A Textual Research into the Views of“Nine Schools Deserving Appreciation” including“Novelist One” in The Records of Arts and Essays in The Book of Former Han Dynasty

Since the modern time, the“nine schools deserving appreciation” mentioned in TheBook of Former Han Dynasty have been interpreted as the ones which should be exclude the“novelist school”. However, careful reading and historical facts all have shown that the Confucianism shouldbe excluded, which is in accordance with original intention of the writer of the book BAN Gu.