I admire your free spirit and self-confidence and enjoyed watching your travels to places in China where I cannot visit myself because of my senior years. Keep it up and follow your heart, ignore the negative comments. Many probably come from jealousies, those without the courage to leave their dreadful and mundane lifes.
A famous American educator once said: " I want to be unusual if I can !" His name is Book T. Washington, pioneer of Tuskegee College in Macon county, Alabama !