What do you know about geographic magazines when Jilin sends a working group in to investigate the writing of real geographic magazines?

1. The characteristics of geography magazines

? Encyclopedic dissemination of content distinguished from mathematics, physics, chemistry and other mathematical and experimental traditions of the discipline, geography has a long tradition of museums. The original meaning of museum is ?Naturehistory? i.e. ? Nature's story? Natural differences reflect human processes, and the rise and fall of the humanities encompasses the natural context; the combination of natural and human geography is an important feature of popular geography magazines. Gaining interdisciplinary perspectives and relevant knowledge is critical to popular geography magazines.

? Popular geography magazines often break through the traditional concept of geography in terms of content, including major scientific discoveries, geographic regional themes, ecological environment, flora and fauna, archaeology and discovery, culture and folklore and other aspects of the content. Not only across geography, geology, zoology and other natural disciplines, but also the organic combination of nature and humanity. The vastness of nature and humanities determines the richness and colorfulness of the contents. Take National Geographic China as an example, the magazine covers the four aspects of heaven (literature), earth (science), life (biology), and people (literature), so the content can satisfy the curiosity and curiosity of different readers.

2. Images as a language of expression

In reality, people's appreciation of the landscape will have a ? The pleasure of having a full view of the landscape. The pleasure of the landscape of various elements in the same space at the same time show up, but if the seen through the written language description, it becomes a sequential, linear content. Therefore, the image is undoubtedly the best spatial language to organically combine the ****temporal nature of spatial things and the sequential nature of textual narratives. Therefore, for popular geographic magazines, images (photographs, maps, charts) have a very important role, that is, to use the image most of an independent language of expression, using images to tell stories.

Aerial and overhead photographs are an important part of geographic photography, where familiar landscapes are revealed in surprising ways. Concrete, complex content is abstracted into simple, crisp lines, color blocks, and texture, and the visual is more powerful and compelling than the written word. The language of pictures is also important because ? Reading pictures without reading words? has become a quasi-reading style that cannot be ignored.