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Shanghai post box pilgrimage for pop star's fans

A post box has become an unlikely object of adoration in Shanghai, after a former boy band star posed alongside it and shared the photo online.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36014991

By News from Elsewhere

Pop singer Lu Han, once a member of millionselling Chinese-Korean group EXO, posted a snap of himself leaning on the post box on Friday night. It received more than 800,000 likes on his Weibo account, but the fervour wasn't just online. Hundreds of fans keen to follow in their idol's footsteps tracked down the box in question - on one of Shanghai's busiest roads - and began queuing to have their photos taken with it, popular news website The Paper reports.

The line stretched up to 300m (1,000ft) along the pavement and some fans queued into the small hours, determined to give the post box a hug or a kiss. "He walked on this road, he saw this landscape, I feel a little closer to him," one woman tells The Paper. Another says she felt "very, very excited" when she finally got to touch the box.

Most of the site's readers are a bit baffled by the scene. "A mailbox influenced this much worship, are these people spiritually empty? *sigh*" writes one person. Another simply describes them as "crazies", a view echoed in thousands of comments on Weibo. But a few users are more charitable, pointing out that as crowds go, they were rather civilised. "They are politely and orderly queuing," one person notes, adding that the women weren't affecting public order or making a mess.

While it might be the Shanghai post box's first brush with fame, it's not the first to become an internet hit. In 2015, two lop-sided post boxes - damaged by Typhoon Soudelor - had people queuing round the block for photos in Taiwan, images that went viral in China.

上海郵筒成為粉絲的朝圣地

一個前男子樂隊明星在上海一個郵筒旁擺pose拍照并上傳網絡，郵筒意外成為被崇拜物。

來源：BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36014991

作者：Elsewhere

流行歌手鹿晗是中韓熱門組合EXO的前任成員，他上周五晚上傳了一張自己斜靠在郵筒的照片。這張照片在微博被點贊超80萬次，而且這股熱潮不僅僅停留在網上。根據澎湃新聞報道，成百上千的粉絲熱衷于追隨偶像的足跡，找到了這個位于上海繁華路段的郵筒，并開始排隊與該郵筒合影。

隊伍沿著人行道延伸300米，一些粉絲排隊直至深夜，下定決心要給郵筒一個擁抱或親吻。“他走過這條路，他看到了沿途風景，我感覺更接近他了點。”一位女性告訴澎湃。另一位女性說當她最終觸摸郵筒時，感覺“非常非常激動”。

大部分網站閱讀者對這一奇景表示困惑。“一個郵筒居然產生了這么多的崇拜情緒，這部分人是因為精神空虛嗎？”網友*sigh*在澎湃評論道。另一位網友直接形容粉絲為瘋子，這種觀點在數以千計的微博評論中回蕩。不過一部分用戶顯得更加寬容，指出人群聚集時顯得十分文明。“他們十分有禮貌、有秩序地排隊，”有人評論道，并且指出這些女性并未妨礙公共秩序或制造混亂。

雖然這是上海郵筒第一次成名，但這已不是郵筒第一次成為網紅。2015年兩個因臺風蘇迪羅而傾斜的郵筒在中國臺灣引發民眾排隊拍照，照片也十分走紅。