What is the main content of Chinese studies?

Sinology can be translated as "Guo Xue" or "Sinology" (meaning China or Sinology).

1. In a narrow sense, sinology refers to China's traditional culture and scholarship with Confucianism as the main body.

2. At present, Sinology generally refers to a unique and complete cultural academic system based on pre-Qin classics and philosophers' studies, including Confucian Classics in Han Dynasty, Metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties, Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, Han Fu in the same period, Parallel Prose in Six Dynasties, Poems in Tang and Song Dynasties, Yuanqu, Novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties, Historiography of Past Dynasties, etc.

Therefore, in a broad sense, China's ancient and modern culture and scholarship, including history, thought, philosophy, geography, politics, economy, painting and calligraphy, music, astrology, traditional Chinese medicine, astrology and architecture, all involve Chinese studies.

Extended data:

Sinology, as its name implies, is to study China and China. Qin bricks are Chinese tiles, and non-Qin (as evidenced by English China) is Sinology. Since the Han Dynasty, the national strength has reached its peak. Overseas, it is also called "Sinology". Although textual research confirmed that the word "Sinology" had become more common in the Southern Song Dynasty at the latest.

In a narrow sense, it refers to the academic thought of Confucian classics in the Han Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, people mainly focused on famous things and exegesis, and later generations called Confucian classics, history, famous things, exegesis and textual research sinology;

Overseas Sinology refers to the study of the Han nationality, that is, the study of China, especially the study of China's language and culture, literature, history and customs, including China's six arts and five techniques. The six arts refer to the six arts of ritual, music, shooting, imperial, calligraphy and mathematics, and the five arts refer to the five arts of mountain, medicine, divination, life and equality. (The above article is taken from "South: Talking about Chinese Studies in the upsurge of Chinese Studies")

"Sinology" has a broader interpretation. If all the skills of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, military science, France and Mohism are put in the bag of Chinese studies, then the skills of a hundred schools and the theory of six arts can be collectively referred to as "Chinese studies". Except for Buddhism, which is a foreign religion, most of them were born in China, so Chinese studies are also called "Chinese studies" and Sinology.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Studies (China Traditional Thought and Culture Academic)