Shui Jing Zhu is an ancient work with both geographical and literary value created by Li Daoyuan
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"Shui Jing Zhu" It is a masterpiece of ancient Chinese geography, with a total of forty volumes. The author is Li Daoyuan in the late Northern Wei Dynasty. "Shui Jing Zhu" is named after its annotations to the "Shui Jing". The book "Shui Jing" has about 10,000 words. "Tang Liu Dian·Zhu" says that it "draws water from all over the world, one hundred and thirty-seven".
The "Shui Jing Zhu" seems to be a commentary on the "Shui Jing", but in fact it uses the "Shui Jing" as the outline and records in detail more than a thousand large and small rivers and related historical relics, personal anecdotes, and myths. Legends, etc., is the most comprehensive and systematic comprehensive geographical work in ancient China.
The book also records many inscriptions on tablets and fishermen's songs and ballads. The writing is gorgeous and the language is clear, which has high literary value. Since many of the large amounts of documents cited in the book have been lost, "Shui Jing Zhu" preserves a lot of information, which has a lot of reference value for studying the history and geography of ancient China.
There are 1,252 large and small rivers recorded, from the origin of the river to the sea, including main streams, tributaries, valley width, river bed depth, seasonal changes in water volume and water level, sediment content, glacial periods and the path along the river. Undercurrents, waterfalls, rapids, beaches, lakes, etc. are extensively collected and recorded in detail.
More than 500 lakes and swamps, nearly 300 springs and wells, more than 30 underground streams, and more than 60 waterfalls have been recorded. Various landforms are recorded. The highlands include mountains, mountains, peaks, ridges, slopes, hills, hills, valleys, valleys, barriers, peaks, rocks, plains, etc.; the lowlands include rivers, fields, fertile fields, plains, plains, plains, etc. There are nearly 2,000 place names for mountains and hills alone.
There are more than 70 caves recorded in karst landforms, more than 140 plant species recorded in phytogeography, and more than 100 animal species recorded in zoogeography. Various natural disasters include floods and droughts. , wind disasters, locust plagues, earthquakes, etc., more than 30 floods and nearly 20 earthquakes have been recorded.
The recorded establishment of some political districts can often supplement the deficiencies of official historical geography. There are 2,800 county-level cities and other cities and 180 ancient capitals recorded. In addition, settlements smaller than cities include towns, townships, pavilions, li, ju, villages, ruins, garrisons, docks, forts, etc. 10 categories, about 1,000 locations.