目前國內研究“中国歷史地理学”的人是不多的,西安师范学院歷史系主任史念海同志是研究这門科学的有数專家之一。当他剛从大学門里出來的时候,就已經踏向这門科学的研究道路了。但是这位鬢边已出現了星星白髮的教授十分惋惜的是,过去二十多年悠長的歲月里,竟有十几年的时間是糊里糊塗地走着清代乾嘉学者的老路,只在考覈地名的变迁、制度的沿革以及区划的分合上用功夫,这僅僅是替史料作出一些注釋,使讀史的人得着一些方便罢了。直到全國解放学習了苏联一些有关歷史地理学的著作以后,他才恍然大悟过去自己不过是在这门科学全部领域中的一个小角落里打圈子,还有海闊天空的新天地压根兒没有接触到呢。像歷史自然地理、歷史人口地理、歷史經济地 At present, there are not many people who study “Chinese Historical Geography” in China. Comrade Shi Nianhai, director of the history department of Xi’an Teachers’ College, is one of the experts who have studied this science. When he first came out of the university, he had already embarked on this scientific research path. However, the professor of white hair has emerged in the sidewalk. What is very regrettable is that in the long span of more than 20 years, as many as a dozen years have passed since the old cadres of the Qing Dynasty Only by examining the changes of place names, the evolution of the system and the division and division of districts and districts, it is only a matter of annotating historical material that people in the history of reading can find some convenience. It was not until the liberation of the nation of some books on historical geography from the Soviet Union that he suddenly realized that in the past he was merely playing circle in a small corner of the entire field of science and that the new world of vastness never came into contact with it. Like the history of natural geography, historical geography, historical and economic ground