The Shuijing 水經, an ancient Chinese geographic record, tried to record all the rivers and basins in China. Unfortunately, it gave only a rough outline. Li Daoyuan (酈道元AD.472-527), the greatest geographic writer during medieval China, used more than 400 types of book to supplement the original Shuijing and compete his Shuijing zhu 水經注. Works from the ci-fu 辭賦 genre provided one of the most important sources of references, as can be seen from the fact that Li cited over 40 types of these works. This paper looks at the ci-fu cited in the Shuijing zhu with a view to the following: 1. An analysis of ci-fu cited in the Shuijing zhu. 2. A discussion of the reasons why Li chose ci-fu as a major reference source. 3. A discussion of the influence of the ci-fu citations in the Shuijing zhu.