A Chinese man burned out at work and fulfilled the dream of many men (3 photos + 1 video)

18 June 2025

At the age of 35, Min Hengcai realized the futility of life and, spitting on everything, went into hermitism.





This story began in 2021, when Min, who worked hard as a taxi driver for 10 hours a day to feed himself and pay off debts to relatives and banks, realized that he could not live like that any longer.



He quit his job, broke up with his girlfriend and moved to Sichuan Province, where he found a cave not far from his home village. His savings of 40 thousand yuan were enough to build a very comfortable home there.



For the past four years, he has been living alone, reading a lot and blogging about his life on social networks. He considers relationships with the opposite sex to be a "waste of time and money" and does not believe in true love. And he now completely denies working for hire.

He gets up at 08:00 every day and goes to bed at 22:00. He mainly eats vegetables that he grows himself.

 

Min's story has caused a stir on Chinese social networks. Some call him a representative of the tang ping ("lying flat") movement popular among Chinese youth, that is, those who live a minimalist life without ambitions. Others consider the man a "true philosopher" and admire the simplicity of his life.

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