马可波罗英文简介

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Marco Polo (September 15, 1354 - January 8, 1324), the Venetian traveler, businessman, with the famous "Marco Polo Travels".

According to Marco Polo himself described the "Marco Polo Travels" (the following description of their own experience, all from the "Marco Polo Travels"), its description of the experience of China, in the history of Chinese and Western There is a certain controversy, and both sides can not have sufficient evidence to prove that the past or the future of China.

"Marco Polo Travels" describes his richest country in the East - China's knowledge, aroused the warmth of the East for the East, the future development of the new route had a huge impact. But also the history of China's Yuan Dynasty and the history of the important historical records.

Although there are some loopholes and fallacies in Marco Polo's travels, some people hastily think that their oral "Marco Polo Travel" is a purely fiction, according to "Marco Polo Travels" It can not deny the positive significance of this legend and his works in the academic circles, literary circles and Chinese and Western cultural exchanges.

Marco Polo [September 15, 1354 to January 8, 1324], the world famous traveler and businessman. 1254 was born in Venice, a businessman family. His father Nicolo and his uncle Mateo are all businessmen of Venice. At the age of 17, Marco Polo went to China with his father and his uncle for about four years. He arrived in the capital of the Yuan Dynasty in 1275 and established friendship with the Kublai Khan. He traveled in China for 17 years, visited many ancient cities of China at that time, and traveled to the southwest of Yunnan and southeast. After returning to Venice, Marco Polo was captured in a naval battle between Venice and Genoa, in the prison oral travel experience, written by Rustichello da Pisa "Marco Polo Travels" (Il Milione). But in the end it has not been to China has sparked controversy.

"Marco Polo Travels" (also known as "Marco Polo", "Oriental see recorded") described Marco Polo in the East's richest country - what China saw and heard, and later Europe is widely circulated, aroused the warmth of the East for the East, the future development of the new route had a huge impact. At the same time, Western geographers also based on the description of the book, drawing the early "world map".

Marco Polo, his father and his uncle to the East business, came to the yuan (today's Beijing) and seen the Mongolian Empire Kublai Khan sweat, but also brought back to the Pope to the Pope's letter. After they go home, the pony can be wrapped around the story of the East travel. These stories aroused the interest of Pony and Polo, so that he was determined to go with his father and his uncle to China. In 1271, Marco Polo was 17 years old, his father and uncle took the Pope's reply and gifts, led Marco Polo and a dozen travel companions together to the East embarked. They entered Venice from the Mediterranean Sea, and then crossed the Black Sea, after the two river basin to the Middle East city of Baghdad, from here to the Persian Gulf estuary, you can travel by boat in China. However, at this time there was an accident. When they were buying money in a town, they were bitten by the robbers, who grabbed them and slept them at night when they slept at night. In the middle of the night, Marco Polo and his father escaped. When they come to rescue, the robbers have long left, in addition to uncle, the other travel companions also disappeared. His experience inspired many of Columbus and many other travelers. There are a lot of literary works are based on his travels. Marco Polo also influenced the production of maps in Europe, leading to the emergence of the Map of Fla Mao.

"Marco Polo Travels" is the first European man to write a detailed description of Chinese history, culture and art travel. In the 16th century, Italian collector and geographer Ramusio said that Marco Polo wrote "Travels" in 1299, "a few months later, this book has been seen everywhere in Italy" (note : Lach, p.35.). In March 1324 Marco Polo's death, "Marco Polo Travels" has been translated into a variety of European languages, widely circulated. The existing "Marco Polo Travels" has 119 kinds of various versions of the text. In the transfer of Chinese culture and art to Europe, "Marco Polo travel" is of great significance. Western study Marco Polo scholar Maurice Collis (MauriceCollis) that Marco Polo's travels "is not a simple travel, but the Enlightenment works, for the occlusion of Europeans, no Different from the enlightening, for the Europeans show a new field of knowledge and significance of this book is that it led to the extensive revival of the European humanities.

Yuan Dynasty, the Sino-foreign exchanges are very frequent, the Italian traveler Marco Polo came to China in the Yuan Dynasty, lived more than ten years. "Marco Polo" is the main content of Marco Polo in China's travel documentary, and the way of West Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia and some other countries and regions. The book of the book in a documentary way, describes his in China, including the Western Regions, the South China Sea and other places of knowledge, recorded the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty political affairs, war, palace secret, festivals, hunting, etc., in particular, detailed account of the yuan economy and cultural Customs, as well as Xi'an, Kaifeng, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other major cities and commercial port prosperity. For the first time, it introduced the developed Chinese material civilization and spiritual civilization to the Europeans, and displayed the image of Chinese culture and culture in the face of the world.