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During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, geographical records and county records gradually became richer and showed a trend of landscape and literature. The literary achievements of "Shui Jing Zhu" are due to its reference and absorption of these geographical literature documents. In addition to explicit citations, he also implicitly cited and copied a large number of these documents. Due to the passage of time, these documents have been lost. This book carefully sorts out and verifies the main geographical literature documents cited in "Shui Jing Zhu" to provide scholars with information convenience for future research. At the same time, it also aims to demonstrate the importance of these geographical literature documents for the writing of "Shui Jing Zhu". "Shui Jing Zhu" further develops and progresses along the path of landscape and literaryization of geographical records and county records in the Han, Wei, Jin and Song dynasties. It is the greatest collection of geographical records and general geographical records of the Six Dynasties.