In what year did the term "tourism" first appear in China?

The word "tourism" was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Changle, Shandong Province, and it is the earliest record of the tourism and entertainment activities of civilians in Dongyi!

As early as the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, people began to pay attention to the types of travel. People in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties used the word "travel" to refer to the most active kind of travel at that time-business travel. In the Book of Changes, a kind of divination specifically aimed at merchants is called "travel" divination. The word "brigade" is used for business travel. First of all, it means walking. Second, it is often called "Lu" by the ancients. The word "brigade" was associated with the word "land" and became the proper name of commercial tourism at that time.

During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the classification of travel became clearer. In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, people not only followed the sayings of the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, but also called it a journey of business travel, military service, marriage, tourism and migration. In particular, they introduced the concept of modern tourism into the tourism history of China.

The word "swimming" means floating in water. It is certainly a happy thing that people can swim freely like fish (The Book of Songs, Li Feng and Gu Feng). Therefore, at that time, people generally referred to those arbitrary travel activities, such as hunting, sightseeing and study tour, as "travel". The proposal of "tour" shows that people in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty had a relatively clear tourism category, and could distinguish tourism from utilitarian tourism such as business travel and employment of brigade-level services (courtesy diplomacy and long-distance business), which marked that ancient tourism in China entered the conscious stage.

The word "You" first appeared in the Six Dynasties, during the Qi and Liang Dynasties. Shen Yue's poem "You Chun Shi" (AD 44 1 -5 13) was used to refer to a trip dominated by personal will and mainly for sightseeing, which was different from other utilitarian trips.