谈清代所探黄河源头的今地释证

Textual Research on the Source of the Yellow River in Qing Dynasty and Discussion on Historical Map Marking

清朝官方多次组织对黄河探源,其结果反映了时人对黄河源的认识。受测绘条件制约,清人对黄河源头地区的水系认识并不充分,因此,以当代的认知考证并复原清代所探河源的结论值得商榷,基于相关结论所编绘的历史地图也未必精确,对清代河源的标注可以采取模糊处理的方法。

Qing Dynasty officials organized several expeditions to explore the source of the Yellow River.In the late Qing Dynasty,Westerners also did a lot of explorations.The results of the source explorations reflected the understanding of the very question in the Qing Dynasty.Constrainted by surveying and mapping conditions,the water system of the source area of the Yellow River was not fully understood.Therefore,the conclusion drawn from current textual researches on the basis of the source of the Yellow River as explored in the Qing Dynasty might be problematic.Similarly,the historical maps compiled and drawn on the same basisare also worth examing.In this paper I argue that it is appropriate to take a fuzzy approach to the labeling of the river sources in Qing Dynasty.