What is the historical evolution of China?

The unification and consolidation of Han;

Mainland territory of Ming dynasty:

Belligerent territory:

Thirteen States in Han Dynasty:

The situation in the late Tang Dynasty:

In the 3rd century A.D., Pei Xiu of the Western Jin Dynasty drew a regional map of Gong Yu with a "six-body map", which is the earliest recorded historical map of China. It is an ordinary historical atlas, showing the general situation of history and geography from the legendary Dayu era to the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty.

In the seventeenth year of Tang Zhenyuan (80 1), Jia Dan wrote a map of Chinese and foreign people in the sea, which is three feet wide and three feet high. Its content can be traced back to Shangshu Gong Yu, covering the territory of the Tang Dynasty and its neighboring countries. It is a historical map that pioneered the double-color annotation method of "Today and Zhu".

Forty-four maps of geographical fingers drawn by the Northern Song Dynasty tax ceremony began in Di Ku and ended in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are still books published in the Song and Ming Dynasties. This is the earliest existing historical atlas in China.

At the beginning of the 20th century, with the assistance of his master, Yang Shoujing compiled and published the Maps of Past Dynasties, which consists of 44 groups and 34 volumes. Taking the unified map of the Qing Dynasty as the base map, the important place names from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming Dynasty are included, all of which are overprinted by Zhu Mo, which is more accurate, detailed and practical than the previous atlas. Yang Shoujing's Notes on Shui Jing (published in 1905) is the most important historical map of China.

The Atlas of Chinese History, edited by A Herman, published in 1930s, includes not only the administrative divisions of past dynasties, but also the distribution map of prehistoric sites and some important city maps.

The Atlas of Chinese History, edited by Tan Qixiang, published in 1980s, not only makes up for the defects of previous maps, but also has much richer contents than the old ones.