Illustrated Guide to Ancient Social Life In the World of Jianghu: Ancient Travel Culture

Author: Ma Honglu
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: The world is vast and bizarre. In the vast sea of people, tides rise and fall. Human society is developing at an ever-accelerating pace, but it is also destroying its own environment and everything it has created at an ever-accelerating rate. Life is as fleeting as the autumn of grass. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are passed down from generation to generation. Before time, all things in the world come and go in haste, like ripples in the long river of history that vanish in an instant. This book is one of the "Illustrated Ancient Social Life" series, using images and artifacts left by history as the main, adopting a picture-and-word format, supplemented by accurate, concise, and engaging text, to categorically describe the social life of the ancestors of the Chinese nation. It allows a broad readership to understand all aspects of ancient life through a lively and vivid form. The relationship between political turmoil and transportation, as well as the culture of travel, is a serious topic. This book briefly introduces some ancient transportation systems, the appearance of hub cities, and certain ancient transportation regulations, which may be beneficial for research on ancient travel culture.