Zhou qufei

Zhou qufei

Zhou qufei, whose name is Zhifu, was born and died in 1134-1189. He was born in Yongjia (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province) and was the grandson of Zhou Xingji. Geographer of Southern Song Dynasty. Jinshi in the first year of Longxing. Professor Li Qinjiang, chunxizhong, Tongzhi Jingjiang mansion. In 1178, his book "Ling Wai Dai Da" was published as a famous geographical work in ancient China.

Life of the characters

Dai GUI wrote ten volumes of "Ling Wai Dai Da", which includes 20 branches, including geography, local customs, products, frontier commander, legal system, financial planning, etc., with a total of 294 articles. It records the mountains, historical sites, products and resources of Lingnan (today's Guangdong and Guangxi) at that time, as well as the socio-economic and living customs of ethnic minorities, as well as the South China Sea countries, Daqin and mulanpi countries. It is an important document for the study of local history and geography. In order to make up for the deficiency of the official history, we should make a detailed analysis of the local products and the legal financial planning. Finally, he passed judgment in Shaoxing prefecture (Volume 13 of Hongzhi Wenzhou Prefecture annals) and died at 55 years old (Lou Yao's article on sacrifice to Zhou Dynasty). One of his poems was recorded in Volume 2 466 of the complete song poetry. Volume 5716 of the whole Song Dynasty is included in his works. See the preface of Ling Wai Dai Da for his deeds.