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Hometown, a word with mixed feelings. Everyone who goes out on a long trip has left their hometown, but they are inseparable from their hometown. No matter where you go and how much change has taken place, the imprint of your hometown on a person is always difficult to fade.
This era is changing too fast, the hometown is changing, the people who leave the hometown are also changing, and in the midst of drastic changes, how to understand the hometown and how to face the relationship with the hometown is a problem that everyone who grows up outside must face. Thinking about the relationship between people and their hometown is essentially thinking about who I really am.
Hello, hometown. GQ Focus will invite Brunello Cucinelli, Baima Duoji, Haiqing, Qiu Chen, and Wang Ether to share their relationship with their hometown on the spot based on their personal growth experiences.
September 4th, 14:00-18:00, Shanghai Opportunity Center IP MALL China flagship store, we are waiting for your arrival.
When film director Jia Zhangke was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, he was already 23 years old, and his classmates around him had just come of age. He soon discovered that he and the people around him were not only reflected in age—when night fell, young classmates called on friends and went to enjoy their youth outside the campus together, but he was accustomed to writing silently in the study room alone.
Faced with a stack of 500 words and pages of green grid manuscript paper, Jia Zhangke's thoughts will always involuntarily return to his hometown, Fenyang, Shanxi. At that time, he wrote "Platform", the story of the Fenyang County Cultural and Labor Troupe that happened in the 80s. When he wrote down, he recalled the past of his youth in his hometown, Jia Zhangke often shed tears, first hearing the sound of the pen crossing the manuscript paper, and then hearing the ticking sound of tears hitting the paper.
After the script was written, fifty thousand words, Jia Zhangke estimated in his heart that it would take about three months to finish. But who would want to invest in filming the old days of a small county town in Shanxi? Thinking about this, he stood at the dormitory window and looked into the distance, the Ming and Qing style streets of the Beijing Film Studio were brightly lit and very lively, so he put on his coat and walked out to see. It turned out that Jet Li was acting in "Fang Shiyu".
Seeing this scene, Jia Zhangke was even more lost, and even broke the idea of filming. In the year of graduation, the students ran to their own things, Jia Zhangke did not know where to go in the future, and returned to his hometown in Fenyang during the Spring Festival. At that time, there was no highway from Beijing to Shanxi, and it took a train for more than ten hours, and as soon as I entered the county seat, the familiar shop wall was written with a big "demolition" word. When he was having dinner with his parents, he talked about what he had seen outside, and his father said, You are just coming back, and the county town is going to be demolished.
After listening to his father's words, Jia Zhangke put down the dishes and chopsticks and rushed into the county town. It was an important moment for him. Years later, he wrote an article recalling how he felt at that time:
"Looking at these hundreds of years old houses, thinking that these shops that I have been in and out of since I was a child will soon disappear, my heart is tight, knowing that the era I am in is full of unstoppable changes." Just like the late Qing Dynasty of Kang and Liang, just like the revolution was to Sun Wen's generation, and the vernacular was to Hu Shi and others, everyone has their own era, and each generation has their own tasks. Now, in the face of the county to be demolished, it may be my destiny to pick up a camera to photograph this subversive and collapsing change. I was twenty-seven years old. ”
Since then, Jia Zhangke has officially embarked on the road of film directing. From the hometown trilogy composed of "Xiao Wu", "Platform" and "Ren Xiaoyao", to today's "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" and "Children of the Rivers and Lakes", he has always unswervingly focused the lens on the place where he grew up. For him, that moment in Fenyang County was not only a determination of career direction, but also a confirmation of self-identity— by thinking about the relationship between people and their hometown, he sorted out the questions that everyone has to find answers throughout their lives—who I am and what should I do.
Hometown, a word with mixed feelings. Everyone who goes out on a long trip has left their hometown, but they are inseparable from their hometown. No matter where you go and how much change has taken place, the imprint of your hometown on a person is always difficult to fade. This era is changing too fast, the hometown is changing, the people who leave the hometown are also changing, and in the midst of drastic changes, how to understand the hometown and how to face the relationship with the hometown is a problem that everyone who grows up outside must face. Thinking about the relationship between people and their hometown is essentially thinking about who I really am.
Hello, hometown. On September 4, 2019, GQ Focus will invite five guests in Shanghai, Brunello Cucinelli, Baima Duoji, Haiqing, Qiu Chen, and Wang Ether, to share the relationship between their hearts and their hometown on the spot:
Born in 1974 in Perugia, Italy, Brunello Cucinelli founded the eponymous brand, gradually building a world-famous cashmere empire. Later, with his love for his hometown, he bought the medieval Solmeo Castle as the headquarters of the company, which has continued to the present day, and has always protected and restored the ancient buildings to keep them in their original appearance and protect them from the invasion of modern commercial construction. At the same time, we are committed to promoting artistic and cultural projects, so that the villages in our hometown are always full of natural, historical and artistic beauty.
In 2005, Baima Dorjee resigned from his job as a CCTV documentary director for more than ten years, returned to his hometown of Shangri-La, and threw himself into the construction of the Songzan series of hotels, committed to the excavation and preservation of the national culture of his hometown. He believes that travel is the best way to let people experience and understand the Tibetan culture in their hometown.
Haiqing was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and her personal character inherits Nanjing's urban temperament: relaxed, simple, unhurried and unhurried. Shrewd, flamboyant, and hot, the character of these other cities has nothing to do with Nanjing. Few people know that Haiqing was born in the Gan family compound and his personal personality was deeply affected by him. This courtyard, which was built during the Qing Dynasty and Jiaqing, is the largest private residence in China, and together with the Ming Tomb and the Ming City Wall, it is known as the three major landscapes of Nanjing, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Qiu Chen, the winner of the second season of "Strange Story", spent his childhood in Changsha, transferred to Guangzhou at the age of 14, went to Work in Hong Kong after graduating from university, and came to Beijing to live after turning 30. The experience of moving between cities erases her Changsha accent, but it cannot erase the character background imprinted in her heart by her hometown as a teenager.
Dialect rap is a force that is difficult to ignore in the Chinese music scene in recent years, and Wang Ether is one of the most important representative figures. After returning from studying abroad, Wang Yitai returned to his hometown of Chengdu, and in addition to Mandarin and English, he also consciously used Chengdu dialect for creation and expression. For him, the Chengdu dialect is not only an expression to build a degree of recognition, but also a path to self-identification. █
On September 4th, 14:00-18:00, Shanghai Opportunity Center IP MALL China flagship store, Brunello Cucinelli, Baima Duoji, Haiqing, Qiu Chen, Wang Ether, are waiting for your arrival.
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GQ Focus | Brunello Cucinelli, Baima Dorjee, Haiqing, Qiu Chen, and Wang Ether invite you to explore the relationship between people and their hometowns