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What are the common ways of traveling in ancient times? Representatives?

Taking a boat is the most convenient and cost-effective way in ancient times when transportation was inconvenient and there were no railways. You can find a place to anchor at night and you can even have a place to live. And there will be no shortage of human settlements along the way. The supply problem is also easy to solve.

Chen Yuyi of the Song Dynasty: The flying flowers on both sides of the bank illuminate the red boat, and the wind blows for half a day on the elm embankment of a hundred miles. I lie down and watch the clouds in the sky not moving, and I don’t know that the clouds are all east of me.

For another example, everyone in Huashan in Swordsman also uses this way of traveling. In ancient big cities, monuments were often connected to the river network, which was really convenient.

Horse, oxen, and donkey carts have high road requirements and generally follow post roads, which are ancient highways. There are also wealthy people who take cars out of town to travel when the weather is nice. Or visit the homes of friends and relatives, such as in counties near the capital, and visit relatives in the city during the holidays, stay one night and leave the next day. Therefore, large families have places to store their vehicles and horses

Traveling by car: Du Mu, stop and sit in the maple forest in the evening. The frost leaves are as red as the flowers in February.

Horse riding is actually not comfortable for long distances. Riding a mule or donkey can be used as an alternative to walking, which is slower.

Famous for traveling on horseback: Meng Jiao. In the past, there was no need to boast about the sordidness, but now there is no limit to the dissolute thoughts. The spring breeze is so proud that the horse's hooves are so fast that I can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day.

There is also this: Bai Juyi, the wild flowers gradually become charming, and only the shallow grass can have no horse hooves

Walking, there are no rivers and lakes in the inland, and the rugged mountain roads, the ancients can only use their own hands Feet. For example, Xu Xiake. Another example is this:

(Zeng Dian) said: "Mo Chun, the spring clothes are ready, five or six crowns, six or seven boys, bathing in Yi, dancing in the wind, chanting and returning."

The Master sighed and said, "I am with Dian.