Begging is generally not considered to be an
honorable means of livelihood, not unless a person has absolutely no other
choice. What would you say though, to a beggar who does not live off his own
earnings, but gives it all away? Now, that’s something you don’t get to see
every day.
The mystical traditions of the East have
insisted on monks begging for their daily meals in ancient times. Forty one
year old Wang Zhiyou seems to be one step ahead of his
ancestors. He has been giving away every penny earned by begging. Zhiyou
has his roots in the Chinese village of Yongping, located in Heilongjiang
province. Today, he doesn’t have a home or a place to call his own. He wanders
from town to town, village to village, never staying more than a month. When
the thirty days are up, he donates all the money and moves on. He has been
doing this for the past fifteen years.
This unique individual has had a troubled
past at his own. When Zhiyou was 18 years old, he discovered that he had been
adopted as a child. The reason being that his biological parents were too poor
to afford to raise him. Struck by the suffering of poor people, Zhiyou decided
to adopt his current lifestyle. According to Zhiyou, he has donated 40,000
Yen so far. That’s around $6292. He makes sure to collect a receipt from
the recipient, and has a stack of them as proof of his benevolence.
Zhiyou has been hailed by the Chinese media
as the “Northeastern Generous Beggar”.
Generous Beggar Gives His Earnings to the
Poor was originally posted at OddityCentral
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