Who are the famous travelers at home and abroad (list 3~5 items)

1. Kyle Poirot (1September, 25415-1June, 324, 5438+081October), born in Kaul La Chu, Croatia, is an Italian traveler and businessman and author of Marco. It is said that at the age of 17, Kyle Poirot went to China with his father and uncle for about four years. He arrived in the capital of Yuan Dynasty on 1275, and established a friendship with Kublai Khan in Yuan Shizu.

He traveled in China for 17 years, visited many ancient cities in China at that time, and visited Yunnan in the southwest and southeast. After returning to Venice, Kyle Poirot was captured in the naval battle between Venice and Genoa, and dictated his travel experience in prison. Lu Sidi Cello da Pisa wrote Millionaire. But whether you have been to China or not is controversial.

Second, Xuanzang (602 ~664), whose real name was Chen Yi (Y: and), was born in Luozhou (now yanshi city, Luoyang, Henan)? , its first YingChuan people? . A famous monk in the Tang Dynasty, the founder of Faxiangzong, was honored as "Master Sanzang", later commonly known as "Tang Priest", and was also called the three great translators of Buddhism in China with Kumarajiva and Zhen Zhen.

In order to explore the differences between different schools of Buddhism, Xuanzang traveled 50,000 miles to the west in the first year of Zhenguan, and went through hardships to the Nalanduo Temple in the center of Indian Buddhism to get the true scriptures. He studied various theories of Mahayana and Mahayana at that time for seventeen years. When Xuanzang returned in 645 AD, he brought back 50 Buddhist relics/kloc-0, 7 Buddha statues and 657 Buddhist scriptures, and he worked in the translation of Buddhist scriptures for a long time.

Xuanzang and his disciples translated 75 volumes (65,438+0,335 volumes), and the translated works include The Great Prajna Sutra, The Heart Sutra, The Deep Secret Sutra, The Yoga Teacher's Theory of Land and the Theory of Realizing Only Knowledge. The Book of the Western Regions of Datang 12 describes the mountains, rivers, cities, products, customs and rumors of 28 countries that he personally experienced1KLOC-0/0 in his journey to the West. Journey to the West is based on the story of Xuanzang's learning from the scriptures.

Three. Zheng He (137 1 year? - 1433? ), the Hui nationality, whose real name is Ma, was given the name Zheng by Zhu Di, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and was called "eunuch" (also known as "eunuch"), a native of Kunyang Prefecture, Yunnan Province (now Kunyang Street, Jinning District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province). Eunuch, navigator and diplomat in Ming Dynasty.

When Zheng He was young, he served Judy, the prince of Yan. He is clever and resourceful, knows soldiers and learns to fight. Later, he made meritorious service in the battle of Jingnan and was promoted to be the eunuch in charge of the internal officer. From 1405 (the third year of Yongle) to 1424 (the twenty-second year of Yongle), Zheng He served as a eunuch six times. 1425 (the first year of Hongxi), Zheng He was appointed as the garrison eunuch in Nanjing, and 1430 (the fifth year of Xuande) was ordered to go to the West for the seventh time. On the way to 1433 (the eighth year of Xuande), he died in Guri, and is now buried in Zheng He's tomb at the southern foot of Niushou Mountain in Nanjing.

4. Xu Xiake (1587 65438+1October 5-16465438+March 8) was born in Jiangyin, South Zhili (now Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province). After 40 years of investigation, geographers, travelers and writers in the Ming Dynasty wrote more than 2.6 million words (more than 2 million words have been lost, leaving only 600,000 words), which is called "the wonders of the ages".

Xu Xiake devoted his life to four directions, covering 2/kloc-0 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Wherever he went, he explored seclusion, sought secrets, and recorded his travels, phenomena, humanities, geography, animals and plants he observed.

5. Ma Huan, whose real name is Zongdao, was originally from Huiji (now Shaoxing) in Zhejiang, a Hui nationality, and believed in Islam. General affairs in Ming Dynasty (translator).

Ma Huan is proficient in Persian and Arabic. In Zheng He's mission, as general manager and Oracle, he holds two posts, being both a translator of foreign affairs and a disseminator of China culture. Being selected into Zheng He's fleet, he went to the Western Ocean with Zheng He for three times in 14 13, 142 1 0/3, and personally visited Zhancheng, Java, Jiugang, Siam and Guri.

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