Parents in their thirties don't go to work, and 8-year-olds don't go to school.
Selling cars and houses, quitting jobs, dropping children out of school, just to buy a boat to travel around the world.
Such a crazy idea made Zhai Feng, a native of Shandong, a reality.
An unexpected idea made Zhai Feng and his wife decide to be maverick and start a life of drifting at sea.
Before the trip, they caused a sensation on the whole network, the media was long and short, and netizens argued one after another.
Seven years later, they quietly returned and quietly ended this wandering journey.
What did the couple decide to take their daughter around the world with them, even at the cost of falling out with their loved ones?
Seven years have passed, has he ever regretted his original decision?
Breaking Calm
"Make a solar-powered folding airship, live in the sky, and explore the world."
12 years ago, Zhai Feng expressed his thoughts to others for the first time, and it was also the first time that everyone felt that Zhai Feng was a "crazy person".
Zhai Feng was born in a small city in Jining, Shandong, and was born along the coast and lived by the sea, which made Zhai Feng have a special affection for the sea since he was a child.
Both parents are railway workers, and when Zhai Feng grew up, he naturally inherited the family's "mantle" and served an iron rice bowl.
The life is stable and the salary is considerable, but even so, Zhai Feng is a little resistant to such a life at a glance.
wanted to go out and break through, which became a thorn in Zhai Feng's heart, and he still couldn't pull it out until he got married and had children.
His wife Sun Hongyan is his neighbor, and the two enthusiastic and ignorant young people quickly came together after seeing each other, and gave birth to their daughter Xinxin after marriage.
Before getting married, Zhai Feng's hobby was reading books and sports, and the young man who was in a hurry took his wife to travel all over the world.
Surfing in Sanya, driving in Myanmar, and feeling the great rivers and mountains of the motherland in Tibet.
After marriage, he put all his focus on his family, and the ordinary and beautiful days of two points and one line kept passing.
But as his daughter grew bigger and bigger, Zhai Feng's heart became more and more uneasy, and he asked himself more than once.
Do you really want to stay in this small city for the rest of your life?
No, he didn't want to, his heart was as long as ever.
It wasn't until a chance chance that Zhai Feng made up his mind to take a trip that he said would go.
Ideal for travel
At that time, Zhai Feng accidentally saw Jinmujiao in Yalong Bay on the Internet, which is a small island located in the southernmost part of Sanya.
It is also the "end of the earth" in the true sense.
The lonely lighthouse between the sea and the sky deeply attracted Zhai Feng's yearning.
The endless sea and colorful tropical fish cast a veil of mystery over the sea.
During the holidays, Zhai Feng took his family on a plane to Sanya.
Here Zhai Feng seems to have entered another world, where no one disturbs him and is unrestrained.
Information source, Minnan Net, link has been paid at the end of the article
It is like a gap in the world, allowing Zhai Feng to completely integrate with nature, feel nature, and forget the busyness of work and the pressure of life.
After Sanya came back, Zhai Feng's heart was completely messed up, and the lingering thoughts made him want to go out.
Later, he began to discuss and prepare for a trip, and the short trip to Sanya could not satisfy his desire to jump out of the established track.
The wife is a traditional woman, and she has no objection to her husband's travel, but he is also worried that he does not want his husband to abandon him and leave Xinxin.
After thinking about it, since I wanted to go, I just went together.
In this way, the family began a clubhouse walk-and-go trip.
In order to make their dream come true, they make a bold decision.
They quit their jobs, sold all their houses and cars, and together with the compensation for their resignations, they made up a total of 400,000.
A month later, they arrived in Langkawi, Malaysia, and spent $55,000 to buy a steel sailboat from a bunch of Dutch couples.
The ship, named the Rainbow Warrior, will be the whole of the family's life in the future.
After buying the sailboat, Zhai Feng only had 50,000 yuan left in his hand, but Zhai Feng had no choice but to borrow tens of thousands of yuan from relatives and friends, so that he could make up the 2-year sailing fee.
Then he went to school and went through the withdrawal procedures for his 8-year-old daughter.
After many news reports also learned of their deeds, the overwhelming reports brought Zhai Feng to the forefront.
The lack of understanding at home and the sarcasm of the outside world put Zhai Feng under great pressure.
"I was speechless in the face of these comments."
Because Zhai Feng had already thought of a countermeasure.
They will reach a lot of places during the trip, and Zhai Feng thinks that the more media coverage, the more visibility they will have, so that they can make money by advertising.
Or he can also make a documentary about the fulfillment process.
But is the reality really like Zhai Feng's ideal?
Selling a house, quitting a job? Trapped in reality
Traveling for two years, they traveled to 9 countries, living briefly in each country for a short period of time.
Information source, China Economic Net, link paid at the end of the article
In Thailand, they went snorkeling with bananas, and Xinxin hugged her father excitedly with a sea fish at her feet.
In Malaysia, families sit around the beach looking at blue starfish and fist-sized hermit crabs.
Exotic scenery and beautiful scenery filled Zhai Feng's brain, making him feel unprecedented excitement and pleasure.
But in addition to the beautiful scenery, the difficulties of reality and the unpredictability of the sea also made this voyage much more difficult than they imagined.
Zhai Feng's sailboat is very small, and the three of them eat and live on the boat.
Under the sea and unpredictable dedication, Zhai Feng said that every member of the ship is a captain and must be rotated to protect the safety of his family, including 8-year-old Xinxin.
The source of the information, China.com, the link is attached at the end of the article
In the morning, Xinxin started to be on duty, and Zhai Feng, who was tired all night, went into the house to rest, while his wife cooked.
After eating, Xinxin changed his wife to replace her, and she couldn't be idle, she had to go to the kitchen to wash dishes and clean up the house.
The three of them are constantly busy, appreciating, and feeling the beauty and freedom of life in nature.
Before the trip, his wife Sun Hongyan was still imagining a beautiful boat trip.
He imagines a boat trip that is free every day, drinking red wine on the boat, watching the sunset, applying a mask and blowing the sea breeze, and living a life without any stress.
But the reality is that she also has to work very hard to help her husband maintain the safety of the boat.
The source of the information, People's Daily Online, the link is attached at the end of the article
After 5 years of sailing, they arrived in Australia, where they ended their journey around the world and decided to send their daughter back to school to continue her studies.
When they came back from Australia, they only had 20,000 yuan left in their pockets, and they even had a lot of debts, so that this family, which was originally vigorous and yearning for freedom, was also covered with a strong sense of fear and crisis.
Among them, they have experienced all kinds of hardships and difficulties, as if everything is telling "if you want to take the ordinary road, it is not so easy".
Coming out of the small city, they came to a wonderful world of fish, oceans and clouds, but the pressure they carried was also enormous.
After returning from the trip, Zhai Feng began to participate in various interviews and reports, originally thinking that his magical experience would attract many people.
Unexpectedly, everyone was more concerned about his family life.
Some people questioned whether they were irresponsible to the family by doing so. There are also curious whether Xinxin can still go to college.
In the face of all kinds of doubts and questions, Zhai Feng seemed a little calm.
He said that for traditional education, he prefers his daughter to accept all the hardships and tribulations of nature, so as to exercise her more independent character.
In his opinion, their life in foreign boats is very chic, but when they return to everyone's eyes, it seems to have changed a different world.
The overwhelming amount of questions and inquiries was all about the house, the car, and the school.
The lack of material things can be seen at a glance, but Zhai Feng always feels that his spiritual world is very rich, but everyone can't see it.
This made his mind hit hard.
However, Zhai Feng's trip never ended, and this time they changed their way from boat travel to circumnavigation.
They traveled from Australia to the world, and he was going to make a documentary about his journey, but the response was mediocre.
In 2019, Zhai Feng's family ended a seven-year trip around the world and took the remaining more than 10,000 yuan to Bali for two months.
Today, Zhai Feng's dream of traveling around the world continues, and no matter what the outcome is, he is still as enthusiastic and energetic as he was at the beginning.
Some people feel that his trip around the world has failed, he has not made any money after going out for a few years, and his children have also delayed school, and Zhai Feng has delayed the lives of two generations alone.
But in Zhai Feng's opinion, he doesn't think so, what he has is the courage to be willing to give everything.
Some lives are tracks, some lives are wilderness, but no matter what the result is, experience is the true meaning of life.
Resources:
1. China.com: "Resignation and Suspension of Study, Selling Houses and Cars...... Couples travel the world with their children, how are they after 7 years? 》
https://www.toutiao.com/article/6709238071465869836/?channel=&source=search_tab
2. China Economic Net: "Do you remember the Shandong family that quit your job to sell your house and take your baby around the world?" They're Back"
https://www.toutiao.com/article/6708627671561011716/?channel=&source=search_tab
3. Minnan Net: "Zhai Feng's family sells cars and houses just to buy a sailboat family sailing trip"
http://www.mnw.cn/xiamen/news/692952.html
4. People's Daily Online: "Sell a house and buy a sailboat and go sailing with the whole family"
http://sn.people.com.cn/GB/n2/2020/0108/c378296-33699884.html
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