Travel,Perception And Landscape Shaping

As a major road linking the Central Plains Dynasty and the southwest region in ancient times,the Shu Road has always been valued by rulers.Shu Road literature is important for studying the ancient and modern values of the Shu Road,and travelogue literature has a personal and realistic nature that is not possessed by official history and local records.The travelers recorded a large number of landscapes along the Shu Road,and have a strong self-perception,and can recover the historical and geographical situation along the Shu Road in the Qing Dynasty more accurately through travelogues,which has the value of historical and geographical research.This paper takes the travelogues of the Qing people along the Shu Road as the object of study,captures as many texts as possible,analyzes the motives,tools,recreation,and fellowship related to travel along the Shu Road in the Qing Dynasty through the travelogues,analyzes the perception of the Qing people along the Shu Road,and explores the role of travelers on landscape shaping and knowledge production.Shu Road travelogues are the presentation of the traveler’s view of the Shu Road,and are a record of the content of the trip.The number of Shu Road travelogues in the Qing Dynasty surged compared with the historical period,and the number of Shu Road travelogues in the Qing Dynasty exceeded the total number of historical periods,which is also related to the Qing government strengthening its rule over the southwest.The Shu Road is famous for its dangers,so most Shu Road travelers traveled the Shu Road for official business or visiting relatives,which also determined the identity of Shu Road travelers to be mainly the scholarly class,and less recreational travel,so their pre-departure mentality was more apprehensive rather than relaxed and expectant.The scholars who traveled along the Shu Road often held certain official positions,and they were bound to have social contacts with officials and their disciples along the travel route,and their interactions with officials were more in line with the rules of ushering in and sending off,including receptions and banquets,while the identity attributes of the scholars also prompted them to sing poetry,visit monuments and give books and other activities,and some even gave gifts.The old friends and disciples were more attentive and considerate to those who traveled to this place.The exchange between travelers and monks was quite distinctive,with the exchange of Buddhist scriptures and poems between monks and scholars,the flow and innovation of Confucian and Buddhist knowledge,which was the embodiment of the advocation of Buddhism in the Qing Dynasty.Travelers on the Shu Road often came from the plains outside of Qin and Shu,and had various perceptions of the Shu Road,among which most people portrayed the perception of "the difficulty of the Shu Road",which was reflected in both the long travel distance and time constraint,as well as the high mountains and dangerous roads and rapid water flow,while the bad rain and snow weather and fierce predators,snakes,insects and rats would also make the road dangerous.Lastly,the management of hired labor was also a very traumatic matter.Even though most travelers lamented that "the Shu Road is difficult",a small number of travelers lamented that "the Shu Road is easy",one of the reasons being that the Qing government had repaired the road many times,making the road better.Some of the scholars had already experienced the hardships of life in their hearts,so they did not feel the hardships of the Shu Road,and some even Some people linger with the beauty of the Shu Road and forget the difficulty of the Shu Road.The Shu Road is located in Qin and Shu,with a rich historical heritage,many dynasties settled in Xi’an,so a large number of tomb inscriptions exist.In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties,the area of Qin and Shu where the Shu Road is located was deserted and deserted due to war,but later,after national governance and local development,some of the prefectures and counties in the middle and late Qing dynasties have regained their previous prosperity,so many travelers exclaim that these cities are prosperous.The behavior of travelers to view the landscape is passive,but they can actively act on what they see and shape a variety of landscapes,including the repair of ancestral temples and roads,the protection of ancient inscriptions,the establishment of poetic inscriptions and the creation of poetic travel works.These actions protect the local landscape on the one hand,add new landscapes to the existing sites on the other hand,and at the same time promote the generation of new knowledge,and with the shared nature of poetic travelogues,the knowledge generated during the trip can be disseminated.Through their visits,tours,rituals and inscriptions,the sense of existence of the central authority of the unity of heaven and man and the unity of the state was strengthened in the feelings of the local officials,and the authority and will of the state was deepened among the people.