Author(s)

Gong Yixuan, Deng Yifei, Wu Zhonglin, Zheng Guozhou

Corresponding Author

Gong Yixuan

Abstract

This study takes the Tang Dynasty poetry and prose from the middle volume of Zhu Dong run's "Selected Works of Chinese Literature Through the Ages" as its core text. Building upon traditional research, it achieves interdisciplinary integration by combining historical-geographical investigation with digital humanities technologies. It systematically explores the deep-seated connections between the evolution of administrative divisions and geographical names in Tang literary works. By constructing a "Poetic Route Geography" database and utilizing spacetime layering technology, this study achieves the dynamic visualization of changes in administrative divisions and the precise overlay of textual geographical imagery. This offers a novel, tripartite methodological framework for literary geography research, integrating "institutional history foundation, poetic paradigm, and digital empowerment". Through practice and analysis, the current research validates the fundamental value of administrative evolution for place name verification and reveals the political and cultural symbolic nature of geographical names in Tang texts. Simultaneously, through the practical application of digital technology, it offers an operable and scalable methodological new path for literary geography studies. It also proposes a dynamic administrative grid anchoring method: using the Sui-Tang administrative evolution as the spatial base, it marks three types of place name paradigms (war symbols/cultural symbols/spatial references) onto historical administrative grids through GIS technology, addressing spacetime dislocations in place name interpretation.

Keywords

Literary Geography; Evolution of Administrative Divisions; Digital Humanities; Tang Poetry; GIS Technology; Database Technology