Study On Shanxi In Monograph On Geography In History Of Song Dynasty

The Monograph on Geography in History of Song Dynasty is a very important resource of studies in the geographic conditions in Song Dynasty, especially in the local government's administration and its transformations. On one hand, as one of the vital pieces of work in historical geographics of Song Dynasty, its significance is out of its authoritativeness and systematization. On the other hand, due to every errors and mistakes that could have been in the processes of compilation, we need to take it under most discrete considerations.This paper will be beginning with the summary of monographs on geography in books of history authorized by governments, knitting together the content of Shanxi in Monograph on Geography in History of Song Dynasty with traces of evidences and records related to the relationship between Song Dynasty and its neighbor country called Xia, putting the administration of Shanxi under consideration of a bigger picture of the warriar between Song and Xia so as to somehow supplement and explain this great piece of work.