遷の父，司馬談の〈六家の要指〉である。…

※「九流百家」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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