What do you think of the book Commentary on the Water Classic and who is the author of Commentary

How to say it, the water through the note junior high school, equivalent to a modern encyclopedia To be honest, it is useless for modern life,,, pure hand-to-hand, and no copying,

The author of this work is Li Daoyuan; I think it may be because this book is an important geography book in Chinese history, and it preserves a lot of precious ancient books and documents.

The book "Notes on the Book of Water" is a commentary made by Li Daoyuan for the previous ancient book "The Book of Water", which is an important geography book in Chinese history.

The author of "Notes on the Book of Water" is Li Daoyuan in the late Northern Wei Dynasty. Li Daoyuan, the word is good, and he is a native of Zhuozhou, Fanyang. The son of Pingdong General Li Fan, he was a geographer of the Northern Wei Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

When he was young, he accompanied his father to Shandong to visit waterways, read strange books when he was young, and later traveled to the Qinling Mountains, the vast areas north of the Huai River and south of the Great Wall, inspecting rivers and ditches, and collecting relevant customs, historical stories, myths and legends.

Personal experience. Li Daoyuan's career was bumpy, and he failed to do his best. He once served as a lieutenant of the imperial history, a general of Beizhong Lang, etc., and also served as the governor of Jizhou, the Taishou of Luyang County, the assassin of Dongjingzhou, and the Yin of Henan.

Law enforcement was severe, and he was later appointed as the ambassador of Guanyou by the Northern Wei court. In the third year of Xiaochang of the Northern Wei Dynasty, he was killed by Guo Zihui, the general of Xiao Baochu's department, in Yinpanyi.

Shortly after the Shui Jing Notes were written, Li Daoyuan was killed, and there were several banknotes for this work at that time, which are no longer known. Sui unified the whole country, sorted out the national collection, "Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi" recorded the book of "Water Jing Note", the number of volumes is forty, it is a complete book, this is also the earliest known "Water Jing Note" banknote.

The author of "Notes on the Book of Water" is Li Daoyuan in the late Northern Wei Dynasty.

The "Water Classic" is named after the note "Water Classic", the book "Water Classic" is about 10,000 words, and the "Tang Liudian Note" says that it "leads the water of the world, one hundred and thirty-seven". The "Notes on the Book of Water" seems to be the note of the "Book of Water", but in fact, it is based on the "Book of Water", which records in detail more than 1,000 large and small rivers and related historical sites, characters' stories, myths and legends, etc., and is the most comprehensive and systematic geographical work in ancient China.

The book also records a lot of inscriptions and ink and fishing songs and ballads, the writing is brilliant, the language is clear and beautiful, and it has high literary value. Because many of the large number of documents cited in the book have been lost, the "Notes on the Book of Water" has preserved a lot of materials, which has a lot of reference value for the study of ancient Chinese history and geography.

The value impact of "Water Classic Note":

The Commentary on the Water Classic has made important contributions to the development of Chinese geography and has an important position in the history of geography in China and the world. The description of the scenery of mountains and rivers in "Notes on the Book of Water" has also been highly praised by later generations as a literary work. There are also shortcomings in the book:

Because he was a native of the Northern Dynasty, the records of the southern water system were somewhat simple, and there were some errors in them.

Of course, such a magnificent masterpiece was limited by the times and conditions of the time, and it was inevitable that there would be many mistakes. Du You of the Tang Dynasty had clearly pointed out his "mistakes" on the source of the Yellow River in the "General Dictionary". In addition, since it was not possible for him to conduct field investigations in remote areas and in the south, there were many mistakes in this regard.

In some places, the citations are not credible, etc., but these do not detract from the value of the whole book.