Its method and aim must be stressed particularly because they distinguish antiquarian research from history. Unlike history in traditional sense, it is not explanatory in a chronological order but descriptive in a systematic form.

• 它的专题论述、系统分析为主要特征的研究方法,增进关于过去的知识、力求博学的研究目的,将其与按事件顺序叙述历史事件,重视政治、军事,关注当代,以道德垂鉴为目的的传统历史学区分开来。