重新认识先秦地理学的成就——兼论中国地理学发展史上一次大断裂

Again Understand the Achievements of Before Qin Geography──On Discussing the Last Big Fault in the Development Geographical history of China

当前 ,国内外地理学史界对中国先秦地理学的成就普遍认识不够。本文认为先秦地理学的成就相当辉煌 ,是中国地理学著作的创立时代 ,亦是中国古代地理学成为一门学问的时代。先秦地理学还有着考察自然、研究自然的好传统 ,秦汉及其以后的中国古代地理学基本上丢失了这个传统 ,走上侧重地理沿革的考证、社会历史和社会状况的记述之路 ,形成内容上以史学地理、经学地理、沿革地理为主体的中国传统地理学。先秦与秦汉地理学之间存在一个大断裂。这个大断裂影响了中国古代地理学取得的成就 ,致使中国古代地理学无法发展衍生为近代地理学。

Nowadays both internal and external geographical history circles doesn't deeply understand the achievements of Before Qin geography in China.This paper think that the achievements of Before Qin geography is fairly splendid.It is the age of origin of Chinese geographical works.And it is also the period of Chinese ancient geography becoming a sort of knowledge.Before Qin geography had a good tradition of inspecting the nature and research the nature.From Qin-Han dynisty on,Chinese ancient geography have lost this good tradition,and paid more attention on textual research of yange geography and recording the social history and the social condition.These little by little formed Chinese tradition geography on main part of the study of classics geography and the study of history geography and the study of yange geography.This is a big fault in the development geographical history of China,between Before Qin and Qin-Han.This fault directly affected the achievements of the Chines ancient geography,and resulted the Chinese ancient geography in not developing to modern geography.