Umbrella term for the philosophical explosion of the late Zhou —
诸子 ('the various masters': Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mozi, Han Feizi, etc.) and
百家 ('the hundred schools': Confucian
儒, Daoist
道, Mohist
墨, Legalist
法, School of Names
名, Yin-Yang
阴阳, and many more). Han historian Sima Tan grouped them into six schools; later
班固 expanded the count to ten.