Xu Xiake's Trampling on Mountains and Rivers

When the last scroll of bamboo slips was buried by the wind and sand, who would still remember the back figure who trampled the mountains and rivers? He is Xu Hongzu, a young man from Jiangyin, a man who did not enter the imperial examination room but traveled all over the country. He measured the earth with his footsteps, engraved the wind and rain with his pen and ink, and wrote down an unprecedented journey in a thousand years in the haze and lonely journey. When he was just starting out, he was robbed by bandits and his friends were seriously injured; in the rain at night in Xiaoxiang, he struggled to survive in the stormy waves; on the dangerous peaks of the Shu Road, he walked alone with nothing but fear. Every dilemma is a question of destiny; every turning point is an awakening deep in the soul. He once touched the ancient breath in the cave and listened to the whisper of camel bells on the edge of the desert. The price is loneliness, scars, and the years silently peeling off his youth. Now, when the hustle and bustle of the world is far away and the mountains and rivers have returned to silence, who can still hear the echo under the wandering shoes? If heaven and earth are speechless, how can humans find belonging while walking? This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.