Li Daoyuan was an official and geographer in the Northern Wei Dynasty. He wrote 40 volumes of Notes on Shui Jing, which became the pioneer of China's travel literature and had a great influence on the development of later travel prose. In addition, 13 local chronicles and 7 appointments have been lost.
Li Daoyuan (466 or 472-527) was a geographer and essayist in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Good at words. John young (now Zhuoxian County, Hebei Province) was born. Born into an official family, he also served as a central official in Pingcheng (the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, now Datong City, Shanxi Province) and Luoyang, and served as a local official many times.
I am eager to learn, read widely and like sightseeing since I was a child. I have traveled all over Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia and other places. Wherever I went, I paid attention to surveying the topography of water flow, traced back to the source, read a lot of geographical works and accumulated rich geographical knowledge.
The relevant impacts of water injection are as follows:
The original "Water Mirror Zhu" has 40 volumes, and the early Song Dynasty lost 5 volumes. Later generations revised the remaining 35 volumes to 40 volumes. Due to repeated copying, the mistakes are very serious, and some chapters are even difficult to read. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, many scholars did a lot of research work on Zhu, and some of them corrected more than 500 errors and basically restored the original appearance.
Some of them have done a lot of compilation work, and more have done collation and annotation work. Yang Shoujing, a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, and his disciple Xiong Yisheng wrote Notes on Water Classics and compiled Notes on Water Classics, which were compared between ancient and modern times and printed in Zhu Mo. Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House published Shuijing Annotation, which was proofread by Duan Xizhong and proofread by Chen Qiaoyi, providing convenience for the future research and utilization of Shuijing Annotation.