Xu Xiake (1587 65438+1October 5-16465438+March 8) was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province in the Ming Dynasty. A famous geographer, traveler and explorer, he is the author of China's geography masterpiece "Travels of Xu Xiake".
Pei Xiu (224-27 1 year) was born in Ji Yan. Hedong Wenxi (now wenxi county) was born. Scholars in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Created the ancient cartography of China. Needham called him "the father of scientific cartography in China", and Ptolemy, a famous European cartographer in ancient Greece. He is two brilliant stars in the history of ancient cartography in the world.
Li Daoyuan (about 470-527) is good at writing. Han nationality, Fanyang Zhuozhou (now Zhuozhou, Hebei Province). Geographers and essayists in the Northern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty in the long Middle Ages, the western world was in a dark age ruled by the Christian church, and there were no outstanding scholars in geography in Europe. Li Daoyuan of the East left 40 volumes of immortal geographical masterpiece "Water Mirror Zhu", which not only created the history of "realistic geography" in ancient China, but also occupied an important position in the history of world geography development, and was worthy of being the greatest world-class geographer in the Middle Ages.
Hu Huanyong (1901-1998) was born in Yixing, Jiangsu. Geographers and geographers. He introduced modern western geography theories and methods to study the population and agriculture problems in China from the perspective of the relationship between man and land. It is pointed out that the geographical distribution of population in China is divided into two basic difference areas, southeast and northwest, with the Aihui-Tengchong line as the boundary. And put forward the agricultural zoning plan of China for the first time. He is an important founder of modern human geography and physical geography in China. He has made great contributions to the cultivation of geographical talents and the establishment of research institutions, academic groups and academic journals.