Zoning by East-West and Grouping by Source:On the Structural Features and Geographic Foundations of the Orderings of the Prefectures in the Official Geographical Records of the Southern Dynasties
The orderings of the prefectures in Songshu-Zhoujunzhi and Nanqishu-Zhoujunzhi have similar structural features and geographic foundations.Influenced by the special political-geographical structure of the Southern Dynasties,the two books divide the prefectures into two major sections:east and west,with Yangzhou and Jingzhou as the first two prefectures.Unlike Songshu-Zhoujunzhi,Nanqishu-Zhoujunzhi includes the three Lingnan prefectures in the Yangzhou section,which may be a reflection of the weakening of the relationship between Lingnan and Jingzhou and the strengthening of the connection with Yangzhou,or it may be a result of the influence of the notion that the Lingnan region belongs to Yangzhou.There are also a number of identical or similar secondary groupings of prefectures between the two books,and most of the prefectures within these groupings are divided from the same prefectures and are located in the same regions.There is no general rule for the orderings of the secondary groupings and the prefectures within the groupings,but there is a clear correlation between the historical relationship of the prefectures and the way in which they are ranked,and this correlation is likely to be related to the writing strategies adopted by the historians.
Songshu-ZhoujunzhiNanqishu-ZhoujunzhiOrdering of PrefecturesPolitical GeographyEvolution of Administrative Divisions
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