Chapter 64 Pinto's Travels in the Far East

Pinto's Travels in the Far East Charlie David Lai from the United Kingdom recently edited a book for the "Ten Thousand Books Series" of Duntt Bookstore in the United Kingdom. This "Portuguese Travel Notes", he said in the preface of this book: So far no one has been able to write satisfactorily. Explain the reasons for the sudden rise and decline of the Portuguese overseas exploration and colonization; Such a small country, in the early days of the European Renaissance, suddenly had the power to open up far away, Break through the Far East and barbaric areas that Europeans thought were mysterious at that time, establish a big empire, and then

It suddenly shrank again, losing the ambition of the long march and exploring in the past.No one can discover this change factors. The Portuguese opened up colonies overseas and established an empire, which began in the early fifteenth century.arrive By the end of the sixteenth century, her heyday had passed, and her sea power had been taken over by the new Spain, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom replaced it.Today, although there are still many places where the Portuguese colonial Remnants, in fact, can only be regarded as a kind of memorial of this past empire. This travelogue of the Portuguese compiled by David Lai is recorded from 1498 to

In 1663, this was the heyday of the Portuguese overseas development.he is in this book A total of seven such travel notes are selected in this book, including the famous Vasco de Gama's "India "Travel Notes" included.One of the seven articles is Montes Pinto's "A Journey to the Far East". The situation in China at that time described in the book makes us very interesting to read today. Montes Pinto came to the East in 1537, which was the 16th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty. Almares, the first Portuguese to come to China (he went to Guangdong Tun in the ninth year of Ming Zhengde)

Door) activities have been delayed for more than 20 years.One of the main characters in his travelogue is It is Antonio de Faria.This man was a Portuguese adventurer and also a pirate.Have People even say that Faria is the incarnation of Pinto.They reasoned that, except at Pinto's Apart from his record in this travel diary, there is no other record about the adventurer Faria. Loaded. Pinto has been to China's Putuo, Dinghai and Ningbo, as well as Nanjing and Beijing.according to him According to his own records, he and a group of Faria's crew were sometimes treated as guests of honor in China, and sometimes

He was taken as a prisoner.However, there are many exaggerated descriptions in it, which even his contemporaries believed to be A castle in the air.Let alone the absurdity that we read today. However, Pinto's attitude was sometimes faithful, and Faria's many piracy, as well as in At that time, the Chinese, who were regarded as heretics by the Portuguese, had no sense of justice and morality at all. It was recorded without concealment. Once, Faria encountered a wedding flower boat on a voyage to the east.The other party misunderstood Faria's boats are the groom's boats, and they bring the bride with the letter of engagement and dowry.

Faria robbed the ship, killed the crew, and took the bride captive.Pinto puts this act of piracy Record it truthfully. Pinto returned to Portugal in 1558, bringing with him several kinds of Chinese books.he used to send He passed a Chinese book he mentioned in his travel notes to the Pope. It is said that this book is still in the Vatican. In Digang's library.It's a pity that I couldn't find out the title of this Chinese book for a while.