What kind of discipline is exegesis?

Exegesis ("exegetical" means "gǔ", same as "ancient") is the study of the meanings of words in traditional Chinese ancient books, and it is a branch of traditional Chinese language and literature--elementary school. --It is a branch of traditional Chinese philology. Exegesis also analyzes the grammatical and rhetorical phenomena in ancient books while translating and interpreting the meanings of ancient words. It studies ancient texts from the perspective of language and helps people read classical texts. It is the study of interpreting the meaning of words based on their form and sound. It favors the study of the meaning of words in ancient times, especially focusing on the study of word meaning, grammar, rhetoric and other linguistic phenomena in ancient books before the Han and Wei dynasties.

The so-called "exegesis" is also known as "training", "old training", "ancient training", ". The use of the word "exegetical" in conjunction with the word "commentary" was first seen in the book called "Poetry and Training" (诗故训传), which was written by Mao Heng (毛亨), a native of the state of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, The book is called "Poetry, Training and Transmission". The combined use of exegesis was first seen in the canonical books of the Han Dynasty.