Xu Xiake started traveling at the age of 22 when he got married (1607), and traveled all over China 16 provinces until the year before his death (1640).
1607, he began to travel, and his mother made him a long-distance travel crown, boating in Taihu Lake, running around Dongting Mountain, but missing his travel notes;
1609 "Li Qi, Lu, Yan, Ji, Shang Taidai, Bai Konglin and Si moved to their hometowns, and a mountain was red and withered", and the travel notes were missing;
16 13, entered Zhejiang, took Ningbo alone from Cao 'e River, and traveled across the sea to Jiashan, where my travel notes were missing. March 30th is the first volume of travel notes, visiting Tiantai Mountain and Yandang Mountain.
16/kloc-in the winter of 0/4, I visited Jinling (Nanjing) and my travel notes disappeared.
16 16, You Baiyue, Huangshan, Wuyishan, Jiuquxi and Hangzhou West Lake;
16 17, the first wife died of illness and did not travel;
16 18, and then visit Huangshan and Lushan; Crossing Poyang Lake; Continue to marry mistresses at the end of the year;
16 19 years, the wife gave birth to a child and did not travel;
1620, I have been to jiuli lake in Xianyou, Zhejiang province and tried Qiantang river tide.
162 1 year-1622, mother was in critical condition and did not travel;
1623, visited Songshan Mountain, Huashan Mountain and Taihe Mountain (Wudang Mountain), and started the second volume of travel notes.
1624, accompanied my mother to visit Jingxi and Dog Music (in Zhejiang), but no travel notes;
1625- 1627, when my mother died, she was very filial and didn't travel;
1628, heading for Fujian;
1629 playing in Panshan, Jixian County, Tianjin, the travel notes have disappeared.
1630, went to Fujian again;
163 1 year, no travel;
1632 visited Tiantai Mountain and Yandang Mountain and went boating in Taihu Lake.
1633, Wutai Mountain and Hengshan Mountain in the upper reaches of the north;
1634-1635, the eldest daughter-in-law gave birth to a grandson, the second son got married, and there was no travel;
From 1636 to 1640, I set sail in Zhejiang, from Zhejiang to Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan, and didn't go home for four years. The third volume to 19 in my travel notes are all the travel notes of these four years, which are recorded every day and some of them are lost. The twentieth volume is his poem, written by others.
164 1 year, returned to China and died at the age of 56.
Xu Xiake's travel notes are the earliest travel notes that record the geographical environment in detail in China, and the earliest books in the world that record the karst landforms in detail and study their causes. Xu Xiake never stopped traveling except for important events at home, and recorded in detail what he saw and heard on the way, which is a rare research material for geographers and archaeologists.