"Roving the South City: A Record with Annotations"

Author: Shi Nianhai
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Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Record of a Journey to the South of the Capital was written by Zhang Li, a Northern Song Dynasty scholar, documenting his travels with friends to the southern area of Jingzhao Prefecture (now the southern suburbs of Xi'an) and the Chang'an region in the intercalary second month of Emperor Zhaozong's Yuan? year (1086). It covers hundreds of natural landscapes, historical figures, and events, providing a genuine record of the decline of the southern area of Chang'an after the turmoil of the late Tang Dynasty. It is an important historical geographical document for understanding and studying the outer city of Tang Dynasty Chang'an and its natural and cultural geographical evolution in the southern suburbs. This book has been annotated by the late renowned historian Shi Nianhai and Professor Cao Erqin. The annotation, in addition to textual collation and punctuation, primarily incorporates historical documents and field investigations to provide detailed annotations on the numerous geographical and cultural records in the book, facilitating readers' understanding of the historical and modern geographical changes in this region and offering new research findings in historical geography to the academic community.