Original text:
Climbing the mountain, the flying stream gurgled down. Overlooking it, there is also a dangerous wall. The spring water at the top of the wall is prominent and the bamboo forest is hidden, which is very beautiful. However, I'm on the board and can't go back. So I went from San Gu to the upper part to exchange bone rock, which is the cliff behind Man Ting Peak. There is a buddhist nun in front of the rock. Hanging two floors from behind a rock, climbing a rock. The rock is not very deep, but it is surrounded by mountains. The aborigines used wooden boards as rooms to follow and rotate with the rocks.
Source:
Xu Xiake, a geographer in the late Ming Dynasty —— Travel Notes of Xu Xiake
Translation:
Climbing more than a mile, I saw the mountain spring gurgling down. Bend down and have a bird's eye view, there is a towering rock wall. Clear spring water rushes out from the middle of the rock wall, and there are sparse bamboo forests nearby, which makes people feel very good. However, it was too late to get back to Sangu Peak, so I walked up from Sangu Peak for half a mile and reached Gaiguyan, the back cliff of Man Ting Peak, and there was a temple in front of Gaiguyan.
A two-story hanging ladder erected from the back of the metamorphic rock climbed another hanging rock. Hanging rock is not very deep, and it surrounds the top of the mountain like a mountain. Local people use wooden boards to build houses along the rock wall, some are curved, some are straight, some are high and some are low, all of which are built along the winding rock wall.
Vernacular translation:
Climbing more than a mile up the mountain, I saw the mountain spring pouring down. Bend down and have a bird's eye view of the mountain. There are also towering and steep rock walls. The spring water trickles out from the middle of the rock wall, and the scattered bamboo forests take care of each other, which is interesting. However, I have climbed Sangu Peak and can't come back here to enjoy it carefully. So I walked half a mile up from Sangu Peak to Gaigu Rock. Baiguyan is the back cliff of Man Ting Peak, and there is a nun in front of it.
A two-story hanging ladder erected from the back of the metamorphic rock climbed another hanging rock. Hanging rock is not very deep, and it surrounds the top of the mountain like a mountain. Local people use wooden boards to build houses along the rock wall, some are curved, some are straight, some are high and some are low, all of which are built along the winding rock wall.
Creative background:
Xu Xiake's Travels is the prose travel notes of Xu Xiake, a geographer in Ming Dynasty. The book mainly records the author's travel observation from 16 13 to 1639, and records the phenomena of geography, hydrology, geology and plants in detail.
Xu Xiake's Travels is a pioneering work that systematically investigates the landform and geology of China, and depicts the scenic resources of great rivers and mountains in China. In addition, the beautiful words make it a literary masterpiece, which has important geographical and literary value.
About the author:
Xu Xiake (1587 65438+10.5-16465438+8.3), whose real name is Hongzu and real name is Zhenzhi, is Xiake. He was a native of Jiangyin County (now Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province), a geographer, traveler and writer in the Ming Dynasty. After 30 years of investigation, he wrote 65438.
Xu Xiake devoted his life to all directions, covering 2 1 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions? "Where people have not reached, people have not reached", and wherever they go, they explore the secluded and seek secrets, and leave travel notes to record the observed phenomena, humanities, geography, animals and plants.
The opening day of Xu Xiake's travel notes (May 19) was designated as China Tourism Day.
Xu Xiake inspected the waterway sources of many rivers, such as Zuoyou River, Xiaohe Riverside River, tributaries of Xiangjiang River in Guangxi, Erpanjiang River in the north and south of Yunnan, and the Yangtze River, among which the Yangtze River is the deepest. Where the Yangtze River originated has long been a mystery. In the geography book Yugong in the Warring States period, there is a saying that "the Minjiang River leads to the Yangtze River", which has been used by later books. Xu Xiake has doubts about this. He took the question of "Sanqin in the north, Wuling in the south, and Shimen Jinsha in the west" and found out that Jinsha River originated at the southern foot of Kunlun Mountain, which is more than 1,000 miles longer than Minjiang River, so he came to the conclusion that Jinsha River is the source of the Yangtze River. No one found out for a long time after him. It was not until 1978 that the state sent an investigation team to confirm that the real source of the Yangtze River was Tuotuo River in Gladin Cave, the main peak of Tanggula.