Lu Jia (陸賈; died 170 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Western Han dynasty. He secured the nominal geopolitical submission of
Zhao Tuo's kingdom of Nanyue to Han in 196 BC.
The Book of Han credits him with having converted the Han dynasty founder Liu Bang to Confucianism. An anecdote tells that in an early meeting Liu scoffed at Lu's scholarly interests with the words "I do all my conquering from the back of my horse, what use have I for the Documents and Odes?" To which Lu replied, "once my lord is done with the conquering, does he also intend to do all his ruling from the back of his horse?" This brought Liu to a pause, and he subsequently requested that Lu compose for him a book of historical examples outlining why Qin had lost the support of the world and how Liu himself might gain and retain it. This became the 12-chapter volume known as the Xin Yu 新語 ("New Discourses").
Xin Yu integrates the concepts of yin and yang into a description of benevolent rule and its relation to self-cultivation. This combination of yin and yang with classic Confucian concept of benevolent rule was a precursor to writing of Dong Zhongshu in the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals.
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陸賈（前240年 - 前170年），楚人。
西漢初期政治人物、作家、思想家，對早期道家的發展有重要作用。
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按《陳留風俗傳》的記載，春秋時陸渾被晉國消滅後，該國國君投奔楚國，陸賈就是陸渾國君的後裔，而《陸氏譜》、《元和姓纂》、《新唐書·宰相世系表》都認為陸賈是齊宣王幼子通的後裔。
陸賈有口才、善辯論，早年隨劉邦楚漢戰爭時，常出使諸侯，也和項羽簽訂了鴻溝條約。漢高祖十一年（公元前196年），奉命出使南越（今兩廣一帶），招諭故秦南海尉趙佗臣屬漢朝，立為南越王。陸賈出使歸來，躍升為太中大夫。
劉邦即位之初，重武力、輕詩書，陸賈諫言道「馬上得之，寧可以馬上治乎?」 也就是說人雖然可以在馬背上得到天下，卻不能夠在馬背上治理天下，他乃建議重視道家，「行仁義，法先聖」，提出「逆取順守，文武並用」的統治方略，遂受命總結秦朝滅亡及歷史上國家成敗的經驗教訓，共著文12篇，每奏一篇，高祖無不稱善，故名其書為《新語》。
哲學上提出宇宙萬物都是「天地相承，氣感相應而成者」，反對神仙迷信思想，但也有聖人「承天誅惡」和天人感應的神秘思想。後人稱《新語》開啟賈誼的思想，成為漢代確立道家思想統治地位的先聲。
高祖死後，呂后擅權。陸賈參與誅滅諸呂、迎立漢文帝劉恆，出力頗多。漢文帝即位後，陸賈再次出使勸說南越武帝趙佗重新恢復與中原的臣屬關係。
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