Do you know how tall a human being's highest height is? We will think of The Chinese basketball star Yao Ming, who is 2.23 meters tall; then we will think of Yao Ming's brother Zhang Huan, who is 2.38 meters tall; or Wang Fengjun, the first of China's top ten giants, her height is 2.55 meters.
When we know that some people are more than 2 meters tall, we usually think about whether they have gigantism. When we think of the shortest, we usually think of whether we have dwarfism or not. But in China, there is a person who is the tallest person who grows naturally---- Bao Xishun.
Born in 1951, Bao Xishun is a native of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, and his palms are particularly large, with 38 centimeters and 12 centimeters wide. He made twice as much fabric as the average person every time he made a dress. It is understood that his height is 2.36 cm. Weighing 165 kilograms, his wife is Xia Shujuan, who was happy to have a son at the age of 57. In 2005, he was awarded the "Guinness World Records Certificate" by the Guinness World Records Headquarters.
After reading the above profile, do you think he should inherit the genes of his parents? In fact, his parents' height is within the average height range like other northerners. In 1951, Bao Xishun was born in a rural family in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, and when he was born, his physical condition was no different from that of ordinary children, and Bao Xishun also lived a carefree childhood life in his hometown. When Bao Xishun was about to go to elementary school, because the conditions at home were very poor, he could only go home silently to farm.
In that era of relative material scarcity, Bao Xishun could neither read nor write, so he felt that he might be like his parents who would guard his acres and three-quarters of land for the rest of his life. Until the age of 15, his life and body slowly underwent some changes. Originally, he could eat one bowl of rice at a time, but with the changes in his body, he could eat four or five bowls of rice at a time, and his body also rose like bamboo. When he was almost an adult, he had grown about the same height as Yao Ming now, and this was the first time he had begun to worry about his height.
With the passage of time, Bao Xishun had to eat about a pound of rice for a meal, and his shoes and clothes had twice as much fabric as the average person, which was aggravated by the cost of the family that was not rich.
In that era, people were accustomed to accepting common things, and there was often rejection of special things. Therefore, Bao Xishun's big man has become the talk of the villagers after dinner, and has also become the object of ridicule of his peers. Slowly, Bao Xishun chose to go out far away from the land of right and wrong to work and earn money to reduce the burden on the family. In that era, Bao Xishun, who had no culture, could only choose to move bricks, build houses, resist big bags, and so on. In this case, his height advantage is maximized, when he moves bricks to build a house, he can put tools and bricks directly on the floor slab, and when carrying a large bag, he can carry the amount of others several times.
However, with the perennial part-time work, coupled with the fact that he often ate and slept badly in the construction site, Bao Xishun suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis when he was 20 years old, and the terrible thing was that once he encountered bad weather, he could not even do a good job. In this case, his parents wanted to take all the family's savings to take him to Shenyang for treatment, but at that time, the family could not come up with too much money, and his father killed a sheep to sell with his teeth, and then took Bao Xishun with a few hundred yuan to catch a car to Shenyang.
Walking on the streets of Shenyang, such a height makes the return rate very high, in the crowd of onlookers there is a basketball coach of the Shenyang Military Sports Compound, seeing Bao Xishun's height conditions, the coach intends to let him join the army to play basketball, serve the country, and also promised to treat him. At that time, joining the army was the heroic dream of every boy, not only to manage food, housing, and treatment, but also to help realize the dream of arranging employment, such a beautiful difference with a lantern can not be found, Bao Xishun did not hesitate too much, with pride and ambition he entered the army. When he joined the army in Shenyang, he was very happy, not only able to eat enough, but also had a place to live. So he became a basketball player.
For this opportunity he cherished very much, training hard and seriously, standing under the rebound is like a moving great wall, with the continuous growth of height, and then do not jump, you can block all the attacks. However, because his condition has not been cured, he is very passive during training. During this period, he was very homesick, so he left Shenyang two years later and returned to his home.
After Bao Xishun returned home, he continued to farm on the grassland, and when he reached the age of marriage, the family began to introduce him to the object, and due to his height problem, several blind dates ended in failure. Slowly he was afraid to come into contact with the outside world. Originally more introverted, he became more inferior.
The world is unpredictable, there is no absolute smooth sailing, only if you have a heart to face difficulties, can you make your life more exciting. And is Bao Xishun facing his own acre and three points of land alone, or is he successful in counterattacking? I kept looking down...
It was not until September 2004 that a xinxing private entrepreneur finally invited Xishun to make a promotional welcome to the hot pot restaurant through repeated invitations. So he began to pay attention to the outside world, and he began to realize that his height might bring him economic benefits and ease his family. Xishun insisted for ten days, the hotel's promotion also ended, and Xishun, who was sent home, thought about it for a long time, so he called Xin Xing to ask if there was any work. In October 2004, Xin Xing used the last special car to pick up Xishun again. He rented him a house in Chifeng City and made him an ambassador for the company. Since then, Xishun has become a special scenic spot in Chifeng City.
Before that, Bao Xishun especially did not like to interview himself, because he felt that after they finished the interview, they could not help themselves. This time, after Bao Xishun agreed to the continuous reporting of Tang Jun, a reporter of the Northern New Daily, not only made Xishun famous, but also planned a series of activities to solve the economic pressure brought to him by life.
In October 2004, Inner Mongolia's Northern News held a "Happy Capital Tour" for Xishun. Let Xishun come to Hohhot to visit, and let him do a comprehensive physical examination at the First Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medicine. Through examination, it was found that Bao Xishun did not have a pituitary tumor in his brain like he had gigantism. He belongs to natural growth, which is great news for him. At this time, Tang Jun, a reporter from the Northern New Daily, saw a good time to rise to fame. At that time, not everyone knew about the Guinness Book of Records in the world, and not everyone won the award. So at the suggestion of Tang Jun, Xishun declared the Guinness World Record for the world's tallest person in natural growth.
After the declaration, in December of the same year, he took the initiative to propose to the reporter of the Inner Mongolia "Hongshan Evening News" that he wanted to go to his second hometown of Shenyang to see, so the "Hongshan Evening News" and the "Liaoning Evening News" fulfilled his wish. After 33 years, he returned to Shenyang to see the Belt and Road Initiative. I miss the coaches and comrades who worked hard. After the interview, under the notice of the Guinness World Records staff, Bao Xishun came to London, England, to undergo a full body examination from the Guinness Headquarters, confirmed by modern medical technology, Bao Xishun belongs to natural growth, with a height of 2.36 meters, at 11 o'clock on July 21, 2005, he took the Guinness World Headquarters issued to him "Guinness World Record Certificate for the First Person of Natural Growth in the World" Bao Xishun smoothly won the honor of the world's first natural growth.
"I know that there are people in this world waiting for me, but I don't know who I am waiting for", just in 2007, a miracle occurred, and Bao Xishun's peach blossom luck also came instantly. The uncle, who has been single for 56 years, finally met his own Snow White. He was introduced to Xia Shujuan, who was only 168 meters tall. The two had known each other for about a month and got engaged on March 26, 2007. And officially married on July 12 of the same year.
In fact, at the beginning, the two people did not have any intersection, Xia Shujuan was born in 1979, 28 years younger than Bao Xishun. Moreover, Xia Shujuan's family itself is an ordinary farmer. But it did not affect the married life of two people, he himself once said that two people married not because of differences in height or family background and other issues, but because two people together did not consider so many problems. And in the month after marriage, life is very harmonious and not different from ordinary people.
In 2008, the couple insisted on having a baby despite the doctor's persuasion, and on October 2, Bao Xishun's wife, Xia Shujuan, gave birth to a 4.2-kilogram baby boy by caesarean section. When they gave birth to this boy, people wondered if he would soar in height like Bao Xishun. Would she be a normal height like her mother? However, when his son Bao Tianyou was born, he was eight pounds and four pounds, similar to other children, but after a few days of birth, he found that his child grew very fast, just like a two-month-old child in the full moon, and did not have to hold his head.
After more than a year of getting along, Xia Shujuan's mother saw her daughter so happy, and the whole family felt very relieved. Over time, in their eyes, Bao Xishun no longer looked strange. After that, Bao Xishun took his wife and children to live leisurely, and now he no longer has to worry about height. In an interview, the reporter mentioned the mentor he met by chance, and Bao Xishun said with a firm face that he would always remember his mentor.
Everyone we meet is arranged, and everyone we meet is not a so-called nobleman, the so-called nobleman is actually an opportunity, just like the basketball coach That Bao Xishun met, the entrepreneur Xin Xing, the reporter Tang Jun's proposal... It's all opportunity. In fact, everyone is bitter first and then sweet, the world is not fair, only if you seize the opportunity you will get what you want.