陈诚是我国明代卓越的旅行家、外交家，他虽是“草莽一书生”，却先后五次攀雪山，越葱岭，渡湍流，过荒漠，奉诏出使西域，行程数万里。他不仅开拓了明代中西陆路交通的新局面，而且根据其西域的亲历目睹，撰写了《西域志》二卷，这是有明一代有关中亚历史地理的唯一著作。其 Chen Cheng is an outstanding traveler and diplomat in Ming Dynasty in our country. Although he is a “wild scholar,” he has climbed the mountains and climbed the mountains five times. He not only opened up a new situation of land transport between China and the West in the Ming Dynasty, but also witnessed the experience of its western region and wrote the second volume of the Western Regions Records. This is the only book written by the Ming and Qing Dynasties on the history and geography of Central Asia. its