旧上海民间社会团体大大小小,林林总总,不可胜数。就那些比较规范、也较有规模的团体来说,自各有其成立的明确宗旨和特定的目标,同时,还会经常性地举办一些有益的活动,以协助工作的展开和增强社团凝聚力。对于后者,不少团体开动脑筋,积极地想方设法,例如在会内安排联谊沙龙、举办知识讲座、开展文娱活动、进行体育比赛。除这些以外,有些团体还开始组织旅游考察,走出上海,一起去看看外面的广阔天地。但上海社会团体之从事旅游考察活动的起步时间,实际并不很早,这 Old Shanghai civil society groups large and small, numerous, countless. For those organizations that are more normative and larger in scale, each has its own clear purpose and specific objectives. At the same time, it organizes some valuable activities on a regular basis to help carry out its work and enhance its cohesion. For the latter, many groups have taken the brains and actively tried their best to find ways to organize fellowships, organize lectures, carry out recreational activities and conduct sports competitions. In addition to these, some groups also started to organize tour expeditions, walked out of Shanghai and went together to see the vast expanse of earth outside. However, the starting time for social organizations in Shanghai to engage in tourism inspection activities is not very early