1. Geography (English: Geography) is the collective name for the natural environment (mountains, rivers, climate, etc.) and social factors of the world or a certain region. The word "geography" was first found in the Chinese Book of Changes. Ancient geography mainly explored measurement methods related to the shape and size of the earth, or described known regions and countries.
2. Geography is a discipline that studies various natural and human phenomena in the geographical environment of the earth's surface, as well as their interrelationships. Geography is a comprehensive basic subject.
3. West: In the West, in the 2nd century BC, the ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes first synthesized the term geographicala (geo graphica), which means "geography" or "description of the earth" ", and wrote the first Western monograph named "Geography", "Introduction to Geography".
4. The East: Among the documents left by our ancestors, the first word "geography" appeared in the "Book of Changes·Xici" written in the 4th century BC, which contains the words "Look up to observe the Astronomy can be observed from geography." Wang Chong, a thinker of the Eastern Han Dynasty, had a very in-depth study of astronomy and geography. His explanation is: "The sky has the sun, moon and stars, which are called texts, and the earth has mountains, rivers, mausoleums and valleys, which are called principles.
5. Concepts of ancient Chinese word meanings The concept of "geography" in the book is completely different from the current concept of "geography". The ancient Chinese concept of "geography" contains a lot of Feng Shui content. Books on Feng Shui content often use the name "geography" instead of the modern concept of "geography". From a conceptual point of view, the earlier books describing related content in ancient times include "Shang Shu Yu Gong" and "Shan Hai Jing", etc., and mainly explore the measurement methods of the shape, size and related data of the earth, or the measurement of known areas and countries, and the word "geography" is not used in such books.