学派,是指具有特点大体相同的一群学者而言,一个人是形成不了学派的。学派的地域特点也较显著,反映出一定历史时期学术研究的延续性和地区的相对独立性,如清代的“吴派”、“皖派”。章太炎在《訄书》重印本《清儒中说:“其成学箸系统者,自乾隆朝始,一自吴,一自皖南”。认为清代“继汉有作”,真正“成学箸系统”的,要数吴、皖三派。这两派,称为“乾嘉学派”。本文只想就吴派的治学特点及其渊源作一简单阐述。吴派始于吴中惠周惕而成于惠栋,余萧客、江声,钱大听、王鸣盛、江藩等都属这一派,他们很多是苏州及其邻近的“吴”人。章太炎说: “先栋时有何焯、陈景云、沈德潜, 皆尚洽通,杂治经史文辞。至栋,承其 School, refers to a group of scholars with the same characteristics generally speaking, a person can not form a school. The geographical features of the school are also significant, reflecting the continuity of academic research and the relative independence of regions in a certain historical period, such as the “Wu School” and “Anhui School” in the Qing Dynasty. Zhang Taiyan in the “book” reprinted “Confucianism, said:” The system of scholars, since the beginning of the Qianlong Dynasty, one from Wu, one from southern Anhui. “ That the Qing Dynasty ”following the Han as“ really ”into a school system,“ to count Wu, Anhui three factions. These two factions, known as ”Qianjia school.“ This article only wants to give a brief account of the characteristics of Wu school and its origin. Wu faction began in Wu Zhonghui Zhou Ti became Huidong, Yu Xiao Ke, Jiang Sheng, Qian Dasheng, Wang Mingsheng, Jiang Fan and so on belong to this group, many of them are in Suzhou and its neighboring ”Wu“ people. Zhang Taiyan said: ”When the first building He Zhuo, Chen Jingyun, Shen Deqian, are still in consultation, miscellaneous history by the Buddhist scriptures.