一位六七十歲的老婦竟像哪吒那樣，腳踏兩只“風火輪”，遨游神州十萬里，真成了一個神話人物!她就是上海市青浦區(qū)朱家角鎮(zhèn)的張玉楨，一個1949年隨軍南下的山東籍離休女干部。

乍見張玉楨，身材不高，樸素無華，就像我們常見的鄰里老大媽?？稍谶@平凡的外表下，卻包裹著一顆火熱的愛國心，蘊藏著一股堅毅的意志力。1989年離休后，她不愿在家享清福，“老有所樂，老有所為”，她找到了自己“樂為”的事：她決定自費騎自行車游歷全國。從1990年至2006年，她竟13次游歷全國包括臺灣在內的所有省、市、自治區(qū)，每次騎游春去冬回，短則數(shù)十日，長達10個月。13年游歷歷程，歷時1957天，行程110072公里，(其中乘車、船、飛機約3萬公里)，途經909個縣市、2330個鄉(xiāng)鎮(zhèn)，拍攝照片10500張，累積簽名冊和紀念布71本和49塊。沿途訪問參觀了千百個機關、學校、企業(yè)、軍營、名人故居、歷史遺址、各類紀念館和烈士陵園，游歷了無數(shù)的名山大川、名勝古跡，真正做到用兩個輪子滾量了九洲熱土!因此，有96家電視臺(包括央視)先后播放了她的騎游新聞，各類報刊(包括人民日報海外版)報道有關文章300余篇。

只身單騎到海南

張玉楨說服了家人的擔心，先用兩個月的時間騎游了上海所有區(qū)、縣，取得實戰(zhàn)經驗，接著她確定了第一次騎游全國的路線：由上海向南，經浙、閩、粵至海南。計劃確定后，1990年春節(jié)剛過，張玉楨便冒著寒風細雨，蹬車向南方駛去。

她穿過滬、江、浙三角地帶平望進入浙江，登莫干山覽勝，到杭州繞西湖騎游，在紹興感受人文歷史，經寧波跨海抵舟山。舟山市副市長王孝林高興地對張玉楨說：“你是騎游全國來到舟山的第一名婦女，真不簡單!”然后她游天臺，走三門，成為騎車過桐巖嶺隧道第一人，到溫嶺還被特允參觀了全國第一座潮汐發(fā)電站(世界列第三)。

這年7月9日她游過南雁蕩山后進入福建。福建山多，入界就要翻越兩座大山，光是爬山就耗費了她一天時間。在霞浦過赤嶺，凌空山道傍著大海，她只能緊貼山壁推著車橫步移行，傍晚到達水門畬族鄉(xiāng)政府時，人們對這位“天外來客”驚訝不已，因為從未見過有人推車越嶺到這里。鄉(xiāng)黨委書記鐘明華激動地揮筆題詞道：“壯哉!我們的勇士。”

這年9月29日張玉楨到達廣東饒平，在潮州過中秋，在揭陽參加了重陽節(jié)老年登山活動，至11月24日抵廣州。然后一路飛東向西南，直達廣東南端徐聞縣，12月10日乘船駛過瓊州海峽到達海南省海口市，成了第一位萬里單車騎海南的第一位女將。

萬里簽名為奧運

1993年4月2日，張玉楨又一次騎游活動開始。這次路線是走西北經青海到新疆，直達邊陲阿拉山口。接著，又于2001年一路北上，6月中旬冒著滂沱大雨騎車到達北京奧申委，向奧申委展示了有近500個單位和個人簽字蓋章的簽名冊和紀念布。奧申委接待負責人十分感動，隨即在簽名冊上寫道：“感謝張玉楨老人對北京申奧工作的支持，祝健康長壽。”并蓋上奧申委的公章。

1994年聯(lián)合國決定第四次世界婦女大會在北京舉行，張玉楨又心動了，她把“迎世婦會”確定為這一年的騎游宣傳主題。但她定出的路線卻令人咋舌：先騎游西藏再折返云貴高原，終點定在廣西。4月10日開始，她跋山涉水西行到成都，由川入藏，先到拉薩再騎抵日喀則。

返回四川時，她住在峨眉山市的一個招待所內，一進房間便看到6月29日的一張《中國婦女報》，該報頭版的一篇新聞標題就是《老嫗為迎世婦會，高原萬里走單騎/黃啟遙致慰問》。黃啟是全國婦聯(lián)副主席、第四次世界婦女大會中國組委會副主席，文中記述了她在6月24日特意打電話到張玉楨家中，說：“我剛剛收到張玉楨從西藏日喀則地區(qū)寄來的信，她的行動使我很受鼓舞……她不畏艱險，長途跋涉，把世婦會在北京召開的意義傳到邊疆、傳到西藏，這種精神是十分可貴的?！弊詈笏硎練g迎張玉楨明年在大會召開時赴京，展示她西藏之行的成果。

1995年8月28日，張玉楨作為特邀代表赴京參加聯(lián)合國第四次世界婦女大會非政府論壇。黃啟副主席一眼就認出了她：“張玉楨同志，見到你非常高興。”隨后也在簽名冊上題了詞：“宣傳世婦會，騎車萬里行。”

騎游生死置之度外

遠程騎游非同小可，一個高齡婦女騎游全國，遇到的困苦和艱險常人是難以想象的。1998年第八次騎游，張玉楨騎行在齊齊哈爾市區(qū)時，被行進中的公交中巴撞倒在后輪邊。她頭部流血，神志恍惚，直到醫(yī)院搶救數(shù)日做了三次手術后才轉危為安。但這次車禍沒有阻礙她以“迎澳門回歸”為主題的第九次騎游。她寫了一份《知難而進》的決心書，明確表示“人生自古誰無死，倘若我在途中發(fā)生意外，自愿把遺體無償獻給當?shù)蒯t(yī)療機構。”

張玉楨把生死置之度外，所以騎游中她總能笑對困境，豁達應付。大運河畔她遭到龍卷風的突然襲擊，大別山上曾連人帶車摔下山坡，塞外沙漠中她又被呼嘯而來的沙塵暴圍困一個多小時，并在塔克拉瑪干的“死亡之?！比淌苤?0℃以上熱浪蒸烤，她在這些險境中都逢兇化吉，死里逃生。除了這些險境，她還經常遇到無法預計的許多難題：頂頭風讓她騎不動車；傾盆雨讓人混身濕透；盤山道繞得你精疲力盡；宿夜時的蚊蟲叮得人無法入睡……

張玉楨把有限的養(yǎng)老金全部投入到騎游中。車輛維修和拍照費，占了養(yǎng)老金很大的份額，剩下的用來吃和住。所以她規(guī)定自己的飲食標準每天不得超過10元，住宿限定入住招待所、小旅店或者是機關單位的值班室、學校教室甚至棲身于破廟、窩棚及山洞。因為這苦是自找的，所以她能體會到苦中所蘊含的樂趣。

她的這種吃苦精神贏得了人們的欽佩和支持：汕頭海軍某部送給她膽石通治病，在包頭相機壞了，人家給她修理不收錢反倒送她兩個膠卷；推車登浙江莫干山，德清縣后塢鄉(xiāng)鄉(xiāng)長派了拖拉機送她上山；翻越秦嶺卡車司機硬是要帶她走一程路；在滄州她向一位中年婦女問路，卻被對方執(zhí)意邀到家中住宿；入住全國各地的許多紀念館、展覽館、陵園、旅游景點、招待所、旅店、賓館，這些單位經常給予她很大的優(yōu)惠，甚至全部免費。

一路風塵一路歌

張玉楨所到之處不忘宣傳祖國優(yōu)秀文化，即便到了臺灣，她在臺北市政府門前，日月潭游船碼頭，也張開騎游隊旗和紀念布展示大陸老年騎游文化的風貌。

在黃山市譚家橋鎮(zhèn)，當?shù)貗D聯(lián)邀請她向婦女干部宣講第四次世婦會的主題和在北京召開的意義；在烏魯木齊返程前，被副市長張國文邀請給體委和體校學生上課，讓她講怎樣騎車宣傳愛國主義，一路上又遇到什么困難，同時又是怎樣克服的；回到上海市委老干部局專門組織老同志聽了一場特別報告會，請張玉楨宣講她的騎游理念和不凡經歷；在杭州當張玉楨騎行在莫干山之時，被小學校長攔下要她向師生作報告；到了青海，受青海省勞改局黨委政治處邀請，又向各縱隊的犯人代表作了騎游愛國宣講報告。

除了演講，豐富別致的騎游收藏品也是她騎游文化的重要內容。照片、簽名冊、紀念布，還有各地贈送的上千件紀念徽章、紀念品、書畫、題詞、各地報道她騎游的報紙以及景點門票和蓋有4000個各地郵戳的紙張等等。她利用這些藏品，在華東師大、上海大世界、青浦區(qū)等處舉辦“愛我中華騎游全國圖片資料展”18次、照片巡回展20次，部分藏品已被青浦區(qū)檔案館收藏。

Biking across the Country

By Ma Shiming

Zhang Yuzheng is a biking legend， for she has traveled across China on thirteen bike journeys since 1990. Of her bike journeys， the shortest one lasted about dozens of days， and the longest ones lasted ten months， starting in spring and ending before winter came.

Zhang's bike trips are amazing. In total， the 1，957-day odyssey from 1990 to 2006 covered a total of 110，072 kilometers (including trips by bus， ship and plane) and brought the female biker to 2，330 towns in 909 counties and cities. On the way， she took 10，500 photographs and visited numerous museums， memorial monuments， historical celebrities' residences， military battalions， and scenic spots and places of historical interests. Ninety-six television networks covered her journeys and visits and over 300 news stories were published about her.

The data may not appear as mind-boggling as one might imagine， for China is a large country with numerous incredible legends. But， Zhang is indeed an unusual woman， though she looks like an amiable granny in the neighborhood. In 1949， she came to Shanghai a soldier with the PLA storming and sweeping from north to south liberating the whole country. She started her biking after her honored retirement in 1989 and she did the thirteen solitary trips in her sixties and seventies from 1990 to 2006!

Before she could start， Zhang needed to convince her family that she could ride long distances at her age. Shortly after her retirement in 1989， she spent two months biking alone across all the suburban counties and districts under the jurisdiction of Shanghai. By learning how to cover a long journey， she prepared herself mentally and physically. Then she came up with a plan for her first ambitious cross-country bike journey: she would bike south， all the way from Shanghai to Hainan Island via Zhejiang， Fujian and Guangdong Provinces. Shortly after the Spring Festival， 1990， she set out.

The journey was full of wonder and excitement and she created many records. She toured the West Lake in Hangzhou， capital of Zhejiang Province. She crossed the sea from Shaoxing to visit Zhoushan archipelago. According to the deputy mayor of Zhoushan City， she was the first female cross-country biker that visited the country's largest archipelago. Then she became the first biker that went through Tongyanling Tunnel in southern Zhejiang. In Wenling， she was permitted to visit China's first tide power plant. On the ninth of July， she would cross the province border to Fujian， a mountainous province to the south of Zhejiang.

The crossing took her two days. She surmounted two mountains. After trekking the whole day in the mountains， she came to Xiapu and readied herself to hike across the Red Ridge into Fujian Province. She found herself facing a narrow path hugging the cliff side of the mountain with the sea seething far below. She inched along the cliff， pushing the bike along. When she finally left the steep mountain behind and announced herself at the local town government， she astonished everyone there. They had never seen anyone， let alone a woman at her age， negotiating the treacherous path with a bike. On September 29， Zhang arrived in Guangdong Province. After taking part in various activities and paying many visits， she crossed the sea and reached island province Hainan on December 10. No woman biker had ever traveled this far and come to Hainan before.

If Zhang Yuzheng's first cross-country solitary biking journey was to prove herself， she took some other journeys to support Olympics and World Women's Congress in Beijing. In 1994， she rode all the way to Tibet and then to Guangxi Autonomous region in the southwestern China. All the way， Zhang publicized the fourth World Women's Congress in Beijing. She was later invited to attend the gala meeting in Beijing in 1995. In 2001， she rode her bike all the way from Shanghai to Beijing. While visiting the headquarters of the bidding committee for hosting Beijing 2008 Olympics Games， she displayed a banner with five hundred supporters' signatures.

Biking across China is not totally fun and game for Zhang Yuzheng. The hardships she went through are hard to imagine. On her eighth cross-country journey in 1998， she was knocked down by a bus in Qiqiha'er， a city in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. She went through three surgeries to survive the accident. She ran into a cyclone while traveling along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. She fell off a mountain slope on a bike jaunt into the Dabie Mountain. She was trapped in a sand storm for over an hour while traversing a desert. She endured the sweltering heat in the Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang. Winds， rains， endless mountain roads， and mosquitoes all tortured her.

Zhang has supported her journeys with her pension only. As photos and bike maintenance accounted for a large part of her expenditures， she had to limit the daily spending to ten yuan for food， shelter and all other things. To save money， she slept in small hostels， dilapidated Buddhist temples， night watcher's duty rooms， school classrooms， caves and field sheds. But she also met with warm-hearted people on her journeys. She was frequently invited into strangers' homes for a night. She was admitted free of charge into museums and parks. She spent nights in guesthouses and hotels free of charge or for a big discount.

The tours she took are not just visits and travels. As above mentioned， she has publicized worthy causes and she has been asked to talk about her journeys during and after the bike tours. She has built up a large collection to show for her unforgettable tours: tourist souvenirs， photographs， inscriptions， admission tickets， badges， paintings and inscriptions， maps， newspapers， signature books and banners， newspaper clippings， 4，000 date-time stamps from post offices she visited across the country， etc. These valuable collectables have been used as exhibits for eighteen exhibitions and twenty photo shows to the general public.

(Translated by David)