摘要
The first recorded instance of a Chinese person seeing a bicycle is in the spring of 1866.Bin Chun,a diplomat on a political trip to Europe following the end of the Second Opium War,spotted one on the streets of Paris and it made quite an impression.“On avenues,people ride on a vehicle with only two wheels,which is held together by a pipe,”Bin Chun wrote in his travel diary.“They sit above this pipe and push forward with movements of their feet.They dash along like galloping horses.”
