徐霞客(1586—1641年)原名宏祖,字振之,号霞客,江苏省江阴县马镇乡南旸岐村人。他是我国明代杰出的旅行家、地理学家。霞客出生在世代书香、祖辈为官的封建地主家庭。童年读书,即对为应付科举考试而死记硬背那些《书》、《经》不肯努力,但对“异端邪说”的史籍特有兴趣。年岁渐大,他更是如饥似渴地偷偷地翻阅了许多“方志”、“图经”等有关地理的,以及“野史”之类的书册;对远游(实际是考察)异常地神往,尤爱厘定山的走向、川的源流。他虽参加过科举考试, Xu Xiake (1586-1641) formerly known as Wang Zu, the word vibration, number Xia off, Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province Town, South Township Qi Village. He is an outstanding traveler and geographer in Ming Dynasty in China. Xia off was born in generations of scholar, ancestral officials of the feudal landlord family. Childhood reading, that is, those “books” rote memorized in response to the examination of the imperial examination, “the” not willing to work hard, but the “heresy” historical interest. As he grew older, he was eagerly snooping through many of the books on geography such as “Chronicles” and “The Book of Figure”, as well as “Unofficial History.” Love determines the direction of the mountain, the source of the river. Although he participated in the examinations,