Yongjia School

Yongjia School of Thought (Chinese: 永嘉学派; Pinyin: Yǒngjiā Xuépài) was a Chinese school of thought during the Song dynasty that advocated for privatization, market economy, pragmatism, free trade, tax cut, and challenged Confucianism. It was named after Yongjia, now called Wenzhou and composed mainly of scholars from Wenzhou (then Yongjia).

"Yongjia School of Thought" is considered to be the leading force that gave rise to the economic prosperity of Song Dynasty in China and has close ties to the prosperity of market economy and private economy in Song Dynasty.^[1][2][3]

It is considered to be an extremely unique school of thought in Chinese history as it advocated for the importance of commerce, privatization, market economy, free trade, currency market while China by tradition values agriculture, concepts, and thoughts that were distinctly different.^[4][5]

It was one of the three dominant schools of thought in Song Dynasty along with "Li School of Thought" led by Zhu Xi and "Universal Mind School of Thought" led by Lu Jiuyuan.^{[6] [7]}