Years of Poems and Spirits

I always have a soft spot for photo portrait of daily lifes. It is probably because one can “internalize” a picture much easier than a video.

Just read an article on a Chinese portal, the title was “厕所·买妻·艳舞–图片讲述中国故事”. Here is a snapshot of it.

I was really fortunate to have discovered it, because the portal is mostly a gossip/tabloid type. The pictures in this article are beauifully composed, lively yet so believeable.

Those are copyright-ed materials (see the article for more details)

The story of “buying wife” from impoverished western China, with the picture of a couple on opposite ends of the frame, could be easily made more inflammotary. The picture of the newly weds is a pictorial version of the many poems depicting rural lifes throughout history. Seeing the pictures has arosed strong emotions in me, but I will leave the pictures to tell the stories.

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