A view of Songyang Old Street in Lishui. Photo by Xiang Jing
Lishui, China, November 17 (Reporter Shao Yanfei Lin Bo) Oujiang Fanying of The Mother River in Lishui, Zhejiang Province, has thousands of terraces, a thousand-meter drop, a thousand-year-old cloud and terraces, and a songyang old street full of fireworks... At the sound of a crisp shutter, visitors whispered "Bring home home nostalgia."
In Lishui, a photo records the different cultural genes of Lishui, through the green water and green mountains, flying to the wider sky, through the light and shadow lens to let the scenery have a place to stay, but also let the Lishui cultural flavor behind the lens pass over the air.
Unleash ecological dividends and light up farming culture
In the leisurely afternoon, the sun lazily sprinkled on the bluestone slabs, the old craftsmen took out the housekeeper's unique skills, played cotton, rolled noodles, and played iron, immersed themselves in their own lives, painting the slow life of Songyang Old Street.
Farming culture, "lighting up" the pastoral Songyang. In the past five years, Songyang County, Lishui City, has worked hard to protect the original ecological ancient villages, carried out county-wide folk festivals, opened up 8 photography sketching routes, and built more than 10 photography stations, nearly 100 viewing platforms, and more than 100 photography sketching bases.
According to Wang Shangyijun, vice chairman of the Songyang County Photographers Association, in order to facilitate exchanges with international insightful people, the county has continuously strengthened the "talent software", specially recruited more than 50 foreign language translator volunteers, hired foreign teachers to train volunteers in international etiquette and customary language of various countries, so that photography sketching enthusiasts from all over the world can calm down, walk into the ancient villages of Songyang, and stay in the fields to create.
Not only are foreign photography sketching enthusiasts pouring into Songyang, but the photography sketching team of Songyang people is also going international. The photographic works of "Pastoral Songyang" have been exhibited in large-scale international photography exhibitions in Los Angeles and other places in the United States, and the works of local photographers in Songyang have been exhibited around the world, spreading pastoral scenery and Chinese culture to all corners of the world together.
Songyang is the epitome of Lishui's release of ecological dividends and the creation of a golden business card of cultural photography.
Wang Peiquan, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Lishui Municipal Committee, member of the Organizing Committee of the 2021 Lishui Photography Festival and director of the office, said that Lishui, which has a unique natural environment, has a deep traditional cultural heritage and extremely rich photography creation resources, "From 1999 to 2021, Lishui has rated a total of 35 national, provincial and municipal photography creation bases in the city, activating the economic effect and brand effect, and then promoting the synchronous and coordinated development of Lishui culture, ecology and tourism." ”
China Lishui Museum of Photography. Photo by Xiang Jing
The interweaving of light and shadow explores the development of the scenery and the culture
"Not only to bask in the scenery, but also in the culture." This is the "green declaration" of Lishui's "counterattack". In the "background board" of green water and green mountains, with cultural heritage as the creative brush, Lishui is refreshing a new path of green development.
Paddle sound and sail shadow, smoke and rain and dust, this town called "Guyan Painting Township" is only 23 kilometers away from Liandu District of Lishui City, with the most magnificent section of the Oujiang River in 800 miles, with several ups and downs and several degrees of prosperity.
At the inaugural Siena International Photography Awards, Russian photographer Prosin Vladimir's "On the River" won the overall title. Through this work, the most original Oujiang fan shadow is displayed, and while enjoying the beautiful scenery, the eyes of the world are also focused on the cultural heritage behind this landscape.
It is understood that the Oujiang River in the shadow of the Oujiang Sail is the mother river of Lishui, and the sailing boat is the main means of transportation on the Oujiang River, and it is also the representative of the culture of the Oujiang River Basin, and as the driving power "sail" in the background of the lake, it makes the sailing ship look moving.
In fact, with the ecological underpinning, Lishui has no shortage of cultural photography creation bases, Jinyun Xiandu, Qingyuan Baishanzu, Longquan Fengyang Mountain was awarded the national photography creation base by the China Photographers Association as early as 1999.
Today, Lishui is actively planning Lishui National Park with Zhejiang Fengyang Mountain - Baishanzu National Nature Reserve as the core, and taking the lead in carrying out the test and inspection of the establishment of national park standards in the country.
Lishui Guyan painting a scene of the township. Photo by Lin Bo
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As we all know, Lishui is a national ecological demonstration area, a national excellent tourist city, a national civilized city, and the first "hometown of Chinese photography".
Lishui photography, derived from landscapes, represents China and goes to the world. Since the 4th China Photography Art Festival was held in Lishui in 1999, Lishui City has truly made Lishui go to the world through the platform of the Photography Festival, and put forward a loud slogan: Let photography tell the world that China has a Lishui.
Recently, the "Lishui International Photography City Development Plan (2021-2030)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Planning") was officially released, which is a new round of ten-year planning formulated by Lishui City for the development strategy of the construction of an international photography city after Lishui issued the country's first photography special plan "Lishui Photography Development Plan 2011-2020" in 2011.
The "Planning" proposes that Lishui will make full use of the photography cultural foundation, environmental resource advantages and image industry development opportunities accumulated over the years to create an international photography city with local and international reflection, perfect integration of art and industry, and strong guarantee of elements and mechanisms, so that Lishui will become a benchmark for photography cities in the country and even the world.
Zheng Gengsheng, secretary of the party group of the China Photographers Association, vice chairman of the association, and director of the organizing committee of the fourth international photography symposium and 2021 Lishui Photography Festival, said that in 1999, the China Photographers Association awarded the first "Hometown of Chinese Photography" brand to Lishui, and for more than 20 years, Lishui bravely tried, around the brand activity of the photography festival, formed one after another fresh "Lishui model", accumulated a very rich "Lishui experience".
Looking at the present, the natural beauty of the landscape scenery, the accumulation of profound cultural heritage, and the unique folk customs make Lishui have a good "appearance" and "temperament", which is deeply loved by photographers and tourists at home and abroad, and Lishui is also discovering the beautiful, sharing the beautiful and creating the beautiful through photography. (End)
Source: China News Network