Development prospect of classical philology specialty

Many people say that classical philology is a quaint knowledge, which is far from real life and boring to learn. This also has some truth. Judging from the social demand, the demand for talents in this field is indeed limited and will not increase with the progress of society and the development of disciplines. At the same time, she is more difficult to learn: she needs a solid professional foundation, extensive knowledge and broad ideas, and even needs to learn Chinese and Western cultures and integrate arts and sciences. There are many scholars who have read a lot of poetry books, and it is inevitable that they will make mistakes when collating ancient books. In view of these characteristics of classical philology, it is suggested that candidates should consider their hobbies and not blindly apply for the exam. Classical philology should cultivate professionals who have a solid philology foundation and can sort out and study ancient books. After graduation, students can go to universities, publishing houses or research institutes to sort out, publish or study ancient books, and also engage in other work related to language processing. Because students generally have solid writing skills and language expression ability, strong adaptability and wide employment paths.

Recently, due to the influx of western cultural thoughts, great changes have taken place in humanities, including classical philology. The most obvious phenomenon is that a large number of new research ideas have entered, improved or replaced some old research ideas. At the same time, scholars pay more and more attention to and absorb the research results of western academic circles. After thousands of years of long development, China's traditional classical philology is rapidly moving towards the world. Classical philology majors train philology professionals who have a comprehensive and systematic understanding of ancient books collation and classical philology in China and can engage in practical work such as ancient books collation and classical literature teaching and research.