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Xu Xiake (1586-1641), whose given name was "Hongzu" and who styled himself as "Zhenzhi", "Xiake" and "Xiayi", was a Chinese writer, geographer, explorer and traveller. Born into a scholarly family in Jiangyin city, Jiangsu province, Xu was influenced by his father, who loved to travel and disdained contact with influential people. Instead, he just liked to travel everywhere, to enjoy the beautiful landscape and natural splendour. Influenced by his father, Xu Xiake loved to read history, geography and books about adventure, travelling and so on. These books made him early love for the motherland"s magnificent rivers and mountains, and made him determined to travel over mountains and rivers.In the case of no government funding, Xu Xiake went to sixteen provinces and traveled more than half a China. He went to places as far east as Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang province, as far west as Tengchong in Yunnan province, as far south as Nanning in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and as far north as Pan Mountain in Hebei province. His足迹遍及大半个中国.Xu Xiake"s writings, including "Travel notes" and "Mountain Will", have been widely spread after his death.

He has a poor kyushu inside and outside and put the secret"s ideals, premature death father, mother sincerely support his interest, encourage said: hung less lonely, long to the four winds, man is your things we paid enough, do yi (ChenJiRu longevity jiangyin XuLao too gentleman Confucianism person eighty Syria) and for his hand sewing son crown, with strong will and of common people of different swim well, xu of pursuit is ask that, regardless of the distant from HangQi for aged 22 to death between the more than 30 years, he parked a cliff habitat, climbed, stream in and explore cave, slippery slope, climbing perilous peak, is stolen away in food, and frustration is numerous, always not shake his will in the long travel career, xu xiake everywhere they pay attention to examine mountains and situation of common products such as hydrological geology, in the form of a diary recorded, namely