Preface
As China's No. 1 giant, Bao Xishun's naturally grown height reached an astonishing 2.36 meters.
When I consulted the doctor at the hospital, the doctor's advice was that try not to have children, as height and age can be a huge risk.
But in the face of the serious problem of inheritance, Bao Xishun is still determined to give birth to a child, and the child is only 10 years old and his height exceeds the average of ordinary girls.
Why is Bao Xishun so tall? Does his height bring more honor or more trouble? Has he always been so tall?
Bao Xishun, who insisted on giving birth to a child at an advanced age despite the dissuasion of doctors, is 73 years old this year, how is he doing now?
All of the statements in this article are based on reliable sources and are reproduced at the end of this article
Guinness World Records: The world's first naturally growing giant
At noon on July 21, 2005, a park in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, was crowded with people and beaming with joy.
For no other reason, Bao Xishun, a "giant" who was previously famous for his extraordinary height in the mainland, got a certificate issued by the Guinness World Records headquarters, "the world's tallest natural growth person".
What made Bao Xishun even more excited was that the Guinness World Records headquarters invited him to attend Guinness's global events.
On September 21, Bao Xishun went to London, the capital of the United Kingdom, to participate in this global world record event, and Bao Xishun also became the first Chinese to participate in the global event of the Guinness headquarters.
Here Bao Xishun was invited to have a full body examination, and after an MRI pituitary scan, the image showed that the pituitary gland was in normal shape and normal secretion.
The whole body examination also showed that all of Bao Xishun's organs were normal, there was no hormonal stimulation, and he was not a gigantist patient.
At that time, the tallest man in the world was still a man from the Republic of Tunisia, and Bao Xishun beat Radhouani Salbib with a height of 2.361 meters.
Bao Xishun, who got the certificate, had an obvious smile on his face, this two-meter giant is rarely so happy on weekdays.
Before meeting that man, this height brought Bao Xishun not only sadness but also sadness, and this unusual place made it difficult for Bao Xishun to integrate into the collective.
Why is Bao Xishun so tall? Has he always been so tall?
Rough childhood
The newborn Bao Xishun actually has nothing abnormal, and when he was born, he could hold it with one hand like an ordinary child.
The change happened in 1966, when 15-year-old Bao Xishun was inexplicably tall and soared, and this momentum lasted for five years.
By the age of 20, Bao Xishun's height reached 2.1 meters that only professional basketball players can catch up with, and the speed has only slowed down.
Bao Xishun's primary school was in the city, but because of the poor living conditions at home, Bao Xishun chose to go home to farm just after finishing primary school.
Life at home is not much better than outside, because of his young age and high stature, Bao Xishun has to eat the amount of a family to eat a meal to be full.
But the Bao family, who was in a poor family, couldn't stand such a way of eating, and the sensible Bao Xishun could only restrain his appetite, and he didn't dare to tell his parents that he wasn't full.
In order to earn money, Bao Xishun goes wherever there is work, and people in the village are willing to look for him when they build houses and people outside build roads, just because of his tall height and great strength.
Bao Xishun, who worked hard, did not make a lot of money, because everyone generally did not have much money at that time, and being able to eat was the biggest surprise for Bao Xishun.
Because Bao Xishun often went out to work with the engineering team, he couldn't lie down on those standard beds at all, so Bao Xishun could only sleep on the ground outside in the summer.
There have been many such days, and the young Bao Xishun has rheumatism, and the joints up and down his body are itchy and painful.
With the change of figure, Bao Xishun has actually suffered all the hardships of clothing, housing and transportation in society.
Bao Xishun, who is more than two meters high, has hands and feet that are twice the size of ordinary people, and clothes and pants can be bought in oversized styles, and the length of sleeves and pants can also be repaired, but the shoes are really not found in Bao Xishun's size unless they are customized.
Or the mother feels sorry for Bao Xishun, since he couldn't buy suitable clothes and shoes outside, Bao Xishun's clothes were all tailor-made by his mother for him.
After suffering from rheumatism, Bao Xishun felt uncomfortable all over his body, and it was his father who sold a sheep in the family and took Bao Xishun to Shenyang to see a doctor.
Humble aspirations
Bao Xishun looks back on his life from the age of fifteen to twenty, and the most color is gray, because the strange eyes and life difficulties brought by height make this uneducated person unspeakable.
In the past five years, if it weren't for the company of his parents, Bao Xishun might really be misanthropic and numb, and do something uncontrollable.
After the age of 20, Bao Xishun remembered the experience of the basketball team, and was more grateful and happy.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs model tells us that human needs are divided into five types, and when any of the first physiological needs are not met, human physiology cannot function properly.
Therefore, when Bao Xishun, who had been short of food for ten years, came to the military compound of the Shenyang Military Region, just eating and being full was enough to make Bao Xishun happy for a long time.
The coach of the military sports compound saw Bao Xishun on the street, this kind of height may be a little cumbersome in the living environment, but it is really good steel to use on the blade of the knife when used to play basketball.
The coach found Bao Xishun, who came to Shenyang to see a doctor, not only let him stay to play basketball and eat well, but also treated him for free after hearing about his illness.
Bao Xishun lived very happily here, the happiest time in the first half of his life, but he still decided not to stay on the basketball team.
Bao Xishun's rheumatism could not be cured at all, the severe pain made him unable to keep up with the training progress, and the longing for home also made the 2.36-meter-old man miserable.
A tragic fate
After saying goodbye to the coach who brought him into the military sports compound, Bao Xishun returned to his hometown after a two-year absence.
At the age of 20, the peers around him have become families, and some have given birth to children, but Bao Xishun has not followed up after contacting several girls introduced by his family.
Bao Xishun, who was already introverted and shy, gradually became reluctant to contact the outside world after many failures.
The more inferior he becomes, the more sensitive he is to the eyes of others, and when someone looks at him, he will be sensitive to think that the other party is looking at him with strange eyes, and slowly he is not even willing to go out.
This autistic life lasted for almost fifteen years, ending when Bao Xishun was forty years old.
In 1991, Bao Xishun's mother died.
The loss of his mother is not an easy thing for Bao Xishun to bear, looking at the cotton shoes and clothes that his mother made for him before he died, we can probably guess some of Bao Xishun's feelings.
Bao Xishun looked at these pairs of shoes and understood the deep worry of his mother before she died.
She hopes that Bao Xishun can have someone by her side who knows the cold and the hot, and there can be someone who can take over her job and make shoes for Bao Xishun.
It was also because of his mother's hope that Bao Xishun took this matter to heart and planned to contact the outside world.
It was not easy for Bao Xishun to return to society, but fortunately, he met a strange person, and he kindly helped Bao Xishun.
Peak loop turn
In September 2004, a restaurant owner named Xin Xing approached Bao Xishun, hoping that the "giant" could help him attract business for his newly opened hot pot restaurant.
Bao Xishun's people didn't want him to go, one was afraid that the person in front of him was a liar, and the other was afraid that Bao Xishun would be as uncomfortable as last time in Shenyang.
Perhaps thinking of his mother's worries, Bao Xishun firmly chose to go out with Xin Xing.
On the day Xin Xing came to pick up Bao Xishun, he specially built a special car, and the wide and tall carriage made Bao Xishun feel that he was taken care of.
When he came to the hot pot restaurant, Xin Xing didn't take him to work, but first took him to make a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes.
When Bao Xishun put on that specially tailored costume and stood at the door, he suddenly found that the eyes cast by the people here were not malicious, even with surprise and curiosity, there was no mockery and malice in them.
This is a good step for Bao Xishun to go to society, in the ten days of working in Xinxing hot pot restaurant, Bao Xishun found that his height can bring not only eyes, but also potential traffic behind the eyes.
When Bao returned home after work, he realized that the outside world was not so scary, and he began to look forward to going out again.
In 2005, Bao Xishun's experience was in the newspaper many times, and all kinds of newspapers were willing to deal with Bao Xishun.
In the past ten years, Bao Xishun has accumulated a lot of fans, and it seems that the humble wish before is not impossible to achieve.
In 2007, Bao Xishun and Xia Shujuan, who is 1.68 meters tall, got married, and the two went to the doctor after getting married, hoping to have a baby.
After a brief understanding of Bao Xishun's situation, the doctor gave an answer: it is not recommended that Bao Xishun have children.
Because first, Bao Xishun is 56 years old, and the quality of sperm is not as good as when he was young; second, the height problem is likely to be accompanied by genetic inheritance, and it is difficult to ensure the normality of the child.
Bao Xishun, who was in high spirits, returned disappointed, and after thinking about it, he still wanted a continuation of his life, so on October 2, 2008, Xia Shujuan gave birth to a baby boy by caesarean section in her hometown, weighing 8.4 pounds.
Born in 2008, he grew to 1.7 meters at the age of 14, which is considered to be above average among his peers.
Bao Xishun took the child to the hospital for testing, and through the bone age and bone density test, the doctor estimated that Tianyou could grow to about 2.2 meters according to the epiphyseal line.
Status
Today's Bao Xishun is 73 years old, and because of the root of the disease left by his youth, Bao Xishun has not appeared in public for a long time.
It has been three years since Bao Xishun last appeared in front of the camera, and that time Bao Xishun went out of the mountain to help his hometown promote special products and conduct sales live broadcasts.
summary
In addition to his inferiority complex, Bao Xishun's amazing height also has wonderful encounters, as if everything has two sides.
When you feel that fate is unfair, try to think about what you can get out of this catastrophe.
I hope Bao Xishun and his family can be healthy and safe.
The information in this article is from:
Baidu Encyclopedia - Bao Xishun
Sohu.com-Bao Xishun, the world's No. 1 tall, once again appeared in the right front banner of the branch (reprinted from the official WeChat of "Xing'an Daily")
Text/Four Precepts of Life
Editor/The Four Commandments of Life