Simian Mountain, a national 5a scenic spot, is also a national forest park, located in the south of Jiangjin, Chongqing, with beautiful scenery, especially the waterfall is famous all over the world. Zhongshan Ancient Town, close to Simian Mountain, is one of the 10 ancient towns in Chongqing and a famous historical and cultural town in China. When many tourists and friends go to these two places, most of them will stop by the love ladder to take a look. Many friends are deeply moved by the story behind the more than 6,000 stone steps, and think that such love stories are rare in the whole country and even the world; some think that it seems to be no different from the mountain roads they usually see.
So, is the love ladder worth seeing? What is the story behind these 6,000-step stone steps?
Time goes back more than half a century, and the heroine of the story is called Xu Chaoqing. She was engaged at the age of 13 and married at the age of 16, and the hero of the story is named Liu Guojiang, who is a full 10 years younger than Xu Chaoqing. When Xu Chaoqing got married, 6-year-old Liu Guojiang lost his teeth, and the local custom was to let the bride touch her mouth, and the new teeth would grow quickly. She touched him, and it was their first intersection.
The happy days were not long, and 10 years later, Xu Chaoqing's husband died of meningitis, leaving her 26 years old and 4 children. The in-laws' unpopularity made Xu Chaoqing's life difficult for him to live alone. Once, their mother and son fell into the river, 16-year-old Liu Guojiang struggled to save them, and since then, he often does housework for orphans and widows, and gradually deepens his feelings.
4 years later, he was 20 years old, she was 30 years old, he said, I want to marry you, she said, this delays you, you are still young, I am a widow and drag 4 children, how does the village see us? He said, I don't care, I'm going to marry you.
One day in August 1956, he and she, along with four children, were gone. This disappearance is 45 years!
It turned out that in order to escape the worldly gossip, they ran to live in seclusion in the uninhabited mountains at an altitude of about 1500 meters. When Liu Guojiang was chopping firewood, he knew that there were 2 abandoned thatched huts in the deep mountains. Since then, they settled here, since then, Liu Guojiang in order for Xu Chaoqing to be able to safely and conveniently descend the mountain, contact with the outside world, began to dig stone steps on the cliffs, for decades without interruption, and finally excavated a total of 6208 steps, is for the love ladder.
During this period, they had 4 more children, except for Xu Chaoqing's previous child who died prematurely, they raised 7 children in the mountains together. They were dependent on each other, never separated at night, never went to Jiangjin County, and even Zhongshan Town was the only few times. One person goes down the mountain to buy something, and the other person will go to the canoe bridge under the mountain to wait, because this end of the bridge is the world of their family.
If it hadn't been for a team of outdoor explorers spotting them in 2001, their story might have gone untold for the rest of their lives. Even later, it is hard to believe how they were dependent on each other, considerate of each other, and survived the difficulties in the past half century to raise 7 children.
Even later, when Liu Guojiang was invited to the TV station to record a program, the host asked him what he wanted to say to the audience, and he only said one sentence: I want to go home! Because he was worried about the old woman in the mountains. Such a love story cannot be expressed in any words.
There are many touching love stories in this world, such as chang'e and Houyi in mythology, Liang Zhu who has been passed down through the ages, and Bai Lotte's chanting of the bird with wings in heaven... Behind the ladder of love, the pure, unswerving love story of Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing makes people more moved. Such love, rare in the world, makes people move and admire!
In 2007, at the age of 71, he left, and in 2012, at the age of 87, she also left. Before they died, they received countless praises and touched countless citizens; behind them, their stories were put on the screen, they had statues, and they had scenic spots with them as the core.
But they don't need any of this, because from 1956 to 2007, they had the happiest and most cherished 51 years, and that was enough.