本文根据近现代湖南军政人才辈出的史实,在分析大量人物资料的基础上,指出湖南是国内军政人才的高密度和高层次的产出区域,湖南人才对于中国近现代发展具有重大影响,并阐述了省内人才籍贯的地理分布,讨论了湖南人才产生和发展与当地地理环境的内在联系。
By means of analysing the native places of talented people in Hunan Province, their regional distribution and migration, basic laws of Hunan Province’s talented personal geography and its four elementary problems are clear: ① the number, level and kind of the talent in each place; ② the environment suitable for people becoming talent; ③ the talent’s distribution in a region, including its structure, pattern and centers; ④ migration of talent. The paper is based on a great quantity of documents and data from Hunan Province. The general situation of modern talent distribution and the different kinds of environment in which the talent develops in Hunan Province are discussed. Also some relationships between Hunan’s talent and the geography environment of the province are displayed. Physical and economic environment is the material base on which the talent exists; social environment provides the talent with a broad area and pratical chances. At the same time, the talent has a great reaction against geographical environment. In modern China, Hunan Province is well known for its large number of political and military talent of high level. The native places of Hunan’s revolutionary talent concentrated mainly in Changsha City, Xiangtan City, Xiangxiang City and Ningxiang County and the mountain area of the East Hunan Province and the distrist round Dongting lake.