Ku Yen-wu Political Travel Research

This paper takes time for clues,starts with the background of Ming and Qing Dynasty, Describes Gu Yanwu's lifetime track,analyzes the politics cause and politics ambition in his journeying,expounds his root-cause of taking a trip,comes to explore the characteristic of his politics joumeying.Travelling in China was prevailing since the ancient times,such as Imperial Parade,Envoys Travel,Monks Release Tour,Scholars Roaming etc.All of these are the combined effect of society and personal property.The changes of the Ming and Qing Dynasties' regime, strengthened the contract of politics and travel.During the period,a lot of people of Ming Dynasty selected travelling for the survival of life.As a typical representative of Ming Adherents,Gu Yanwu's Tour had a special implication.His trip was the process of achieving the political ideas,the political aspiration and the distribution of personal values.Gu's journey life had experienced four stages:junior scholars,resisted Qing in youth,middle-aged North Tour, later years wrote works.In the early ages,faced the damage of county and home,Gu Yanwu joined the ranks of the Ming forces firmly,transferred secretly in the large areas of the South, went around for native county.After the failure of resistance to the Qing Dynasty,Yanwu disguised as businessman,travelling from north to south,still had the ambition of rebuilding the native country.At the age of 45,he started his North Tour.Fifteen years of the North Tour, Yanwu explored the route for National Recovery,made friends widely,wrote books.In the course,Yanwu recognized that there is no hope for National Recovery.Thus he changed thought, began to consider the world flourish and perish.It can be said that the North Tour were Political Trip,with the combination of the protection of county and world.At the old age,Yanwu was no longer merely travelling everywhere,but to make friends,write books mainly.Finally,Yanwu settled Huayin,played great concentration on writing,in order to benefit the world and the future monarch.During the travel career of half a lifetime,Gu Yanwu not only exploring everywhere, making friends and writing book,but also playing sacrifice to mausoleum,climbing mountains, paying respects to the temple,visiting inscriptions,in order to achieve his adherents' aspiration.For the purpose of combating chaos and contributing for the future monarch.,Gu Yanwu dabbled all his life,read a lot of book,travelled a lot of places,followed the example of ancient for National governance,wrote for future generations.Gu Yanwu express his trip ambition through travelling:to save the trampled people and create world prosperity.On exceptional circumstances,his trip was "by the wild heart of condering the country","with the recognization of serving to the public.His trip was closely related to politics.At the point of view of Ming Dynasty,Gu Yanwu thought that Yi and Xia were different.He deeply felt that it was necessary to look for roads and save the world.And this idea has always been throughout Gu's travel,so that his trip added a layer of political.Thence,in the history of ancient Chinese travel,especially in the Ming Dynasty's,Gu's tour had his own characteristics.Its biggest feature was that his trip contacted with political closely,was the typical example of Ming Dynasty's travel.