There is a clear record of the tallest person in history in the world at present. He is from China. His name is Zhan Shichai and he is also the number one giant in the Qing Dynasty. It is said that he is 3.19 meters tall and has "traveled the world" and married a British wife.
Zhan Shichai, a native of Wuyuan, Anhui in the Qing Dynasty (now Wuyuan, Jiangxi). His father is eight feet tall, so he inherited his father's height gene. When he was very young, he kept rising in height, and made a joke about this: Once, his mother took him to the Lantern Festival Fair. Zhan Shichai is hungry and wants milk. The villagers next to him saw him and accused him: “There is a mother who has a tall breast and breastfeeding while standing. It’s not ashamed.” The mother explained to the villagers, “Our child is less than two years old. Don’t be scared. he". At that time, the surrounding neighbors were stunned. In other words, Zhan Shichai was about 1 meter old when he was 2 years old. Imagine that a two-year-old child grows so tall, which is impossible to imagine. As he grows up day by day, Zhan Shichai grows taller and taller.
Height is also very useful at critical moments. When time came for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, he also grew up at this time. Once the Qing army suffered a defeat in Anhui. On the way back, a group of Qing army ran to Zhan Shichai's house to search for valuable items. At first, Zhan Shichai was sitting on the bed, but when he saw a thief in his home, he stood up and shocked the Qing army, thinking that he might have encountered a monster, such a big head, so he hurried away.
The British are a treasure. Because Zhan Shichai had a bad family background and his appetite was very big, he went out to work without reading any books, so he came to Shanghai to join relatives. It was at this time that the British found him and bought him, and at the same time gave him the promise of food and satiety. So the British took him to "travel the world", touring Britain, France, Russia and so on. As the old saying goes, "things are precious as scarce", just as we like to watch foreigners in the Qing Dynasty and even now, the transportation at that time was not as developed as it is now, and few Chinese appeared in Europe. Therefore, many foreigners have paid to visit Zhan Shichai. In this way, Zhan Shichai attracted the audience with his unique height and received a lot of money. The Shanghai county magistrate "Yongxianzhai Notes" records: Every time a foreigner comes to a country, the foreigner will be the eldest person (Zhan Shichai), so that foreigners will see it, and the viewers will pay the foreigners. Foreigners are good at large profits, and distinguish between their wins and the elders, and the elders also have thousands of gold around their waists. Marry a foreign woman and return home with foreign goods. The old man is rich now. It was when the British took him to travel, Zhan Shichai got acquainted with his future British wife. The British wife gave him two sons and a daughter. What happened to his children in the end?
"Hongxi Zhan's Genealogy" records: "Shi Chai's breast name is fifty or nine, word Yuxuan, born in Shen Shi on December 20, 1841, married the British family, Zi Zechun, 1876 Born in Maoshi on September 17, 2010.” It can be seen from the literature that Zhan Shichai’s eldest son Zhan Zechun definitely exists. But unfortunately, first of all, Zhan Shichai’s son Zhan Zechun is no different from ordinary people, and Zhan Zechun works at the British Embassy in Shanghai. Later, he returned to Wuyuan to find relatives, but his uncle already had a huge amount of property at this time, thinking that he was returning to his hometown to share the property, and rejected his confession activities. After Zhan Zechun returned to the UK, there was no news. As for the unknown historical records of Zhan Shichai's descendants, it is estimated that Zhan Zechun returned to the UK to live. Zhan Shichai married a British daughter-in-law by virtue of his height and made a fortune. During the precarious Qing Dynasty, I have to say that it was a good result for him. He is the number one leader in the giant world! The only real giant in human history with photo as evidence!
