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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.

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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.

上海邮筒成为粉丝的朝圣地

一个前男子乐队明星在上海一个邮筒旁摆pose拍照并上传网络，邮筒意外成为被崇拜物。

来源：BBC

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

作者：Elsewhere

流行歌手鹿晗是中韩热门组合EXO的前任成员，他上周五晚上传了一张自己斜靠在邮筒的照片。这张照片在微博被点赞超80万次，而且这股热潮不仅仅停留在网上。根据澎湃新闻报道，成百上千的粉丝热衷于追随偶像的足迹，找到了这个位于上海繁华路段的邮筒，并开始排队与该邮筒合影。

队伍沿着人行道延伸300米，一些粉丝排队直至深夜，下定决心要给邮筒一个拥抱或亲吻。“他走过这条路，他看到了沿途风景，我感觉更接近他了点。”一位女性告诉澎湃。另一位女性说当她最终触摸邮筒时，感觉“非常非常激动”。

大部分网站阅读者对这一奇景表示困惑。“一个邮筒居然产生了这么多的崇拜情绪，这部分人是因为精神空虚吗？”网友*sigh*在澎湃评论道。另一位网友直接形容粉丝为疯子，这种观点在数以千计的微博评论中回荡。不过一部分用户显得更加宽容，指出人群聚集时显得十分文明。“他们十分有礼貌、有秩序地排队，”有人评论道，并且指出这些女性并未妨碍公共秩序或制造混乱。

虽然这是上海邮筒第一次成名，但这已不是邮筒第一次成为网红。2015年两个因台风苏迪罗而倾斜的邮筒在中国台湾引发民众排队拍照，照片也十分走红。