Xu Xiake (1587 65438+1October 5-16465438+March 8) was born in Jiangyin (now Jiangyin, Jiangsu) in the south of the Ming Dynasty. He is a famous geographer, traveler and explorer, and China's famous geographical work "Xu Xiake's Travels".
Pei Xiu (224-27 1), born in Wenxi, Hedong, Ji Yan (now wenxi county, Shaanxi), was a minister and scholar in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Needham called him "the father of scientific cartography in China", and Ptolemy, a famous cartographer in ancient Europe, was two brilliant stars in the history of ancient cartography in the world.
Li Daoyuan (about 470-527), a good writer, was born in Zhuozhou (now Zhuozhou, Hebei Province), Han nationality. During the long Middle Ages, the western world was in a dark age under the rule of the Christian church, and there were no outstanding scholars in the field of geography throughout Europe. Li Daoyuan left 40 volumes of immortal geographical masterpieces in the East, which not only initiated ancient China.
Hu Huanyong (1901-1998) is a geographer and geographer from Yixing, Jiangsu. He introduced modern western geography theories and methods to study the population and agriculture problems in China from the perspective of the relationship between man and land, and put forward that the geographical distribution of China population can be divided into two basic difference areas: southeast and northwest. He first put forward the plan of agricultural regionalization in China. He is an important founder of modern human geography and physical geography in China. He has made great contributions to the cultivation of geographical talents, the establishment of research institutions, academic groups and academic publications.