Sun Xinsheng, male, Han nationality, 1964 was born in an ordinary cadre family in Daoxian County, Hunan Province in May. He is a writer, a hiker and a Go master. His representative works include Ten Years of Travel, Trackless Journey, etc.

Chinese name: Sun Xinsheng

Nationality: China.

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Date of birth: 1964

Occupation: writer, hiker

Masterpiece: Travel for ten years.

Character experience

From 1985, without any financial support, he began to roam around the country, travel around the world alone, spend the best years of his life between mountains and rivers, and convey his fiercest feelings to the mysterious nature.

A walker with only junior high school education has traveled all over China on foot for 20 years.

A walker from youth to middle age presented us with a book "Ten Years' Travel" years ago. Today, ten years later, he gave us a beautiful book, A Trackless Journey.

1985 March 18, Daoxian County by Xiaoshui River. Sun Xinsheng walked so resolutely that day. "Work is to eat, and eating is to live, but what is living for?" This painful, nightmarish question haunted him closely. 2 1 Two months before his birthday, he took the first step of his long journey with a sense of confusion, perhaps to pursue the call from the distant horizon, and he walked for 20 years. He can't calculate how many kilometers he has traveled in the past 20 years, because he is not a geographer and writer with only junior high school education like Xu Xiake, and there is no professional investigation and record. He is not a professionally trained expedition member, nor does he have any original intention of setting a record, nor does he have a tool for measuring distance. In the past 20 years, he just looked like a professional cartographer. In his mind, he has carved a huge map of China: rivers and mountains, side roads, forest houses and ethnic dialects. This is a complete "three-dimensional satellite positioning map" with sound, light and electricity.

He casually and clearly listed the road map of his first trip:1spring of 985-1summer of 986, Daoxian-Guilin-Hengyang-Yueyang-Wuhan-Tianmen County-Shiyan City-Baihe County of Shaanxi -Xi 'an-Ling Jie Valley-Sanmenxia of Henan-Anhui of Jiangsu-Chaohu-Anqing-Jiujiang-Nanchang. In the past 20 years, there have been nearly 20 such round trips. The longest one lasted more than a year, and the least one was on the road for more than two months a year.

At that time, there were only a few simple changes of clothes and 120 yuan's personal belongings in the luggage of this 2 1 year-old young man, that is, several pamphlets: Atlas of China, Mao Zedong's Analysis of Various Social Classes in China, and Investigation Report of Hunan Peasant Movement. He said he just wanted to see how to write it. Every time he goes to a county, Sun Xinsheng will go to the County Records Office and the Literature and History Committee to find the county records, mainly because he wants to look at the local map and get to know the folk customs. Some places will give him a book such as county annals. After he finished reading, he went to the next place to give these extra books to the newcomers in order to reduce his luggage. His luggage will not exceed 10 kg.

The journey on foot, unbearable loneliness, cold and hunger, and the despair that we often face are nothing in retrospect. The biggest pain is the burden of the mind. Family and friends don't understand, and the world regards his behavior as a mental disorder.

It was not until 1989 that he made clear his goal: 16 to visit every county in China!

1990 After the Spring Festival, his fifth trip to Wuling Mountain in Hunan, Chongqing, Hubei and Guizhou greatly shocked his mind. Along the way, the people are warm and sincere. They live below the poverty line, but they can't solve some practical problems for them, and their hearts are extremely painful. After returning to China, Sun Xinsheng lived for more than a month. He wrote an investigation report, and he wanted to report what he knew to the relevant departments in Beijing. At this time, he especially wanted to visit Beijing.

Writers and friends in Beijing once destroyed his faith.

199 1 Around May, Sun Xinsheng came to Beijing for the first time and made several very important friends here. Since then, he has regarded Beijing as his transit point and rest place.

A friend introduced him to an old man of "China Future Research Association". The old man read his investigation report, first praised his behavior and courage, and then said: modern society is a high-tech era, and your speed is too slow. You know, the central government has long known. However, I can send you a membership card to facilitate your future travel. Later, he also got special investigator certificates from several other investigation agencies. As a man without identity, he suddenly had many identities.

He also met Ceng Zhe, a writer friend of Chongwen District Cultural Center. After listening to his imagination of traveling all over the country, Ceng Zhe said excitedly: You are so naive and stupid! You just want to prove a point. Where have you been? Aren't you bored? Why not pay attention to the true feelings and profound feelings in the process of traveling? Ceng Zhe's words, he is very contradictory. He felt very sad and felt that his faith had been destroyed.

Sun Xinsheng lived in Beijing for more than a month. He got a job copying envelopes, copied 50 cents and earned several hundred yuan. The cultural company is near Peking University, and he met some teachers and students of Peking University. At this time, he met Li who came to Beijing from Inner Mongolia to look for a job. Li invited him to live with him and recommended two books to him: The Art of Life by Lin Yutang and Confessions by Rousseau. He read it in one breath, and the attitude and thinking in the book deeply touched him. He felt that he would not only pay attention to the sufferings of people he met on the journey, but should pay attention to their kindness and truth, and should know himself first and then the society! The payment of more than 20 thousand yuan made him lose the feeling of walking for two years

1994, Sun Xinsheng went to Beijing from Inner Mongolia for half a year. While doing odd jobs, I wrote150,000 words. When he finished writing, he didn't know what the topic was. He contacted many publishing houses for publication, and he had to pay "risk money". At that time, he lived in a shack that was drafty on all sides. There is no TV or newspaper, only a transistor radio. Occasionally, he heard the "life hotline" broadcast by Beijing People's Broadcasting Station, so he went out and dialed the hotline, contacted the director and invited him to be a guest at the hotline for one week, one yuan per minute and one hour per night. That week, the hotline called by the audience was very hot, and the topic became more and more in-depth, which caused two different views of the audience to argue, some of which were extreme. Every night 1 1 the program ends, and he is greeted by relevant parties. Several taxis are parked at the gate of the radio station, and strangers are waiting for him to take him back to his residence. The last time I did the program, I felt particularly warm and heard many words of blessing and encouragement from the audience. The next day after the program, the radio station rented a venue in the Beijing Planetarium and arranged for him to meet the audience. It was cold that day. He was recognized as soon as he got off the bus. There are more than 100 people gathered around, and there are already hundreds of people in the venue. It is said that there are people from Hohhot and Hebei.

Main work

Ten years of travel marks

Sun Xinsheng's first book, Ten Years of Travel, was finally published by Changchun Publishing House 1997. He didn't know the book until several months after it came out, because he had been walking around. 38,000 copies of the 65,438+10,000-word book were printed, and the manuscript fee was more than 20,000 yuan. After that, he no longer worried about travel expenses. Shanxi, Shaanxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan and western Henan all used this payment to complete their trips. However, this considerable manuscript fee also made him lose the feeling of walking for two years. He feels that only in a humble small restaurant can he have unexpected acquaintances and unexpected experiences; Only by trying to find a place to eat and sleep can we have unexpected gains.

Wandering love

Sun Xinsheng told reporters bluntly that others said that he was a person with no sense of security and responsibility. And he always thought that he would not stop for love until he finished hiking around the field. Although, in his 20-year lonely journey, he also encountered romantic and short-lived love.

That was when he first arrived at the tea cave in the border town of Xiangxi. He is watching the local people fighting cocks by the river, and a girl around him is watching with great interest. The two men chatted naturally. Sun Xinsheng had a whim and generously invited the girl to a nearby restaurant for lunch. In fact, he only had 100 yuan in his bag at that time, and only a dozen yuan remained after paying the bill. He walked to Xiushan, and as soon as he stepped onto Chuanxiang Bridge, the girl caught up with him: Did you really walk to Xiushan? I'll take you! Sun Xinsheng looked at the boundary pillar on the bridge: 46 kilometers to Xiushan. Just persuade her to go back. She insisted on refusing, saying that her name was Xiuer. In this way, they walked into the darkness with one foot on the mountain roads in the three provinces. When I arrived at a township government, the staff on duty said that "you are lonely men and few women" and refused them accommodation. They walked on in the dark again. They couldn't walk any further, so they got into the cowshed of a family and wanted to sleep. But in less than half an hour, they couldn't stand the cold and had to get up and continue walking. I don't know how long it took, but when it was less than one kilometer from the county seat, my legs were numb and I really couldn't walk. I found a small hotel, spent a few dollars to open two rooms and fell asleep. When he woke up, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, so he could only invite her to eat porridge and steamed bread at night. On the third morning, they planned to break up. He put Xiuer on the return bus. She took out 30 yuan money from the window and handed it to him, waving reluctantly and saying, if you can remember me, come back and see me walk through the "most beautiful" Xinjiang, but I don't know where I should go.

By 2005, Xinjiang was the only inland province in China that did not leave his footprint. That piece of land, which accounts for one-sixth of China, and that piece of land that he thinks is the most beautiful in China, he put it last, and plans to travel around in two or three years. After five years of preparation, he also worked in a catering company in Tianjin for more than a year-the longest job in his life, accumulating more than 7,000 yuan. But even this would not be enough For the first time, I took the initiative to find two friends to provide sponsorship 1 10,000 yuan. In May, he started his dream-seeking journey in Xinjiang and walked for two months. He hasn't finished one-tenth of Xinjiang, and the money is gone.

When he walked out of Xinjiang and came to Liuku from Dulongshan, Yunnan, he suddenly felt that he was in the mainland when he saw buildings that were not too high compared with the mainland. A feeling of depression and loss invaded his whole body. He was shocked: after I left, I had nowhere to go! The map of China took root in his mind, and he finished the last holy land in his heart, but he didn't know where to go. He stayed in Liuku for one night, and then went to Dali and Kunming. He thought hard all the way: should he go back to his hometown, marry and have children, find a job and spend the rest of his life safely? He was afraid and contradictory, and returned to the confused state of running away from home for the first time 20 years ago. He painted this circle for 20 years and returned to the starting point from the end.

He wants to go back to the Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in southwest Guizhou where he has been many times. When he climbed numerous mountains, he found that it had been impacted by modern civilization. Suddenly he woke up: his trip should be over! At a ferry of Beipanjiang River at the junction of Guizhou and Guangxi, a small railway station, only one train stayed for a few minutes, and he got on the train. When I arrived in Nanning, I called home. The 80-year-old father said: Your mother is paralyzed. Go home and have a look!

He imagined his future: building a small farm.

Sun Xinsheng, who originally planned to write in Dayaoshan, finally went home. At home, his heart is full of desire to talk. In a fit of pique, he kept crawling in Fang Gezi for two months and wrote more than 300,000 words.

When the reporter asked him, did he feel homesick after traveling for 20 years? Do you have any plans to get married in the future? He said, at first. 1985, when he walked to Ankang, Shaanxi, and crossed the Qinling Mountains, the sun was very bright at noon. He was dizzy and suddenly homesick. He thought of his mother. I wonder if they are thinking about themselves. Tears came out.

It has been two years since he returned to his hometown, and he hasn't gone outside to look for a job. The "Go Craft", which used to make friends on the road to make a living, has now become his main business. Because of Wang Yuan's affirmation and guidance, as well as articles published in Weiqi Tiandi magazine, it is not a problem to eat by it. He received the secret of four or five students teaching Go.

He also has a plan for the future: in three to five years, he will travel to every minority area.

He imagines his future breeze and bright moon: he wants to buy one or two hundred acres of land in a remote mountainous area, run a small farm, cultivate and breed, be self-sufficient, read and write; Of course, I have to marry a congenial lady. Friends came from afar, holding their own brewed wine, offering fresh vegetables and fruits in the field, playing the piano and drawing.

Hiking route

1.1985 March 18, starting from Daoxian, passing through Guilin, Yueyang, Wuhan, Tianmen, xiangyang and Shiyan, entering Shaanxi Baihe, crossing Zhong Nanshan, reaching Xi 'an, entering Henan, crossing Jiangsu and Anhui, crossing the Yangtze River from Anqing to Jiujiang, Jiangxi, and passing through Nanchang, Ji 'an and Jinggangshan. The trip lasted one year and five months and was declared a failure.

2.1In the early summer of 1987, he set out from Daoxian, passed through Huaihua, went to Sichuan, was detained in Chengdu 10, and was brought back by Daoxian police. The journey lasted for 3 months and he died.

3. 1988, set out from Daoxian, went to Chenzhou and Lianzhou, and entered the hinterland of Nanling Mountains, covering Guangdong, Guangxi and Guizhou.

4. 1989, Daoxian set out to find the last pass of Yinyang Gate, and traveled in Dayaoshan, Guangxi for four months, during which it was full of dangers.

5. 1990 Spring, set out from Daoxian County, passed through Xiangxi Border Town, walked through Wuling Mountain for half a year, passed through Chuankang, entered Chishui and Zunyi in Guizhou, and arrived at Miaoling. The trip took more than a year.

6. In the summer of1991,I was traveling in the triangle of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, and I came across a "paradise" by accident.

7. 1992 Travel all over the Northeast.

From 8. 1993 to 1994, he traveled all over Inner Mongolia.

9.1In the early summer of 995, he first went to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, passed through the source of the Yellow River and Bayan Kara, and entered Tibet from Nangqian to the western Yunnan Plateau. The journey is nine months.

10. 1996, worked in Beijing for half a year, copying envelopes for people.

1 1. 1997, Shanxi Tourism. Ten Years of Travel was published.

12. 1998 Visit the Pearl River Basin at the beginning of the year and revisit Dayao Mountain at the end of the year.

13. 1999, traveled to parts of Hainan, Ningxia and Gansu.

14.2000, worked in a restaurant in Tianjin for one year and three months.

15.205438+0 years, he visited 60,000 mountains and 90,000 mountains in Guangxi and the border between China and Vietnam.

16.2002, visited western Henan and Jiaozhou Peninsula.

17. In 2003, I went back to my hometown Dao County and opened a Go Pavilion to teach children to play Go.

18.2004, walked along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang for more than two months, and then went to Beijing to prepare for a trip to Xinjiang.

19. In May, 2005, I went to Xinjiang for the first time. I traveled for more than three months, and my footprint was less than one tenth of that of Xinjiang. After that, he entered Tibet by the Xinzang Highway, passed through northern Tibet and Nyainqentanglha Mountain, and made another pilgrimage to Meili Snow Mountain.

20. The next trip is planned to start in the spring of 2008 and will take three to five years to visit various ethnic minority areas in China.

A trackless journey

Sun Xinsheng's second book, Journey of Trackless Travel, was published by Hunan Publishing House in 2007.

This book is the essence of his roaming experience for more than 20 years, and it is displayed as clear water with beautiful words and beautiful pictures.

Many of the incredible wonders and folk customs you have never seen are in commercial civilization.

It has disappeared under the impact and only exists in this book. However, this book is more about the author.

The purification process of thought is deeply concerned about the living conditions of the people at the bottom and how man and nature can live in harmony.

I am deeply impressed. Think behind closed doors, what you get is far beyond what is included in the travel notes and independent of the travel notes.

Things.