A dataset of literary geography for Nanjing-related poetry

Abstract

Poetry is one of the important carriers of historical and cultural heritance. Nanjing, distinguished as one of China's earliest national historical and cultural cities, holds the esteemed titles of the “Capital of Six Dynasties” and the “Capital of Ten Dynasties”, with a long history and profound cultural deposits. There are a large number of poems with Nanjing as the object of description, holding a wealth of cultural and geographical insights within Nanjing's poetic heritage. Exploring the abundant cultural and geographic knowledge is of great significance to the study on the city’s historical culture and literary geography. Based on the data sources of books such as The Complete Poetry Collection of Tang Dynasty, The Complete Ci-Poetry of Song Dynasty, A Dictionary of Poetry Appreciation in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and Nanjing poetry map, in this paper, we selected the poems involving Nanjing written from Tang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, sorted out literature and geographic information such as the poets’ life experience, poetry genre, poetry theme, the place described, literary landscape and landscape elements. On this basis, we produced a dataset of literary geography for Nanjing-related poetry. The dataset can serve as a valuable resource for researching historical culture and literary geography.