Letter to sinologists
Many wonder about what is Sinology, what does a sinologist, who is considered Sinologist or not and what is the purpose of this career. As Sinology itself teaches us through one of its famous Chengyu expressions: DĂ o ShÄn XuĂ© HÇi (Daoshan Xuehai), which in a free translation means: learning is as high as the mountain and as deep as the ocean, however, if we do a literal analysis, we will see that Confucius, who was assigned that expression, associated DĂ o (Tao), the way or doctrine to ShÄn (mountain) Mountain. So that we can deduce that the road to knowledge is as high as the mountain, that reaching the peak requires effort, so something tiring and laborious. And when we talk about DĂ o (Tao) way, we bring up, the Taoism, Chinese Buddhism and Confucionism ...
