Landscape Changes In The Life Of Lu You's Official Travel

The essay is designed to make the lateral comparison through the life of Lu You's official travel, a famous poet of Nan Song dynasty. Applying the theories of life path in time-geography and landscape changes in history-geography, the author fully analyses Lu You's variety of poems and travel notes, "The Journey Notes to West Shu", then traces the experience of his mind and the background of his time-space, and displays the attention spots of landscape changes in his travel. With the above demonstration, the writer discloses the connection between the changes and the travel subject about Lu You himself who had owned the cultural background, situated environment, and psychology state.The article is composed of four chapters. To begin with, on the basis of commenting the academic research which has in the past, the author puts forward the cause why choose Lu You as the typical case of tourism culture study, who is a famous person in culture owning the exclusive travel background. In the second part, employing the theory of life path, the author inquires the experience of his mind and the background of his time-space, outlines his travel lines and discusses the fundamental character of his journey including the travel age, radius, guide, direction and so on. Moreover, reveals the relation between travel and poem creation. In the thirst chapter, the writer continues to illustrate the landscape changes in his different age periods and exhibits the link laid in the changes of Lu You's official experience, his attention to landscape and his feeling. At last, the paper analyzes the landscape written in "The Journey Notes to West Shu", which embraces the beauty of mountains and rivers, cultural landscape, aspect of towns, local customs, ecological environment, commodities and resources, shows his pursuit of beauty and stands out the cultural elements in the notice of landscape.