The Spirit and Characteristics of Chinese Philosophy

The so-called “Chinese philosophy” is very complex in terms of its content. It is a philosophy with a hundred different schools of thought including Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, Neo Confucianism of Song and Ming Dynasties (960 A.D.—1644 A.D.); it is a philosophy of many different classics, with subsets of classics and history and local literature, philosophical thoughts from thinkers of different nationalities in different time and space, as well as the ideological content passed down by word of mouth.