A 10-episode cultural documentary series entitled "Huaxi Story • Xu Xiake's Journey" recently premiered online.
Xu Xiake (1587-1641), a native of Jiangyin in East China's Jiangsu province, was a geographer, traveler and literary scholar in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). He spent 40 years recording his journey across China. In 1638, the 51-year-old Xu arrived in Southwest China's Guizhou province and left an approximately-35,000-word record of his time in the province.
The documentary focuses on Xu's trip in Huaxi district, Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province.
Here is the 2nd episode of the documentary series.