Notes on Shui Jing is a masterpiece of ancient geography in China. Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 466-527). According to legend, this book is "Notes on Water Classics", a geographical book of Sangqin in Han Dynasty, which records the national waterways. Notes on Shuijing is a book about water system, with 137 rivers and waterways. Li Daoyuan's annotation was added to 1252, and the annotation was 20 times that of the original book. The book has a total of 40 volumes, each river is a poor source, and describes in detail the mountains, towns, historical sites, customs and customs that the river passes through.
Notes on Water Mirror is the most comprehensive and systematic comprehensive geographical monograph in China before the 6th century. Annotations are not only accurate, but also gorgeous and beautiful, depicting landscapes vividly and vividly, which has high literary value. Together with Pei Songzhi's Notes on the History of the Three Kingdoms in the Southern Dynasties and Tang Lishan's Notes on Selected Works, they are called the three famous notes on ancient books in China.
The author introduces:
Li Daoyuan (about 470-527) is good at writing. Han nationality, Fanyang Zhuozhou (now Zhuozhou, Hebei Province). Northern Wei geographer and essayist. My career was bumpy, but I didn't do my best. He has read many rare books. When I was young, I went to Shandong with my father to seek waterways. Later, he traveled the Qinling Mountains, north of Huaihe River and south of the Great Wall, inspected rivers and ditches, collected relevant customs, historical stories and myths and legends, and wrote 40 volumes of notes about water mirrors.
The writing style is meaningful and vivid, which is not only a colorful geographical work, but also a collection of beautiful landscape prose. It can be regarded as the pioneering work of China's tourism literature, which has a great influence on the development of later tourism prose. In addition, he also wrote thirteen local records and seven appointments.