The current study on Confucian tourism thoughts in academic circle involves the classification of tourism activities of Confucius,his tourism attitudes such as distant travel and local travel outlook,advocating cultural tourism by listening to music and watching ceremonies and natural travel by experiencing mountains and enjoying rivers and opposing inordinate tourism.

Their tourism thought has differences in many aspects,but has the intrinsic identity.

Then it analyses and arranges Wei Yuan s thought of studying in traveling which includes sightseeing,official travel and the theoretical feature of tourism,revealing Wei Yuan s thought of studying in traveling and the inner connection between"leisure tour"and "Bide tour"in Chinese tourism culture.