摘要
Abstract
The regional economic and cultural features recorded in Biography of Merchants in Historical Records were the sum⁃mary of Sima Qian on the conventional Chinese space structure of Yu Gong and his fieldwork, reflected the characteristics during the golden age of West Han Dynasty. The four major economic regions are Shanxi, Shandong, Jiangnan, and the north area from Long⁃men and Jieshi, partitioned on the natural boundaries of mountains and rivers, and each divided into several sub⁃regions considering the features like products, natural resources, customs or routes for transportation. This paper tried to collect related resources to clarif the locations of the historical place names and geographical divisions involved in the text of Biography of Merchants in Histori⁃cal Records, and used GIS for integrating the digital data, including historical place names, rivers, terrain and other basic map lay⁃ers, and combining text contents for map presentation, so as to get an overview of the spatio⁃temporal significance of geographical and cultural characteristics of the regional economic appearance.关键词
《史记》/经济区/文化地图/历史地理/地理信息系统( GIS)Key words
Historical Records/economic region/cultural map/historical geography/Geographical Information System(GIS)分类
社会科学