南岳衡山为我国南方唯一的一处五岳名山和重要宗教文化活动中心,素有五岳独秀、中华寿岳、宗教圣地、文明奥区等盛名。徐霞客在其晚年西南万里遐征中对其进行了详尽旅行考察,并留下了内容极为丰富的国土考查文献《游南岳衡山日记》。在南岳衡山大规模进行现代旅行开发建设的今天,仍然可以从其游记中得到加速衡山后山旅游开发,大力拓展冬季旅游活动项目,深入对南岳衡山旅游资源的考察研究等启示。
Hengshan is the only one of Five Sacred Mountains of southern mountains,and important religious and cultural center,known as its most beautiful,Shou Yue in China,religious shrines,civilization area.Xu Xiake has the opportunity to travel its detailed investigation,and left the land extremely rich literature examining "the Heng Shan Mountain Tour Diary" in the southwest of Ten-thousand Miles by the way in its later years.The large-scale development and construction of modern travel are carried on today in Hengshan Mountain,enlightenment taken from its diary such as speeding up the Mountain Travel,vigorously developing winter tourism activities,studying deeply tourism resources.Xu Xiake is indeed a pioneering giant,and a pioneer of the times.