Xiake Ding: Playing Biological Records

Ding Jinshun is the founder of Apollo Performing Arts Company, a leading performing arts company in Nanjing, but more people know him as his "player".

He rides 18,000 kilometers on a recliner alone, becoming the first person to walk the coastlines of Vietnam and China; he is the top three collectors of ancient swords in the country; Shouzi fell in love at first sight, and now has more than 40 Shouzi, and has become the number one "Sketch" in China...

He rides a motorcycle, drives off-road in the desert, drives a RV to camp in the desert, builds a mansion for a reclining car, and sells the swords he bought from the auction. Give it to the museum... He is "Xia Ke Ding", he started semi-retirement at the age of forty, and his plaything has now become his most important identity label!

Riding a scooter: find yourself with 18,000 kilometers of road

"Long time in the city Life has lost its wildness and self, do we no longer have the courage to travel far after we are accustomed to a rich and comfortable life?" This is October 2012, ten years of the Bicycle Travel Network held in Yangshuo At the celebration, Ding Jinshun's acceptance speech. Bicycle Travel Network is the largest bicycle forum in China. At this celebration, Xiakeding won two awards: "Tallest Building in Ten Years" and "Outstanding Contribution Award".

In 2007, Ding Jinshun lost his way in life. After the Apollo Performing Arts Company, which he founded by himself, became a leader in the Nanjing industry, he lost his goal of struggle and started a life of intoxication, but he soon became bored. Ding Jinshun admired Xu Xiake since he was a child, and believed that the life of a family is the real life. When you grow up, in order to pursue career success, you can only put aside your childhood dreams. While being successful in business, the price to pay is a body that is about to collapse and a soul that is getting more and more tacky. This is not the life he wants.

Occasionally, Ding Jinshun clicked on a bicycle forum page. When he saw the travel notes of the riders who traveled by bicycle, he couldn't sit still: the riders who just graduated can ride their bicycles to Sichuan and Tibet. For a graduation trip, to find myself on the road, why can't I?

Just do what he says, Ding Jinshun entrusted his career to his subordinates and started his own travel plan. If you want to play, then play a difficult one, and the bicycle is too common, then use a more difficult recumbent bike that no one plays in China; the Sichuan-Tibet line is a vegetable market, then choose to cross the Eurasian continent, Nanjing - Xi'an - Paris.

In order not to leave a way out for himself, he learned from other riders to post on the bicycle travel website, using Xiakeding as the screen name, and broadcast live broadcasts of his travels, allowing his family, friends, and riders to come and watch . "When Weibo became popular, it was said on the Internet that the onlookers changed China. Whether the onlookers could change China was a question mark, but the onlookers really changed me." When Xiakeding recalled his riding experience, he was full of netizens. gratitude.

Riders should make full preparations and choose the best period for long-distance riding, but Xiakeding chose to travel in late autumn when his body was about to collapse. "The farther north you go, the colder it gets. I know it's no fun to go Eurasia, but tens of thousands of netizens are reading posts every day, and I have to make an explanation for them, so I changed the route from north by northwest to south by southwest, turned the car, and passed by Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Guangxi arrived in Vietnam, and then rode back to Nanjing along the coastline of Vietnam.

When I left Nanjing, it was still late autumn, and it was early summer when I returned to Nanjing. When I set off, Xiakeding's mid-life crisis intensified. ; When he returned home, he was already an "old man chatting with teenagers", and he fell in love with cycling. After a short rest in Nanjing, he rode a recumbent bike and set off again, from Nanjing to Shanghai, along the coastline all the way north. When he finally rode to the Yalu River, the journey on the stopwatch had exceeded 18,000 miles.

Xia Keding regarded this journey as the process of his own nirvana. Before that, his life was limited to his career. One acre of three-point field, after that, he jumped out of the well and won the whole world. After the trip, Bicycle Travel Network specially developed a recumbent version for him; He successfully held the first national reclining bike enthusiasts exchange meeting, which won the public's attention for reclining bikes; and he himself, while becoming a reclining bike player, has also become a reclining bike collector: whether it is a German reclining bike with fine and rigorous industrial design Hpvelotechnik (HP), or the Dutch OPTIMA, which is known for its speed, quick and light acceleration, or a Polish full-carbon reclining bike with only 10 in the world, the only one in Asia, and worth nearly RMB 200,000, as long as he sees it In the past few years, the number of bicycles and recumbents in the collection has reached 120.

Shouzi: The wiring person in the national motorcycle store

Xia Keding Another identity is the national "Yangtze River 750" "The first person in the collection.

You may be relatively unfamiliar with the "Yangtze River 750", but if you are a fan of World War II movies, mention the BMW R71 three-wheeled motorcycle with its roaring motor, and your blood will definitely boil. These three-wheeled motorcycles produced by BMW opened a precedent for the motorization of military aircraft in the world. The German army riding a BMW R71 was a nightmare for the Allies. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, a large number of BMW R71 were transported to the former Soviet Union. The Soviet Union developed its own three-wheeled motorcycle, the Soviet Ural, on the basis of the BMW R71. After liberation, 3,000 Soviet Urals were introduced into China, becoming the origin of Chinese military aircraft motorization. The Ural of the Soviet Union was dismantled and imitated, so the classic model "Yangtze River 750" was born. As soon as the "Yangtze River 750" was born, it had a pure BMW blood and was branded with the Soviet military industry.

The world's motorcycle manufacturing industry is changing with each passing day, and the pure BMW bloodline has gradually disappeared. Only in China, because it is relatively isolated from the world and the motorcycle industry is relatively static, the "Yangtze River 750" has hardly changed since its appearance, and the BMW gene has been preserved. In the 1980s, when Westerners came to China and saw the classic "BMW World War II motorcycles" running all over the streets, they seemed to have discovered a lost world. Since then, the "Yangtze River 750" has been exported to the West in large numbers, becoming a more fashionable collectible than Harley-Davidson.

At first, Xiakeding didn't care about "Changjiang 750", because "Changjiang 750" is what people often say, and he often saw it when he was a child. It wasn't until the 1990s that one day he saw an advertisement for the acquisition of "Yangtze River 750" at a motorcycle dealership. Only then did he realize that the shoulders that used to be all over the street had gradually disappeared - 1997 , "Yangtze River 750" is no longer produced.

The powerful "Yangtze River 750" gave the freedom-loving youth Xiakeding too many good memories. After learning about the historical status and embarrassing status of the "Yangtze River 750", Xiakeding started the "Yangtze River 750" 's collection.

At first, I waited for a rabbit in the second-hand market in Nanjing, but found that there were already foreigners there; then I searched the scrap market and found a locomotive that was treated as scrap, and immediately dragged it back and asked a professional technician to repair it; later, I saw it in the city. Before the figure of the scorpion, Xiake Ding rode a motorcycle to the countryside. As soon as he found a scorpion flashed by, he immediately stopped it. Others thought it would be better, but if they didn't plan to do so, he was mentioned in the price increase. I am willing to make a move; now, the trend of collecting slings is blowing from abroad to China, and the situation of "everything is easy to get, but hard to find" has forced Xiakeding, who loves slings like crazy, to arrange informants in various motorcycle dealers across the country. As long as there is any trace of the collapsed child in the local area, let him know that whether he can buy it or not, he will pay the informant a lot of money...

For more than ten years, Xiakeding traveled to all parts of the country and collected it. With more than 40 vehicles, it has become the collector with the largest variety and largest number of "Yangtze River 750" collections in the country.

Nowadays, Xiake Ding is planning one thing, that is, to organize a big party with all the "skulls" in China, and create a world record for the ride of the scorpion. As the player with the largest collection of sackboys in China, and as a dual moderator of the "Shouzi Alliance" and "Shouke Alliance", two major gathering places in China, Xiakeding believes in his influence in the circle.

Being a player: playing with true temperament

In the traditional Chinese concept, there is a saying that playthings lose their minds, but for Xiakeding, the opposite is true - playthings are life-giving. Before becoming a player, Xiakeding lived in his own world and was a pure businessman. After becoming a player, Xiakeding began to change from things to people and become real.

In April 2012, a netizen posted a request for help: My mother in Nanjing has not been back to her hometown in Tongling, Anhui Province for ten years. The old man is car sick and can only sit on an old-fashioned sling. When Xiakeding saw the help post, he immediately contacted him. On April 17, Xiake Ding brought out an old-fashioned "Yangtze River 750" and a new-style shoulder from the underground special garage dedicated to the shoulders. I drove the "Yangtze River 750" to carry the old lady, and my son rode the new-style shoulder bag to carry the dutiful son, driving nearly 200 kilometers, allowing the old lady to return to her long-lost hometown. On May 6, the old lady returned to Nanjing after living in her hometown for more than 20 days. Xiake Ding once again started a living Leifeng, riding the "Yangtze River 750" in the scorching sun to bring the old lady back to Nanjing.

In the eyes of ordinary shoji players, shoji is an antique, and "the scorpion and his wife will not lend it out". But in Xiake Ding's view, the most beautiful scenery is only when the shoulder is moving. Driving the old scorpion to take the old mother home, it seems that the customer is doing "living Leifeng", but in fact, the old mother gave the scorpion a chance to be "old to be pretty". The shoulder culture needs not only the shoulders with a sense of history, but also the shoulders with humanistic care.

Playing objects can only be played if they fully appreciate the spirit of the objects. If playing with a recliner made Xiake Ding transform from a businessman to Xu Xiake, playing with a scorpion made him, a prodigal son who does not eat fireworks, experience firewood, rice, oil and salt. The collection of swords allows Xiake Ding to realize the transformation from Xiake to knight.

On April 15, 2012, the well-known sword collector "Dao Dao Zhai Huangfujiang" posted a Weibo: "Saving a knife to save your life: starting at 1 yuan, no cap, and ending at 4:14 a.m. on April 17! All All donations will be donated to Li Jing's family in Henan, and will be directly credited to the other party's account! The top replica treasured sword in the Swords Collection is the Emperor's Great Reading Sabre..."

This Weibo caught the attention of Xiakeding, because the collection of swords is a Another hobby of Xiake Ding's collection, in Xiake Ding's words, his sword collection is "average, the third in the country". After a day of bidding, the price of Xiakeding was also increased to 58,888 yuan, but in the end the netizen "Doudoujia Laotie" made a final decision: 60,000 yuan. Although he failed to photograph the saber, Xiake Ding showed a full swordsman demeanor: "It doesn't matter if the sword is not photographed, I will send it with 3,000 gilts." The treasured swords were all bought for a thousand dollars, but when he learned that there were no collections in the sword exhibition room of the Nanjing Museum, he donated the swords worth 300,000 yuan in one breath.

In Xiake Ding's view, artifacts are cold and lifeless. As a player, only when playing with objects can integrate their true temperament into them, so that artifacts and players can be seen and integrated into one.