Xu Xiake
Ancient traveler--Xu Xiake Xu Hongzu was born in 1586-1641, with the courtesy name Zhenzhi and the nickname Xiake. He was a native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. He was an outstanding geographer and traveler in the Ming Dynasty. . He has been in love with the Chinese landscape all his life. In the old feudal era where "those who excel in learning lead to officialdom", he overcame unimaginable difficulties and began traveling around the country at the age of twenty-two to explore the mysteries of nature. I have been hiking for 34 years and have traveled all over the country. I have investigated and recorded the mountain topography of more than 19 provinces and cities including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan. I have worked hard Condensed into "Xu Xiake's Travels". He was therefore known as the "Eternal Strange Man".
Xuan Zang
Xuan Zang Xuanzang was a monk who went to India, the birthplace of Buddhism, to learn Buddhist scriptures. Starting from China, his journey lasted 16 years and covered 64,000 kilometers, passing through Afghanistan, Kashmir, northern India and other places. His trip was carried out in secret because the emperor at that time did not allow Chinese people to travel outside the country. Xuanzang was in danger many times during his journey. Danger comes from bad weather and high mountains. Xuanzang was almost shot to death by an arrow while drinking spring water. Later he was imprisoned in the Kingdom of Taxila in northern India. He almost froze to death trying to escape.
Others
In the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian (195 BC - 114 BC) was ordered to lead his people to the Western Regions to find the Dayue clan, and jointly attacked Faxian of the Xiongnu (about 337 - 422) ) arrived in Sinhala (today’s Sri Lanka) Eric the Red Beard (950-1003) arrived in Greenland Leif Erikson (980-1020) arrived in the American continent Marco Polo (1254-1324) Years) arrived in China Ibn Battuta (1304-1368) visited more than 44 countries including China, India, Sri Lanka, and Mali Zheng He (1371-1433) visited Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, East Africa and other regions many times
Pan Deming
Also known as Wenxi, a native of Nanhui, Shanghai, was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang. He is a bicycle traveler around the world. He loved sports since he was a child. He studied at Nanyang Business School in Shanghai and later opened a business in Nanjing. Western restaurant. In the spring of 1930, he learned from the newspaper that eight young people organized the "China Youth Asia Walking Group". He obtained the consent of his parents, closed the restaurant, and went to Hangzhou in June to catch up with the walking group. After passing through Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Haikou, we entered Haiphong City in Vietnam in less than half a year. Our fellow travelers either couldn't bear the hardship or were sick and had to return home one after another. When he arrived in Thanh Hoa, he was the only one left. Pan Deming decided to go alone and simply leave Asia. On New Year's Day of the following year, he resumed his journey, switching from walking to cycling and traveling around the world. In April 1931, he arrived in the South Asian subcontinent from Southeast Asia; entered Egypt in Africa via the Middle East, crossed north to the Mediterranean to the Balkans, passed from Italy through Central Europe, and then crossed Scandinavia to the United Kingdom. He crossed the Atlantic via the United Kingdom, arrived in the United States in January 1934, then passed through Latin America, took a boat from Panama, crossed the Pacific to New Zealand and Australia in Oceania, and then arrived in Indonesia and Thailand in Asia. In June 1937, he returned to his motherland, Yunnan, from Myanmar. Pan Deming adheres to the belief of "eliminating the shame of the sick man in East Asia" and "seeking glory in the world". It lasted seven years and traveled tens of thousands of kilometers, passing through more than 40 countries and regions in five continents: Asia, Africa, Europe, the United States and Australia. I have made inspection records and collected information in every place I visited. I have obtained signatures and inscriptions in more than a dozen languages ??from nearly 1,200 groups and individuals. I have been received by 29 heads of state, heads of government, ministers and famous people. I once paid a visit to the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. , Mahatma Gandhi and later Prime Minister Nehru, the supreme ruler of the Persian Empire Reza Khan, the "Father of Turkey" General Kemal, the King of Bulgaria, the President and Prime Minister of France, the British Prime Minister McDonald, and the Federal Prime Minister of Australia. During this period, in order to investigate and edit the geographical conditions of the Tibetan Plateau in the future, I visited the United States for 2 months. I was interviewed and rewarded by President Roosevelt (who was also the chairman of the World Explorers Association at the time) for the second time in the United States. The day after he returned to Nanjing, the "July 7th Incident" broke out. Since then, this feat has never been mentioned again. Pan Deming later settled in Shanghai and worked for the United Nations Relief and Relief Administration.
After 1949, he was unemployed and supported his family by ironing clothes and painting palace lanterns. After liberation, he worked in Kunming Yixing Automobile Materials Store. On October 18, 1976, he was overjoyed when he heard that the "Gang of Four" had fallen. He died of a sudden myocardial infarction after drinking a few too many glasses of wine. He has 6 children, most of whom are painters. The eldest son Pan Wei was born in Dalian. The second son Pan Hesheng. The third son, Pan Hengsheng. The fourth son Pan Qinsheng. The fifth son, Pan Yunsheng. Daughter Pan Zhi, grandsons Pan Xiaofeng, Pan Bo, Pan Su, granddaughter Pan Shenshen.
Liu Yutian
Liu Yutian
Liu Yutian, the first professional explorer in Chinese history, was born on February 26, 1942 in Changge County, Henan Province. He was originally a cadre of the Xinjiang Urumqi Railway Bureau. Facing the challenge from foreigners, in May 1984, he resolutely gave up everything and started walking the Great Wall. After more than a year of arduous trek, he completed the feat and became the first person in the world to hike the Great Wall. After that, he hiked the Silk Road, the Loess Plateau, Lop Nur in Xinjiang, climbed the Gradandong and Kunlun Snow Mountains, inspected the Shennongjia Savages, the Himalayan Snowman, the Rongbuk Glacier, traveled along the Himalayas and the Brahmaputra River, tried to climb Everest, and crossed the Ming Dynasty three times. China’s five major deserts, including Haitaklimakan and Gurbantong Antiquities. To date, he has completed forty-three study tours and expeditions. He has traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the motherland, and hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and televisions around the world have reported on his adventures. People call him "a rare traveler and explorer in the world in the twentieth century
Yu Chunshun
Yu Chunshun, known as "China's Thomas" and "Contemporary Xu Xiake", is a rare legendary figure. He began to "walk alone throughout China" from July 1, 1988, to 1996. In June 2016, he died like a "fallen bronze statue" in Lop Nur. Over the past eight years, he has overcome numerous difficulties, slept in the open air, traveled through mountains and rivers, visited 33 major ethnic minority settlements, and completed 59 adventure projects, with a total journey of 84,000. (close to the Argentinian Tomas' world record of more than 90,000 miles). In particular, he spent a year and a half braving mudslides, avalanches, altitude sickness, etc. to continuously cross the "life restricted area" of about 5,000 meters above sea level. He set a record of being the first person in human history to explore the "Third Pole of the World" on foot - the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which shocked the world. Yu Qiuyu once wrote the preface to his posthumous work.
Deng Tingliang
Deng Tingliangnan, a Tibetan from Goluo, Qinghai, was born in Chongqing in 1943. He is a famous historian, humanist and explorer. He is the vice chairman of the Sichuan Scientific Exploration Association and one of the founders of the association. He is mainly dedicated to anthropology. , investigation and research on ethnic minority languages, culture, religion and history. Professor Deng Tingliang has spent a lot of time alone in the snow mountains every year since the 1960s in order to study the history and culture of ethnic minority tribes in western China. He spent more than a dozen Spring Festivals in ethnic areas, visiting the tough or kind tribesmen in the wilderness, jungles, river valleys, and foothills, sometimes even staying away for the whole year. He was also known as the "Yak" Professor of China. The first person to investigate the entire Southwest Silk Road on foot. He is an authority in the fields of "Southern Silk Road", "Tea Horse Road", "Mongolian Army Entering Yunnan", "Hengduan Mountain Ethnic Corridor", "Origin of Chinese Civilization" and other fields. Professor Deng Tingliang has excellent poetry, calligraphy, painting and prose, and has the unique boldness, straightforwardness and perseverance of a Kham man, and is very charming. His humanistic concern of "paying attention to the earth and life" has a wide influence. Over the years, he has continued to write and record the history of the arduous development of mankind with his solid feet. He tells us that outside of modern cities, people can live in harmony with nature, and simple and simple lives also show a colorful life. As a model of modern Chinese explorers, Professor Deng Tingliang presided over and planned many theme activities such as the "Southwestern Silk Road TV Film Shooting", "Descendants of Yan and Huang Dynasties Large Series", and "Heizhugou Scientific Expedition". In his sixties, he is still active at the forefront of association activities. Apart from exploring, Mr. Deng Tingliang spends most of his remaining time teaching in colleges and universities.
As a senior expert in history and folklore, as well as a calligrapher, sculptor and art educator with profound artistic attainments, he has taught at Peking University, Sichuan University, Southwest Normal University, Chongqing Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Conservatory of Music, etc. He is employed as a professor and doctoral supervisor in the university. He often wins applause from students with his profound knowledge, serious and detailed inspection experience, and humorous conversation.
Li Leshi
Li Leshi Li Leshi was the first person to propose "white power". The so-called "white power" refers to the South Pole and the North Pole. Li Leshi has been to the North Pole three times. On the third time, Li Leshi reached the North Pole and planted the five-star red flag at the northernmost point of the earth. In 1987, Li Lexi climbed the Himalayas, the highest mountain in the world. From then on, Li Lexi's life began to take a big turn. The focus of her life has shifted from travel photography to scientific research on the earth's ecological environment.
Brothers Jin Feibao and Jin Feibiao
Brothers Jin Feibao and Jin Feibiao Jin Feibao was born on November 23, 1963. In 1982, he first climbed the Jiaozi Snow Mountain in Luquan County, the highest peak in Kunming, and reached the top (elevation 4217 meters
) In 1985, he climbed to the top of Malong Peak in Cangshan Mountain, Dali (elevation 4130 meters). In 1987, he climbed the highest snow-capped mountain range in central Yunnan and Mazhao Ridge (4360 meters above sea level). In 1990, he crossed the Dianchi Lake (about 9 kilometers). ) In 1998, he climbed Kunming Biluo Snow Mountain and reached the summit. In the same year, he climbed Kunming Laos Mountain. In 1999, he climbed Xuebaoding, the main peak of Mian Mountain in Sichuan and reached the summit (5,600 meters above sea level). In 2003, he climbed Kunming Haba Snow Mountain (5,396 meters above sea level). July 2004 Climbed Muztage Peak in Xinjiang (7546 meters). Climbed Cho Oyu Peak (8201 meters), the sixth highest peak in the world, in September 2005. Jin Feibiao was born on October 18, 1960. In the spring of 1980, he hiked alone to explore the source of the Pearl River. In 1982, he climbed to Kunming for the first time. Climbed the highest peak, Jiaozi Snow Mountain in Luquan County (4,217 meters above sea level). Cycling around Guizhou Province in 1984. Climbed Malong Peak on Cangshan Mountain in Dali in 1985 and reached the top (4,130 meters above sea level). In 1986, climbed Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (the virgin territory of Lijiang). Peak) with an altitude of 4,900 meters. In 1987, he climbed the highest snow-capped ridge in central Yunnan and Mazhao Ridge (4,360 meters). In 1990, he crossed the Dianchi Lake (about 9 kilometers). In 1995, he first climbed Haba Snow Mountain in Yunnan (5,396 meters above sea level). In 1996, he participated in the Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering in Meili Snow Mountain. Team (not summited) Climbed Biluo Snow Mountain in Yunnan in 1998 and reached the summit, climbed Laos Mountain in Yunnan in the same year, climbed Xuebaoding, the main peak of Mian Mountain in Sichuan, in 1999 and reached the summit (5600 meters above sea level) Crossed the Zhaga Mountains in 2000, May 2001 Organized and participated in caving at the Big Tiankeng in Qujing, Yunnan. In December, he climbed the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain for the eighth time, reaching an altitude of 5,200 meters. In May 2002, he climbed the Daxuetang, the main peak of Xiling, Sichuan. In March 2003, he participated in a cave expedition in Panxian, Guizhou. In May, he climbed Tibet. Nyainqentanglha Mountain reached an altitude of 6,000 meters. In July 2004, he climbed Muztage Peak (7546m) in Xinjiang.
Huang Xiaowen
In 2002, Huang Xiaowen was selected as one of the "Top 2" by Time Magazine One of the "Fifteen Asian Heroes" and known as "China's most accomplished living explorer", he specializes in exploration, research, protection and education in remote areas of China, and has worked hard to protect China's natural and cultural resources for 20 years. . He has led six large-scale expeditions for National Geographic Magazine, one of which discovered a new source of the Yangtze River. This book is one of Huang Xiaowen's most important masterpieces. It is the result of his more than ten years of observation and research on Chinese black-necked cranes.
Liao Jia
Liao Jia is a travel writer and car travel explorer. Liao Jia started traveling by car in 1996 and has driven to all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in mainland China, covering a distance of 180,000 kilometers. ·From July to December 2001, Liao Jia completed the first solo and bicycle trip in history around Eurasia.
Ma Zhongxin
Ma Zhongxin was born in Dongyang, Zhejiang Province. He was born in Lanzhou and grew up in Taiwan.
Ma Zhongxin has worked as an engineer and a jeweler, and has traveled around the world for 20 years. He is the author of three books: "Adventures at the End of the World", "The Truth About Sanmao", and "Ice Naked Antarctica". Ma Zhongxin has traveled to 127 countries and regions. The most controversial was his trip to the Sahara. He followed the footsteps of the writer San Mao and found that San Mao was a weird old maid in the eyes of the locals, and the beloved Jose in his novel was completely fictional. After the publication of Ma Zhongxin's series of articles about Sanmao's true identity, it stirred up waves. Some people scolded him for grandstanding, while others praised him.
Fu Qingsheng
Fu Qingsheng For more than six years, Fu Qingsheng lived in the open air and went through hardships. He visited 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, a journey equivalent to one and a half times around the earth. He has visited more than 500 villages, more than 800 scenic spots and construction projects of 41 ethnic minorities; met hundreds of current celebrities; took more than 8,000 photos of ethnic minorities; and wrote more than 1 million words of travel notes. Hubei People's Publishing House has edited and published his travel notes, titled "One Hundred Thousand Miles of Travel in China". In addition, he also has two written works, "An Ordinary Chinese Sees China" and "The Adventures of Fu Qingsheng", and a photo album "An Ordinary Chinese Sees China", which needs to be co-published by publishers around the world.
Bu Yuqing
Bu Yuqing Bu Yuqing walked up the Yangtze River starting from Shanghai and has now traveled through 8 provinces to reach Tibet. In the spring of 1998, the ten-thousand-mile sprint on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River began. She will face the swampy snow-capped mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, infested wild animals, and unpredictable weather, as well as 800 miles of no-man’s land on the Tongtian River, 400 miles of no-man’s land on the Tuotuo River, and finally reach the Geladandong Snow Mountain, the source of the Yangtze River at an altitude of 6,720 meters. Her husband Jia Qianli has been accompanying her. CCTV, Yunnan Provincial Television, and Kunming Municipal Television have made 7 episodes of special reports.
Wei Shunde
Wei Shunde His special TV series "Western Wildlife World" is being filmed and has attracted great attention from the media. As the group embarked on the road across the Taklimakan Desert, the large sand beams aroused the interest of Teacher Wei Shunde again. As soon as the Toyota van stopped, he jumped out of the car with a tripod and two cameras, walking as fast as flying. In an instant, he had climbed up the big sand beam and set up the tripod, which made us ashamed, a 66-year-old man
Liu Li
Liu Linan is the Secretary-General of Sichuan Scientific Exploration Association and a senior engineer of the Chengdu Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Director of the Chengdu International Academic Exchange Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Chengdu Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Liu Li has organized and participated in many scientific expeditions and scientific expeditions on geology, landforms, plants, and vegetation in the western region. Mainly engaged in tourism resource development and tourism landscape resource development research. Published many papers and articles. Liu Li is open-minded and optimistic, and his hearty laughter is very contagious. As an interdisciplinary scientific research expert that is extremely difficult to find in our country, few people have such a comprehensive understanding of the natural and human ecological environment of the West like him. He He has been engaged in scientific research and expedition activities on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for nearly 20 years. His style is bold and careful, calm and steady, and he is calm in the face of danger. The team he leads can always complete the task successfully and escape unscathed, so he is affectionately called " "Plateau Fox".
Explorers of the Age of Discovery
Prince Henry (1394-1460) arrived in East Africa, the Azores and other areas Bartolomeu Dias (about 1450 -1500) arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) arrived in the West Indies. Vasco da Gama (about 1469-1524) arrived in India. Pedro Cabral (1460) Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1526) arrived in Brazil Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) led a fleet to circumnavigate the earth Francis Drake (1543-1596) circumnavigated the globe Amerigo Vespucci (1454 John Capote (about 1450-1499) arrived in Newfoundland, Canada Juan Ponce de Leon (about 1460-1521) arrived in Florida, USA Hernan Cortés (1485-1547) Aztec conqueror, established Spanish colony in Mexico Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) arrived at the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada Hernando· De Soto (approximately 1497-1542) arrived at the Mississippi River in the United States. Francisco Pizarro (1475-1541) was a conqueror of the Inca Empire and reached today's San Francisco, Peru and other areas
Modern explorers
Coronado (about 1510-1554) arrived at the Grand Canyon in the southwestern United States. William Barentsz (1550-1597) arrived at Bear Island, Svalbard Islands, Novaya Zemlya, etc. Arctic Ocean Island Henry Hudson (1550 - about 1611) arrived at Canada's Hudson Bay and Hudson River Walter Raleigh (1562 - 1618) arrived in North Carolina, USA, and declared Virginia a colony of England Muir de Champlain (1567-1635) arrived in Quebec, Canada, the St. Lawrence River and other places, and established Quebec City. Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1820) arrived in Canada on the Mackenzie River. Louis de ·Torres (1565-1610) arrived at the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea Abel Tasman (ca. 1603-1659) arrived at Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji John Byron ( Samuel Wallis (1723-1786) arrived in the Falkland Islands and Northern Mariana Islands. Samuel Wallis (1728-1795) arrived in Tahiti. Vitus Bering (1681-1741) arrived in Alaska. , Aleutian Islands, Sea of ??Okhotsk George Stella (1709-1746) arrived in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Siberia James Cook (1728-1779) arrived in Hawaii, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia, and explored the coastline of the Pacific Ocean. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) conducted scientific expeditions to Central and South America. Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) explored the U.S. Louisiana Purchase. Lin Zang (1775-1844) explored the Ainu region of Hokkaido, Japan, and reached Sakhalin Island. Jim Berezer (1804-1881) explored the Rocky Mountains, and visited places such as the Yellowstone Park area and the Great Salt Lake. Kole Przewalski (1839-1888) arrived in Tibet and the Tianshan Mountains in China; Sasamori Gisuke (1845-1915) explored the Kuril Islands and Ryukyu Islands; Huihai Kawakou (1866-1945) went to Lhasa, Tibet , to obtain Buddhist scriptures David Livingston (1813-1873) went to the interior of Africa to explore the source of the Nile River Adolf Eric Nordenskj?ld (1832-1901) arrived in Spitsberg Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the pioneer of the Northeast Passage in the Arctic Ocean, explored the source of the Nile River with Livingston in Africa. Friedtjof Nansen (1861-1930) reached the Arctic Sven. ·Hedin (1865-1952)
) explored the Caucasus, Persia, Central Asia and other places, and discovered the ruins of Loulan. Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) arrived in Antarctica. Marc Orel Stein (1862-1943) arrived in China. Xinjiang and Gansu Robert Scott (1868-1912) arrived at the Antarctic Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) arrived at the Antarctic Pelliot (1878-1945) arrived at the Dunhuang Grottoes in China
Modern Explorers
Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) was the first to climb Mount Everest in the Himalayas Yuri Gagarin (1934- Neil Armstrong (1930-1968), the first man to enter space; Naoki Uemura (1941-1984), the first man to set foot on the moon; Thor Heyerdahl (1914), who reached the South Pole alone -2002) Sailed from Peru to Tuamotu Island in the South Pacific on the raft Kon-Tiki