A dataset of poetry literature landscape of famous Chinese mountains from pre-Qin period to Tang and Song Dynasties

Abstract

Literary landscape refers to the landscape closely related to the life, study, work, writing and literary activities of literati, which has certain literary connotations. Most ancient men of letters enjoyed visiting famous mountains and rivers. Most of the famous peaks in China have witnessed the footprints of poets and many famous poems. In this study, we collected and collated the famous Chinese mountains as well as the information about relevant poetry and writers from pre-Qin period to Tang and Song Dynasties, and obtained a dataset of poetry literature landscape of famous Chinese mountains from pre-Qin period to Tang and Song Dynasties. The dataset includes the famous mountain table, the poetry table, and the poet table, recording the information of the famous mountains, the poems and the poets as well as the the relationship between them. This dataset can be used to study the relationship between the formation, development and evolution of literary landscape of famous mountains and the creation of poetry, so as to explore the influence of literary works and literary activities on literary landscape. Moreover, it can also support the study on revealing the formation, development and evolution path of literary landscape.