"In 2006, Mr. and Mrs. Annan locked their hearts together here." Yang Xiaoxiang, who runs souvenirs in front of Paiyun Pavilion in the West Sea of Huangshan, said that the former UN Secretary-General was very happy when he went to Huangshan, attracting rare squirrels to climb the pavilion to watch.
After making a good wish, they threw the key in front of the Xihai Grand Canyon and said they would take it back to collect it. Yang Xiaoxiang said, pointing to the Grand Canyon in front of Paiyunge. With the fog dispersed after the rain in late autumn, just under our feet, a wet ink painting scroll is rising from Ran Ran in the rushing sea of clouds, and the sunshine makes the sea of clouds shine. This is the moment of vows of eternal love. We will smile.
Sure enough, someone will visit his enterprise soon. Mr. and Mrs. Yun and Tian Hua in Hefei bought a lock with 30 yuan's money. After Yang Xiaoxiang carved his name for free, the excited middle-aged couple locked it on the guardrail on the cliff in front of the pavilion. Come back five years later to witness. Many people keep this agreement about Huangshan Mountain.
"Of course, I am the first choice to tie the heart lock, because this is the birthplace of Huangshan heart lock." Yang Xiaoxiang said proudly. Laohuangshan people recalled that in July 1979, Deng Xiaoping's autographed photos of college students in Huangshan caused a sensation after being broadcast by the media, and a large number of young men and women flocked to Huangshan in an endless stream. In the early 1980s, a couple of young people hung a small bronze lock on the stone fence chain in front of the Paiyun Pavilion in the West Sea to show their "vows of eternal love". Since then, young men and women have followed suit, taking off the locks on their travel bags and locking them on the chains of stone fences. 1989 A touching story is told in the large-scale CCTV TV musical "Huangshan Mountain": a girl whose lover is disabled on business, and the man thinks that this will affect her future happiness and tells her to find another lover. The girl traveled thousands of miles before she came to Paiyun Pavilion in the West Sea of Huangshan again. She opened the concentric lock and took it back with her boyfriend, showing her loyalty to love ... After the broadcast of Huangshan, there was a great response. After 1990, in less than two years, the protective fence chains of scenic spots such as Paiyunge, Tiandufeng and Lianhuafeng in Huangshan Mountain were covered with dense interlocking locks, which became the humanistic landscape created by young people in the new era at that time.
Today, people can buy exquisite designs and various commemorative locks on Huangshan Mountain. Huangshan has specially designed and developed a series of chain locks, and now it has become a characteristic tourist commodity of Huangshan. Mainly love-themed interlocking locks and blessing safety locks. The lock is engraved with the words "mutual affinity, eternal knot and unity", "eternal peace" and "peace of the whole family", and up to 20 words can be engraved at the scene. Take a closer look at the lock that I don't know when to hang in front of Paiyun Pavilion, and you can find the handwriting such as success in the postgraduate entrance examination, all the best, and good health of parents.
Even foreigners like this souvenir very much. I was surprised to find that Yang Xiaoxiang can speak several foreign languages, and he can easily cope with a group of American and Korean tourists. This self-proclaimed farmer is from Xiataiping County (now huangshan district) in Huangshan Mountain. He worked in Paiyunge for seven or eight years, taught himself tour guides and foreign languages, "understood N languages" and directly received euros, dollars, Japanese yen and Korean won. He also has his sales experience: Europeans and Americans like to connect their hearts because they think it is fun and romantic to express their love in this way: South Korea and Japan prefer safe locks. They come to China to visit middle-aged and elderly people, and they all belong to the oriental cultural circle that pays attention to family ties and filial piety.
The appreciation of beautiful scenery has no national boundaries, and the pursuit of beautiful friendship has no national boundaries. 1 1997, the third high-level political consultation meeting between China and ASEAN was held in Beihai Hotel at the top of Huangshan Mountain. After the meeting, representatives from seven ASEAN countries and China visited Huangshan Mountain. In front of the Paiyun Pavilion in the West Sea, representatives of all parties locked a special large interlocking lock engraved with "China-ASEAN Heart to Heart". Kadir, Secretary-General of Malaysian Foreign Ministry, said excitedly: "After the heart lock, our hearts will be locked with China." Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his wife are also at the top of Huangshan Mountain, solemnly locking their hearts.
Why does Lianxinsuo only favor Huangshan Mountain? Yang Xiaoxiang said that this is because locks have special significance to people in China.
Not exactly. My feeling in Huangshan is that the heart lock is connected with Huangshan's special aesthetic experience. These lotus-like granite peaks in the sky, the ever-changing sea of clouds among hills, China's most symbolic tree species Pinus taiwanensis, and even the magical Buddha's light combine to form a free and beautiful fairyland, which guides people's spirit to soar. Lock has become a wonderful inspiration, and I want to do my best to solidify my eternal good wishes of unity and good luck. In Huangshan Mountain, which is dominated by natural scenery, tourists don't need to worship gods and offer incense, but only need a dialogue about mountains and rivers. When the majesty of power, the sanctity of religion and the heaviness of culture cause the burden of tourism, the vows of eternal love in natural scenery will touch people's hearts in the most authentic, direct and intimate way.
Therefore, when many tourist attractions are filled with the same tourist souvenirs, the heart lock of Huangshan has become a famous cultural landscape, which complements the wonderful natural scenery of Huangshan. When many places spend huge sums of money to build various artificial landscapes, but no one applauds them, Huangshan, an idea of tourists, naturally forms a rare contemporary human landscape, which is not only the expression of China traditional culture, but also in line with the spirit of openness, * * * enjoyment and reciprocity of heritage sites. Huangshan Lianxinsuo provides a successful example for the mutual promotion between heritage sites and tourists.
Yang Xiaoxiang is busy selling locks and has no opinion of me. However, he finally solemnly reminded that the locks hung by tourists may not be found in the future, and everyone needs to understand. It turns out that there are hundreds of thousands of locks in Huangshan Mountain every year, with a total weight of several tons, which will cause the safety guardrail to sag, which will not only affect safety, but also rust and erode rocks and loosen roots for a long time, so the protection facilities in the scenic spot will be updated every one or two years. Now the scenic spot has cast the wish of hundreds of thousands of tourists for more than ten years into a big concentric lock weighing 2 tons, standing in front of Beihai Hotel on the top of Huangshan Mountain. They even envisaged building a "Huangshan Lianxinsuo Museum".
The story of vows of eternal love is always as long as possible.