Fast forward to 2022, I have forgotten how I spent the Qingming Festival in the first two years of the epidemic.
Today, because of the epidemic, I dare not go out casually, so I joke with my friends that I am going to travel to Beijing during the Qingming Festival. In fact, even if I travel to other places, I don't like scenic tours, I like street tours. I like the local area because it's where I really want to see.
Picture 1 Tao Hao Xiao mobile phone photography
Although I was born and raised in Beijing, I feel that sometimes looking at the streets with bright spring lights, there is a sudden strange feeling. It was as if I had never looked at every moment I had experienced carefully, and suddenly found that everything familiar was so beautiful. And such a beautiful street, but because it is too familiar to ignore. During the Qingming Dynasty, the sky in Beijing was blue, and I stepped on the pink and white petals that fell on the streets of Beijing, not to be upset by the epidemic. Walking on the familiar street with the petals of the flowers, I felt very good.
Figure 2 Peach Haoxiao mobile phone photography
The spring in Beijing is no longer full of sand and dust, no longer smog, and the warm spring breeze is accompanied by bright sunshine, making the whole person a little lazy. Occasionally, when I stop on the street, I am attracted by the spring flowers on the side of the street, and circle around them, as if the creator in front of the sculpture table is looking for the best angle of the model, and I take pictures with my mobile phone.
In previous years, the feeling was that after the spring flowers bloomed, the magnolias bloomed, and then the apricot blossoms and peach blossoms rose to the branches in turn. These spring flowers opened the rhythm of the flower tide for the Spring of Beijing. However, the magnolia tree in front of you today is a bit late, because the magnolia flowers elsewhere have bloomed two weeks ago and are now withering. The flowers in the canopy of these trees bloom particularly brightly. The surrounding apricot blossoms and peach blossoms lilacs have become inconspicuous supporting roles.
Figure three peach haoxiao mobile phone photography
Magnolia flowers, very popular, her flowers are not only large but also extremely elegant. The flowers are natural, but the only one that blooms so elegantly and introverted is the magnolia.
I've complained about magnolia flowers, which are too photogenic. It was as if she was only concerned with her own beauty, and did not allow any creator to "rob" her beauty. Among the photographs and paintings I have seen, there are also magnolia flowers as the theme, but they are not as elegant and more tacky as the magnolia flowers. Why is that?
Figure 4 Peach Haoxiao mobile phone photography
If magnolia is compared to a woman, she should be a gentle and elegant subtle beauty. Although she is not on the camera, I still don't want to leave the magnolia flowers in front of me only in my heart. I walked around the magnolia flowers, trying to find an angle to avoid the mundane objects such as high-rise buildings and take a few pictures of the magnolia flowers. Although I firmly believe that the photos I took are also mundane, and the shape of her can be retained in the lens but her elegance cannot be photographed.
In fact, there are some things in life that some people, almost like magnolia flowers, seem to be simple and clear, everyone can appreciate, but carefully explore, but found that the inside is infinite, reflecting the shallowness of their own understanding. Such a thing is worth studying, such a person is worth reading. Because they have the "high depth" that ordinary people "plunder" and can't go, it is not a layer of window paper, but the essence of precipitation. Like the magnolia flower, it is very beautiful, but her elegance is not the same that no photographer or painter can capture.
On the 2022 Tomb Sweeping Festival, I stepped on the scattered petals on the side of the road and reveled under the tree where the magnolia flowers were blooming...
Figure 5 Peach Haoxiao mobile phone photography
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Peach on 2022-4-5