Commentary on the Water Classic

The Shui zhu (Chinese水经注/水经注, W.-G. Shui -ching chu, commentary on the classics of the rivers, Commentary on the Book of Bodies of Water Book Commentary, Commentary on classic waters, waters classics with commentary, etc. ') is a historical geographical comment in 40 chapters of Li Daoyuan (郦 道 元/郦 道 元, Li Tao -yuan, † 527) from the period of foreign domination of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The original work of Shui (水 经/水 经; classic rivers, Book of Bodies of Water Book, waters classics etc. ) is lost.

The profiles of the individual flows determine the structure of the work. It describes sources and courses of rivers, the geography of their catchment areas and provides important information about the country and people.

Shui

The original work of Shui (水 经) was traditionally Qin Sang (桑钦) attributed from the period of the Han Dynasty, in the opinion of scholars from the time of the Qing Dynasty ( Dai Zhen and others) probably dates from the period of the Three Kingdoms. It was developed by Guo Pu (郭璞; 276-324 ) comments of the comments is only the extensive revision of the Li Daoyuan receive. He expanded the original number of 137 items by 1252 1389th

Editions

A photographic reproduction of Wuyingdian Juzhenban output (武英殿 聚 珍 版本) of Dai Zhen ( 1724-1777 ) is included in the book series Sibu congkan四部 丛刊.

• ( Ming) Mouwei Zhu朱 谋 玮: Shui zhu jian水经注 笺
• ( Qing ) Zhao Yiqing赵一清: Shui zhu shi水经注 释( Siku quanshu四库 全书)
• ( Qing ) Wang Xianqian王先谦: Hejiao Shui zhu合 校 水经注( Guangxu nian ershisan Xinhua Sanwei Shuwu ben, photographic reproduction of Bashu Shushe光绪 二十 三年 新化 三味 书屋 本,巴蜀 书社1985年 影印)
• Yang Shoujing杨守敬: Shui zhu shu水经注 疏( Kexue chubanshe yingyin科学 出版社 影印, 1957)
• Yang Shoujing杨守敬& Huizhen Xiong熊会贞: Shui zhu tu水经注 图
• Wang Guowei王国维: Shui zhu jiao水经注 校(Shanghai renmin chubanshe上海 人民出版社, 1984)