Buddhism and Xuanxue became popular in the Northern Dynasty as well, but Ju-kyo was fairly popular, and particularly Northern Zhou, as the name of the nation suggests, honored the Zhou Dynasty as their ideal and suppressed Buddhism.
北朝でも仏教・玄学が流行したが、わりあい儒教が盛んであり、特に北周ではその国名が示すとおり周王朝を理想として儒教を顕彰し仏教を抑制した。