What is the historical significance of Kyle Poirot's coming to China?

Kyle Poirot (1254-1324), an outstanding traveler, was born in the home of a big businessman in Venice. His father, nicolo Kyle, and his uncle, Ma Fei Ayu 1260, went to the east to do business and stayed in Bukhara for three years. I happened to meet the envoy sent by Xu Liewu to Kublai Khan, and arrived in Shangdu (now northwest of Duolun County, Inner Mongolia) from the east with him on 1265. The Nicolo brothers made a pilgrimage to Kublai Khan under the introduction of the envoy Xu Liewu. Khan asked them about the western countries, begged nicolo brothers to accompany Gadal, the envoy of the Yuan Dynasty, to Rome, and wrote a royal letter to nicolo brothers, please pass it on to the Pope, hoping to get in touch with Roman Christianity. Nicolo brothers accepted the task and finally arrived in Aga City (now Haifa North) in April 1269. At this time, the Pope had just died, and the nicolo brothers reported to the Pope's ambassador to Aga City the mission entrusted by the Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty. The ambassador suggested that they wait for the election of the new pope, so the nicolo brothers decided to go back to Venice to visit their relatives. At this time, Kyle Poirot was 15 years old.

127 1 year, Niccolo brothers decided to take 17-year-old Kyle Poirot to the east. After the three of them arrived in Aga, the new pope was still not elected, so they asked the ambassador to Aga to send a big sweat letter and then left Aga. Soon, the Pope's ambassador to Aga was elected as the new Pope, named Gregory X. The new Pope quickly sent a special envoy to look for the nicolo brothers and his party. At this time, Kublai Khan's emperor Kyle Polo had not left the country, so he was recalled to Aga. The new pope received them with a special ceremony, wrote a letter and sent two priests to accompany him. The Niccolo family passed through Iran, crossed the Pamirs into Xinjiang, and passed through Gansu and Ningxia. After three and a half years of hardships, I arrived in Shangdu in the summer of the 12th year of Yuan Dynasty (1275). Kublai Khan welcomed him. The nicolo brothers reported their mission in detail and presented letters and gifts from the new Pope. Kublai Khan was so happy that he ordered Kyle's name to be included in the list of attendants who stayed in the Yuan Dynasty and the Polos.

Kyle Poirot is clever and diligent. He quickly learned China's language, etiquette, customs, riding and shooting, and became proficient in four languages. He can read and write fluently and is highly valued by Khan. I have been ordered many times to perform tasks and perform confidential tasks. Because of Kyle's talent and modesty, he always does things well. He also paid great attention to the local customs and anecdotes where he went, carefully collected interviews and recorded them in detail, and reported to Khan after returning to North Korea, which won Khan's trust.

Kyle has traveled all over China. He was ordered to cross Shanxi, Shaanxi and Qinling, reach the Sichuan-Tibet border region where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities, cross the Jinsha River, reach Kunming, Yunnan, and reach northern Myanmar. He claimed to have been an official in Yangzhou for three years. I have been to Huai 'an, Baoying, Gaoyou, Taizhou, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiujiang, Fuzhou and Quanzhou. He has also been to Nanyang, Java, Singapore, Sumatra, Thailand, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India and other places. Everywhere he went, he collected local customs and took pains to record them in different categories.

Kyle Poirot has lived in China for 17 years. They miss their old country and want to go home as soon as possible. Because Kublai Khan did not allow it, it was not done. In the 26th year of Zhiyuan (1289), Princess Aru of ilhan died, and argon sent three envoys to propose to Yuanyuan. Kublai Khan chose Mongolian princess Kokejin as the princess of Ilhand, and prepared to send her to Ilhand by sea. Kyle's family got the task of escorting Princess Kuku to Persia, and they are going to return home by the way. At the beginning of the 28th year of the Yuan Dynasty (129 1), they set out from Quanzhou, Fujian Province with more than 600 people and sailed for more than two years to reach Persia, completing the mission of protection. The Polos continued their westward journey and returned to Venice in the winter of 1295.

1298 Venice and Genoa went to war. Kyle invested and equipped a warship and served as the captain himself. On September 7, the Venetian fleet was completely annihilated, and Kyle was unfortunately captured. In Genoa prison, he dictated his experiences in the East to fellow prisoner Ruth Tiqian, a Pisa writer. Ruth Tieqian recorded it and compiled it into Travel Notes of Marco Polo in 1298, also known as Oriental Notes.

Travels describe Central Asia, West Asia and Southeast Asia, with emphasis on China. The book praised the richness of the East and the prosperity of cultural relics, which greatly broadened the horizons of medieval Europeans and aroused the determination of Columbus and others to take risks. This book has always been the main basis for Europeans to understand medieval Asia and China. It is of great historical value to the history of Sino-Western exchanges and Sino-Italian relations.