- 1. the three religions (i.e. Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism) and the nine schools of thought (i.e. the Confucians, the Taoists, the Yin-Yang, the Legalists, the Logicians, the Mohists, the Political Strategists, the Eclectics and the Agriculturists)
- 2. various religious sects and academic schools
- 3.
贬 people in various trades; people of all sorts