The next sentence is: Are you limiting yourself in the corner?

"A man travels to Bihai in the morning and Cangwu in the evening" means:

I was still playing in Bihai in the morning, and then instantly returned to stay in Cangwu in the evening. The implication is that we should travel around and expand our knowledge, rather than lingering in a place the size of our hometown and living under the roof.

This sentence was said by Xu Xiake. The original sentence is "A man swims in the blue sea in the morning and the sky is green at dusk." It was Xu Xiake's ambition in his early years.

About the author

Xu Xiake (1586-1641), named Hongzu, courtesy name Zhenzhi, and nicknamed Xiake, was a native of Jiangyin (now Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province) in the south of Zhili in the Ming Dynasty. He was a geographer, traveler and writer of the Ming Dynasty and the author of the famous geographical book "Xu Xiake's Travels". He was known as "a strange man through the ages".

The 600,000-word "Xu Xiake's Travels", which he compiled after 30 years of investigation, has had a profound influence at home and abroad.

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