Wuyue youcao 五嶽遊草

Draft notes on travels to the Five Great Mountains Wang Shixing 王士性 (1546–1598), who also authored the Guangzhiyi 廣志繹. As a supervisory official in the Ministry of Rites (禮科給事中), he journeyed to Mount Tai 岱岳, Mount Hua 華岳, and Mount Heng 恒岳. During an expedition to the southern provinces, he visited Mount Heng 衡岳 in Hunan. Throughout his journeys across ten prefectures, he recorded each major mountain and river he encountered with both illustrations and poems. This compilation includes those illustrations and poems. It is organised into seven juan of illustrations with notes (圖記), three juan of poems (詩), and two fascicles of miscellaneous records (雜志). The last is sometimes published separately under the title Guangyouji 廣游記. Despite its title, the Wuyue youcao covers more than just the “Five Mountains.” A printed edition was published during the Wanli era (1573–1620). In the 明史藝文志補編, it is listed as Wuyue yougao (五岳游稿). In 1914, He Zao 何藻 included the text into the series Gujin wenyi congshu 古今文藝叢書.