Xu xiake's travel route

First one? The second trip: 1609, by boat, along Beijing-Hangzhou? The canal goes north, leading to? Dong, Mrs. You? Confucius Temple, Mencius Temple, moved to the former site three times, and then arrived in Yi? .

After 30 years' investigation, Xu Xiake wrote a 600,000-word geographical masterpiece "Xu Xiake's Travels", which is called "a strange man through the ages".

Xu Xiake's Travels is a famous diary-style geographical work in China, which opens up a new direction for geographical system to observe and describe nature. It is not only a geographical masterpiece that systematically investigates the landform and geology of the motherland, but also a tourism masterpiece that describes China's scenic resources, and it is also a literary masterpiece with beautiful words, which has far-reaching influence at home and abroad.

Xu Xiake (1587— 164 1) was born in Jiangyin, South Zhili (now Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province). He traveled all over the world all his life, and his footprints covered 2 1 provinces, cities and autonomous regions. "What a man has not achieved is to explore the unknown." Wherever he goes, he explores seclusion, seeks secrets, and keeps travel notes to record observed phenomena, humanities, geography, animals and plants.

As an outstanding geographer, traveler and writer in Ming Dynasty, Xu Xiake's achievements in his life are various, but from the perspective of tourism, his persistence in Zhuang landscape is the most striking. His masterpiece of tourism literature is the pinnacle of all his achievements.

With the emergence of professional traveler Xu Xiake in the true sense, tourism, as one of the ways of human existence, quickly entered the ideological consciousness and cultural life of China intellectuals, separated from the life of a scholar-bureaucrat who helped the world, and entered a new track of rapid development. Therefore, Xu Xiake's travels can be regarded as a milestone in the tourism history of China and the cultural history of China.