I like the Round Table School because it is light, humorous and profound. A frog in a well like me has little chance to see the big world, and the Round Table School will take the audience to poetry and the distance from time to time.

Just like this issue, Liu Zichao, a writer born in 1984, was a guest of the Round Table School and told us stories about Stan.

He went deep into the hinterland of Central Asia alone and wrote the best-selling book The Lost Satellite-A Journey into Central Asia, so Dou Wen Tao, Xu Zidong and Zhou Yijun talked with him.

Everyone had a heated discussion about the difference between travel and tourism.

from what I heard, there are mainly the following points.

when traveling, one's thoughts are free, the process is hard and the experience is profound.

when traveling, a group of people hardly need to use their thoughts, and the process is comfortable and the experience is shallow.

Liu Zichao said that when a person walks alone, on the Pamirs, in the Gobi, in the desert and in a desolate town, he can play many roles and be many different people, and he can be poorer or richer, more ordinary or more different than in real life.

When traveling on the road, people are free. People don't know what you were or care what you will be in the future. Only at that moment, I was impressed with you. Therefore, in a strange environment, people are bolder and dare to do things that acquaintances dare not do in society.

moreover, the journey is hard, and you may face food and clothing shortage and even life-threatening. A snowstorm may be very dangerous without the help of local herders. Therefore, travel should have direct and in-depth contact with the local environment and local people.

Liu Zichao said that he was fascinated by the beautiful scenery by the lake in a certain Stan country that day. Two beautiful women who had a picnic by the lake stopped him and invited him for a drink. Invited by the local people, he did not refuse, feeling that he could dig deep into some stories. So he drank the wine in the cup in one gulp. The beauty was surprised by his generosity and asked him if his drinking behavior was European. They thought that local men had poor drinking behavior and European men had better drinking behavior. Liu Zichao said that he was brought up in China. People in China don't often get drunk or hit women.

hearing this, Dou Wen Tao pulled out his old joke again. He told himself like a Xianglin sister-in-law no less than 1 times. When he was in his twenties, he was lovelorn in the summer vacation of his sophomore year. After lovelorn, he walked alone for more than 2 days with 8 yuan, staying at the farmhouse overnight and eating biscuits. He said that he wouldn't travel so hard now, but the impression of that trip has always been in his mind, and he still feels excited when he thinks about it.

Compared with traveling, the travel experience is much shallower, and there is almost no relationship with local people. You can go straight to scenic spots and shopping malls and enjoy the pleasure of punching in and spending. Traveling is often comfortable, enjoying the natural scenery, cultural landscape and local food in different places with family and friends, and rarely connecting with local people.

So Dou Wen Tao finally sublimated, saying that this is not about travel and tourism, but about how to live life? Is it a comfortable life, like a well-arranged tour? Or like asceticism and hatred, step by step, step by step, facing the wind, frost, rain and snow?

there is no doubt that most people will choose comfort, but the small flame that they want to go out in their hearts will not go out. Zhou Yijun said that at her age, all her friends were "leaving", becoming a monk, running away and cheating. Why do they want to go out is nothing more than looking for freedom and profound experience.

Some people have no choice but to pin their hopes on others.

Therefore, books like Liu Zichao's walking alone on the road can sell well, just like others' walking instead of themselves.

PS: The advertisement of the Round Table School is really good, and this book has also been included in my book list.