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    The Commentary on the Water Classic (Chinese: 水经注), or Commentaries on the Water Classic, commonly known as Shui Jing Zhu, is a work on the Chinese geography...
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    the annotation of the Commentary on the Water Classic (Shui jing zhu). He wrote 40 volumes of annotation but died before completing the work. His disciple...
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  • writer during the Northern Wei dynasty. He is known as the author of the Commentary on the Water Classic (Shuijingzhu), a monumental work on China's geography...
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    Records/Volume 1 Li Daoyuan, 水经注 [Commentary on the Water Classic], vol. 37 Sima Qian, 南越列傳 [The Account of Southern Yue], 史記 [Records of the Grand Historian], vol...
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  • by Liu Xie. The Commentary on the Water Classic, a book on hydrology of rivers in China attributed to the great geographer Li Daoyuan. The Dialogues between...
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    Kang bed-stove (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    evidence from Li Daoyuan's Commentary on the Water Classic also gives evidence of heated floors during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386–534 AD), though...
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    examples were the Shen yi jing (神異經 "Classic of Divine Marvels") by Dongfang Shuo (154 BCE – 93 CE) and the Commentary on the Water Classic (水經注). In comparative...
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    the 3rd century CE writer Gao You in his commentary of the Huainanzi, and later developed in the 6th century Commentary on the Water Classic: In the 26th...
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    Lishan Laomu (category Journey to the West characters)
    Chinese text quoted in the Taiping Yulan states "to the west lies a hot spring" (西有溫泉), but the Commentary on the Water Classic and the Chang'an zhi 15 state...
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    in the proleptic Julian calendar. Watson 1993, p. 209. Watson 1993, p. 210. Taylor 1983, p. 24. both quoted in Li Daoyuan's Commentary on the Water Classic...
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