There are many houses with such a logo. Unfortunately we were told the significance of the logo only after passing the village. As a result no photograph was taken.
Story goes that an Official Peng was assigned to look at this place by the Emperor as he was interested in longevity. However Peng disliked the Emperor and informed him that this place lacked water. He was furious on hearing that and restrict Peng to living in this village.
Peng believed then that longevity can only be achieved by consuming a longevity pill. As a result he carried much experiments. His efforts at getting villagers to exercise and to have proper diet resulted in longevity for villagers.
But he continued in his search in chemistry for the longevity pill. Interestingly experimentation resulted in the invention of gun powder.
This story was told by our tour guide Cycy who graduated one year ago out of a batch of 8,000 from that only 1,000 were certified as tour guides. She is very intelligent to succeed on her first attempt. Her major was history. So this story must be true.
Cycy is 23, petite and beautiful, very confident and a good presenter of historical details.
However this photograph does not reflect her true self because the night before she had very little sleep. The hotel was fully booked, they put her in a dormitory with 2 other tour guides next to a workplace that worked late into the night and started work early in the morning. Poor Cycy was exhausted the next day and was clinging to a pillar in Emei Shan pavilion for support. She has large eyes similar to those of Tibetan girls not those on the photograph.
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