What is Chinese studies and what is traditional culture?

Sinology is based on pre-Qin classics and a hundred schools of thought, covering the cultural essence of each historical period. In the history of China, "Sinology" refers to the Sinology headed by "imperial academy". Since "Western learning spread to the east" generally refers to "China's traditional ideological and cultural scholarship".

China's traditional culture is a national culture that reflects national characteristics and features, and it is the overall expression of various ideological cultures and ideologies in national history. It refers to the culture with distinctive national characteristics, a long history, profound connotations and excellent traditions created by the Chinese nation and its ancestors living in China. It is the crystallization of thousands of years of civilization in China. In addition to the core content of Confucian culture, it also contains other cultural forms, such as Taoist culture and Buddhist culture.

Four distinctive features of traditional culture:

1, passed down from generation to generation. China's traditional culture has been interrupted in some short historical periods and changed more or less in different historical periods, but it has not been interrupted on the whole and has not changed much on the whole.

2, national characteristics. China's traditional culture is unique to China and different from other national cultures in the world.

It has a long history. It has a history of five thousand years.

4. Broad and profound. "Wide" refers to the breadth of China's traditional culture-rich and colorful, and "deep" refers to the depth of China's traditional culture-unfathomable.