被誉为西楚才子的我国近代著名学者杨守敬,系湖北宜都人,他一生著述宏富,在历史地理学、金石学、版本目录学、藏书及书法等领域成就卓著,是清末民初的学坛巨子;尤其是历史地理学被称为清代三绝学之一,至今还受到学术界的推崇;其代表作《水经注疏》仍是当今历史地理学者们的典范之作。比如,当今长江三峡的名称已为全国家喻户晓,为全世界所仰望,这一称谓便是杨守敬 Renowned as a talented writer in West Chu, Yang Shou-jing, a famous scholar in modern China, was a native of Yidu in Hubei Province. He wrote Hong Fu throughout his life and made outstanding achievements in historical geography, anthropology, catalog science, collection and calligraphy, Especially the historical geography is known as one of the three schools of the Qing Dynasty, has so far been respected by academics; its masterpiece “water by the Notes” is still a model for today’s historical geographers. For example, the name of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River nowadays is well-known to all over the world and the title is Yang Shou-jing