Are there any tourist attractions for sightseeing in ancient times?

In ancient times, there were places for sightseeing.

After living in modern times, working and studying, we will leave our place to travel to other cities, such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and the West Lake ... these beautiful places relax our mood and increase our experience. Sometimes I can't help but think of the ancients. Will they travel? Where will they go?

So we know that tourism was very popular in ancient times, but compared with modern people, they paid more attention to places that could improve their personal cultivation, such as taking a boat trip to the lake, fishing by the river and so on. In fact, what we call tourism was called sightseeing in ancient times.

In ancient times, there were also places dedicated to sightseeing, but these places were closed to the public except the nobles in the palace, and were guarded by full-time personnel, just like the royal hunting grounds, royal gardens, summer resorts, and palaces in some places. These ordinary people can't enter, but only the exclusive tourist destination of the royal family. Some are just ordinary pleasures, such as traveling incognito, observing people's feelings and enjoying the scenery along the way; Zheng He has also been abroad. Although Xuanzang has experienced great difficulties in studying Buddhist scriptures in the west, he has to say that he has traveled a lot here. Confucius went out to study; Yang Guifei goes to Huaqing Pool in Xi every winter and spring to soak in hot springs, which is also equivalent to traveling.

In addition to emperors and ministers, some literati also play around with a few pots of wine in their spare time, such as Li Bai and Du Fu, as well as some poets and literati. They need to travel south and visit north to write many eternal songs. Lu You's "Tour to Shanxi Village" is exactly what Lu You felt when he was in a mountain village. There are many such infinite scenic spots. In ancient times, there were four famous buildings: Yellow Crane Tower, Yueyang Tower, Wangteng Pavilion and Stork Tower. Poets like to write poems from a distance, which has become a sacred place for them to play. Wang Bo wrote "Preface to Wang Tengting" on Wang Tengting, which was beautifully written. There are not a few tourists visiting Dongting Lake and West Lake, with three mountains and five mountains. Perhaps there are many Mount Tai and Mount Huangshan, both of which are tourist attractions. "A poem is enough to talk about unrequited love". Take a few pots of good wine and travel with friends, such as Wang Xizhi, the calligrapher of Preface to Lanting Collection, the world's first running script, and Zhou Bianyou of Xie 'an. These are all wonderful things to play with.

Therefore, there were special tourist attractions in ancient times, but most of them were inaccessible except relatives in the palace, but there were other places with pleasant scenery that were open.