A brief introduction to the author of Joe's Travels;

Yuan Hongdao (1568 ~ 16 10), a writer in Ming dynasty, was called Shi Gong and Liu Xiu. Huguang Public Security (now Hubei Public Security County). He is the founder of the "Public Security School", also known as Sanyuan. Frank personality, like to travel. In the 16th year of Wanli (1588), the rural trial was selected. The next year, he returned to his hometown to learn from his brother who had returned from a business trip. Twenty years of Wanli Jinshi. In the twenty-third year of Wanli, he was appointed magistrate of Wuxian County. In less than two years, a county ruled, and Wu Min was very happy. However, he hated the bad habits of officialdom and resigned seven times. Prime Minister Shen Shixing praised that there has been no such order for 200 years! After being allowed to leave his post, he traveled all over the southeast places of interest and wrote famous articles such as Tiger Hill and Night Tour of Six Bridges and the Moon. In the twenty-sixth year of Wanli (1598), he went to Beijing again and served as a school official and director of the etiquette department of Jingzhao. He also wrote famous articles, such as Travel Notes of Man Jing and Biography of Xu Wenchang. After his brother Yuan Zongdao died, he was deeply saddened. He took time off to go back and build the Liulang Pavilion, where he planted flowers and raised willows, wrote poems and articles, meditated and realized Taoism, and wandered the landscape for six years. In the thirty-fourth year of Wanli (1606), he went to Beijing as the director of Li Department and Cao, and two years later, he was transferred to the director of the inspection and printing department of the official department to rectify the official management. The famous "Picking Chrysanthemums under the East Hedgehog" was made at this time. In the thirty-seventh year of Wanli, he was sent to Shaanxi as an examiner, returned to South in the spring of the following year, and died on the sixth day of September of the same year. The core of his literary proposition is to express his own spirit, not sticking to one pattern, emphasizing that literature should express individuality, express true feelings and flow out one by one from one's chest. With the progress of the times, literature should be constantly innovated. There are over 0/700 poems handed down from ancient times, and nearly 600 travel notes, letters, prefaces and postscripts, inscriptions, biographies, diaries and essays. The greatest achievement is the travel notes of mountains and rivers, which are fresh and handsome and unique. Later generations compiled all his poems into The Complete Works of Yuan Zhonglang, and the new edition of Yuan Hongdao Ji Jian Corner published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House.