An essay on the story of an explorer in junior high school 5

Xu Xiake (November 27, Wanli 14th year - Chongzhen 14th year of the first month 27th, January 5, 1587 - March 8, 1641), born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu, Ma Town, South Yangqi, named Hongzu, the word Zhenzhi, the number Xiake, was a famous geographer and traveler in the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Xiake traveled all over the country, trekking to many wilderness areas that no one had visited before, and often slept in the wilderness. Footprints through Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other 16 provinces, everywhere to explore, and recorded a travel diary, recording the observed phenomena, humanities, geography, animals and plants.

In particular, Xu Xiake has carried out profound research and records on the limestone landform, including the distribution of karst caves, and the genesis of stalactites and stalagmites have been explained in detail, and he is the first person in the world. At the same time, the source of the Yangtze River was investigated, and the errors in ancient documents were corrected.

After his death, when the Qing army attacked Jiangyin, his nephew helped defend the city, the whole family was killed, his travelogue was scattered, and the descendants collected the remnants into "Xu Xiake's Travels". Its content includes the geography, geomorphology, geology, hydrology, climate, plants, agriculture, mining, handicrafts, transportation, places of interest, and customs of the places he visited, and still has high scientific and literary value.

Liu Yutian was the first professional explorer in Chinese history. Born on February 26, 1942 in Changge County, Henan Province, he was originally a cadre of the Urumqi Railway Bureau in Xinjiang. Faced with the challenge of foreigners, in May 1984, he resolutely gave up everything and began to hike the Great Wall.

After more than a year of arduous trekking to complete the feat, he 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 Savage, the Himalayan Snowman, and the Rongbu Glacier, traveled along the Himalayas and the Brahmaputra River, tried to climb Mount Everest, and crossed the Taklamakan Sea of Death and Gurbantunggut three times through the five major deserts in China. To date, he has completed 43 expeditions.

Hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and television stations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the world reported his adventures, and he was called "a rare traveler and explorer in the world in the 20th century." Downs! In the past ten years, he has braved the desert alone, walked the Gobi, climbed mountains, and waded into big rivers, filling a gap in exploration for the motherland with his blood, tears and sweat.

Life and death! He took more than 10,000 black-and-white color photographs with his own hands, and wrote more than 2 million words of expedition diaries, covering various fields such as politics, history, geography, literature, philosophy, art, qigong, and archaeology.

Then he glared at the lion with more stern eyes, and then the lion suddenly knelt down, and put his hands together, and the explorer thought it strange, but did not know what to do, and knelt on the ground with his hands together, and after a while the lion raised his head and said to the explorer, "I don't know what you are doing, but I can tell you."

sue you ......I'm praying before the meal!

From ancient times to the present, there have been batches of brave explorers who have traveled from heaven to earth, south and north, and let us know many secrets of the world. Magellan is one of them.

On September 20, 1519, Magellan set off from the port of Sanlucar, a port outside Seville, Spain, to the rumbling salute of cannons.

Magellan's fleet consisted of 5 ships with a total of 256 people. During the first few days of the voyage, the sea was calm and they navigated with the brisk northeast trade winds and equatorial currents. Two months later, the convoy crossed the Atlantic and reached Brazil.

Magellan stood on the coast of South America, pondering the call of the mysterious strait, the melodious and desolate call of the whale song floating in the distance. So he set sail without hesitation and sailed south along the coast of South America, not sparing every strait. Finally, after repeated failures and setbacks, the fleet entered a deep bay, and for half a year, they had seen a deserted shore, but here was a different world.

Magellan stood on the deck, bathed in the smell of ice and snow, as if he heard the melodious call of the whale song again, and the fleet embarked on an unprecedented road of hope. On November 22, 1520, a strait flashed ahead, and this was the mysterious strait they had so much trouble finding, and later generations called him the "Strait of Magellan".

The flotilla calmly sailed through the strait, and before their eyes appeared a huge body of water, an incomparably open ocean, another sea on Earth to which the Europeans had never been. The ships raised the Spanish flag and saluted the ocean. From this day on, mankind finally figured out what its planet looked like, and Magellan affectionately called this great South Ocean the "Pacific Ocean".

This is where the name Pacific comes from.

The flotilla had an accident on the way back to the homeland. On April 27, 1521, Magellan was killed by an arrow in a conflict with the natives of Mactan Island in the Philippine archipelago, but his fleet continued to sail and finally returned to the port of Sanlucar on September 8, 1522.

Magellan, the strongest member of civilized humanity, completed the strongest journey in history, proved the correctness of the theory of the shape of the earth, and made great contributions to mankind.

Let's say I'm an explorer.

If I were an explorer, I would go on an expedition to space and discover the secrets of cosmic black holes. Look at how many unknown objects are hidden behind the dark shadow of this space object with a powerful attraction. By the way, let's take a look at the milky white Milky Way that looks like a strip, what is inside?

If I were an explorer, I would go to the ancient city of Loulan in China and discover how the original prosperous city disappeared into the vast desert of muddy and yellow. And guess how such a big city was buried by the flying yellow sand.

If I were an explorer, I would go to Mars and find out if there was life there, and if there was life in water. Prove whether the Martians are often speculated about exist, and whether there were ever higher creatures like humans, living in this Earth-like environment with a variety of animals and plants. Maybe there was once a place like Earth on this now-seemingly desolate planet, but for some reason this planet has become what it is now.

If I were an explorer, I would also want to go to the center of the earth, and use the highest drills to go to the hottest place in the center of the earth, which is the very center of the earth, and it is a hot liquid composed of magma and minerals.

If I am truly an explorer, I must discover all kinds of mysteries and solve them to contribute to humanity.

Today, Mr. Huang took us to the paradise of plants to observe. I saw a strange grass called mimosa. If someone touches it, it shrinks up, because there are often storms in its hometown, and it uses this wonderful method to protect itself.

There is also a kind of grass called pitcher plant, also called bottle grass. Because it has a few little pockets, like little bottles, and if a bug falls into it, don't try to crawl out again, and then I think Nepenthes must be saying, "Don't try to escape from my little pocket."

In the rainforest area, there is also a tree called the Bleeding Tree, which bleeds automatically, which is fun. What a wonderful paradise of plants.

The title of the article--- Magellan's voyage around the world.

---In 1519, at the behest of the King of Spain, he led an expedition to find the Spice Islands to the East Indies. One of the ships in the fleet was wrecked in a storm. Several captains then conspired against him.

A ship turned around and went home. Magellan put one of the rebels to death, left two on a deserted beach, and set sail. When the flotilla arrived in the Mariana Islands, the local population attacked them.

In an engagement with the tribes on Mactan Island in the Philippines, Magellan was killed. But his companions continued the voyage and returned to Spain, thus proving that the earth was round.

My feelings--- living for one's own ideals and beliefs is the highest state of life, although Magellan was not able to complete the circumnavigation of the world, but his adventurous spirit to prove the truth of the earth is worthy of recognition, and his historical contribution is indelible.