How to understand and be familiar with the basic knowledge of historical geography and ancient geography works?

The most basic way to understand historical geography is to read and learn basic textbooks. Historical geography is a two disciplines under the history, which is rich in content, and because it belongs to the combination of many disciplines to a certain extent, it needs to read the most basic content to have a preliminary understanding of it.

As far as the classification of historical geography is concerned, it can be roughly divided into two fields: historical human geography and historical natural geography. At present, the ancient works about the earth are mainly based on the maps collected in geography and local chronicles. It is not difficult to read this part, as long as you have a familiarity and understanding of the existing documents. Geographical records are found in various historical books and are not difficult to read.

Geographical literature works

Geography books are books describing divisions, mountains and rivers, customs, products, water conservancy, river defense and border defense. Ancient books and records in China often classify geographical knowledge into history books and geographical works into history department.

There is Gong Yu in Shangshu, while most dynastic histories such as Hanshu have geographical records. This tradition has far-reaching influence. In ancient China, thinkers and politicians who paid attention to "practical application" often had rich knowledge of history and geography, and used this knowledge to govern the country.