Sinology refers to the knowledge and knowledge system in China's traditional culture, including knowledge of Chinese, literature, history, philosophy, religion, art, etiquette, morality, politics, economy, military and geography.

Introduction to Chinese studies:

1, Chinese studies in a narrow sense refers to China's ancient theory. Nowadays, traditional Chinese studies generally refer to various cultural studies based on pre-Qin classics and hundred schools of thought, covering later generations. Therefore, in a broad sense, China's ancient and modern culture and scholarship include China's ancient history, thought, philosophy, geography, politics, economy, painting and calligraphy, music, Yi-ology, martial arts, medicine, astrology, architecture and so on. They are all involved in Chinese studies.

2. The name of "Sinology" began in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, European and American academics entered China under the names of "New Learning" and "Western Learning". In contrast, people call China's inherent knowledge "old learning", "middle school" or "national studies". Sinology can also refer to China's ancient theory. Generally speaking, Sinology is "the abbreviation of China's learning", as opposed to "Western learning".

3. Some critics pointed out that modern sinology is not a simple continuation of traditional learning, but a transitional form of China's academic transformation from tradition to modernity under the influence of modern western learning. Sinology, based on pre-Qin classics and a hundred schools of thought contend, covers a set of unique and complete cultural and academic systems, such as Confucian Classics in Han Dynasty, Metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties, Buddhism in Sui and Tang Dynasties, Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, practical learning in Ming and Qing Dynasties, poetry and prose in the same period in pre-Qin Dynasty, novels in Yuan Dynasty in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and historiography in past dynasties.

4. hundred schools of thought's theory of pre-Qin coexisted and resonated, and there was no master-slave relationship. According to the role played in different periods, various theories have played an explicit or implicit role in each period, but only in different fields; Various theories also play an important role in different fields, which does not mean that a certain field plays a mainstream role.

5. Sinology is based on the pre-Qin classics and a hundred schools of thought contend, covering a unique and complete cultural and academic system, such as Confucian classics in Han Dynasty, metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties, Taoism in Sui and Tang Dynasties, Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, practical learning in Ming and Qing Dynasties, parallel prose in the Six Dynasties, poems in Tang and Song Dynasties, Yuan Qu and novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and historiography in past dynasties. There is no master-slave relationship in hundred schools of thought's theoretical coexistence resonance in the pre-Qin period.