资水于文学典籍中的最早现身应该是在《水经注》中。郦道元,这位施政严猛、博学多闻的北魏直臣,撰写此书采取的是实地考察和征引典籍相结合的方式。由于他的行踪基本被限制在长江以北,对于蜿蜒在湖湘腹地的资水只能通过书籍和传闻来窥测。 Water resources in the literature appeared in the earliest classics should be in the “water by the note”.郦 Tao Yuan, the strict governance, learned learned Northern Wei Chen Chen, writing this book is taken on the site visits and cited a combination of books. Since his whereabouts are basically limited to the north of the Yangtze River, the water and water that meanders in the hinterland of Hu-hong can only be spied through books and rumors.