Xie Jianguang, the world's first madman
In 2016, there was a very popular song called "Life is more than the immediate Gou And", the lyrics of which read: "Life is not only in front of the eyes, but also poetry and distant fields." You came into the world with your bare hands, desperate to find the sea. ”
In Xie Jianguang's 35 years, what has made him desperate may not be just a sea. It is the adventure of the Lancang River, the trek in the desert field; it is also the simplicity of the Tibetan concubine, and it is the pure love in the brief encounter.
From the age of 23 to the age of 23, he began to hike china, to the age of 59, he died of illness, pushed his "Linda" car, walked 300,000 kilometers on foot, reached the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau 6 times, entered Tibet three times, and twice walked the current long highway 318 National Highway, covering more than 20 provinces across the country. Truly measuring the land of the motherland with both feet.
Travel brings him a more indifferent mentality
Some say he's a tramp, some say he's a traveler, some say he's a writer, and even worship him as a teacher, even 4 years after his death, on the content platform that just appeared, you can still see his deeds. What a legendary figure this is.
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"Everything may be predestined"
Xie Jianguang has many nicknames, "contemporary Xu Xiake", "wild animals", "the world's first madness", his favorite is "the world's first madness", even Weibo and WeChat names are derived from this.
Xie Jianguang's Weibo
In the eyes of many people, at a good age, not going to school, not going to work, not making money, carrying a bag or pushing a car to wander, this is not crazy what it is? But in Xie Jianguang's life, all this may be doomed.
Xie Jianguang on the way
Xie Jianguang was born in 1959 in Ningbo, Zhejiang. Because the family conditions are very bad, the young Xie Jianguang suffered from many strange eyes and unfriendly words, he only went to school for a few years, he dropped out of school early, he loved to read, once fantasized that he could become a great writer, but also early by outsiders suppressed his idea of realizing this dream on campus.
He once hated the campus, hated the "system" and "rules" in society, and hated the same life.
The copywriting of the trolley will often be different, making friends along the way
At the age of 17, Xie Jianguang was diagnosed with congenital heart disease, and it was not easy to save a life, but in this experience, he developed a more indifferent attitude towards the world at a young age. After that, according to the wishes of the family, he became a carpenter in a down-to-earth manner, but in a job, he was accidentally cut off his index fingers, as if the unluckiest thing in the world was always around him.
The piles of past events and the life of seeing his head at a glance in his hometown made his desire to "live out his self" even stronger.
The days of wandering outside were the most beautiful days in Xie Jianguang's heart
Xie Jianguang always wanted to go to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and at the age of 23, he finally decided to fulfill his wish, and that year he took 150 yuan from his parents on the pretext of going out to do business and went on the road, when he only carried a large bag with several clothes in it, as well as a copy of heine's poetry, a pen and a notebook.
It turned out that for Xie Jianguang, becoming a writer has always been one of his dreams and has never wavered.
He wrote on the trolley and dragged the cabin all over China
This time the trip did not go very smoothly, 150 yuan only supported him to go to Fuzhou, and he became a homeless man with no place to live and nothing to eat. He was even treated as a madman and was locked up in the shelter for 2 months. Then, with the help of well-wishers, I was able to pay for the trip home.
But people often have the hardest time taking the first step, and once they take it, they are out of control. Although the days outside are hard, I walk carefree every day, and even if I sleep under the bridge hole at night, I can hear the most pleasant insects and birds. These are too tempting for Xie Jianguang.
Later, the wooden hut was changed to stainless steel
Starting again, he was countless times firmer than the first time, and this time, he really had to come to the Yungui Plateau of his dreams. On the day he arrived at the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Xie Jianguang sincerely sighed, "I should have come out of my poor and backward small village a long time ago and gone to see the great rivers and mountains all over China." This time, it officially kicked off his more than 30-year hiking career.
In more than 30 years of hiking, Xie Jianguang also created a best companion for himself - a trolley carrying a wooden house.
For all those who meet Xie Jianguang, he is also a landscape
The long walking time, and the stretched financial situation, did not allow him to have much comfort in the hotel. On a whim, he simply used his past carpentry skills to build himself a wooden trolley that could store items and sleep.
But the wooden material can not withstand the bumps along the way, so the repair, but also changed several, and finally with the help of a Guangzhou brother, rebuilt a stainless steel trolley for him, but also this car accompanied him on the last journey of his life.
He once wrote an introduction specifically for his car, in 2014, he wrote: "I estimate that my car can be used for another 21 years, I estimate, I should only be able to walk for another 21 years, that is just right!" "At that time, who knew that after only 4 years, he was gone!
"From a tramp, to a writer, to a traveler, life should give you nothing less."
Xie Jianguang was on the go
Xie Jianguang, who can think of making a trolley for himself, is much more mature than when he first set off, and he knows that to maintain his walking, he must have an income, from the beginning of picking up scraps, to the later part-time work, doing all the work that can support him to realize his inner desire, and these jobs have become a lot more interesting.
He still loved to read, and as mentioned earlier, the desire to become a writer never wavered in his heart, and hiking gave him more creative material. When the content platform and information technology were not so developed, he wrote all his impressions in the manuscript.
When he first approached the blog in 2009, he updated more than 20 pieces of content in one go
During one of the hikes, because of the mudslide, the manuscript was washed away by the water, which made him regret for a long time. In 2009, he began to update the blog, may 28, 2009, this is the first time he posted content in the blog, this evening he updated more than 20 pieces of content, each one is very short, one line or two lines, can see the strangeness of the operation and the strong desire to express the heart.
He recorded himself standing on the cliff on the bank of the Lancang River, watching the river flow through the canyon; looking at the head of the ancient city of Jingzhou, looking at the waves of Yun Mengze, looking at the Chu kingdom three thousand years ago; he recorded that the Sanjiang Plain had become a vast ocean because of the water, murmuring long songs on the bank of the Songhua River, wanting to become invisible.
For Xie Jianguang, the manuscript is also his most precious thing
After reading these words, can you still remember that this is a person with only elementary school education? During the hike, Xie Jianguang read tens of thousands of books until the cart could no longer carry the weight of the books, and he began to give his favorite books to people who had a relationship and really loved books during the journey.
He also met a love that shook him because of his writing, a teacher, fascinated by the accidental sight of his manuscript, and waited for him for many years, but in the end Xie Jianguang chose the journey. Those who are very attached to one thing may be emotionally weak.
Xie Jianguang's "Crazy World"
From 2009 to 2015, Xie Jianguang wrote longer and longer in his blog, and finally accumulated hundreds of thousands of words, published his "Crazy World" with the help of friends, infected many people, and so far, he has also realized the flag he set up in elementary school, everything comes from persistent choices, and everything is logical.
He wrote in his blog, "In my experience, there is no better book in the world than my own experience. We read books only to understand knowledge that we have not experienced. Most people are living a superficial life, while a small number are exploring the deeper path of life. ”
And from Xie Jianguang's experience, what I see is that when you really work hard, life should give you nothing less.
He is still remembered on a certain platform
In our opinion, Xie Jianguang seems to be a "lonely and stubborn" walker, but you will find that under the video introducing Xie Jianguang, there are always people who leave messages, "I met him in Shenzhen", "I smoked and drank alcohol with Brother Xie in Chongqing", "I printed a manuscript for him"............ He was just an ordinary person, but because of one action, he connected so many people, what a magical thing.
In 2021, many people should have paid attention to this news: "A 22-year-old Henan girl unfortunately died of an accident on the way to Tibet!" It is also this news that directs the public's attention to a "hiking group" pushing a trolley, in addition to people who love "hiking" like Xie Jianguang, the "fake hikers" who purely fake traffic account for a large proportion.
Henan girl's trolley
Just imagine, in this era, the trend of our motivation to do something may be traffic, is monetization, is differentiation, but in Xie Jianguang's era, all the travel feelings must be retained in the form of manuscripts, even if the late life catches up with the emergence of Weibo, there is not much display, the only thing that drives him for more than 30 years is the desire in his heart.
"Poetry and distance may be beautiful, but which kind of life does not require courage."
For the inner feelings, Xie Jianguang has more courage than us, many people yearn for poetry and distant places, just like the free and beautiful depicted in the song, compared with those of us who look forward and backward, we will be full of admiration for Xie Jianguang. But should we, too, pursue such a life like him?
Constantly meeting new people on the go
We may be dissatisfied with the status quo, but do we really know that everything in this world has gains and losses?
We envy Xie Jianguang, can we see his bumps in the road of pursuing himself? In 2018, Xie Jianguang died in Heihe, he showed discomfort on the walk, friends sent him to the hotel, he himself thought it was just a small problem, but this time he did not carry it.
In fact, the heavens have already taken good care of him, but this time the quota has really run out. In a reply to a reporter in Ningbo, Xie Jianguang recorded several of his escapes.
In 1994, he went to Daxing'anling for the first time, one evening it was raining heavily, he got lost in the forest, strayed into a black land full of potatoes, stepped on it, the whole calf was trapped in it, the sky was getting dark, Xie Jianguang traveled for more than 2 hours under such a difficult situation, only to find the right direction, climbing ashore was exhausted. But before the bad luck was over, he was treated as a fugitive, arrested on a labor camp, and interrogated severely for one night.
After being released, xie Jianguang was trapped on a hill by the flood for seven days, ran out of food, relied on grass roots to fill the hunger, and even ate the grassland rats that were drowned by water.
Xie Jianguang
In 2006, when he entered Tibet, it was already December, and many people advised him not to enter Tibet by the Yunnan-Tibet Line in the winter, but Xie Jianguang still challenged it, turning over 2 peaks of more than 5,000 meters, 6 peaks of more than 4,000 meters, countless steeply falling canyons in the snow, and when people arrived in Lhasa, they were covered with skin and bones, their hair was disheveled, and their green-faced canine teeth were covered.
And on his way back from the third trip to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, he was hit by a motorized three-wheeler into the sugarcane field, his left leg was injured and could not move, he lay in the sugarcane field for 5 days, relying on sugarcane for food, and did not wait for anyone to save him, and finally his legs had a little intuition, and he barely moved and got rescue.
In such a dangerous situation, Xie Jianguang wrote that those 5 days were really comfortable, no need to worry about rushing, nor worry about not having anything to eat, sugar cane is really sweet! I read a few books and thought about a lot of things. In other words, can we still have such a state of mind?
Therefore, poetry and distant places are beautiful, but they are also a kind of life, just depending on how you choose.
Poetry and far away, not to buy a ticket to Tibet, to take a punch card photo under the Potala Palace, but to really find their own heart. In 2017, a female netizen wrote on her resignation letter: The world is so big, I want to go and see. Later, she and her husband opened an inn at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain in Dujiangyan, which is also the life she wants, but occasionally talking about the actions at that time, she said, the current life is that you don't know how many toilets have been brushed and how many beds have been made.
Everywhere is the scenery where you can read
I remembered that there was an interview video about the behavior of this female netizen at that time, and they asked the sanitation workers, what do you think is poetry and far away? The sanitation worker said that the streets I was responsible for were cleaner than others, and that when I got home, my husband and children were waiting for me to cook, and that was my poetry and far away.
They asked the master electrician, what do you think is poetry and distance? The master electrician said that when I came down from the telephone pole, the lights of all the houses were on, and this was my poetry and the distance.
Therefore, every life is a form, and we are shocked by Xie Jianguang's courage today because in his choice, he used persistence and love to live this life with taste.
Then we look at the sanitation workers and electricians mentioned above, who did not travel and hike, but still lived a tasteful life in their chosen life.
First think about the life you want, don't envy too much, sometimes your "poetry and distance" does not need to look, just take every step down-to-earth.
The distance between you and Xie Jianguang is not a trolley, but the persistence and love of facing life! Believe, put in, life should give you, nothing less!