Do you still remember "the first person to hike in China"?
Survival memory
Speaking of The ancestors of travel friends may be traced back to Xu Xiake, Xuanzang, Faxian and even the founders of many religions, such as Buddha Sakyamuni in Buddhism, Mahavira in Jainism, Zoroaster in Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism in Christianity, etc. Jesus, they have traveled a long time, and they have seen all kinds of things in the world and gained enlightenment. As far as the past few decades are concerned, it is undisputed that he is the idol-level strong ass of the whole people! Yu Chunshun, who vowed to travel all over China, has passed away for 26 years now...
When I accidentally mentioned Yu Chunshun at the beginning of the year, writer Zhang Minxi said that what moved her most was that Zeng Shuliang, the owner of Ecolab Photography Studio, would be the owner of the store. Zhibao’s only Nikon camera was given to Yu Chunshun, which made her still respect Mr. Zeng many years later. Yu Chunshun and I met by chance on the road, and we didn’t even know each other. Afterwards, we saw the large portrait photos displayed in Ecolab’s window display. Confirm it's him.
It was midsummer that year, the sun was blazing, there was no wind, and the white National Highway 316 was deserted. I was waiting for a haircut on the street under the Bureau, and suddenly my eyes lit up. A bearded man in his forties, with a round waist and thick arms, and a dark face, was walking from the county town with a bag on his back. He walked steadily and strode like a star in the legend of Tang Dynasty. The "Kunlun Slave" whizzed by with the breath of the wilderness, and the orange and eye-catching "Hiking China" words on the waistcoat on the back were chatting with others while walking. I later found out that it was a local reporter who sent Yu Chunshun a message when he left Gutian. Cheng...
I don’t know whether it was the words on the vest that attracted me, or the man’s rugged temperament that shocked me. I couldn’t help but follow. After walking for more than ten or twenty meters, the strong man turned around and charged at me. I smiled, and then the other two people turned back. I was a little at a loss. Under the scorching sun, I looked stupidly at the fields next to me as if nothing had happened. I really couldn't think of any reason to follow a few strangers in such weather. So when they turned towards the Fengdu intersection, I quietly walked back. After a while, I saw two reporters in the barber shop walking back too. After the summer vacation, I returned to school, and the next summer I learned of his whereabouts. He was already lying in the hot sand sea of ??Lop Nur, his body facing the direction of his hometown of Shanghai, and he could never get up again...
This is my only impression of Yu Chunshun. At that time, he had just passed the eighth anniversary of his career as a single donkey, and the day he entered Gutian was the beginning of his ninth year. Who could have expected that he would fall short in less than a year! Regarding the details of Yu Chunshun's year, Mr. Lu Ruming, the editor-in-chief of "Gutian News" at the time, once wrote an article recalling:
On July 2, 1995, Yu Cunshun, who entered Fujian from Guangdong, went to Gutian from Fuzhou. Ten days ago, through a text message from the provincial capital media, I had just learned about Yu Chunshun's feat of determined to walk across the country alone after seven degrees of cold and heat. Now that the hero is here, I will not miss the opportunity to interview him.
Yu Chunshun said goodbye to Fuzhou on June 22 and headed north via Fujian and Qing Dynasties. After arriving in Gutian, he planned to leave Fujian via Nanping and Wuyi Mountain, and arrive in Suzhou around the winter solstice.
On July 2, the sun was blazing, and the air was so hot that spontaneous combustion might occur at any time. Yu Chunshun carried a bag embroidered with the words "Walking across China/Shanghai to Taiwan/1988 to 1995". On the 203 Provincial Road from Minqing to Gutian, sweat had already soaked his gray shirt and dark blue shirt without walking a mile. trousers.
The first thing is to go to the Post and Telecommunications Bureau (office) to get the postmark of "Gutian County Chengguan", which is the 1433rd in his thick 16-format postmark book; the second thing, as long as If possible, he would develop the films taken along the way and send the photos together with the travel diary to his father in Shanghai. As a result, he became friends with the owner and photographer of Gutian "Yikang Photo Studio".
Yu Chunshun took the first step of "traveling across the country" on July 1, 1988. He crossed the Yangtze River 11 times and the Yellow River 17 times, traveling through 23 provinces, municipalities and 32 minority inhabited areas. During this period, they went through untold hardships and endured countless life and death battles. The journey to Gutian has reached 39,952 kilometers. As a result, he wore out 56 pairs of shoes and developed more than 200 blood blisters. Most of the foreigners who met him in Tibet were amazed and puzzled by his actions. Some simply called him "the last classical martyr in China in the twentieth century."
People heard the news Many people came to see the brave man and learn about his legendary experience. Until July 11, the day Yu Chunshun left Gutian, after walking two kilometers, six or seven people came on motorcycles to give him money and ask him to sign a souvenir. When we broke up, Yu Chunshun told reporters with red eyes: "In the past seven years, I have never stayed in any county for as long as in Gutian. The encouragement given to me by the people of Gutian will become the motivation for me to move forward!"
I was 21 years old that year. I was tired of the sophistication of small towns and felt extremely depressed. It was that brief encounter that gave me an inexplicable longing for the distance. Many years later, I walked on the road and passed through many places in the southwest and northwest. In no man's land, I encountered wolves, heard the roar of tigers, went through hardships, and narrowly escaped death! What a great warrior! You are not alone on this road. In the infinite distance, countless people are related to you! Lei Diansheng, an up-and-comer who met Yu Chunshun on the road in his early years, finally walked out of Lop Nur 12 years and 31 days after Yu Chunshun's death, finally fulfilling Yu Chunshun's last wish, but I have been delayed again and again, and have not yet been able to fulfill my wish. Enter Lop Nur!
Yu Chunshun lost his way and died of the high temperature. He was too confident and refused the guide and GPS navigation. In the midsummer of the year before Lei Diansheng entered Lop Nur, I took two donkeys on foot through the Badain Jaran Desert. One of them also disliked the guide and was scolded by me. Even people who have lived in the desert for a long time will get lost. Human beings are too insignificant in front of nature! You can only follow its temper. It is not a conquest at all. It is a conquest. If you can save a life, it will be regarded as a mercy of God. Ever since I crossed the McMahon Line and came back alive sixteen years ago, I have nothing but deep respect for my life and this world without any disrespect!
About the author: Ouyang Jin is from Gutian, Fujian. A senior media person and freelance scholar, he has focused on the study of global politics and religious ideologies for the past two decades. He once traveled to the Southwest, Northwest, Central Asia, South Asia, and West Asia for more than ten years. In recent years, he has focused on sociology and folklore fieldwork in the mountainous areas of northeastern Fujian, and initiated folk cultural and creative activities of "local people tell local stories in local dialects". He has completed a series of more than one million words "China by the Min River" and is about to publish it. Translated into foreign languages ??and published on the global Amazon platform.