Written by Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei and completed in the second year of the Xiaochang reign, this monume…
Written by Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei and completed in the second year of the Xiaochang reign, this monumental work expands on the earlier Water Classic, the first known Chinese text to document the nation's river systems. Although it is a commentary of the Water Classic, it contains twenty times more texts than the original.