Seeking Xu Xiake s Travels Travels to Hengshan Translation

1. Original text: Mountaineering Xu, Feiliu.

Gurgling down. Overlooking it, there is also a dangerous wall, the spring is half protruding from the wall, and the sparse bamboo is shaded, which is very good. However, he had already ascended, and he didn't have time to look back, so he went up half a mile from Sangu to replace the bone rock, and the rock was the back cliff of the Manting Peak.

There is an hermitage in front of the rock. From the rock back to the suspension ladder two floors, but also climb a rock. The rocks are not very deep, but surround the top of the mountain like a stacked mountain. The new natives use wooden planks to follow the rock as the room, and the straight and high rise turn with the rock. ——Excerpt from "Xu Xiake's Travels".

Note] Sangu: place name. Mantei Peak: The name of the mountain.

2. Translation: After climbing the mountain and walking for more than a mile, I saw the mountain spring gurgling down. Leaning down to get a bird's-eye view, there is also a towering rock wall, and the clear spring water rushes out from the halfway point of the rock wall, and there is a sparse bamboo forest nearby, which makes people very interested.

However, it has been climbed to Sangu Peak, and it is too late to return to patronize, so it is from Sangu Peak and go up half a mile again, and arrive at the Bone Changing Rock, which is the back cliff of the Manting Peak, and there is a nunnery in front of the Bone Changing Rock.

From the two layers of hanging ladders erected behind the bone changing rock, another hanging rock is ascended. The overhanging rocks are not very deep, and they surround the top of the mountain like a stacked peak. The locals used wooden planks to build their houses along the rock walls, some curved, some straight, some high, some low, all along the rock walls.

The original text and translation of Xu Xiake's travels are as follows:

Original text: On the fourth day of the first month, fifteen miles, to the mouth of the soup. Five miles, to the soup temple, bathed in the soup pool.

The cane looks at the cinnabar hermitage and climbs. Ten miles, on the yellow mud gang. The peaks in the clouds gradually revealed and gradually fell to the bottom of my staff.

Turning into the stone gate, the more the Tiandu threatens to go down, then the Tiandu, the lotus two tops, all show the sky and a half. On the side of the road, one went east, but it was the one who had not been there in the past, and then it went straight up, almost to the side of Tiandu.

Go north and go to the rocks. The pinnacle is clamped up piece by piece; The road is like a stone, the plug is chiseled, the steep is leveled, the broken is erected and the wood is passed, and the hanging is planted with a ladder. Looking down at the craggy ravine, the maple and pine are intertwined, the five colors are draped, and the picture is embroidered.

Because of the reading of Huangshan when the life of the wonders, and there is a strange like this, before the exploration, here to travel fast and ashamed!

Translation: On the fourth day of the first month, travel fifteen miles to Tangkou. Walk another five miles to the Tang Temple and bathe in the soup pool.

With a cane in hand, he watched the cinnabar hermitage climb from afar. Ten miles, ascend the Huangnigang. The peaks that had been shrouded in mist just now gradually revealed themselves and gradually fell under my crutches.

Turn into the stone gate, cross down from the side of Tiandu Peak, so the two peaks of Tiandu and Lotus are beautifully protruding in the sky.

There was a fork in the road to the east, which I had never walked before, so I went straight up the fork road, almost up to the side of Tiandu Peak. He went north again, and walked through the crevices of the stones. Patches of pinnacles rise between the pinnacles, the road bends between the pinnacles, the blocked places are chiseled, the steep places are built with steps, the broken places are built with logs, and the overhangs are connected by ladders.

Looking down, the valley is steep and gloomy, and the maple and pine trees are mixed with each other, colorful, like pictures and splendid splendor; So I thought that the Xunji of Huangshan should be a wonder in my lifetime, but there is such a strange scenery that I have not explored before, and this time I am really happy and ashamed to revisit!

1. The original text is as follows:

Suddenly, on the top of the cliff, there is a hole facing east, and Yu actually climbs up. It was very sharpened, and after half a mile, the soil could not be cut enough, and it was climbed by pointing to the grass roots. And the grassroots can't be fingered, but fortunately it is a stone; However, the stone is not strong, the practice of the fall, the climb of the fall, between a little sticky, stretched feet hanging fingers, such as flat on the wall, not allowed to move a step, want to go up neither help nor the land life experienced in the danger of the life of the person who does not exceed this.

For a long time, first try to get the indestructible stone of its two hands and two feet, and then move one hand in the air, move one foot with the suspension, one hand and foot firmly, and then move one hand and foot in the air, fortunately the stone does not fall; and the hands and feet were weak and wanted to fall by themselves, and after a long time, they were fortunate to climb up. ......

2. Translation:

Suddenly, I found a cave facing east on top of the cliffs, and I climbed up with my head up. The top (of the cliff) was very steep, and after climbing half a mile, the cliff was too steep to put your feet on, so you grabbed the grass roots with your hands and climbed up. After a while, the grassroots couldn't help me, but fortunately I arrived in the rocky cliff area; But the stone is not strong, it will fall when you step on it, and it will fall when you pick it up, and occasionally you can find a slightly stronger stone, and you can tense your feet and hold your fingers, just like sticking to the cliff wall, you can't move a step, and if you want to go up without help, you can't go down and there is no place, which is the most dangerous situation I have experienced in my life.

After a long time, I first tried to find a solid stone around my hands and feet, and then I moved one hand in the air, and then I moved one foot in the air, and after grasping it with one hand and one foot, I then moved the other hand and other foot in the air, but fortunately the stone did not fall; I felt that my hands and feet didn't have the strength to fall on their own, and for a long time, I was fortunate to climb up. ......

3. Introduction to the Diary of Yunnan Travel:

Xu Xiake's Travels is a diary-based geographical work, after 34 years of travel, the late Ming Dynasty geographer Xu Xiake traveled for 34 years, wrote 17 famous mountain travel notes such as Tiantai Mountain, Yandang Mountain, Yellow Mountain, Lushan and other famous mountains and "Zhejiang Travel Diary", "Jiangyou Diary", "Chu Travel Diary", "Guangdong West Travel Diary", "Guizhou Travel Diary", "Yunnan Travel Diary" and other works, except for the scattered, there are more than 60 million words of travel information, after his death by others to organize into "Xu Xiake's Travel Notes". There are 10 volumes, 12 volumes, 20 volumes, etc., which are mainly based on the diary's travel observations during 1613 and 1639, and have made detailed records of geographical, hydrological, geology, botanical and other phenomena, which are of great value in geography and literature.