The research object of historical philology is mainly the historical documents of all Chinese languages with historical value at all times and all over the world. Historical philology is a comprehensive knowledge to explore and study the generation, development, expression and circulation of documents, as well as the content categories, arrangement and utilization of documents and even the digitalization of documents, and to elaborate its development law, summarize its practical experience and then make theoretical explanations. Historical philology is a discipline with profound cultural background and broad development prospects.

research field

There are four main aspects:

1. Theory and method of historical philology: including the determination of discipline attributes, the construction of discipline system and philology methods.

2. The history of historical philology: including the historical context of the emergence, development, prosperity and change of philology, as well as the achievements and characteristics of each stage.

3. China's ancient ideology and culture: including the historical context of the occurrence and development of ancient academic ideology and culture, as well as the achievements and characteristics in various stages, especially in the Qing Dynasty.

4. Document arrangement: including cataloging, editing, arrangement, compilation, identification and document digitization.

Subject nature

(1) Historical philology is a comprehensive subject.

(2) Historical philology is a branch of history.

(3) Historical philology is a branch of philology.