As a walking human being, Gabriel lived happily and authentically

How much road a person has to walk

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Society depicts the history of human walking. Homo sapiens went out of Africa and multiplied Eurasia. One took the South Island and migrated in the direction of Siberia, borrowing the Frozen Bering Strait during the Ice Age to the American continent, from north to south. Eventually, the footprints of humanity traveled across the continent beyond Antarctica.

In the view of the author, Professor Jared Diamond, the familiar prehistoric version of "Exodus" has influenced the development process of thousands of years of human history. The American Indians, who also gave birth to civilizations, were left behind because of geographical barriers, obstructions in communication, and crucial iron making, animation domestication, and plague, which eventually led to the encounter with white people from the Old World, vulnerable.

Flipping through Professor Luo Xin's "From Dadu to Shangdu" at Peking University, he mentioned that hiking is the closest to breathing, and when you insist on hiking, you will eventually find that it is as natural as breathing. When I started my hiking program, another hike was taking place, arguably the "greatest" of our time.

Pulitzer Prize-winning contributor to National Geographic, Paul Salopek, conducts a hike called "Out of Eden Walk." On January 22, 2013, he planned to travel from Ethiopia in Africa to Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of the Americas. In the meantime, he crossed the Middle East, Central Asia, the Indian Peninsula and Chinese mainland, entered Siberia, crossed the Bering Strait by boat, and finally crossed the American continent.

You can read about him in the media, or more intuitive twitter and instagram. I chose the latter. If Instagram hadn't removed the map tagging feature, it would have been probably the most ambitious punch-in operation in human history.

Paul crossed the Punjab in Pakistan and now to India. More than five years have passed since we started. He will enter China as soon as the end of this year. At the current pace, he will have to complete this 33,600 kilometers of human journey, which will take time and difficulty.

Compared with Paul, Professor Luo Xin's 15-day trek from Beijing's Jiande Gate to Inner Mongolia's Xilin Gol Zhenglan Banner is obviously not a difficult journey. He also does not hide that he is walking just to go. The most amazing and most fulfilling is probably a book with such a thick yard.

So, when I saw in the book that after he had completed the day's journey plan, he would turn around and fight back to the city, or borrow a friend's car to take a ride, go to the hotel to rest, and then return to a certain point on the way, which was a bit surprising. It seems to be completely different from the Scita Trail hike that I imagined but never implemented. In any case, the hike begins with a single step, and the meaning is in the final completion. During the hike, you collect everything in front of you, feel the air flowing around you, and the memories in your body also pour out. In the second half of the book, the author began to have chapters such as remembrance of the deceased, which also triggered my touch.

The wind on the road from Dadu to Shangdu is not unusual, just like the impression of banning the cultivation of poppies, which will overshadow the golden lotus that has not yet reached its flowering stage. This section of the road in the geographical sense is really close, but because of the crossing of the Great Wall, involving the conflict between farming and nomads, the historical iteration of the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty will inevitably lead to endless ancient and modern sympathies. And that glorious capital, which existed in Marco Polo's records, existed for only a hundred years and became a ruin destroyed by the war. Arriving at China's historical past, we can only rely on imagination, and there are historical materials and poems interspersed everywhere.

From the walk of the humans, to Luo Xin's argument, and the long hike Paul was on, they were all looking for something. In ancient times, human beings had to face the pressure of survival brought about by the reproduction of life. People today are eager to touch distant customs and customs that are very different from their own country. With the emergence of social networks, the act of exodus, the same marathon, six-pack abs, and appearance is justice, have become the focus of attention in the circle of friends, and at the same time, they are considered to be the manifestations of strengthening their own existence. I think that at least walking and hiking can not rise to the level of self-transformation, but imagine that human beings are still looking for something, and even in the end, they may not find anything.

In April, I also watched a Brazilian movie, Gabriel and the Mountains. Gabriel is difficult to remember, and it is much easier to remember "Gabriel" translated by Taiwanese.

Gabriel was a Brazilian guy who traveled for seventy days in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, malawi. He refused to be labeled a tourist, considering himself a local more local than the locals. Step on a pair of sandals, optimistic and dashing. However, as he himself joked, even as a mixed race like Brazilians, he is still a white (tourist) in the heart of Africa. As an outsider and a stranger, there are many hagglings about travel expenses in the film. When his girlfriend taunted him and chose to travel to East Africa, just because he did not apply to Harvard, he was also speechless.

Gabriel, in reality, died on the road to the mountains. As Gabriel's good friend, director Felibi Barbosa revisits the touching place to tell the world: Gabriel, who conquered the peaks of East Africa, as a walking human being, Gabriel lived happily and truly.

Gabriel's desire to take risks seemed to push him to the end of the road. However, if the cost of life is calculated, many people can not go out of the door for a lifetime, and it is not a good result.

When a child is still a child, he does not know that he is a child.

"From Dadu to Shangdu" also mentions where the English translation of Shangdu, Xanadu, came from. Not long ago, I revisited Orson Wells' Citizen Kane. The protagonist built and eventually imprisoned the protagonist's villa castle, named Xanadu. The palace was filled with statues from all over the world, and he became the monarch of his own territory.

Orson Wells, the 26-year-old famed and arrogant film genius. The troubles in his later years continued, and not a single film could be made. He could order four steaks, seven baked potatoes, and many other dishes in the middle of the night, turning himself into a startling fat man with limited mobility. When he laughed at the self-willed degeneration of human beings, he moved the city and life into the shopping mall together. No one could know why he, who had been a giant, had not been able to get out of his palace.

You know, 16-year-old Orson Wells has won a Harvard scholarship. But instead of going to school, he persuaded his guardian to take an inheritance left by his parents and go hiking in Ireland. He was in Dublin and had an indissoluble relationship with theatre. Returning from Ireland a few years later, New York's theatrical stage circle, the name Orson Wells, had become less famous.

It turns out that from the king of the road to the emperor of the movie, all one has to do is to "take that step". From: Phoenix Reading