The ordinary trivialties he had simply and naturally described reveal his straightforward unaffected feeling.

But the trivial news that appears massively with the slogan "the news of people s livelihood",has nearly forgotten the definition and worth of news.

This article does not tend to emphasize the contributions made by Xu xiake in the field of geographic science,but to select some rarely-known facts of Xu s life,such as daily trifle and his contact and friendship with his friends.