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The Zhe School was a school of painters which thrived during the Ming dynasty. The school was lead by Dai Jin. The "Zhe" of the name refers to Dai Jin's home province - Zhejiang. The school was not a school in the proper sense of the word in that the painters did not formulate a new distinctive style, preferring instead to further the style of the Southern Song. Instead the school were identified by the formal, academic and conservative outlook.
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- Wu School - "Amateur" artists as opposed to the professionals of the Zhe School. Unlike the Zhe School, modern day scholars identify the Wu School as creating an innovative style
