Abstract: Regional literature is an important part of the Qing Dynasty literature which has remarkable regional character. It has become a new research direction to explore the development of Pianwen in the Qing Dynasty from view of geographical distribution. The geographical distribution of Pianwen writers in the early Qing Dynasty has two aspects: First, they mainly lived in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and most of them settled in Hangzhou, Songjiang, Suzhou, Changzhou, Shaoxing; Second, the majority of them naturalized in the provincial or prefectural cities. Economic prosperity, traffic convenience and tradition of laying stress on the cultural achievement become the main reasons for this phenomenon, and it plays a major significance for developing Pianwen in early Qing Dynasty. Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the main distribution area of Pianwen writers, witnessed the inheritance of the Pianwen tradition of the Six Dynasties, which contributed to regional writer-group of Pianwen in the Qing dynasty and started regional Pianwen genre in Qing Dynasty. These distribution characteristics of Pianwen writers also reflect the local awareness in literature of the Qing Dynasty and the geopolitical clustering by literature.

Key words: Pianwen writers in the early Qing Dynasty, the geographical distribution, Guochao Changzhou Piantiwen Collection, regional Pianwen genre