顧頡剛的沿革地理研究與其"古史辨"宗旨一脈相承。20世紀30年代,顧頡剛對古代地理問題的征實性考證,并非轉向"建設"或"釋古"的表現,而是其辨偽視角在歷史演進方法基礎上的調整,即顧頡剛研究沿革地理,乃是要利用比此前所用思想、觀念等歷史演進系統,更為客觀可靠的古代地理知識為依據,來拆解傳統古史說與客觀上古史的關聯,進一步坐實其戰國、秦、漢造偽說。圍繞顧頡剛及"古史辨"而出現的諸如"破壞"、"建設"、"疑古"、"釋古"等概念,都有其特定的時代內涵,不宜僅取其字面意思隨意使用。

Gu Jiegang’s research on Chinese evolutionary geography was of a piece with his thoughts of Critiques of Ancient History. In the 1930 s,his empirical research on the Chinese evolutionary geography was just some adjustments to Critiques of Ancient History,so it didn ’t mean that his standpoint of ancient history had been changed from "Yigu"( distrusting ancient hisotry) to "Jianshe"( construction) or"Shigu"( interpreting ancient history). In his Chinese evolutionary geography research,he adopted more advanced critiques method and provided objective ancient geographical evidences for deconstructing traditional ancient history,so the intention of his research was further strengthening his theory of ancient history forged. The concepts such as "Pohuai"( destroying),"Jianshe","Yigu"and"Shigu"raised by Gu Jiegang and other the scholars who took part in Critiques of Ancient History had special meanings,so they couldn’t be interpreted literally and misused.