They were not disturbed by a drifting life and felt no sorrow at their fate. "Instead of expressing upset at having been forced to make a trip, travelogues began to express the joy of discovering a new world. You could say that instead of discovering what was important in life through travel, the writers began to see that travel of itself had value," says Kung.
這些遊子不嘆飄泊，傷身世，感棲遲，「遊記已從不得已的，感傷的狀態，轉變成對新世界的探索，也可以說從遊來體驗人生價值，變成遊本身就是價值。」