The word "school" has a long history in China, and it may first appear in the Ming history. Volume 283 of Ming History (BiographyNo. 17 1) contains: "Yangming studies, with Longxi and Xinzhai as their ancestors." Of course, although the word "learning" may first appear in the Ming Dynasty, it does not mean that China's "learning" began in the Ming Dynasty. As early as the pre-Qin period, the China School had already appeared. There are many records about Xuetang (the old name of Xuetang in Chinese), Lecture Hall and Academy in China ancient books. Where there are schools, lecture halls and academies, there are naturally "lectures". There are lecturers in the world, and there must be lecturers and listeners, which leads to the relationship between teachers and students and the inheritance of knowledge, thus forming the "school of learning from teachers". Hundred schools of thought in the pre-Qin period was an ancient school, especially Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism and Legalism, which showed the characteristics of "learning from others". This "school of inheritance", which originated from the same normal school and has the same academic views, is numerous in the ancient history of China. The "school" in Ci Hai is interpreted as "a school in science formed by different theories." It refers to this traditional "inheritance school". Learning from others' results may form a "learning school". Similarly, some academic groups with distinctive academic traditions formed by studying a certain region, a certain country, a certain nation, a certain civilization, a certain society or a certain problem can also be called "schools" or "regional schools" (including institutional schools), or ". Such as Chicago School, Austrian School, Sweden School, Cambridge School, Lausanne School and other "regional schools" and "problem schools" such as physiocracy school, modern monetarism school and supply school appeared in the field of modern post-western economics.
To sum up, the formation of eastern and western schools depends on three reasons: learning from teachers, regions and problems, so it can be roughly divided into three categories: learning from teachers, regional schools and problem schools. These three are interrelated, and the dividing line between them is by no means clear. One notable feature of these schools in China from ancient times to the present is that they are all "Sinology Schools" (taking Sinology as the research object). However, the emergence of the regional "Bagui School" in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which is composed of a group of grassroots scholars who have been studying Zhuang studies for a long time, finally broke the situation that the "Han School" has dominated the world since ancient times. (Excerpted from "On the Eight-Guangxi School of Ethnology in China" written by Professor Chen Jisheng, a research expert of Huang Xianfan, No.7, Guangxi Social Sciences, 2008).