In the summer of 1930, a young man named Pan Deming saw with his own eyes that the motherland was devastated and invaded by foreign enemies, while those young people who should have worked hard became weak and decadent, shouldering the mission of "humiliating the sick man and adding glory to the nation", he was determined to travel around the world, travel all over the world, publicize the Chinese spirit, and let the world know China again! And take this opportunity to investigate the advanced industrial technology of the West and revitalize China after returning to China!
In April 1931, with the financial support of Singaporean expatriates, Pan Deming embarked on a journey to India, and when the news spread that Pan Deming had walked the world, he was received by Mahatma Gandhi, and later Nehru also came to see this brave Chinese guy. In India, Pan Deming also paid a special visit to the famous poet Tagore.
In June 1932, when Pan Deming trekked to Greece, he received a message from the newspaper that China had decided not to participate in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics because there was no money, which made him very angry! I can't send an athlete! The motherland was in tatters, and the national shame was deeply imprinted in his heart, so he indignantly wrote a line of paper and pasted it on the stone pillar next to the Olympia site: Chinese Pan Deming walked here!
On September 26, 1933, Pan Deming traveled to Germany, and Hitler was very admired when he learned of Pan Deming's walking around the world, so he specially received him. When the Fuehrer was young, he also had a global dream, and his ambition was to be a painter, and when he left, he specially painted a painting for Pan Deming and gave it to him. At the end of the same year, Pan Deming traveled to the United States, when Pan Deming's deeds spread to Washington, President Roosevelt personally received the Chinese hero and presented him with a gold medal, and when he left, President Roosevelt encouraged: Honor always belongs to people with a spirit of struggle, Mr. Traveler, I hope you will be braver in your future journey!
Pan Deming has experienced hardships along the way, and has reached more than 40 countries such as India, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Italy, France, Britain, the United States, Cuba, Panama, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia and so on. To record his travels, Mr. Pan made a notebook with signed messages from celebrities of various presidents. After 8 years of walking around the world, he was received by the painter Xu Beihong, the young marshal Zhang Xueliang, the Indian Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, the poet Tagore, the US President Roosevelt, the German madman Hitler, the French President Albert Le Brun, the British Prime Minister McDonald, the Greek Prime Minister Viniciros, the "Father of Turkey" General Mustafa Kemal, the Great Swedish Explorer Sven Hedin, the Norwegian King, the Bulgarian King and other celebrities and dignitaries. Fish have even been caught near the Arctic Circle and caught by Aborigines in the Melbourne mountains.
In July 1937, he finally returned to his homeland. Shortly after returning to China, the War of Resistance broke out, and the great plan to revitalize China was completely destroyed! Pan Deming, who was heartbroken at the head of the national disaster, donated all the 100,000 US dollars raised to the front line of the War of Resistance, and since then, he has been incognito, a generation of heroic travelers, the first cattle man in human history to walk the world has faded out of people's vision!
In 1979, a publishing editor stumbled upon Pan's "Celebrity Ink Collection" in a pile of garbage heaps that were about to be destroyed, as well as his passports, visas, and letters from abroad, with notes containing inscriptions and signatures of 1,200 groups and india's Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore, Hitler, Roosevelt and other world celebrities at that time, as well as 571 postmarks of various countries, which made this legend come to light! Later generations have sorted out Pan Deming's hiking routes and great deeds and found that he is not only the first person in China to travel the world on foot, but also the first person in human history to truly travel the world on foot! In that era when the mind was not yet awakened, to have such a hero was simply a legend within a legend. Let's remember this national hero, Pan Deming!
Let's revisit a passage from Pan Deming's title on the title page of "Celebrity Ink Collection": "Take the world as my big school, nature and human affairs as my textbook, hear and see direct contact as my reading method, and wind, snow, rain, frost, scorching sun, morning star, night and moon as my reward." Deming resolutely forged ahead, showing our Chinese national nature in the world, so that we know that China is moving forward, in order to seek glory in the world! ”