What does Chinese studies mean? What does it include?

What is Sinology? Its contents are as follows:

Chinese studies include China's ancient philosophy, history, religion, literature, customs, textual research, ethics, traditional Chinese medicine, agriculture, martial arts, geography, politics, economy, painting and calligraphy, music, architecture and many other aspects.

Sinology is based on the pre-Qin classics and a hundred schools of thought contend, covering a set of unique and complete cultural and academic systems, 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, poems in the pre-Qin Dynasty, parallel prose in Six Dynasties, poems in Tang and Song Dynasties, Yuanqu and novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The concept of "Sinology" has always existed in the history of China, including places like Shanghai, Guangzhou, Guangzhou and so on. There was one in the Tang Dynasty. It can be seen that there is a Bailudong Academy under Lushan Mountain, which was built by Zhu Shoujian in the Southern Song Dynasty and became one of the "four major academies" at that time.

Extended data:

The concept of state in ancient China is constantly changing, but no matter how it changes, it can be called China or Huaxia. In other words, Sinology should be the general name of academic culture in China or China. Historically, sinology cannot be confined to the study of Confucianism. In the pre-Qin period, a hundred schools of thought contended, and Confucianism was just one of the doctrines juxtaposed with Taoism, Mohism and Legalism.

With the development and needs of modern society, a new academic system, New Chinese Studies, was established and developed under this background. Neo-Sinology is a new academic system formed by the combination of China traditional culture with Confucianism as the main body and western Marxism-Leninism.