"The craziest person in the world" Xie Jianguang: Pulling the "RV" for 35 years and traveling 300,000 kilometers. What happened afterwards?

This sentence speaks for many young people. Although I live in the city, I yearn for nature and freedom. I want to see the world and pursue a king of Thailand.

But yearning is not equal to doing. Nowadays, many young people are trapped by daily necessities, so traveling is just their desire to escape from life.

Compared with these people, Xie Jianguang seems a lot crazy. He dares to go out of his comfort zone and pursue the freedom he wants. In 35 years, Xie Jianguang walked more than 300,000 kilometers. No one accompanied him along the way, only an "RV" was pulled by him. He also changed from a young man to an old man.

Hope to continue, dream to continue.

Many people regard travel as a dream because life has bound our hands and feet and because we can't let go of the status quo. But Xie Jianguang is different. In his view, people should not stick to one place. Life should not be tied to the road ahead. If you want to do it, you must be willing to give up and know how to give up.

As Xie Jianguang wrote in the book Crazy World, I come from heaven and live in the wilderness. Keep company with the sea, eat grass and stones.

A seemingly simple sentence is full of his yearning for freedom. Therefore, he took travel as the pursuit of life, traveled all over the country on foot, and felt the warmth and natural scenery of the world.

Many people ask Xie Jianguang if he has a good family and doesn't need to worry about food and clothing. Actually, it is not. Xie Jianguang's family background is too simple. Parents are only farmers with their backs on the loess, and one year's labor can only get food and clothing for their families.

However, freedom is not trapped by family. When he was very young, Xie Jianguang had a dream of traveling in his heart. He knows well the hardships of his family and parents, so this dream seems to be asleep, hidden in his heart by Xie Jianguang, afraid to touch it, and it is not far away.

But with the growth of age, this dream also breeds in my heart. He always imagines the outside world in the dead of night, imagining that he can stand between mountains and rivers and pass by tall buildings. Imagine yourself as a traveler and see the world.

So at the age of 24, I left home in a flatbed regardless of my parents' opposition. This move seems heartless, and some ignore parents' feelings. But he started his own life. Start going your own way.

Perhaps, this is his choice of dreams! Although, such behavior seems too extreme, even a little crazy. But only he knows that this is against life. He doesn't want to live an ordinary life. He wants his life to be almost wonderful.

Making money to make a living, the pace has not stopped.

People's definition of poor travel is generally to visit the most scenic spots with little money. And Xie Jianguang's poor travel is the ultimate. When he left home, he only had 150 yuan with him. Although it is about 1980, it is still a bit insignificant for tourism.

Of course, people can't be trapped by the status quo, in order to continue their travel career. Xie Jianguang found a way to make a living, that is, picking up junk. Although this job looks unremarkable and even a little unpleasant, it has made Xie Jianguang gain a lot.

From the early 1980s to the late 1990s, the state vigorously developed, built and rebuilt expressways. So there will be a lot of abandoned building materials, and these abandoned materials are priceless to Xie Jianguang. He collects these abandoned screws and nuts, and when he meets the waste toll station, he will sell them for money.

Later, when someone interviewed him, he talked about this memory. He said that he sold about 10 yuan of waste products a day, knowing that in the 1980s, the average person only spent tens of dollars a month. Therefore, before entering the new century, Xie Jianguang's income was still considerable.

But picking up waste is not a long-term solution, especially after the road is completed, it is rare to find screws and nuts. In order not to starve to death, but also to stay on the road, Xie Jianguang found a new way to make a living, that is to help others.

Over the years, his odd jobs include transplanting rice, harvesting rice, decorating, carpentry, painter and so on. These jobs are not a long-term solution. As long as the livelihood problem is solved, he will go back to the road.

The problem of money is solved, at least it can make people not hungry. But walking on foot will eventually encounter accidents, such as heavy rain and heavy snow. Such as car accidents, these things are beyond people's control. Along the way, Xie Jianguang also encountered these things.

On one occasion, Xie Jianguang came to the junction of Guangxi and Guangdong. I happened to meet a tricycle, probably because I was too hungry to dodge. The tricycle flew over and knocked Xie Jianguang down in the sugarcane field. You know, this is a big lump.

Xie Jianguang, who fell to the ground, also tried to get up, but the injury was serious and his whole body could not move. In order to survive, he also shouted loudly, but how could anyone pass by on the vast highway? Even if there is a car, you can't hear it when it whizzes by!

Maybe people in such a situation will have a desperate idea! The same was true of Xie Jianguang at that time. He thought that since he couldn't find anyone who could save him, he should stay like this. Just follow your destiny. And this stay is five whole days. Fortunately, he fell into the sugarcane field. In the days when there was no dry food, Xie Jianguang lived on sugar cane and survived the most difficult time in his life.

Anyway, the guest died in another country.

Perhaps the biggest gain of Xie Jianguang along the way is to make him a poet! As he wrote in RV: "Learn from nature and style, including the inflow of land. Outside, the Tao is the Tao. " This is his philosophy of life and his understanding of life.

On the way to hiking, he was accompanied by books, and often read a book repeatedly in the dead of night to repeatedly understand the ideas conveyed in the book. Besides reading books, he also tried to write books. A 60-million-word book, Crazy World, records his experiences along the way.

Unexpectedly, Xie Jianguang, who turned his life into a poem, finally died in his hometown. At that time, when he drove his "RV" to the Heihe border, he felt a little uncomfortable. During the break, I sent a circle of friends and said that I would rest in Heihe for a month.

Everyone who saw his circle of friends thought it was just acclimatization. Unexpectedly, I never got up after this rest. At that time, Xie Jianguang found his lower limbs swollen, weak and unable to breathe, so he called 120.

By the time 120 arrived, he was already struggling on the edge of life. In order to save his life, the hospital did its best, but in the end it didn't help. And Xie Jianguang also died in this rescue. 35 years of hiking career also ended at this moment.

Before leaving, the only thing that made Xie Jianguang feel sorry was that he didn't return to his roots and meet his elderly parents before leaving. Perhaps this is also the fate of Xie Jianguang. The heart is on the journey, and the final destination is on the journey.

Conclusion:

From Xie Jianguang, we can see his most precious thing, that is, his persistence in his dreams. 35 years, more than 300,000 kilometers of hardships, this is something that many people find difficult to adhere to. But Xie Jianguang never stopped along the way.

But is this persistence right? Maybe different people have different opinions! But at least for Xie Jianguang, he found his place and the meaning of life.