Crazy Xie Jianguang has been traveling around China with a hand-pulled trolley for 35 years. How is his life?

Nowadays, the living standards of our people have been greatly improved, so during some holidays, some families will choose to travel. Some people think that tourism should be spent to enjoy it, but some people think that tourism is You don’t necessarily need to spend a lot of money. You can travel with a small amount of money. The most important thing is to enjoy the process of traveling. So a new type of travel has emerged, which is budget travel.

Today the author tells you the story of someone who spent his whole life traveling on a budget.

Xie Jianguang was born in an ordinary working-class family in Ningbo, Zhejiang in 1959. He liked reading very much since he was a child. However, due to poor family conditions, he never had the opportunity to enter university.

In fact, Xie Jianguang only went to school until the fifth grade and then dropped out. Like other peers, after dropping out of school, Xie Jianguang had to go out to work to support his family.

Xie Jianguang’s parents do not expect their son to do anything earth-shattering. They only hope that he can marry a daughter-in-law, start a family, and live a stable life. However, because the family is relatively poor, Xie Jianguang’s blind date He has never succeeded, and Xie Jianguang feels extremely bored with the same boring life.

So starting in 1983, he built a small RV made of wood and started his hiking. In fact, the workmanship of his RV is relatively rough. It is just a "small wooden cabinet" that can protect it from wind and rain and can be moved.

But although the sparrow is small, it is well-equipped. This small RV has all the necessities including daily necessities, such as books, maps, and even pots and pans. Although it is extremely difficult to even turn over while sleeping in it, Xie Jianguang is still very satisfied with this RV.

When Xie Jianguang’s RV was built, his parents thought that Xie Jianguang was going to use the RV to start a business, so they expressed their approval of Xie Jianguang’s travel. So one day in 1983, Xie Jianguang took his parents’ He started his traveling life with prepared clothes and 50 yuan.

Of course, 50 yuan is not enough for Xie Jianguang to survive. In order to survive, he travels while scavenging. Sometimes he has to suffer from cold and hunger. He can only go to the door of the hotel to pick up some leftovers to fill his stomach. Although material conditions were relatively scarce, he never stopped drawing nutrients from books to enrich his spiritual world. So during the trip, Xie Jianguang sometimes rested and read in the RV, and sometimes took out a notebook to record everything he had during the day's trip. See and hear.

In this way, Xie Jianguang traveled more than half of China. From the time he started traveling at the age of 25 to his death at the age of 59, he traveled more than 300,000 kilometers. In fact, when Xie Jianguang was interviewed by the media at the age of 50, he said that he had no plans to end his travels and wanted to stop traveling until he was 65.

During the trip, Xie Jianguang enjoyed most of the scenery across the country. At the same time, during the trip, he also published a book called "Crazy Traveling in the World", in which he recorded His travel career spanned more than 30 years. It is said that the name of this book comes from the fact that many people did not understand his lifestyle and even called him a madman, calling him "the most crazy person in the world". So Xie Jianguang described this "crazy person" ” has been applied to his newly published books.

With the increasing development of the Internet, his legendary life has been exposed on the Internet, and Xie Jianguang has become a household name. Whenever Xie Jianguang passes through an area while pushing a small RV, someone always takes it. Take a photo with him with the camera.

But destiny will eventually happen. In 2018, Xie Jianguang pushed his small RV to the Heilongjiang area. However, years of living in the open air had already made his body overwhelmed. When he arrived in Heihe, he had breathing problems. He suffered from symptoms such as difficulty and gastrointestinal bleeding, and his legs were even so swollen that he could not walk. Finally, he ended his legendary life in the northernmost land of the motherland.

When Xie Jianguang passed away, it was already his 35th year of hiking. During this period, his small house also destroyed 7 vehicles, 5 of which were owned by him. He built it himself, and the other two were donated to him by enthusiasts.

We don’t know whether Xie Jianguang regrets spending his life choosing hiking, but no matter what, everyone has different choices, but for Xie Jianguang, this life may have been very fulfilling. meaningful.