After reading Xu Xiake's travel notes, I feel the sea of clouds 1, and the mountains are high and the waters are long. Once upon a time, I was lucky enough to climb to the top of the world and suddenly became enlightened.
The river is moving, the turbid waves are emptying, and I feel infinite when I look at the rough waves on the loess shore, the tigers whistling and the dragons singing.
Whispering in the wind, bamboo leaves, gurgling streams, and occasional birds whispering softly, is really great in Lin Chuan.
Reading Xu Xiake's travels makes you realize that every grass and tree is a miracle, not to mention such scenery.
Read thousands of books and take Wan Li Road. After reading Xu Xiake's travel notes, I look forward to an opportunity to travel far and wide, and see the world depicted in the book.
I used to travel in the Woods at the foot of the mountain, watching trees and grass get along and listening to the whispers of the wind and leaves. Everything here seems to form a huge family-although there are grass and trees, birds and insects here-how harmonious they are! There is no quarrel here, but a joke between two birds at most; No anger, no sadness, no sorrow, … Ah, only harmony and happiness. I asked the grass, the tree is taller than you, aren't you jealous? He said that trees grow tall, and I spread in all directions, each with its own strengths; I asked the tree, other trees grow better than you, aren't you angry? "I don't have to," he said. Everyone works hard and doesn't care about the result.
I used to watch waterfalls on the mountainside, watch the struggle of wind and waves, and listen to the songs of rapids. A drop of water is very small, maybe it will quietly turn into light smoke in an instant. However, countless such weak people have condensed into a strong team! This is an invincible iron army! They can break rocks, cut mountains and open roads, they can travel all over the world without stopping, they can carry boats and nourish everything, and they can struggle until they are integrated into the ocean; They are soft and strong, weak and strong. As long as they have time, they can erode everything. What makes water droplets have such amazing power? Listen to the voice of the waterfall: "Unity is strength-"
I used to watch the sea of clouds on the top of the mountain, watch the clouds roll and relax, and listen to the surge of emotion. At present, there is an endless real nothingness, a sea of clouds? Is it water mist? The sea of clouds is boundless, and the twin brothers have achieved a wonderful integration here. The clouds are magnificent and the sea is unpredictable; True or false, false or true. Please concentrate! Every second, this picture will change, never repeat, always old and young. Like the sea, he warns you: people are small, and nature is eternal to people; As a cloud, he warns you that life is short, cherish every moment and be the best you can be!
I look forward to the opportunity to travel far and let me travel all over Qian Shan. I want to embrace every eternity and every moment; I want to be Xu Xiake. I don't want to woo my ancestors. I just want to go ahead and surpass myself. I want to integrate a negligible time into the eternal mountains and rivers.
The river is heroic and calm; The lake is quiet and the sea is vast.
The mountains are lofty and determined; The desert is vast and calm.
"The sea is vast, and I am the top of the mountain."
I look forward to the opportunity to travel far away, travel all over Qian Shan, and once again appreciate the world that has wandered for several times.
After reading Xu Xiake's Travels, I feel like a wonderful book written with my feet! Why? Because this book was written by the author on his way around nearly 20 provinces in China with his feet, it took more than 30 years until the end of his life.
The author Xu Xiake was born in a scholarly family. His ancestors once built a "Wanjuanlou" library, which created good conditions for Xu Xiake to read widely. However, Xu Xiake believes that if a person wants to write a good article, and to reach the point where the pen is brilliant and the writing is helpful, in addition to breaking thousands of books, he must also take the Wan Li Road! Only by being there, can we gain real knowledge. In this way, his life began to walk nonstop. On the journey, he met more than thirty thieves, even so, he didn't give up halfway. He once climbed to the top of Huangshan Mountain, the first mountain in the world. At that time, the mountain was closed by heavy snow, and even the monks on the mountain were surprised! He also concluded that the source of the Yangtze River is Jinsha River, not Minjiang River. ...
Xu Xiake's life is spent in constant trek, and his life has made great contributions to us. Unfortunately, most of his works have been lost, and the existing book is only a small part of it. However, this did not affect Xu Xiake's travel notes as "the best travel notes in ancient and modern times"!
Thoughts after reading Xu Xiake's Travels 3 I recently read a famous book called Xu Xiake's Travels. I was deeply moved after reading it. Xu Xiake was born in Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province in the 14th year of Wanli. He is determined to pursue the career of geographical investigation that interests him. He likes reading books on geography, history, tourism and adventure, and yearns for the life of "famous mountains and great rivers". Xu Xiake buried himself in studying and studying predecessors' geographical works. However, he did not blindly believe that the works of his predecessors were unchangeable classics, but thought independently while absorbing the knowledge of his predecessors. In order to find out the true face of the motherland's rivers and mountains, Xu Xiake decided to make a field trip in person.
Since the age of 22, Xu Xiake has started his career of tourism inspection. In the past 30 years, he has traveled long distances for four times, covering Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Beijing, Tianlv and Shanghai 19 provinces, cities and autonomous regions. Three or four hundred years ago, Xu Xiake traveled such a vast area, relying entirely on his own two legs. This alone is enough to impress people, not to mention the dangerous peaks and beaches he visited. It is not difficult to imagine how many difficulties and obstacles he has to go through, and even the danger of losing his life at any time. Xu Xiake's exploration activities continued until the age of 55 in AD 1640. At that time, he was in Yunnan. Unfortunately, he was seriously ill and was sent back to his hometown in Jiangyin. He died the next year. It can be said that Xu Xiake devoted his life to the geographical investigation of the motherland.
He noticed the relationship between plants and the environment, observed the different conditions of plant ecology and species under different topography, temperature and wind speed, and realized the influence of the height and latitude of the earth on climate and ecology. Among Xu Xiake's series of contributions to geography, the most prominent one is his investigation of limestone landforms. He is the first geographer in China and the world to systematically investigate limestone landforms. Another feature of limestone landform is that there are many caves. Xu Xiake personally explored more than 100 caves.
Xu Xiake not only made great contributions to geography, but also made great achievements in the field of literature. No matter how tired Xu Xiake is during the field trip, he should record his experiences and observations every day and keep a travel diary. He wrote more than 20 million words of travel notes, which are not only precious documents in geography, but also exquisite travel notes literature.
His travel notes are as simple and beautiful as the nature he described. Some people praised it as "the real words in the world may be on the road of life." Whether we like it or not, the first thing we learn when we are born is to learn to walk. Now we have cars everywhere, which is convenient and fast. At that time, Xu Xiake visited the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. What does he use to travel all over the country? He used one foot! Let's learn from Xu Xiake's willpower and his spirit. Let's work hard for the goal!
Thoughts on reading Xu Xiake's travels 4. Xu Xiake's Travels is the earliest travelogue in China to record the geographical environment in detail, and it is also the earliest book in the world to record the detailed investigation of the causes of karst landforms in that year. Xu Xiake's Travels is a famous geographical work in China, mainly in diary style. At the end of Ming Dynasty, geographer Xu Hongzu wrote 17 travel notes of Tiantai Mountain, Yandang Mountain, Huangshan Mountain and Lushan Mountain, as well as travel notes of Zhejiang, Jiangyou, Chu, Yue Journey to the West, Guizhou and Yunnan. This paper mainly records the author's travel observation from 16 13- 1639, and introduces the phenomena of geography, hydrology, geology and plants in detail.
I borrowed Xu Xiake's Travels from the library. I think he just wrote down what he saw, heard and felt. Although it is a geographical work, in my opinion, he is more literary, concise and beautiful, vivid and vivid. For example, "the stream turns with the mountains and people turn with the stream" and so on. The author is good at choosing words and making sentences according to the characteristics of scenery, and likes to use four words: "the clouds are light and the wind is light, the scenery is pleasant, and the mountains and rivers are flowing". This is often in a binary structure, or uniform and symmetrical, which is elegant and uniform, novel and chic.
The author's diary of Yandang Mountain in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, has its own center every day, and adopts different brushwork according to different scenery characteristics and task activities, which is detailed, vivid and fascinating. In a word, the author combines narrative, scenery description and lyricism, which makes people immersive.
What impressed me most was not the content of the book itself, because it was written in classical Chinese, and I couldn't understand it without calming down. The translated vernacular was too simple, so the content didn't attract me much.
What I admire is Xu Xiake's enthusiasm and indomitable will to travel all over the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and devote himself to the cause of geography regardless of difficulties and obstacles.
I hope that one day, I can travel all over China like Xu Xiake!
Thoughts on reading Xu Xiake's travels 5. Xu Xiake's Travel Notes is a prose travel note created by the geographer Xu Xiake in Ming Dynasty. Xu Xiake likes to go out and explore the mysteries of famous mountains and rivers, and wants to draw all the famous mountains and rivers in the world, but because of his elderly mother, he can't bear to go. Xu's mother is open-minded and reasonable, and actively encourages Xu Xiake to travel with confidence. In the thirty-six years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, 22-year-old Xu Xiake finally officially came out of the mountain. Before leaving, he left his hometown wearing a traveling crown made by his mother and carrying simple luggage. Since then, he died at the age of 54 and spent most of his time traveling. After a day's trekking, no matter what the environment, he insisted on recording his harvest. Turning over Xu Xiake's travel notes, he recorded his thoughts and thoughts from a young man with clear eyebrows to an old man in his twilight years.
The diary of his first visit to Yandang Mountain was very thrilling. Yandang Mountain is a scenic spot in the southeast. Xu Xiake visited * * * for four days and recorded what he saw and heard every day. In the diary of visiting Yandang Mountain, Xu Xiake visited Lingfeng Cave and Lingyan before and after, and observed the magnificent scenery of Dalong Waterfall twice. The most exciting thing is that Xu Xiake saw the fairyland-like wonders of the sea of clouds at the top of Yandang Mountain. However, there are always joys and sorrows in life, surprises and regrets. Yandang Mountain is famous for its wild swings, and finding wild swings is also the main purpose of Xu Xiake's trip. However, contrary to expectations, Xu Xiake went through hardships and finally failed to find the legendary lake swing at the peak of Yandang Mountain. From the joy, self-confidence and firmness of encountering various beautiful scenery at the beginning, to the doubt and hesitation of not seeing the lake swing for a long time, I survived on the cliff until I was disappointed at last, showing the fearless and courageous climbing spirit. Xu Xiake recorded the search process, every step was dangerous and every step was incomprehensible. On the fourth day of visiting Yandang Mountain, the mountain road was definitely broken. "The higher the mountain, the narrower the ridge, and both sides are caught, like the back of a knife. The blade of the stone knife is angry again. Every time it passes a ridge, that is, a steep mountain peak, it climbs up from the gap of the sword. ..... hesitating on the cliff, afraid to go back to the old road. Overlooking the south stone wall, there is a step, so four domestic slaves spread out and the cliff hangs empty. Shoot down the slaves first, and the rest will follow, which means you can go on your way. Next, there is only enough space, no space. Looking at the bottom of the rock, the bucket is hundreds of feet deep and I want to get up. The rock above is also embedded for more than three feet, so I can't fly. Holding the cloth, I tried, but the cloth was strangled by a sudden stone. I stopped suddenly, started hanging again, and tried my best to climb the rock again. I got out of danger and returned to Yunjing Temple. " The whole process is ups and downs, dangerous and thrilling. Among them, ferocious rocks, steep cliffs and key forms are meticulous and true.
Qianshan has traveled all over the world, from the investigation of mountains, rivers and landforms to the exploration of rocks, caves and waterfalls, from the comparison of ecological varieties of animals and plants to the records of mining, handicrafts and species. Xu Xiake's footprints are all over strange mountains and ravines. He is not afraid to enter the barren land. The places he has been to, or the desolate backcountry, or the inaccessible frontier, are in danger of his life several times, but his belief in loving geography makes him associate with Changfeng and Ji Yun, satisfy his hunger with wild fruits and quench his thirst with clear springs. When he looked down at the magnificent mountains and rivers and lamented the vastness of the Milky Way, he lit an oil lamp and a bonfire under the old tree, recorded his day's income, put his ideals into action and produced brilliant light.
After reading Xu Xiake's travel notes, Xu Xiake was influenced by his father when he was young, and he loved reading books such as history, geography, adventure and travel notes. At the age of fifteen, he should have passed a boy exam and failed. Seeing that his son had no intention of becoming famous and was no longer reluctant, the father encouraged him to read widely and become a learned man. Xu Xiake's ancestors built a scroll building to collect books, which created good conditions for Xu Xiake's extensive reading. He studies very hard, and when asked, he can remember everything he has read. The library at home can't meet his needs, and he also collects some books that he has never seen before. As long as he sees a good book, even if he has no money, he will take off his clothes and change books. Once, while studying, a bug got into the neckline of his clothes. He didn't even feel itchy because the description in the book was very attractive.
Xu Xiake loved the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland since he was a child, and the contents of the book describing the beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland often aroused his strong interest.
I'll believe that when I see it. Since he was a teenager, he has been determined to travel all over the famous mountains and rivers and frontier fortresses of the motherland, and personally participated in the investigation to gain rich geographical knowledge.
At the age of 22, Xu Xiake began his long-term travel and investigation career. Without government funding, he traveled to Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan 16 provinces. East to Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang, west to Tengchong in Yunnan, south to Nanning in Guangxi, and north to Panshan in Jixian County, Hebei Province. He has been to Taishan, Songshan, Huashan, Huangshan, Lushan and other famous mountains; I have visited the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and other big rivers, and I have traveled all over China.
The traffic was very inconvenient at that time. There is neither a train nor a car. I always walk on two legs during the long journey, even riding a horse and taking a boat are rare, and my luggage is often carried by myself. Most of the places he has been to are desolate backcountry or sparsely populated frontier areas. He is not afraid of wind and rain, tigers and wolves, keeps company with Changfeng and Baiyun, feeds his hunger with wild fruits and quenches his thirst with clear springs. There were no hotels and restaurants along the way, so we had to camp out in the wind. He was dying several times, risked his life and tasted the hardships of the journey. He is not afraid of difficulties and insists on inspection. At the end of the day, he was so tired that his waist was sore and his legs were weak. Once he lies down, he won't get up again. However, he has strong perseverance. In order to explore the mysteries of nature, he went out for inspection during the day and recorded the experience and observation of the day's trip under the oil lamp at night.
In this long life, he has climbed cliffs and crossed rivers for decades, facing the heat and cold, leaving his footprints everywhere in the mountains, rivers and waters of the motherland. In this way, he persisted for 30 years and finally completed Xu Xiake's Travels, a geographical masterpiece combining science and literature.
Xu Xiake's spirit of loving the motherland and science and courageously climbing the peak in scientific career is always worth learning by future generations.
Thoughts on reading Xu Xiake's Travels 7. If a person wants to achieve great things, he must go through all kinds of hardships in the world, just like a person walking on a street that doesn't rain and can't find his footprints. Reflections on the footprints in Xu Xiake's travels. On the contrary, we can find our footprints on muddy roads. Through this example, we can understand that an ordinary person who has not experienced setbacks and hardships will never achieve anything. Only those who have experienced all kinds of setbacks will leave "footprints" on the road of life and leave glory.
This story tells that Jian Zhen became a monk in a temple as soon as he shaved his beard, and he was often looked down upon when he begged for alms. So he was indignant and stopped working. When the abbot knew it, he took him to the dirt road in front of the temple and told him the truth about the dirt mark, which inspired him a lot and finally made him a famous monk.
Muddy roads will leave traces. People who have accomplished nothing all their lives can hardly achieve great things without experiencing wind and rain and suffering. Those footprints proved the value of his walking.
Many people in the past dynasties have walked through the mud, so they have achieved something. For example, Xu Xiake was determined to travel around the world since he was a child, so he started his journey at an early age. He has to walk a long way every day, be born and sick, big and small, but he is not afraid of difficulties and goes forward bravely, and he can wear out many shoes a year. Many things happen. He finally realized his ideal and wrote Xu Xiake.
There are too many of them, such as Li Shizhen and Helen Keller. However, some people, such as me, start to shrink back when they encounter a little setback. One summer vacation, I practiced well at first, but gradually it got hot and I didn't want to practice, but I couldn't help it. My parents have been urging me to do everything, but it's too hot. I complained as soon as I sat down, and finally I was defeated by the heat. Nothing can be done.
"Hun" is a multi-image word, which symbolizes all kinds of tempering in the world. Only walking in the mud will leave my brilliance. We have come a long way, but footprints represent that sweat is priceless.
Thoughts on reading Xu Xiake's travels 8. Xu Xiake's Travels is an ancient geography book in China with diary as the main body. Author Xu Xiake cruised around and recorded what he saw, heard and felt along the way. He has been traveling almost all his life, and famous mountains such as Tiantai Mountain, Huangshan Mountain and Lushan Mountain are all highlighted in the book.
Different from the feelings of literati who loved mountains and rivers in previous dynasties, Xu Xiake not only praised the beautiful scenery, but also made a detailed description and scientific observation of the geography, geology and landforms where he went.
What impressed me the most was the diary of a trip to Wuyishan. The beautiful scenery of Wuyishan is described in beautiful and delicate words in the travel notes, which highlights the unique features of Wuyishan-mountains and mountains, clear water and Feng Dan. No wonder Wuyi Mountain has the reputation of "a unique southeast". During his tour, I was most surprised by the recorded "boat-shaped hanging coffin". These ancient hanging coffins lie in the crevices of steep cliffs and are weathered by the wind and the sun, but no one knows how the ancients put heavy hanging coffins on cliffs hundreds of meters high.
"Wuyue returns without looking at the mountains, and Huangshan returns without looking at the mountains." This poem was written by Xu Xiake, who was the first to unveil the mysterious veil of Huangshan Mountain and publicize countless beautiful scenery. How comfortable and noble he is! He is not only a strange man who forgets fame and fortune, but also a great man who devoted his life to mountains and rivers and was not influenced by the world. His trip is not only beautiful and magical, but also very thrilling. He has gone beyond the realm of play, but is completely exploring. This strange man with the spirit of adventure and exploration will not only be highly praised by tourists, but also benefit me as a middle school student.
The vast and distant scenery and majestic peaks in the book seem to inspire my heart of exploration, to have fun in climbing and to gain knowledge in exploration.
After reading Xu Xiake's travel notes, I feel 9. After reading the biographies of local celebrities, I not only remembered a book, the vernacular version, but also some famous calligraphy and paintings and old photos as illustrations, which was very interesting. That I can still remember it after watching it for a long time. It's Xu Xiake's travel notes.
Xu Xiake was born in Mazhen, Jiangyin. Born in the 14th year of Ming Dynasty. I have great ambition to travel around the world since I was a child. As an adult, he remained steadfast, studying in thousands of books, traveling on Wan Li Road, and finally wrote a book, Travels of Xu Xiake, which made him a great geographer and traveler and had a unique position in the history of China's humanities.
In ancient times, productivity was backward and transportation was inconvenient, so traveling was asking for trouble; At that time, 99% of men's main goals in life were to be officials, honor their ancestors and raise their children. However, there is such a person who travels around the world according to his own ideas and leaves his mark in an "alternative" way, although this road is full of difficulties and thrills-being robbed, wronged, framed and betrayed, tortured by poverty and disease ... There are only a few descriptions of these in the article, followed by long and interesting scenery descriptions, geological surveys and customs records, as if these difficulties have never happened. It can be seen that Xu Xiake is a man of true temperament, which is "different" in modern words. However, it is his unique experience, supplemented by strange ideas, that left an extremely rich spiritual food for future generations, and also made this "unique" cloth man forever remembered.
His travels can be roughly divided into two parts, namely, the famous mountains and rivers in the early stage and the scenery in Yunnan in the later stage. After reading Xu Xiake's Travels, I seem to have traveled with the author to famous mountains and rivers and deep wild trails, and I have the feeling of "traveling all over the world without leaving home".
A good man has ambitions in all directions. In order to realize his personal ideal, Xu Xiake stubbornly refused to change his original intention and resolutely ignored life and death. What a big tolerance! For several years, he kept recording what he saw and heard in the wild without interruption, and later he became a masterpiece. His down-to-earth and diligent writing attitude is equally admirable.
Read Xu Xiake's prose and learn to be a real person. I deeply envy and admire Xu Xiake, a person who is full of mud and sand. No matter how many blows and hardships you suffer, you are still kind and optimistic in the end. They are good at discovering the beauty around them and sincerely praise them. They put unhappy things behind them, so waking up every day is a new beginning. What a happy group of people this is! I firmly believe that as long as I work hard, my life will be as dull as theirs.
After reading Xu Xiake's travel notes, I feel 10 "After 30 years of wind and rain, I have traveled all over the landscape of the motherland." -"Travel Notes of Xu Xiake"
We all have a martial arts dream in our hearts, and we all want the world to be so big. I want to have a look. Look down, the wallet is so flat. A picture emerges: Xu Xiake braved the wind, frost and cold, scorching sun, sleeping in the wind for decades. Under the extremely harsh environment, we did the same thing and made unremitting efforts, and finally made a masterpiece, so that people can understand the great rivers and mountains of the motherland without leaving home, leaving precious wealth to future generations.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of faith has been supporting him to accomplish such a great career. I think the belief in reason has become a belief in beauty.
Xu Xiake was determined to travel around the world since he was a child, and he was determined to swim in the blue sea and dusk sky. In the free and easy travel of "the ship is far away and the wind is fluttering", even if you are camping every day, you should insist on recording the experience and experience of that day. It is precisely because of the continuous recording and summary of mountains, rivers, animals and plants that Xu Xiake's travel notes finally came out as masterpieces.
People's understanding of the objective world in their minds is not imagined, but made from practice. The compilation of Xu Xiake's Travels is not behind closed doors, but through the actual experience of difficulties and obstacles and stormy weather. Only by persisting in practice can we establish the connection between the perceptual world and the essence of things, so as to grasp the internal laws of things. Therefore, only through our own experience can we better understand the nature and laws of things.
After reading Xu Xiake's Travels, I have some thoughts on the article 1 1 Xu Xiake's Travels-Xu Xiake's Travels.
When we visit limestone caves and see colorful stalagmites and stalactites, we will think of the great achievements of Xu Xiake, a geographer in Ming Dynasty (1586- 164 1). He was the first to investigate limestone landforms and made outstanding contributions to geography.
From 65438 to 0607, 22-year-old Xu Xiake began his journey of investigation, which opened a new direction of systematic observation and exploration of nature. The road to geographical survey is difficult. At that time, there were no modern means of transportation, mainly on foot. We often have to climb cliffs, cross rapids and rapids, endure storms, endure hunger and cold, and sleep in the jungles of Shan Ye. None of these difficulties can stop Xu Xiake. He not only insists on patrolling day after day and year after year, but also insists on recording the experiences and observations of the day no matter how hard the journey is. Xu Xiake insisted on geographical investigation for more than 30 years. He traveled all over the motherland 16 provinces (according to the current administrative divisions), carefully observed and recorded the characteristics of mountains, rivers, animals and plants in various places, and finally wrote a 20-volume scientific masterpiece "Xu Xiake's Travels".
Xu Xiake's Travels is written in diary style, which is the crystallization of Xu Xiake's life experience and painstaking efforts, and is a precious document for geographical research and development. Through reading and understanding, Xu Xiake's whole writing process reveals that Xu Xiake's outstanding contribution to geography is because he attaches great importance to practice and his knowledge is obtained through practice, thus demonstrating the philosophical principle that practice is the basis of cognition in materialist epistemology.
People's understanding is not inherent in people's minds, nor is it imaginary, but comes from practice. Xu Xiake's travel notes were not written behind closed doors at home, but were formed through years of practical investigation. Only through practice can people get in touch with the phenomena and external relations of things, gain perceptual knowledge, and finally grasp the essence of things through practice, so as to go deep into things and master the laws of things. Therefore, if you want to know the essence and law of an object, you must personally participate in the practice of changing the object, and there is no other way.
After reading Xu Xiake's travels, I feel that 12 is also one of the main topics of ancient literati. However, Xu Xiake found: "In the past, people were determined to be officials, and most of them inherited the affiliated associations." "Most of the surfaces of mountains and rivers are covered with maps and records."
Xu Xiake is not superstitious about the old saying of predecessors, but is good at independent thinking, paying attention to investigation and argumentation, and being brave in exploring and seeking truth. Whether for mountains and rivers, grotesque caves, or even settlements, anecdotes and legends, we should always carefully observe, think and analyze them. I will never give up when I meet a strange problem.
Needham, a British historian of science, said in his book History of Science and Technology in China that Xu Xiake's Travels "is not like something written by a scholar in the 7th century, but more like an investigation record written by a scholar in the 20th century".
His visit to Qixingyan in Guilin is a typical example. He went there twice, and made a detailed record and vivid description of the location, direction, size, depth, morphological structure inside the cave and the situation outside the cave. These records and descriptions are basically consistent with the investigation results of modern scientific means. His investigation and description of limestone landforms were earlier than those of Europeans.
Besides, he seems to be good at Feng Shui. In Xu Xiake's travels, Feng Shui terms such as Longsha, Husha, Chaoshan and Hanshan are often used to analyze the mountain-like water potential. When he encountered some danger and confusion during his journey, he often asked God for advice. It can be seen that he is well-read and knowledgeable, and is not suitable for the imperial examination. According to the terminology used by the three men, Xu Xiake may have studied the integrity of Yang Gongfeng Water School. The effect of Feng Shui in Yang Gong is immediate. From the Tang Dynasty to the present.
Xu Xiake's travel notes are a high-level travel notes about ancient places, covering mountain landforms, cliff caves, river hydrology, geothermal hot springs, product customs, administrative geography, road traffic, religious nationalities, historical sites and cultural relics. , and its fruitful achievements and scientific value.
Xu Xiake's travels are also a masterpiece of travel literature. Although the author's original intention is not to specialize in literary creation, so he needs scientific investigation, his extreme love for China mountains and rivers, elegant aesthetic taste and outstanding literary talent are naturally reflected in this "running account".
I respect Xu Xiake, a loner.