A brief introduction to Xu Xiake's travels
Xu Xiake's Travels is the prose travel notes of Xu Xiake, a geographer in Ming Dynasty. During his 34 years' travel in the late Ming Dynasty, Xu Hongzu wrote 17 days' travel notes of Taishan, Yandang Mountain, Huangshan Mountain and Lushan Mountain, as well as a diary of a trip to Zhejiang, a diary of a trip to Jiangyou, a diary of a trip to Chu, a diary of a trip to western Guangdong, a diary of a trip to Guizhou and a diary of a trip to Yunnan.
Brief introduction of Xu xiake
Xu Xiake, born in Jiangyin County (now Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province), was a geographer, traveler and writer in Ming Dynasty.
Xu Xiake devoted his life to four directions. "Those who fail to achieve it are unknown". Wherever he went, he explored seclusion, sought secrets, and left travel notes to record observed phenomena, humanities, geography, animals and plants.