In 2020, the latest data from the statistical survey of the average height of men aged 18-44 in mainland China was released, and the results showed that the average height of men has reached 1.697 meters. What is the concept of 2.36 meters tall? It directly surpasses the average height of more than half a meter. In other words, Yao Ming had to look up when he saw it.
So is there really such a tall person in the world? There really is, he is Bao Xishun from Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia.
His palms are as big as a fan, his feet are as big as a boat, and his waist is as thick as a bucket, which is completely a giant-like existence in the movie. Because of his unmatched height, he is also known as China's no. 1 herdsman.
Height advantage for more opportunities
Bao Xishun was born in 1951 in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia to an ordinary herdsman's family, and is an ethnic Minority Mongolian. He was born a perfectly normal child, no different from everyone else. His father was more than one meter tall, his mother was one meter six, and the height of the other brothers and sisters in the family was also very normal, but it was such a normal family that had a giant.
When Bao Xishun was 15 years old, his height was like a bamboo that broke through the earth, and it grew wildly. At that time, his height reached 1.89 meters. The Mongols are generally taller and stronger than other ethnic groups in China, so although his height is higher than that of ordinary ethnic groups, everyone does not feel abnormal.
But his body may want to be more outstanding, and it has not stopped growing. At the age of 20, he reached a staggering 2.1 meters tall.
2.1 meters is not the end of his height, his body continues to "work hard" until his height reaches 2.36 meters.
The gold medalist in the men's high jump at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics jumped at a height of 2.37 meters, which means that as long as he jumped almost one height of Bao Xishun, he could get this gold medal. From this, it can also be seen how surprising Bao Xishun's height is.
Excessive height will bring many inconveniences to life, for example, Bao Xishun needs five meters of cloth to make a dress, which is twice the cloth needed by ordinary people. There are losses and gains, and his height also gives him more opportunities and more room for choice.
Bao Xishun is not a piece of reading material, and when he was in elementary school, he went home to work as a farmer. He has a large physique and has more food needs than ordinary people. However, his family is very sensible, and he will not talk to his family without eating, which also makes him never eat a full meal in the true sense since he was a child. The children of the poor have long been in charge, and such a family situation has also made him develop a hard-working character.
He does everything, builds houses, builds roads, and as long as he can earn money, he is not afraid of hard work. As we all know, building a house as the house is built higher and higher, then the tools must also be put higher and higher. Cover to the back, others need to use a ladder to put tools.
At this time, his height advantage was revealed, and he just had to put the tools on the house with his hand, which was very easy. Throwing mud is also, others use to throw, he just needs to put it gently. Ordinary people have to work hard to get tools, but when they come to him, it is as easy as holding toys, and there is a feeling of a child living at home.
His height advantage also contributed to his greater popularity with his bosses, and the increased workload made him sometimes have to spend the night outside. Outside is no better than home, there is no suitable bed for him, and he often sleeps unsteadily because of this.
Poor rest, work and fatigue caused him to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, which was terrible pain. Bao Xishun's family was poor and had no money to treat his illness, so his family had no choice but to kill a sheep before they could scrape together enough money to treat him.
At that time, the medical environment in Inner Mongolia was not good enough, so Bao Xishun's father took him to Shenyang to seek medical treatment. In Shenyang, he met the noble man in his life, Leng Wanju.
As soon as Bao Xishun appeared on the streets of Shenyang, his outstanding height attracted the attention of many passers-by. Among them is a basketball coach from the military sports compound of the Shenyang Military Region- Leng Wanju. As soon as the coach saw him, he felt that it was a piece of basketball material and was very optimistic about him. The coach wants him to stay in Shenyang and learn to play basketball with him, and if he agrees, he can treat his illness for free.
That is, with the work of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, he can see a doctor for free. This great good thing, Bao Xishun and his father happily agreed. This period of time in Shenyang has also become a beautiful and unforgettable year in his life.
In the two years in Shenyang, Bao Xishun has been diligent and active, eager to break out of his own piece of the sky through hard work. But fate gave him a little sugar, but did not give him this sweetness. He was a giant under the basket, but his rheumatoid arthritis had not healed for a long time, which also caused him to be unable to run fast and run for a long time while training, which was a fatal flaw for basketball players.
Although he ate well and lived well in Shenyang, he was a man with strong self-esteem and firmly believed that there was no merit. Therefore, he said goodbye to Shenyang and returned to his hometown.
Meet Bó Lè and regain your faith
After a long absence from his homeland, but he did not return to his hometown, Bao Xishun had mixed feelings in his heart. But he did not sink, but lived peacefully on the grassland.
Soon, Bao Xishun reached the age of marriage, when marriage was usually the word of his parents. In order for him to get married as soon as possible, the family introduced him to the right girl as soon as he met him. But after the girls knew his height, they all lost the courage to communicate. The setbacks of blind dates again and again made the already shy man slowly lose the confidence to contact the outside world.
His outstanding height from an early age has led to him being often admired by others as an animal. Later, when he met a noble person in Shenyang, he could not achieve anything due to illness. Up to now, blind dates have repeatedly failed, and the marriage has not landed. Under great joy and great sorrow, he became inferior and sensitive, and slowly did not want to go out.
When Bao Xishun was 40 years old, his mother died. The mother's hand is threaded, and the wanderer's body is clothed. Before dying, his mother was still worried that he did not have suitable cotton shoes to wear, so she endured the discomfort of her body and made several pairs of cotton shoes for him. Because of his height, he basically can't buy suitable clothes, and he relies on his mother to sew, and maternal love is great. After losing his mother, his heart was extremely painful, and he fell into a low point in his life.
The monotonous and boring trough period, he passed for more than ten years. He thought that the future days would also be passed like this, but fate injected him with a dose of strengthening. He met his own Bole, Xin Xing.
In September 2004, a hot pot restaurant wanted to find a promotional greeter, and how to find a distinctive greeter made the hot pot restaurant owner Xin Xing worried. Later, after being pointed out, he learned about Bao Xishun, who was 2.36 meters tall. The clouds dissipated, and he immediately decided to invite Bao Xishun to endorse his hot pot restaurant.
Since returning home from Shenyang, Bao Xishun has not been out for many years, and he is not good at dealing with people, and his family is afraid that he will not be able to adapt to the outside environment, and they have expressed their opposition. In addition, Bao Xishun's family are honest herders, and they don't trust this sudden entrepreneur Xin Xing at first. Xin Xing, who had eaten the closed door soup, was not discouraged, and he fully carried forward the spirit of Sangu Maolu, just so that he could invite Bao Xishun out of the mountain.
Xin Xing went to the door again and again to invite people, and finally moved Bao Xishun, and Bao Xishun's family also trusted this persevering boss.
Since then, Bao Xishun has ushered in his own spring.
The outside world was not as bad as Bao Xishun imagined, but it made him feel a different warmth. When Bao Xishun, dressed in Chen Zhen's clothes and bright leather shoes, greeted him at the door of the hot pot restaurant, he was surprised to find that customers returned him with warm smiles.
The original ten-day welcome work was soon over, and Bao Xishun returned to his hometown, but he felt that he was still unfinished. For so many years, he rarely had contact with outsiders, and he may have long been bored with this boring life. Or maybe those kind smiles gave him the best courage to explore life. He began to contact Xin Xing voluntarily, hoping to get more job opportunities.
Xin Xing was surprised by the speed of Bao Xishun's transformation, but also had more understanding. So, in the following time, he rented a house for Bao Xishun in Chifeng and made him the ambassador of his cultural company. The main job of the ambassador is to distribute leaflets at the scene of some public welfare activities.
Every time at the event site, when Bao Xishun, who appears in the finale wearing a special costume, appears, he can always attract the attention of many people. Therefore, public welfare activities can always achieve good results, and Bao Xishun has also gained a long-lost sense of accomplishment.
Bao Xishun's participation in the event not only attracted people's attention, but even attracted the reporters of the Northern New Daily. Speaking of interviews, this isn't his interview rookie.
On the contrary, in the past, in my hometown, there would also be reporters who came to interview. However, he did not like to interview reporters, because he felt that the arrival of reporters did not help him get out of poverty, but also let him talk about it because he did not want to have too much contact with people. He felt it was a thankless task.
However, today is different from the past, after the report of the "Northern New Paper", Bao Xishun has become a celebrity. Once, in an interview with the Hongshan Evening News reporter, he inadvertently revealed that he wanted to go to Shenyang, where he had struggled. Subsequently, the Hongshan Evening News and the Liaoshen Evening News helped him return to the "battlefield" he fought for when he was 20 years old.
More than thirty years have passed, and when Bao Xishun once again set foot on the land of Shenyang, he was full of emotions. At that time, he had no choice but to bid farewell to his coaching teammates due to illness. Now, seeing his coach teammates again, he has lived up to their meticulous cultivation and lived out his own wonderful life.
Before, a reporter from the "Hongshan Evening News" helped Bao Xishun realize his dream in Shenyang, and then Tang Jun, a reporter from the "Northern New Daily", continued to work hard and planned some activities for Bao Xishun. One of the events called "Happy Capital Tour" invited Bao Xishun to Visit Ho ho Ho Ho. The campaign also revealed Bao Xishun's "Giant Mystery".
It is reasonable to say that the parents are normal in height, and the height of the child born should also be within the normal range, so people suspect that Bao Xishun may have gigantism.
Gigantism, also known as acromegaly, is caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone (GH) by adeno-pituitary eosinophilia adenoma or hyperplasia. Gigantism is rare, but it is not without precedent. For example, China's first female giant, Zeng Jinlian, suffered from gigantism. So is Bao Xishun suffering from gigantism to grow so tall?
In order to unravel this mystery, the activity team invited Bao Xishun to go to Inner Mongolia Medical College for a comprehensive and meticulous physical examination. The results of the examination showed that his body was very normal, and that he could grow so high not because of a hormone imbalance, but as a result of completely natural growth, and this result also made all those who cared about him breathe a sigh of relief.
After Tang Jun learned that Bao Xishun was a solid giant, he consulted with him and declared the Guinness World Record for him as "the world's tallest person in natural growth".
Won the Guinness Book of World Records, married and had children
At the end of 2004, Tang Jun submitted all the information required by Bao Xishun to declare guinness records. In early 2005, Guinness World Records commissioned doctors to take a rigorous measurement of Bao Xishun's height and obtained a net height of 2.361 meters.
In July 2005, after strict certification, Bao Xishun successfully won the Guinness World Record "the world's first highest person in natural growth", and the certification ceremony was held in the most lively Haibel Entertainment Park in the new city of Chifeng City. On the same day, thousands of spectators witnessed the ceremony, and the certificate was awarded to Bao Xishun by the unit personnel of the Northern New Daily and the Northern Family Daily.
Shortly after the ceremony, Bao Received an invitation from the Guinness World Records Reporting Centre to participate in a global event at the Guinness Headquarters in London, England, in September 2005. He accepted the invitation.
In September, he stepped into the eyes of people all over the world for the first time he stepped out of the country, and he was also the first person to participate in the global activities of Guinness Headquarters Chinese.
2005 may be Bao Xishun's lucky year, when he was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records and went abroad to win glory for the country. It was also in this year that he had his own "House of Giants".
Since his mother's death, he has been living with his elderly father. He once told reporter Tang Jun that his greatest wish in life was to let his father live in the house he built.
Under the same roof, fatherly kindness and filial piety and mutual companionship are the lives that everyone wants. But Bao Xishun did not have much financial resources because of his height, and the family's dilapidated house made him feel ashamed of his father. As a son of man, Tang Jun understood his feelings very well and reported his wishes to the leaders.
Unexpectedly, the leaders immediately decided that the Northern New Daily would fund the construction of a "giant's home" for Bao Xishun and his father. After reading Bao Xishun's report, many units have reached out to help and contributed money. Soon, with the joint efforts of all parties, the "Giant's House" was built, and he also realized his wish.
Since Bao Xishun won the Guinness World Records, various media have come to visit, and media reports have made more people know Bao Xishun.
In 2006, two dolphins in an oceanarium in Liaoning were dying after swallowing a plastic foreign body. In the case of no results in ordinary treatment, after the aquarium saw the report of Bao Xishun, the world's tallest person, it counted on it. Immediately, the aquarium appealed to him, hoping to use his extra long arms to help the dolphin regain hope of life.
Without a moment's hesitation, Bao Xishun risked being bitten by a dolphin, and put his arm, which was more than a meter long, into the dolphin's stomach, took out the foreign body, and saved the two dolphins.
After watching the media reports about Bao Xishun's 'taking foreign objects and saving dolphins', a woman named Xia Shujuan silently felt good about him in her heart, which also laid the groundwork for Bao Xishun's future emotional destination.
In 2007, through the introduction of friends, Bao Xishun and Xia Shujuan met, and the two met and were very satisfied with each other. Soon, after knowing each other for a month or so, the two flashed marriage.
The wedding of the two was also very grand, and there were more than 140 media present. In addition to the ceremony, this wedding can be said to be more of a merchandise conference, with a lot of advertising.
Of course, this has not only enhanced his own reputation for Bao Xishun, but also solved the income problem, why not enjoy it? This grand wedding was also rated as "the grand wedding of the year" by the Wedding Culture Professional Committee of the Chinese Folk Writers Association.
After marriage, although the family of two is happy, they always feel that they lack some vitality. So the two discussed having a child. The two went to the hospital for consultation, and the doctor advised not to have children.
One is because Bao Xishun is more than fifty years old and has long missed the best age to have children; second, his height may be genetically risky. But the two liked children too much, and the doctor's advice did not make them abandon their plans to have children.
In October 2008, Xia Shujuan gave birth to a baby boy named Tianyou. After 14 years, Tianyou has grown into a 1.7-meter boy. His height continues to climb, and according to genetic formulas, he is likely to grow to about 2.2 meters, which is equivalent to Yao Ming's height.
Nowadays, a happy family of two has become a warm family of three, and Bao Xishun always can't hide a smile on his face. While his life is getting better and better, he has not forgotten to help more people through the difficulties.
In January 2018, Bao Xishun personally visited the site of the inauguration ceremony of the Chifeng Red Cross Society Sanrenxing Love Fund and congratulated the ceremony. In April 2020, the Xishun Love Fund held a rescue ceremony and donated a total of 90,000 yuan to 30 uremia patients in the depths of the water.
In September 2020, the Xishun Love Fund donated 50,000 yuan to 15 patients who were impoverished by illness to help them tide over the difficulties. Every time he donates, Bao Xishun personally gives the donation slip to the recipients, and he hopes that he can help more people and let them rekindle the hope of life.
epilogue
The world is big, there are no wonders. Bao Xishun's unusual height makes him often pointed out. But he eventually overcame his inferiority complex, developed his height into a career he was proud of, and thus gained a happy family.
Face yourself, a little more positive and enterprising courage; hard exploration, more self-improvement determination; give back to the society, more love and love yourself. While living out his self, he lived a wonderful life.
Not everyone can be different, and not everyone can accept being different. In the ordinary world, as ordinary people, you and I should cherish the life in front of us and live our own lives.