The story in the photo takes place in an unknown mountain
village in Jiangning, Nanjing. Here surrounded by mountains, rolling, the
mountain is not high, there are immortals are famous. Nearby there is an
abandoned quarry and some scattered pear orchards. They gave the pear garden a
very beautiful name: pear valley. Quarry abandoned barren mountain is the
above-mentioned "bald mountain". So these scenes together constitute
the entire landscape of this mountain village.
When I photographed these scenes, the afterglow of the
slanting sun was gently sprinkling on this large area, thus forming the effect
of shadows of varying intensity and density. Although it is still far from the
oil painting-like texture, it expresses the tranquility and serenity of the
mountain village to a certain extent.
People who are tired of urban life have always longed for an
idyllic life, where they can spend the rest of their lives in peace and settle
their hearts. Some of them have spared no expense to buy properties in the
remote countryside, and they have made a lot of extravagant construction. For
those peasants who were born and raised in the mountain villages, perhaps they
are tired of the comfortable life in the mountains, and escaping from the
ravine to work in the city is their biggest dream. Just like what Qian Zhongshu
described in his novel "The Siege": people inside the walls want to
go out, and people outside the walls want to come in.
A young man from Maanshan talked to me about his hometown.
He said his hometown is full of mountains, more mountains than here and higher.
But he didn't want to stay there for the rest of his life. He said that life is
too comfortable. From his words, we can detect that he seems to be very
satisfied with the current life of the city to fight.
I only silently said: comfort may not be bad.
Filming date: January 1, 2021
Location: Jiangning Quarry, Nanjing, China
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