With the Earth: Complete Eight Volumes

Author: Wang Xiangzhi
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Publishing Date: 2003-12-01
Features: Guo Di Ji Sheng (Record of the Geography of the Nation) is a large-scale geographical general treatise privately compiled in 200 volumes, documenting the territories, prefectures, states, military commands, and county-level divisions of the Southern Song Dynasty. Below these, it includes the historical changes of prefectures and states, the historical changes of counties, customs and scenic spots, landscapes, historical sites, officials, figures, deities and Buddhist monks, inscriptions, poems, and four-six prose, totaling 12 categories. This book is an important historical document for studying geography before the Southern Song Dynasty. Due to its extensive compilation of figures, inscriptions, and literary works, it also holds significant historical and literary value. The book is extremely rare in circulation and was not included in the Siku Quanshu (Complete Library of the Four Treasuries). This time, it is published in photolithography, with a preface written by Professor Zou Yilin of Fudan University, which elaborates on the book's editions and value. The book is followed by indexes of place names, personal names, and inscriptions.