Geographical Imagery in Medieval Literature
by Zhang Weiran
About This Novel
Over the past twenty years, a variety of research monographs have been published on Chinese historical and cultural geography, including some single-element studies (such as Zhou Zhenhe and You Rujie's "Dialects and Chinese Culture", Li Yinghui's "Buddhist Geography of the Tang Dynasty"), comprehensive chronological studies (such as Lu Yun's "Han and Jin Cultural Geography"), and regional comprehensive studies (such as Zhang Weiran's "Hunan Historical and Cultural Geography") "Physical Research", "Research on the Historical and Cultural Geography of Hubei", Zhang Xiaohong's "Differentiation and Integration of Cultural Regions - Research on the Historical and Cultural Geography of Shaanxi", Zhu Haibin's "Research on the Historical and Cultural Geography of Zhejiang"), as well as national special studies (such as "Regional Research on the History and Culture of China" by Zhou Zhenhe), many of which have aroused good responses in the academic community. But so far, there is no monograph that explores historical culture and geographical imagery. This article is the first to actually explore the formation and interpretation of geographical imagery based on China's local experience. The whole manuscript consists of five parts. First, in the introduction, the author systematically and briefly elaborates on the theoretical issues of Chinese historical and cultural geography. The main text consists of three parts: the first part discusses the regional concepts and geographical images in the minds of the Tang people, the middle part examines the historical place names in literary works, and the second part discusses the geographical origins of literary images. Each article is divided into several topics. Among them, the first part seems to only discuss simple cultural concepts and geographical concepts, but it mainly uses literary materials.
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