2024 is the Year of the Dragon, which is only encountered once in 60 years, and how many 60 years are there in life?
Before I started my career as an editor, I would use photos every year to record the bits and pieces of what might be an ordinary "year", and then I would supplement it with some words to express my inner feelings. At the same time, it can be regarded as when I am recording the flavor of the New Year, and I will talk to you about some of my insights. During the Chinese New Year this year, I brought an Honor Magic6 Pro from the company, and I want to take you to see the year in my eyes and the year in my heart through it.
After entering the workplace, the New Year may mean that you can give yourself a small long vacation, and you can have more time for yourself to do the things you like, or accompany your parents, or go out to travel, etc. But with the loneliness of growing up, I often recall the year when I was a child, although there was no abundant material conditions, in addition to the sale of a pig killed in the New Year, only a small part of the New Year was left to improve the diet. A few years ago, the big market in the township was our last opportunity to buy New Year's goods, and my father drove my mother and me in a mule cart, wrapped in quilts, and "tapped" on the winding village road. At that time, I started to prepare for the first month of the year, and even half of the New Year's goods prepared in advance would be eaten by me secretly. In fact, many times the year revolves around the parents, and the family reunion also makes the year more complete.
Nowadays, especially for wanderers who do not work in their hometowns, the New Year only starts on the day of the holiday, and what can be felt earlier is just the taste of the Internet New Year. After the holiday on the 28th of December this year, I took the high-speed train overnight and started to go home, one is to prepare some more New Year's goods for my family, and the other is to paste couplets to my parents to help them buy things. Recall that time has changed, and the roles we play are also reversed, and the responsibility on our shoulders makes us obliged.
Zhangjiakou's familiar Wucheng Street, the familiar dried apricots stall, and the colorful dried apricots are also decorating the New Year, and the sweetness and sourness may also be the taste of the New Year felt by different people. I buy it or not, it's all there, I don't want to think about it, it's all gone.
When buying New Year's goods, I accidentally caught a glimpse of the fireworks belonging to the city, the hot chestnuts that had just been fried were steaming, and a mother passed by with her child, wrapped in thick cotton clothes, and there was a red rock sugar gourd next to it, this scene is difficult not to be excited, and it is difficult not to think of my childhood. When I was a child, my parents took me to buy new years, and everything I saw in the grocery store was fresh, even if it was a dime a spicy strip, it would make me stop for a long time. At that time, it may be a great pleasure to buy a large bottle of Sprite or Coke during the Chinese New Year, and it is really possible to forget the criticism of your parents when you do something wrong, and be happy for a whole year.
When I was shopping, I passed by a small stall of Chinese sugar paintings, an intangible cultural heritage of China, the color scheme is very eye-catching, and the craftsmanship is also very exquisite, but not many people will buy it, maybe more is just a glance, just a glance. Why is that?
On the way home, I saw a puppy, its eyes were so clear that I couldn't help but want to hug it, but it was a social terror, and I just used the Honor Magic6 Pro's hawkeye camera to take a close-up of it. Perhaps, the further meaning of technology is that it allows us to put our ideas into reality, maybe a few years ago, I wanted to capture it and it would have been a long time ago, but now, I can even see myself in its eyes.
For Zhangjiakou people, the New Year may have to have fireworks, string lights these elements, just like Shanxi, every household must hang colored curtains in the window, so that there is a New Year's atmosphere. When the fireworks rise to the apex and bloom warmly, although there is only a moment, it is the focus of thousands of people's eyes. For me, every time I see the lights at the gate of the opposite community and all kinds of fireworks blooming, I know that the new year is coming.
For the daughter-in-law from the city, everything in the village is fresh, I have never seen a coal-burning stove, let alone a stove used to heat Lulu, or even a pot of delicious big bones. But for parents, this is already a daily routine, and even annoyed by the fact that burning coal in the stove produces too much smoke and ash. Sometimes life needs freshness, but after freshness, it is always day after day, and how to live fresh day after day is a difficult problem in front of everyone.
Early in the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, my daughter-in-law and I began to paste couplets at home, and for her, it was the first time she posted them outdoors, and she was already shivering from the cold. I remembered that a few years ago, my mother and I had a few quarrels over the couplet, and the reason was very simple, because the weather was too cold, the wind was too strong, and the wall was white, and the couplet I just pasted kept falling. In fact, I look forward to pasting couplets to the family every year, my father has to go to work, and my mother has to prepare Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and I am the most suitable to paste couplets, which is also a necessary part for me to experience the taste of the New Year up close.
In the past few days of the Chinese New Year, the weather in Zhangjiakou is very powerful, although the cannon sound is continuous at night, but the sky is still clear in the morning, and the white wall, red tile, and blue sky are difficult not to like. Although the two magpie nests at the back of the house "drink" the northwest wind on the old trees that wither in winter, they still have to pass on all kinds of good news to every family, this child has come back for the New Year, and the child has brought back his eldest grandson...... Perhaps the magpie has already seen through everyone's heart, and through the chirping, let the inner monologue spread to the distance of hope.
Just after the Chinese New Year, I swiped the topic of family severance on social media again, and for me, who has always been more traditional, I wanted to talk about my thoughts again. I remember when I was a child, my family lived in a mountain village, and at that time, I would go out to pay New Year's greetings on the morning of the first day of the New Year, not only relatives, but even neighbors, which was already a custom. But now, the Chinese New Year is just with my parents, and then I call distant relatives, and it is difficult to go back to my hometown for hundreds of miles to see. Also, in my generation, I don't really move around much with the children of my parents' generation, and although there are all kinds of kinship, I don't even know each other when I meet them. This is why I often think of my childhood in the countryside, where there was nothing to do, but there was happiness, and there were relatives who kept moving around and constantly troubled each other. I can't even imagine that by the time of my children's generation, how many relatives will be left?
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, I was about to go out to go out to the ancient city of Wanquan Youwei, which we had just opened, only to find that the glory Magic6 Pro secretly came to a wave of updates, and finally arranged a New Year watermark. To tell the truth, this watermark is really good, it can instantly upgrade the photo to a higher level, and the bright red color scheme also makes the festive and blessed atmosphere full, with blessings, it may be difficult for someone not to try it.
Returning to the topic of ancient cities, in fact, for many cities across the country, there are ancient cities, but there are very few signboards that are really played, and Xi'an Datang Sleepless City has become a benchmark for learning. Last winter, I went to the ancient city of Datong, and I had to admire the foresight of Mayor Geng Yanbo at that time, which could really make everyone in it feel the shock and historical heritage. Looking back at Zhangjiakou, it also has a profound historical heritage, as one of the four major passes in the Great Wall of China, it has an important position in history, but now it has been repaired several times, but it has always been tepid, and the reason may be known to many locals. And now the explosion of Wanquan Youwei Ancient City, but also to Wanquan Cultural Tourism and even Zhangjiakou Cultural Tourism put forward one, if you catch this pouring wealth, through long-term operation to attract new tourists, retain repeat customers is the key.
Walking into the ancient city of Youwei, we can also see the shadows of some other scenic spots everywhere, such as some melodrama performances, I also saw similar performances when I went to Baiyangdian, but combined with the history of my own city. In addition, there is a strong atmosphere of commercialization, and the commercialization in the ancient city is actually easy to make tourists uncomfortable, and the degree of this needs to be skillfully grasped. In fact, whether it is for local tourists or foreign tourists, the ancient city should not only let everyone feel the history, but also let everyone feel the temperature of the ancient city and the city, just like Harbin, which can make everyone feel the warmth, which tests the whole city.
And when I keep walking around and shooting, I have unconsciously switched the image style of the Honor Magic6 Pro to texture, because especially when shooting some brightly colored scenes, the texture can better show the mood I want to express, and the stronger color impact can interpret the time and space of the past and the present to the extreme.
If you look carefully at the watermark, you will also find that many of my photos are actually taken by telephoto, and the 1x focal length is rarely used. Honor Magic6 Pro's 180 million pixel telephoto has indeed brought a lot of surprises this time, and every zoom shot can take a well-composed photo, with a new image style, I have to say, Honor's image has also begun to stand up.
Write at the end
From eating and eating on the first day of Chinese New Year's Eve, to visiting relatives and friends on the second and third days of junior high school, the year has basically passed like this. As far as I am concerned, there are no regrets this year, and I will always go on the road of recording the year, although it is my own year that is recorded now, but in the future, I may be able to record the taste of the year for more people, so that the taste of the year will fade a little slower, and the tide of family loss will come later. Today, I will also leave for my hometown to visit my grandmother, who is nearly 90 years old, and I hope that she will be in good health, and I also hope that everyone will have a bright future, a bright future, and a bright life and career.