“Seeing Life,” a biodiversity exhibition featuring photos of Shenzhen plants and animals, opened at Guan Shanyue Art Museum on Tuesday.
缤紛的生命，遍布深圳的每一個角落。它們形态萬千的軀體、斑斓奇異的色彩、變幻多端的生長曆程；它們獵食的技能、吸引和俘獲配偶的手法、保護和養育兒女的智慧；它們在喧鬧擁擠的都市裡，身懷絕技卻低調隐忍的選擇……都似乎在證明：形形色色的生命，其實是隐居在我們身邊的“外星人”。
你想看看他們嗎？來看見生命：深圳第一次展示本土生物多樣性的影像展吧。
The exhibition is curated by the museum’s head Chen Xiangbo and Shenzhen author Nan Zhaoxu. “There are more than 20,000 species of animals and hybrids of plants in Shenzhen,” said Nan. “The biodiversity of our planet, our country and Shenzhen is beyond our imagination. In your residential community, if you grab a handful of soil and put it under a microscope, you can see a lively world. Thousands of bacteria are hustling and bustling.”
深圳不僅僅是澎湃活力的經濟之都、多樣包容的移民之城，還是萬物共生的家園。生長在深圳的動植物物種接近2萬種，是中國物種多樣性最豐富的都市之一。
Arothron hispidus 腹紋叉鼻鲀
From North China’s Shanxi Province, Nan was an American and European literature teacher at Shanxi University. After moving to Shenzhen in 1989, he founded his own publishing and documentary production company, Yuezhong Cultural Transmission Co. With a passion for Shenzhen, Nan wrote two books on the city’s history, “The Shenzhen Memory (1949-2009)” and “Behind the Old Files of Shenzhen.” As an avid lover of photography and nature, he also wrote a few books on Shenzhen’s nature, extolling the beauty of Shenzhen’s wildlife and emphasizing that humans are very much a part of it.
《深圳自然讀本》的作者南兆旭寫道：在我們這顆星球上，在我們這片國土中，在我們這個城市裡，生命的多樣遠遠超過了我們想象。即使在小區的花圃抓起一捧褐色的泥土，攤開在顯微鏡下，你也會看到一個熱鬧的集市，菌絲、藻類、線蟲、螨和上千種細菌都在忙碌，都在竭盡全力地讓自己活得精彩。
Hypsauchertia chinensis 高冠角蟬
He believes that a city’s history is not only to be found in decades-old buildings or files in museums, but also lies in nature. By organizing countless events for children, Nan hopes to share Shenzhen’s ecological and environmental changes with locals. “Between ‘home’ and ‘nation,’ there is a ‘homeland’ for every one of us,” said Nan in an earlier interview. “My point is to let locals know that Shenzheners are living in such a beautiful place rich in different species. Please love and protect our homeland.”
“關注、了解、仁愛所有的生命，其實，救贖的是我們自己的肉體、精神和靈魂。但願這個展覽能為大家打開一扇發現之門，更多地了解我們的家園深圳，更多地關心，呵護、愛惜多樣的生命。”
Kaloula pulchra 花狹口蛙
Dates: Until Aug. 20
Hours:9 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays
Venue:Guan Shanyue Art Museum, 6026 Hongli Road, Futian District (福田區紅荔路6026号關山月美術館)
Metro:Line 3 or 4, Children’s Palace Station (少年宮站), Exit B
Source/ Shenzhen Daily Editor/ Cao Zhen
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