Why did the ancients study abroad?

For the sake of fame and fortune, they traveled far away from their hometowns to visit famous teachers or "play in the mountains and waters"

For example, the "Eight Greats of the Tang and Song dynasties", such as Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Su Shi, Wang Anshi, etc., all had rich experiences of traveling far away from their hometowns.

Southern Song poet Gong Feng "to send Tang Lin's show to Handong from Professor Xu Shenyuan study poem", depicting the ancient schoolchildren traveled far to study the mentality and not easy: "Scholarship between the township school, such as the boat test Jinpu; seen the small streams and mountains, have not seen the big island; once the far travel to study, such as the boat involved in the rivers and lakes ...... "

Scholar's book tour: carrying a book case, to go abroad to study. It describes the attitude of seeking knowledge without any knowledge of hard work. 笈：书箱；游学：去外地求学。

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Ancient Study Tour Characters:

Ancient study tour iconic figure is the pre-Qin Confucius, it can be said that Confucius opened up the first of China's study tour trend.

Not only Confucius, the pre-Qin period of "son" level characters are not "swim" out, Mozi, Zhuangzi, Sunzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Han Feizi, etc., all are famous "tourists! The first is the "Theory of the World", which is the first to be published in the United States.

To the Han and Wei Dynasties, readers traveled to study more prevalent.

The most typical figure in this period is Sima Qian, the author of "The Records of the Grand Historian" (史记), the first of the twenty-four histories. Sima Qian was 20 years old that began to travel around the famous mountains and rivers, from the capital city of Chang'an at the time, out of the Wuguan (now east of Shangxian, Shaanxi Province), through Nanyang, in the South County (Jiangling, Hubei Province) across the river, arrived in Changsha, came to the Miluo River riverside, where Qu Yuan killed himself, to pay homage to the poet,...... for a few years, Sima Qian put half of China have been "swim".

Xinhua.com - How the ancients "traveled to study"

Baidu Encyclopedia - Book Tour