杂家是道家的前身,道家是杂家的新名。汉以前的道家可叫做杂家,秦以后的杂家应叫做道家。研究先秦汉之间思想史的人,不可不认清这一重要事实。——胡适《中国中古思想史长编》杂家,即是中国战国末至汉初的哲学学派,以博采各家之说见长。杂家的特点是“采儒墨之善,撮名法之要”。杂家虽只是集合众说,兼收并蓄,然而通过采集各家言论, Miscellaneous is the predecessor of Taoism, Taoism is the new name of miscellaneous. The former Taoist Han may be called a miscellaneous family, and the miscellaneous family after Qin should be called a Taoist. Those who study the history of ideas between the Qin and Han Dynasties must not discern this important fact. - Hu Shi, “History of the Middle Ages in Chinese History of the Middle Ages,” miscellaneous family, that is, from the late Warring States Period to the early Han Dynasty of China’s philosophy school, to learn from others. Miscellaneous features are “good Confucianism mining, the name of the law to be ”. Although only a collection of all kinds of gathers, eclectic, but by collecting the various comments,