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Xu
Xiake (1587 -1641)was a great geographer during the Ming Dynasty. He spent much
of his life travelling and exploring China's 1.
Every day, Xu wrote in his diary about what he saw 2 his travels.
Xu
visited areas 3 Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi. These places are
4 their karst(喀斯特) areas of limestone eroded over time,
producing caves, towers, ridges and other features. Xu also 5 local plants, and about how those plants were
affected(影响)by
wind 6 changes in temperature(气温). Xu corrected many
mistakes about China's geography. He discovered that the Langcang River and the
Nu River were not one, but two separate rivers. He also found flic true source
of the Yangtze River was the Yangtze River. For centuries, people mistakenly 7 that the source was the Min River.
Xu
Xiake travelled through 16 present-day provinces of China. His writing 8 became a huge book of over 600,000 characters,
The Travels of Xu Xiake. The Travels of Xu Xiake is 9 not only for its accurate descriptions(精确的描述)of China's geography,
but also for Xu's beautiful writing style. He painted a lifelike picture of the
geography of China and expressed his love for nature through his 10.
Xu was both a great geographer and a talented writer.
