This chapter illuminates the topic of humor in Chinese philosophical traditions. After a brief introduction to the basic schools of thought, it critically discusses key terms from the historical foundations of modern Chinese humor debates. This discussion yields an improved set of conceptual tools to analyze premodern sources. The following sections utilize this framework to outline a range topics: Confucius’s humor as an allusive manner of teaching and the Confucian rejection of comedy and mass humor; Zhuangzi’s Daoist humor in relation to Confucianism; Zhuangzi’s myth of Hundun and the idea of a shielding function of humor; Chan Buddhist humor in a story about Deng Yinfeng; and finally, elements of humor in miscellaneous Confucian compilations, Legalist contexts (Hanfeizi), the School of Names (Hui Shi and Gongsun Lun), and the School of Syncretists (Lüshi Chunqiu).