What does China study in classical philology?

China's classical philology refers to a discipline that comprehensively applies the theories and methods of edition, collation, bibliography, annotation, textual research, discrimination, compilation and retrieval. Scientifically analyze, sort out and study the ancient documents in China, and then explore the laws of the generation, dissemination, exchange and utilization of ancient documents, and summarize the laws and methods of analyzing, sorting out and studying ancient documents.

On the other hand, China's classical philology generally includes the following branches, namely, morphology of classical literature, edition of ancient books, collation of ancient books, bibliography of ancient books, annotation of ancient books, textual research of ancient books, discrimination of ancient books, compilation of ancient books and retrieval of ancient books.

Extended data:

Due to the change of literature carrier, the difference of writing and block printing and the progress of binding technology, China classical literature has produced several different styles of editing, folding, packaging and binding:

1, simple style (bamboo slips).

2. Scroll style (scroll loading of silk and paper books and whirlwind loading of transition from paper books to album pages).

3. Folding posture (Van Gogh sandwich, warping and folding).

4, the album style (butterfly, Bao Beizhuang, thread, etc. ).

Contemporary paper documents are mostly paperback and hardcover, except for a few copied ancient books, which are occasionally packed in thread.

Baidu Encyclopedia —— China Classical Philology