Modern tourism is well developed, and we can see it from the crowd of people during Golden Week. For tourism, I think there is no one who does not like, at least most people like it, as to why we all like to travel, the main reason is to find freedom.
However, for modern us, the biggest problem of tourism is the high cost of attraction entrance fees, which is called "tourism industry". In fact, there are many tourists in Chinese history, who travel the mountains and rivers, wander the world, travel all over the country, see the grand scenery of the world, see the spring colors of the world, and the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland. Of course, in ancient times there was no charge.
The first is Confucius
Confucius traveled around the world, and it has long been recorded in the history books.
Confucius, who lived in the late Spring and Autumn Period, was born in 551 BC and died in 479 BC, living for 73 years (also said 74 years old, the algorithm is different).
At the age of 55, the frustrated Confucius ran away from home and began traveling around the world to promote his political ideals. Unexpectedly, this exodus turned out to be more than ten years, from the age of 55 to the age of 68.
During these more than a decade, Confucius went to the borders of Weiguo, CaoGuo, Song Guo, Zheng Guo, Chen Guo, Cai Guo, and Chu Guo, and other countries refused to use him except for a brief period of work in Wei Guo and Chen Guo.
Confucius traveled around the world as a donkey friend, but not our current donkey friend, he was completely to promote his own political ideas and ideas, but unfortunately no one adopted it in the end, and it was only many years later that Emperor Wu of han "deposed a hundred families and exalted Confucianism".
The second was Sima Qian
Sima Qian began to travel from about the age of 22 to investigate and search for information. The "Records of History" records that Sima Qian "traveled south to the rivers and Huai, Shanghui Ji, explored Yu Cave, peeped into the Nine Doubts, floated in Yuan, Xiang, North Wawen, Si, Talking about the Capital of Qi and Lu, Guan Confucius's Legacy, Township Shooting Zou and Yi, Erzhu Po, Xue, Pengcheng, liang and Chu to return." ”
Subsequently, he followed Emperor Wu of Han to Pingliang and Kuntong, and then to Bashu, and to Kunming in the south, and it can be said that he traveled through most of China.
Of course, Sima Qian's travels were not sightseeing in the mountains, he traveled to the motherland, tested the correctness of the knowledge in the books during the field investigation, and collected historical materials to write books and make statements. So that there will be a "History" that no one has surpassed so far.
The third is Xu Xiake
Xu Xiake, a famous traveler in the Ming Dynasty, a donkey friend. He was born in Shuxiangmendi and has loved geography since childhood. At the age of 21, Xu Xiake began a 30-year-long tour of China, covering 21 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, covering most of China.
During this period, Xu Xiake inspected many scenic spots, mountains and rivers, and terroirs. It is called "Ancient Strange People" by later generations. After his death, people compiled his records into "Xu Xia's Travels".
The above three are all domestic travel, then, the following two are overseas travel, that is, overseas travel.
The fourth is Xuanzang
"Journey to the West" is probably the most well-known novel in China, in fact, the tang monk in the journey to the west in history is the tang dynasty monk Sanzang master Xuanzang.
Xuanzang, the founder of the Buddhist Dharma Xiang Sect, was revered as the "Three Tibetan Masters", and later known as "Tang Monks". Together with Kumarosh and Zhenzhen, he is known as the three major translators of Chinese Buddhism.
In 628, in the second year of Emperor Taizong's reign, the 29-year-old Xuanzang began his journey westward for the ultimate yoga solipsism.
On the way, Xuanzang traveled through Lanzhou to Liangzhou, followed by day and night, to Guazhou, then through Yumen Pass, over Wufeng, across quicksand, prepared for hardship, and arrived at Yiwu (present-day Hami) and Gaochangguo (present-day Turpan County, Xinjiang).
Later, it passed through Quzhi (present-day Kuqa, Xinjiang), Lingshan (Yemusur Ridge), Shanye City, Gabi Trial State, Chi Jianguo (Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan), Sa mo Jianguo (present-day Samarkand City), Liangling, and Tiemen. Arrived at the homeland of the Luo kingdom (present-day Onion Ridge West and the south of the Wuhu River).
Traveling south through the kingdom of Balkh in northern Afghanistan, the state of Jiezhi (present-day Ghaz, Afghanistan), the Daisetsuzan Mountains, the state of Brahmana (present-day Bamiyan, Afghanistan), the state of Ganshuangluo (present-day Peshawar, Pakistan and its contiguous eastern Afghanistan), the state of Ubonah (swat region of Pakistan), and the country of Kashmir (present-day Kashmir), the journey was more than 13,800 miles.
It was not until the second year of Emperor Taizong's reign as the Heavenly Khan that Xuanzang, the Master of the Three Tibetans of the Tang Dynasty, finally arrived in India after many hardships. Xuanzang then stayed at nalanda monastery in the kingdom of Magadha.
In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, Xuanzang returned to Chang'an at the age of 46 and traveled for 17 years, covering more than 50 countries. In the end, Xuanzang obtained the True Scriptures, became a generation of Buddhist masters, and became a Tang monk after his death.
Xuanzang is a walking tour, and the following one is an ocean voyage tour, which is much more comfortable than Xuanzang.
The fifth is Zheng He
In 1405, 1407, 1409, 1413, 1417, and 1421 and 1431, zheng he, the yongle emperor's most trusted eunuch, made seven spectacular sea expeditions to the so-called Western Ocean at that time. Later, we called Zheng He's seven expeditions "Zheng He's Seven Voyages to the West."
According to historical records, the fleet led by Zheng He has traveled to more than 30 countries and regions in 28 years, including Champa (Vietnam), Chenla (Cambodia), Siam (Thailand), Brunei, Java, Old Port, Sumatra, Aru, Indonesia, Sulu (Philippines), Malaysia Malacca, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bangladesh, India, Iran Hormuz, Yemen Aden, Oman Sohar, Somalia, Kenya and so on.
Zheng He spanned half the world in less than 20 years, spreading the prestige of the Ming Dynasty as far abroad as possible, and throughout the process, he embarked on a series of the largest series of sea expeditions in the history of the world before the voyage of the Great Discovery of Geography in Europe at the end of the 15th century.
Zheng He's fleet visited the distant east coast of Africa, and Zheng He's voyage to the West was a century before the Portuguese arrived in India and 150 years before the Spanish Armada sailed around England in 1588.
The main purpose of Zheng He's voyage to the West was to "preach and educate the overseas countries", to put it bluntly, to promote the prestige of our country, to show the wealth and strength of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time to expand its influence in overseas countries.
© = Yan Wei said history