Has anyone been to Zhongshan, the Holy Land of Love in China? How is that place?

Zhongshan, the Holy Land of Love in China, is located in Zhongshan Ancient Town, Jiangjin District, Chongqing. It is famous at home and abroad for its love ladder.

In the 1950s, 20-year-old Liu Guojiang, a young farmer from Chongqing, fell in love with Xu Chaoqing, a "pretty widow" who was 10 years older than him. In order to avoid the rumors of the world, they eloped hand in hand to the deep mountains and old forests. In order to make Xu Chaoqing's trip safe, Liu Guojiang has been busy carving stone ladders on the cliffs all his life to lead to the outside world. Now there are more than 6,000 steps, which is called the "Ladder of Love." Saying that fate is not determined by destiny? Who says there's no love at first sight? The scene 50 years ago was like the wind that had passed half a century away. It was still full of greenery when it blew slowly, blowing away the eternal spring in his heart. That day, with the sound of firecrackers and bursts of suona, she arrived in front of the village in a sedan chair. He was playing with a group of urchins in the village. When he saw the sedan chair, he followed them because, a few days ago, he broke his front teeth. There is a custom in the mountain village that a child who has lost his front teeth will grow new teeth as long as the bride touches his mouth. He is eager for the bride to let his teeth grow new. An adult pulled him to the sedan. The bride stretched out her fingers from the sedan and put her green fingers in his mouth. He couldn't help drooling and sucked nervously, but bit her finger. , she saw that the sedan curtain was lifted by her, and the bride with a fairy-like face was looking at him with a look. After the sedan chair went away, he was still there in a daze... That year, he was 6 years old and she was 16 years old. He only heard the thumping of his heartbeat, and also heard the sister-in-law beside him joking: "Why are you crazy? You want to find such a beautiful wife when you grow up." From then on, no matter who asked him jokingly about what kind of wife he wanted to marry when he grew up, He always said seriously: "I just want someone like Aunt Xu!" From then on, Aunt Xu was the bride imprinted on his heart. But until he grew up to be a handsome young man, he only dared to look at her with his peripheral vision. In his heart, she was so noble that he felt that just looking at her would be dirty. She was happy at the age of 13, confessed at the age of 16, but at the age of 26, her husband died of acute meningitis and became a widow. Her husband-in-law said she was a coward, so she took her four children alone and had nothing to eat, so she carried her children on her back to the mountains to pick up wild mushrooms. She couldn't afford salt that cost 3 cents a pound, so she knitted straw sandals and sold them for 5 cents a pair. . At the age of 16, he saw this and was anxious in his heart. He wanted to help her, but was afraid of being rejected and laughed at by others. Until that day, she and her child fell into the river. He jumped into the river and rescued their mother and child, and he was the first to save her. Look at her for the first time. After that, he often took the initiative to help her carry water, chop wood, and take care of the housework. After four years of this, each other's eyes gradually took on a different kind of sentiment. However, not only was she 10 years older than him, but she was also a widow with four children. Gossips were like an invisible web that tightly enveloped them, who were "rebellious and unethical". They barely had the energy to take a breath. So, one morning in August 1956, the villagers discovered that she and her four children had suddenly disappeared, along with the 19-year-old himself. More than 40 years later, in the Mid-Autumn Festival of 2001, a team of outdoor travel agencies discovered two old people living deep in the uninhabited mountains while exploring the primeval forest. They seemed to be living in a primitive society of slash-and-burn farming. They lit kerosene lamps made by himself and lived in simple mud houses. In the past, when there was no house, we lived in caves. Farm the fields you have cultivated and be self-sufficient. They are he and she who disappeared decades ago. Over the past few decades, they have had children and a deeper love. However, he didn't understand what love was. Since the year he went up the mountain, he would go out early in the morning with an iron hammer and a few cooked potatoes during the off-season, and dig a road on the cliff - he was afraid that she would fall when she went out. . For 50 years, he has chipped more than 20 years of iron milling and he has carved out more than 6,000 steps with his own hands. Moss will not grow on each step because it is rubbed by his hands every day. Not slippery... These more than 6,000 stone steps are called the "Ladder of Love". And he also changed from a young man to a white-haired old man. "I feel bad, but he always said that once the road is built, it will be more convenient for me to go out of the mountain. In fact, I have never been out of the mountain a few times in my life." She touched the calluses on her wife's hands and told the interviewer from outside the mountain with tears. "Mortal" said.

This is not a fictional story made to earn tears. His name is Liu Guojiang, and her name is Xu Chaoqing. They have lived in a high mountain called Banpotou in Zhongshan Town, Chongqing for 50 years. Who says love is just a beautiful myth? Who says love cannot be measured by anything? The 6,000-step staircase is the scale of love carved into the mountain.