What kind of person is Xu Xiake, the first traveler in ancient China?

He inherited most of his family's legacy and devoted his life to examining China's geographical location.

He is indeed an adventurous person, who often travels in mountains and rivers, has been to many places, and his family is relatively wealthy.

He is an extremely free and easy person, very good, people like it very much, with happy mountains and rivers in his heart, very courageous.

He was a very adventurous man, he traveled the country by himself, and then he also wrote a book.

It is a very good person, it can be said that he is a very kind, responsible, responsible, and kind, which is his own unique character, a man with good qualities and morals, such a character is worthy of our modern people to learn.

He is a traveler who traveled all over the country, the greatest traveler of the Ming Dynasty and the greatest traveler of China, and his biography has inspired future generations, so that generations of young people dare to fight.

He was an outstanding geographer, traveler, and writer. Make tourism officially one of the ways of human existence. His book Xu Xiake's Travels is a milestone in the history of Chinese tourism and culture.

In fact, Xu Xiake's departure in the first half of his life was basically supported by the family's land and shop income, for example, in the last few years, his economy was indeed a little stretched, but after borrowing dozens of taels of silver from his friend Jin Xiangfu to "tide over the difficulties" to no avail, he tried to get twenty taels from Jin Xiangfu, and said that he would use the rent of twenty acres of land at home to pay it back. At that time, he recorded this incident in his travelogue, and the stingy Jin Xiangfu went to history, and also let us see the wealth of the Xu family, which was used by Xu Xiake for decades, and could still produce in the end, which can be described as a skinny camel bigger than a horse.

In the later part of his trip, Xu Xiake traveled to many places and made a lot of friends, and because of his knowledge of astronomy, geography, customs and customs, he accumulated a high reputation and talent, and also had many fans. Even, with his huge "fan group" effect, he also got the "horse card" from the hands of Tang Yuping of the Chinese army, that is, the letter of proof of using the post station, since then he can live in the guest house of the post station for free, at least the two expenses of food and accommodation have largely changed from "self-expense" to "public expense". It is said that until he became seriously ill at the age of 55, Xu Xiake was the "chief national travel officer", and he was entertained in accommodation, eating and drinking.

Of course, Xu Xiake's trip is also indispensable to the support of friends, such as through his friend Chen Meigong, he met Tang Dalai, a famous man in Yunnan, because he had a very happy conversation with Tang Dalai, not only received a lot of sponsorship for the trip, Tang Dalai also wrote a letter of introduction for him, and let his friends pick him up along the way. However, after Xu Xiake's "money", we look back, just like the topic at the beginning of the article, we can't help but find that Xu Xiake has never cared about money. From the worldly point of view, he is a strange person, even if he doesn't test his fame and become an official, he doesn't even do the business of starting a family, but think about it another way, people only live for a lifetime, just a few decades, isn't it their own business how to live?

The strength of Xu Xiake lies in the fact that he was never shaken by the voice of the outside world for decades, and was determined to play, so he played him all his life, until he died of serious illness in 1641, leaving a book of "Xu Xiake's Travels", in which he recorded the details of China's mountains and rivers, involving geography, water conservancy, landforms, etc., and was known as the greatest geographical work of the 17th century.

Xu Xiake is a very well-known traveler in the history of our country. His personal experience is very bizarre. He traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the motherland by himself, and also wrote a geographical magazine.

Because he makes money while playing, he can play for a lifetime, and the rural people in the past are relatively simple.

Because his family background is very strong and strong, and he usually has a lot of financial support from his parents, he is also very casual, so he wants to go out often.

Xu Xiake, known as Hongzu, the word Zhenzhi, was an outstanding geographer and traveler in the Ming Dynasty, and a native of Nanyangqi, Ma Town, Jiangyin, Zhili in the Southern Ming Dynasty. He despised the powerful, refused to pursue official careers, read a wide range of books, and was determined to investigate the mysteries of mountains and rivers. During the journey, Xu Xiake always recorded the experiences and observations of the day.

Sometimes I traveled hundreds of miles a day, slept in the ruins, and was reckless, but still insisted on burning the withered grass for lighting, and took the pen as a memory. These travelogues cover the geography, landforms, geology, hydrology, climate, plants, agriculture, mining, handicrafts, transportation, as well as places of interest, customs and customs of the places he visited. "Xu Xiake's Travels" is a hymn to the great mountains and rivers of the motherland composed by his life's painstaking efforts, and it is a bright and dazzling wonder in the ancient scientific and cultural garden of our country, which not only has extremely high scientific value, but also has high literary value, and is known as a strange book through the ages.

Listen to Mr. White-Haired sing and read poetry.

The faint sunlight shines through the lilac tree in front of the window into the private school's room. After a light cough, the silver-haired and thin-faced teacher sat down and sang and read an article in "Xunzi" in a solemn tone: ......Therefore, if you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach thousands of miles; If you don't accumulate small streams, you can't become rivers and seas.

Qi Ji jumps, can't take ten steps; Ten horses, the merit is relentless. Perseverance, rotten wood does not break; Perseverance, gold and stone can be carved ......

After the teacher read a paragraph, the students began to recite as usual, and the room suddenly burst into the sound of reading. After a while, the teacher asked everyone to calm down, and called Xu Xiake's name with a serious expression: You come to recite Xunzi's "Persuasion"!

Xu Xiake's voice was hearty, fluent and calmly recited the article. The friends cast admiration and envy at him. The teacher smiled and said approvingly: Hongzu is indeed a good child who reads hard!

In 1587, Xu Xiake was born in a deep house compound in Ma Town, Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. When he was 5 years old, he went to a private school to start his study life.

Xu Xiake grew up slowly in the edification of this kind of poetry and writing.

Xu Xiake's ancestors were all officials, his family background was relatively good, and his parents were very supportive of him when he traveled and gave him a lot of money. In the process of his travels around the country, many ** in the imperial court were also very supportive of him, and his friends also helped generously. Xu Xiake's "Xu Xiake's Travels" became China's first book on geology and landforms.

Most of Xu Xia's guest fees are from his family, because his family is very rich and has strong economic strength.

Family expenses, rich family background, mother is well-managed, and his grandfather made a lot of money in business after he was disqualified from the exam, so Xu Xiake is a rich third generation.

Because Xu Xiake was born in a wealthy family, his family is the richest man in the local area, so he doesn't have to worry about money wherever he wants to travel. Later, even though his family was in the middle of the road, his love for travel remained unchanged, and he borrowed money from friends to travel.

Because first of all, his family is very powerful and will have a lot of money. And his continuous chivalrous deeds will also receive a bounty from the government.

As a great travelogue writer in China, Xu Xiake has traveled for more than 30 years in his life, and at that time when transportation was inconvenient, he traveled to 16 provinces and more than 100 cities, and it can be said that he traveled most of China. He recorded his knowledge for more than 30 years with his pen, and left a highly valuable "Xu Xiake's Travels" for China and even the world under difficult conditions.

Some people have always been curious, Xu Xiake has traveled so many places in his life, but he almost does not produce at the same time, even if he travels poorly, he needs a lot of money, where does this money come from?

In fact, Xu Xiake was extremely wealthy in his early years, and he himself recorded in the "Diary of Traveling to Tiantai Mountain, Taizhou Mansion, Zhejiang" that when he traveled for the first time, he rode a horse, took servants and porters, leisurely, and was extremely comfortable. The reason why this can be done is also because Xu Xiake's family background was too thick at that time, according to the record of "Gongshantang Waiji", the Xu family was the richest man in Jiangnan at that time, even if Xu Xiake's father Xu Youmian lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, regardless of his career, but his family was still solid. It is said that the Xu family had more than 40,000 acres of fertile land in its heyday, and it was 50 miles from south to north.

With such a family background, Xu Xiake's early travel can be said to be very comfortable. It's just that later, Xu Xia's Hakka property gradually ran out, after all, it was not a way to sit and eat empty. The shriveled money bag can't stop Xu Xiake's determination to travel, and he is willing to even "sleep between trees and stones" and "eat grass and trees" in the later stage.

Later, in order to be able to continue traveling, Xu Xiake had to find friends to sponsor him, and he also got the help of many friends, and even finally sold the land in exchange for travel money.

Because Xu Xiake's family background is very thick, their family was the richest man in Jiangnan at that time, so she had a lot of money to travel.

Xu Xiake's early expenses mainly came from family expenses, his family was wealthy, his mother was well-managed, and his economic foundation was still good.

The reason why Xu Xiake has so much money to travel is because their family is very rich.

Xu Xiake's family is rich, Xu Xiake was a rich second generation at that time, and the money for travel was all from the family.

Xu Xiake is a rich second generation, most of the money he travels is provided to him by his family, and he will get financial support from friends if he has no money during the trip, and he can also make a lot of money by selling the travelogues he writes.

I think the money for his travel should be sponsored by the government, and those who admire him should also sponsor him to travel.

First of all, he must have a family background, and secondly, he makes money while swimming.

This should have a lot to do with their family conditions, at that time they should have a certain amount of savings, in the process of traveling, they should be able to obtain wealth to some extent, and there is a possibility that it is now a poor traveler.

His family's real estate actually has a lot, and when they were not poor, their family had several acres of land, so he had income just by collecting rent, although he had been traveling poorly, but he also needed money to travel poorly.

Xu Xiake (January 5, 1587 - March 8, 1641), known as Hongzu, Zhenzhi, Xiake, was a native of Jiangyin, Nanzhili (now Jiangyin City, Jiangsu). A geographer, traveler and writer in the Ming Dynasty, he wrote the 600,000-word geographical masterpiece "Xu Xiake's Travels" after 30 years of investigation, and was known as "the strange man of the ages".

Xu Xiake has been determined to live in all directions, covering 21 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions today, "reaching the unattained by people, exploring the unknown of people", exploring the secluded and mysterious, and recording travelogues, recording the various phenomena, humanities, geography, animals and plants and other conditions observed.

The opening day of Xu Xiake's Travels (May 19) is designated as China Tourism Day.

Xu Xiake was born in a scholarly family, due to the influence of his father, Xu Xiake did not seek fame or fortune in his life, but only pursued the joy of mountains and rivers. Xu Xiake has a fiery pursuit of great rivers and mountains, and without help, he has traveled to 16 provinces in China, including Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Guangdong, and Yunnan, which can be said to have traveled through most of China. Xu Xiake's love for tourism makes us admire, he not only enjoys the happiness brought to him by the landscape, he also recorded this happiness, he recorded what he saw and heard in the process of traveling in his life, and wrote the most famous geographical travelogue "Xu Xiake's Travels" during the Ming Dynasty in China.

Xu Xiake worked hard for his dream all his life, whether it was sleeping on the top of the mountain, or the danger did not stop him from moving forward, and finally he finally fulfilled his wish to travel all over the great rivers and mountains of my country. In 1640, when he was 51 years old, he returned to his hometown after enjoying the beautiful scenery of present-day Hengshan Mountain, and died in the same year.

Although Xu Xiake's life did not enjoy any glory and wealth, it can even be said that he lived a life of eating and sleeping in the open many times, but his heart was full, he not only fulfilled his dream, but also left a precious geographical masterpiece for future generations, and his deeds and spirit will never be indelible. <>