There are two rare travel experts in ancient China, one is Xu Xiake, and who is the other?

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From walking upright to riding fast, from cars and trains to being beside the colorful clouds.

Every update and iteration of transportation means that the speed of human movement becomes faster and faster, which also makes the tourism industry almost unable to stop with the development...

The faster, the faster. Coming faster and faster.

Because it is fast, there are also "Six-day tour of five cities in East China" and "Nine-day tour of six countries in Europe"... just like checking in while taking a quick tour and crossing the selfie sticks. It has to be said that the emergence of this model is partly due to the overdevelopment of transportation: it is so fast that it has no depth and no accuracy...

In comparison, the author still prefers China The feeling of these two people traveling in ancient times. Both of them travel the world alone with bamboo sticks and mango shoes, but the only difference is that one values ??humanities while the other values ??geography.

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The person who values ??geography is naturally Xu Xiake.

Xu Xiake is an extremely lucky man. He was born in a scholarly family but was not bound by fame and fortune. He grew up in an environment full of traditional ideas, but he had a small family that was not affected by it. Circumstances: When he was fifteen years old, he once took the boy's examination. After he failed to pass, he had no intention of doing so. When his father saw him, he did not force him, but only encouraged him to become a learned person.

Because of his good habits and his father’s expectations, Xu Xiake spent all his time reading books. However, after all, there are limited things in the book, and nature is infinite. Gradually, after reading thousands of books, Xu Xiake increasingly wanted to go out and travel thousands of miles, thinking, "The master has not reached what he has not reached, and the master has not reached the unknown." "...

In 1608 AD, 22-year-old Xu Xiake traveled for the first time three years after his father's death and with his mother's reasonableness.

The journey of nearly 30 years began directly, until a handful of bones were completely integrated into the loess.

And along the way, there were also hardships, hardships, dangers of wolves and worms, and disasters of diseases. But every time I saw the mountains rushing to the sea, the sand rising and the clouds flying, everything changed. The sleepiness disappeared, one leg stepped forward resolutely, and the other leg followed closely.

Finally, in more than 30 years, Xu Xiake traveled to 21 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, carefully studying the geography, humanities, flora and fauna of each place, and left behind the precious "Xu Xiake" Travel Notes".

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If Xu Xiake’s journey was a visual feast, then what he experienced next was more of a feast of thoughts. ...

This person is Sima Qian.

Sima Qian was also a happy man before he was brutally castrated. At that time, his father was the Taishi Ling of the Han Dynasty. Although he had little power, he lived a decent life. And because of his father's position, Sima Qian also read poetry and books since he was a child. When he got older, his father allowed him to travel around the world.

In fact, since this time, Sima Qian's father has had the desire to compile history, so Sima Qian's travels since he was twenty years old were on a mission: to collect old news from all over the world.

Based on this, we started from Chang'an, the capital, traveled south to the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, went up to Kuaiji, explored Yu's cave, and discovered nine doubts. , the capital of Lu, observing the legacy of Confucius, shooting Zouyi in the countryside, being trapped in Po, Xue, and Pengcheng, crossing Liang and Chu to return.

I traveled a lot, and what I heard was even more shocking. It was what I saw along the way that became the cornerstone of Taishi Gong’s high regard for thousands of years, and became the basis for Taishi Gong’s later writing of "Historical Records" one of the main materials.

But Sima Qian's misfortune was that he was brutally castrated because of Li Ling's misfortune. For this reason, he always felt that he had insulted his ancestors and was extremely ugly, and every time he thought of this shame, he sweated profusely. But even so, he still endured the pain in body and heart, determined to fulfill his father's wish and become the Sima family.

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Of course, it is impossible to imitate the above two travel experts, either because of insufficient time or money. But under the same conditions, we might as well have fewer destinations and more stops and stops.