Monday, December 19, 2011
Man Carves Wife a 6,000 Stair Path in Mountain
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A weird love story has come out of China recently and managed to touch the world. It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love each other in peace for over half century.
Over 50 years ago, Liu, was a 19 years-old boy, fell in love with a 29 year-old widowed mother named Xu. At the time, it was unacceptable and immoral for a young man to love an older woman.
To avoid the market gossips, the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave in Jiangjin County in Southern ChongQing area.
In the beginning, they had nothing, no electricity or even food. They had to eat grass and roots they found in the mountain, and Liu made a kerosene lamp that they used to lighten up their lives.
Starting the second year of living in the mountain, Liu began, and continue for over 50 years, to hand carve the steps so that his wife could get down the mountain easily.
A half century later in 2001, a group of adventures were exploring the forest, they surprisingly found the elderly couple and the over 6,000 stairs of hand carved ladder.
“My parents loved each other so much, they have lived in seclusion for over 50 years and never been apart a single day.” Liu MingSheng, one of their seven children said, “He hand carved more than 6,000 steps over the years for my mother’s convenience, although she doesn’t go down the mountain that much.”
The couple had lived in peace for over 50 years until last week. Liu, now 72 years-old, returned from his daily farm work and collapsed. Xu sat and prayed with her husband as he passed away in her arms.
So in love with Xu, was Liu, that no one was able to release the grip he had on his wife’s hand even after he had passed away.
“You promised me you’ll take care of me, you’ll always be with me until the day I died, now you left before me, how am I going to live without you?” … …
Xu spent days softly repeating this sentence and touching her husband’s black coffin with tears rolling down her cheeks.
In 2006, their story had became one of the top 10 love stories from China, collected by the Chinese Women Weekly. The local government has decided to preserve the “love ladder†and the place they lived as a museum, so this love story can live forever.
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AWESOME just 100% Awesomeness!!!
ReplyDeleteMakes me want some moo goo gai pan!
ReplyDeleteAnd in America the feminist movement and the welfare system are hell bent on erasing lines between the genders, making men irrelevant, so they can raise more emos, lesbians, homosexuals and transgendered boys under the guise of 'choice and expression'. THIS is the devotion a MAN shows when he loves a WOMAN without PC politics...just watch...some penis hater will reply to me on the chinese taboo of marrying older women and the 'need for change against injust cultures'...that's how they justify their own genocide of MEN.
ReplyDeleteorrrrr the bitch who posted this article won't let my comment through. Hypocrite.
ReplyDeleteFake. photoshopped
ReplyDeletei am not sure about the photos, but the story is true, though
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