Huang Yongnian thinks in the book "Introduction to Ancient Books Arrangement" that "a scholar of historical documents studies historical documents instead of current documents, which is actually just the same as classical philology and philology. But there are different opinions about what philology includes. " Indeed, due to the cross-cutting characteristics of philology, some special philology has emerged. At the same time, historical philology has also become a special philology. It can be said that historical philology once represented the whole traditional philology in China, but at present it is China classical philology that represents the whole traditional philology in China.

As for which one can better cultivate the basic skills of scholarship, of course, too many subjects, including these two, can achieve this function, and the key lies in personal interest.