Main cities and locations of the Kelpolo route in The Travels of Marco Polo (round-trip route); He was ordered by Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu to send missions at home and abroad.

Scholars at home and abroad generally agree with Kyle Poirot's itinerary in China. Most people hold a negative attitude towards the authenticity of his post in southern China.

1, arriving in China.

127 1 year, Kelpolo left Venice, went south to the Mediterranean, crossed the Black Sea into the two river basins, and arrived in Baghdad.

Depart from Baghdad, go ashore from Hormuz along the Persian Gulf, pass through the Strait of Hormuz, cross a large Iranian desert, and continue to cross the Pamirs to Kashgar (Xinjiang).

2. China route, in the order of travel notes.

Kashgar is the first big city that Kelpolo arrived in after he entered China. Travel notes call it the capital of the lost country, "the largest and most beautiful city in the lost country".

Hotan and The Travels of Marco Polo are recorded as "suddenly burning charcoal", which shows that cotton is abundant here and everything is rich.

Ganzhou, called "Ganzhou" in the travel notes, is a famous historical and cultural city located in the Hexi Corridor of the Silk Road, named to commemorate the victory of the Han army over the Huns.

Black City, called "Yijinai" in travel notes, is located in the western border area of Inner Mongolia and is an important city in the northern part of Xixia Kingdom in history.

Yinchuan, scholars believe that Kyle Polo's Love of Hawthorn Trees is Yinchuan, the ancient capital of Xixia Kingdom. According to its records, it "made the most beautiful white camel hair in the world".

Shangdu, located in Inner Mongolia, northwest of Beijing, is known locally as "Chunaiman Su Mi".

Kyle Polo mostly used a lot of pen and ink to describe "Ballouk", the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Hangzhou was once the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Quanzhou, 1292 After a long journey, Kelpolo and his relatives went to sea from the "largest port in the East" Erythrina (Quanzhou) and left China. He described Quanzhou as the busiest port, where "all ships carrying spices and precious materials" are anchored.

Due to academic disputes, only Hangzhou and Quanzhou are mentioned here in southern cities.

3. Return route:

Set sail from Quanzhou, arrived in Java for 3 months, repaired the ship in Sumatra for 5 months, and was hit by a storm in the Straits of Malacca.

Later, I met pirates in the Arabian Sea (northwest India) and was robbed of a lot of property. It took them two years and two months to reach Persia.

Then it took another year to return to Venice.