In Langzhong's Laoguan Town, Liu's Zhi, an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, is performing the Baxiang drum dance with the legacy of the Bayu dance. Langzhong was once the capital of Pakistan, where the Bayuhan culture has a long history.
Langzhong, which is located at the crossroads of Ba-Shu, has a long history and many relics as the former capital of an ancient country. Geography, religion and folklore have created their own cultural ecology.
However, the rise of the city and the arrival of modernization have inevitably brought various indescribable effects to this ancient city. The stars have changed, the people are no longer there, things are different.
Well, in the process of the times, the culture inherited from history still lingers in the blood of the city, which is the core and soul, embodied in every detail of the ancient city.
The Sangqiao Square in Langzhong's Laoguan Town is bustling with dragon and lion dances.
The second day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the liveliest day of the Spring Festival in the old town of Laoguan, with various folk activities competing for the stage.
The site of Lao Guanchang, formerly the site of the ancient Guo Feng County. In February, I took this photo while catching a fair in Langzhong's Laoguan Ancient Town, with crowds of people catching the fair in the foreground, carrying backpacks with local specialties; and a wedding photo of a young couple in the background.
Langzhong Hongshan Town is the owner of a motorcycle rearview mirror. With the improvement of transportation conditions, this scene gradually faded out of people's lives.
Gongyuan Square, Xuedao Street, Langzhong City, the afternoon sun shines brightly, Langzhong City, the old people gathered here to chat and play long cards, a long history of playing a variety of fun.
The old teahouse in Thousand Buddha Town is dimly lit, with old log railings gleaming. Familiar customers are drinking tea and chatting, the atmosphere is leisurely and lazy.
Langzhong, more like a symbol, is a collection of the spirit of the residents; a collection of symbols; a concentration accumulated over thousands of years. I grew up under this symbol, and a few years later, I revisited it through images.
In personal experience, my father subconsciously taught me to grasp the scale of beauty, and this scale, which has been carried over from my parents, has become the original purpose of my observation.
Photographed on April 21, 2016, in my hometown, Miaogao Town, Langzhong. The picture shows a dam feast held on my father's 83rd birthday, where family and friends gathered.
(Ba Banquet, also known as Nine Bowls of Running Water Banquet, is one of the famous traditional Sichuan dishes. It features steamed vegetables and was originally named for the nine steamed vegetables.
At the Gongyuan Square on Xuedao Street, people accompanied by passion, kicked their legs, flung their arms and swayed their postures, making the street a unique landscape.
In Langzhong, the two forces of nature and humanity **** with the growth, harmony **** exist. The mountains and rivers are hazy and beautiful, like a meaningful landscape scroll.
Langzhong Gouxi River
Traces of existence are engraved on the dwellings, arranged in a staggered manner, reflecting how this blessed land in the southwest allows beings to flourish. The experiences of all beings are worth reading and being recorded, and every time slice is a living specimen.
An old couple in their 80s on Xiaxin Street in the ancient city of Langzhong.
Photographed in April 2014 at the west ferry crossing of the river in Langzhong. A young girl walks down the ferry in a fashionable dress with a big smile on her face. Hexi Ferry, located in the middle section of the Jialing River, was once one of Langzhong's seven protective barriers. With the development of the city, the ferry has been unable to meet the travel requirements of modern people; in July of the same year, the third bridge over the Jialing River was officially opened to traffic, and the Hexi Ferry Terminal was shut down.
"Spring Festival old man" is unique to Langzhong heritage. The gray-haired old man is the embodiment of the astronomer who was involved in the Solar Calendar in the early Han Dynasty.
In 2004, the International Committee on the Nomenclature of Small Bodies named an asteroid "Meteor".
Photographed in the ancient city's new street number, also known as the Painted Scene, is the most grounded ar
In Langzhong, new elements continue to emerge, but the legacy of the old seems to be unbroken. While the process of modernization drives individuals and collectives forward, Langzhong has solidified many traditions by lagging behind the mainstream.
Langzhong's Northern Sichuan Lantern Festival is also known to farmers as the "God of Joy".
In the slow pace of life, dragon and lion dances, northern Sichuan shadow puppetry and craftsmanship have settled over time. The older generation passes on the legacy to the new generation, and the young continue to pass on the love.
Sichuan shadow puppetry has two laurels: "World Intangible Cultural Heritage" and "National Intangible Cultural Heritage".
The excesses of Qianfan's behavior, in both grand narrative and subtle details, have much to tell in "Langzhong". Still unchanged, this land that stayed in my memory as a young man never seems to leave.
Under the artist's creativity, the three-meter-high Northern Sichuan shadow play stands on the vast ancient road, as if looking out over the past and present, the city and the people. In Langzhong, new elements are constantly emerging, but the old heritage never seems to be broken.