01, "poor" then alone
Young Zhang Chengliang, is a "traveler", he traveled to more than 20 countries, not only that, he has been to Antarctica to explore, to the North Pole swim ice swimming.
In the eyes of his friends, he was a madman who could ignore everything for the sake of traveling and exploring.
In fact, he did it to fulfill the regrets of his father's life.
When he was very young, his father died, and he didn't even get to see the outside world.
After his father's departure, his family was plunged into a very poor situation, and he could only work hard in order to make a living. Because of this, Zhang Chengliang owned his own company in his 30s and entered the ranks of successful people, realizing financial freedom early.
At that time he was still a willful "big brother" who wanted to go wherever he wanted to go and immediately bought a plane ticket, and aspired to see all the unknown scenery in the world.
Playing a circle down, he felt that he went out to play alone is not much fun, so immediately bought a caravan with their elderly mother traveling around the world.
With nearly 10 years of time, the Chinese land ran all over, which is not addictive, but also to bring their mothers to play abroad, this circle down is more than 20 countries.
At that time, he had no intention of helping others, but just wanted to take care of his own family.
People who can walk 10,000 miles are mostly open-minded, with a sea in their hearts and a river in their eyes.
02, "da" is to help the world
From a person traveling around the world, traveled the world to begin to help others, Zhang Chengliang encountered what a sudden change of heart?
On one occasion, when he was traveling to Cambodia, he saw a group of little girls under the age of 10 selling postcards and local specialties on the roadside.
Almost every one of them was pitifully thin, poorly clothed and poorly fed. But they have to keep on selling their specialties, which may be able to sustain a family's life on their own.
Zhang Chengliang bought all of their stuff because he was hurt.
When he went back to sort out his purchases, he saw a postcard that said, "It doesn't matter if you lose this postcard, but please don't forget those who need your help.
Seeing this passage, I thought of the group of people, a sore nose, heart very touched, from that moment on, Zhang Chengliang determined to do something.
After returning, he began to pay attention to this information.
One day, Zhang Chengliang couldn't sit still after seeing a newspaper report about children in poor mountainous areas of Guizhou.
He immediately called the newspaper, and when he learned about the situation, he bought a lot of stationery and daily necessities with his own money, filling up a whole caravan. Zhang Chengliang came, one person and a car, upside down all the way, finally arrived.
After actually arriving at the mountainous elementary school, the scene in front of me was even more heartbreaking than in the newspapers. The low and dilapidated classrooms, a very small blackboard, and even several children sharing a textbook, see here, he was very heartbroken, and at the same time there is a little bit of self-criticism.
After talking to the local authorities, he gave the children textbooks and stationery that were in short supply, as well as gifts to share with them about the outside world. He also told them to study hard and that he would try his best to help them with other difficulties.
Since then, he has come every year.
In 2013, he learned on the Internet that Somali refugees were suffering, so he had the idea of volunteering there. When he went home to communicate, his family disagreed, but he went anyway.
He went to the Somali Embassy in Beijing to ask for a visa release, and the embassy staff were incredulous.
Said his behavior is tantamount to death, advised him not to do so, but also gave him to play a video, the picture of Somalia is a ragged scene, the degree of blood is tantamount to hell on earth.
What they didn't realize, however, was that it strengthened his resolve to go to support them.
To be responsible for his family, he went to an insurance company to buy a policy, but the domestic insurance companies refused to cover him. He signed a life-and-death contract, stating that he had volunteered for the trip and that life and death had nothing to do with anyone else.
With a medical oxygen machine and 2,000 boxes of antibiotics he bought at his own expense, he left for Somalia.
Just after arriving in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, his heart clenched. Looking at the dilapidated scene, he said, "I don't think this can be considered living anymore, it can only be described as living."
Donated medical equipment and medicines to local hospitals, visited the wounded in the wards and sent them comfort across the border.
Despite walking through rubble and gunfire every day, he insisted on completing his aid mission, becoming one of the few caring warriors around the world who traveled to Somalia in his personal name to do good.
The presence of Chinese people in the Somali refugee camps caused a sensation around the world, and many foreign media interviewed him:
"Why would a Chinese go to such a faraway and dangerous place?" He always replied, "Because love is the ****common language of this world."
This overseas rescue, Zhang Chengliang is considered to have recovered a life, in fact, the heart is also some fear, after all, he still has a family to take care of, have to be responsible for the family.
In fact, he himself also felt that the good deeds do not have to be dramatic, ordinary is also true, in the suggestion of relatives, Zhang Chengliang decided to change the way to continue his charitable road.
Shortly afterward, Zhang Chengliang opened the first Chengliang micro public welfare noodle shop at No. 209 South Jianguo Road in Hangzhou. On the glass at the front of the store is a message that says: "When you are in trouble, you can have a bowl of steaming noodles for free at Chengliang Noodle Shop.
In the beginning, because people are not familiar with him, many people passing by see can not help but spit out a "show", and the beginning of the gimmick that people thought, I did not expect to open is five years.
The face of ordinary diners, the slogan of the noodle shop is "you eat a bowl of noodles, I donate a dollar", he said, "a person can not change the world, but perhaps a cup of water, a bowl of noodles, but also can let the warmth in the strangers to pass".
And for cleaners and homeless people, they are free.
When the night fades in the early morning, when the night falls, countless cleaners come to Chengliang Noodle House, which is a flush orange color, and the cleaners are enjoying the warmth brought to them by the noodles with squash and shredded pork.
In summer, passers-by can drink a cup of free tea here to quench their thirst, and on sudden rainy days, careless people can receive a recycled umbrella at the noodle shop. Not only that, but he also put 500 pumps at major intersections in Hangzhou to make it easy for cyclists to access them at any time.
In fact, as early as Jianguo North Road store just opened that will, Zhang Chengliang took the initiative to find the lower part of the city Jianbei sanitation director Fang Ping.
Zhang Chengliang said: "Sanitation workers are very hard, up early in the morning and late at night, cold and hot, Hangzhou's good environment is that they are a broom a broom to sweep out, I especially want to do something for them".
"At that time, he asked me how the sanitation workers' breakfast is solved." Fang Ping told Zhang Chengliang that because the workers could not afford to spend money on breakfast outside, they ate a bubble rice for breakfast. He said on the spot, "Sanitation workers are welcome to come to his noodle shop for free noodles."
Fang Ping remembers, the beginning of the sanitation workers ate a few times, they are embarrassed to go, said Zhang boss is too polite, the whole of their strange embarrassed, people do business, do not pay even if, but also delayed people's business.
Zhang Chengliang saw few cleaners at the meal time, so he called Fang Ping and asked her what was going on.
After realizing the situation, Zhang Chengliang went to the street and explained to the cleaners, "Don't be embarrassed, you can come to eat every day. You're working very hard." He also pulled them one by one to the store, and the workers couldn't resist, their eyes filled with tears of gratitude, at this moment, they felt love and respect.
03, the crowd picks up the flame
In the past few years, Zhang Chengliang's noodle shop also opened from South Jianguo Road to North Jianguo Road in Hangzhou.
In 2015, he was invited to participate in the second World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, sharing his public welfare story in the forum of "Gathering Positive Energy and Spreading Good Power", and spreading positive energy on the Internet as a public welfare messenger.
Initiated a discussion on how to combine philanthropy and the Internet. The recording site, a group of Internet gurus for the micro public welfare noodle shop how to do bigger and stronger advice to help noodle shop "on the headlines".
After going back, Zhang Chengliang began to plan this matter.
By the end of the year, Zhang Chengliang launched two noodle shop equity crowdfunding, ceded 70% of the shares, so that the noodle shop shareholders also reached 260 people, they come from all walks of life, and even foreign caring people.
Through the equity subscription, more people were attracted to participate in the public welfare cause, which Zhang Chengliang himself said was a living lesson.
On December 7, 2016, Zhang Chengliang suddenly in his "Hangzhou Chengliang micro public welfare theme noodle shop" public number released an article "net red" small Ma Yun "will open on the 16th of this month will start a trip to Hangzhou, the invitation to come to the actual ......".
The article mentioned that the father and son of "Little Ma Yun" will be invited to Hangzhou on Dec. 16 to see the West Lake and visit Jack Ma's company, Alibaba, with which he has a face, in the hope of meeting Mr. Ma in person.
At the end of the article, Zhang Chengliang was collecting donations for Fan Xiaoqin, also known as "Little Ma Yun," but the Alipay account and bank account announced were Zhang Chengliang's own.
After this story was exposed, there were many opinions and many people criticized Zhang Chengliang, and although the article was quickly deleted, it still caused a great deal of controversy on the Internet.
Some people said that he brought the "little Ma Yun" to find Ma Yun just for the sake of eyeballs, and even Cao Lin, a famous commentator, also said that he was too much hype, and that the incident was a kind of moral abduction of Ma Yun.
In the face of skepticism, Zhang Chengliang responded: " I think it's normal, sometimes people stand and talk, questioning people I think basically certainly will not go to do these things." Also said he began to do public welfare in 95, so far more than 20 years have passed, there are a lot of skepticism, said he would not care about these.
Zhang Chengliang said, "We just want to 'high-profile' do public welfare! Charity needs to go to spread, love can only be passed on. Make good use of the Internet to do public welfare, more efficient."
By the summer of 17 years, the noodle shop also began a new love action, from July 10 to September 10, in the hottest time in Hangzhou City, the noodle shop every day to the sanitation workers, construction workers and other laborers to send 500 bowls of green bean soup.
He said, "This project originally we budgeted for 65,000 yuan of funding, and thanks to the active participation of shareholders, the funding was raised to more than 70,000 yuan at once."
Zhang Chengliang said more than 300 bowls of mung bean soup are delivered to the streets by them every day, and a large number of people were mobilized through the Internet to participate in delivering the soup.
This is completely different from when they first started making love noodles, when a few people got up early and stayed busy. "We used to work alone, but now it's a group of people 'playing' together, and it's really fun."
According to incomplete statistics, he sent out more than 50,000 bowls of noodles for free. "Last year was 10,577 bowls, this year began 36 days, is 11,294 bowls," Zhang Chengliang took the volunteers record "noodle list", seriously counting.
It is obvious that the efficiency of the noodle shop is different from that of the previous one.
The profits from the noodle shop have been used to subsidize nearly 175 poor primary and secondary school students in Quzhou and Lishui.
A bowl of noodles warms the stomach and heart, and drives many people to participate in public welfare activities.
Song Yueh-Lan, secretary of the Party Committee of Yao Yuan Temple Lane Community in Hangzhou, said, "In the past, we thought that those who do public welfare should be big enterprises and organizations, but Zhang Chengliang has told us with his practical actions that as long as you are willing to do public welfare, everyone can do public welfare, and they are all able to bring warmth to the people around them."
At noon on December 19, 2018, someone passed by and found the door of the noodle shop locked, with the words "internal reorganization, suspension of business" pasted in black and white on the glass door.
It turned out that at 4:07 pm the day before, a message broke the store's former bustle, in the "Chengliang micro public welfare noodle shop volunteer group" in the "due to medical treatment, Zhang Chengliang passed away on December 16th," the news made everyone shocked, no one wants to believe that this is true.
At the same time, there was also an obituary, which read: In order to comply with my father's wishes, I will not disturb my family, friends and all the neighbors, I will not set up a funeral hall, I will not accept wreaths, and I will keep everything simple. The low-profile Zhang Chengliang, actually did not disclose the news of his own illness.
Despite this, all the volunteers who heard the news ran to see him off on this day.
Zhang Chengliang is just an ordinary man, and even his wish is very ordinary: "This noodle shop will continue to open".
In the last days of his life, he just hoped that the disadvantaged could have a bowl of steaming noodles with shredded meat.
He's gone, but his noodle shop will stay open, for sure.