The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty recorded: "The East Woman Country, another name for the West Qiang, has a woman country in the West Sea, so it is called the East Woman Yan." The vulgar woman is king. "In Sichuan's Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, deep on the plateau there is the Valley of the Queens (Beauty Valley), where the Jiarong Tibetans who believe in mountain gods live.
Director Shen Pengfei focused his camera on this secluded fairy valley and recorded the yearning and life of a pure place.
Bijin Valley
Duration: 75 minutes × 1 episode
Quality: HD
Genre: Contemporary Humanities Documentary
Publisher: Jingshang Media
This is a documentary that gathers beauty and struggle. The story takes place in Danba County, a mountainous area on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, a place known as the "Valley of Beauty......
The people living here are calm and happy, and by recording the different stories of the Tashi Lam family in Zhonglu Township and the Zeren Ram family in Suopo Township, there are how unquiet lives and choices are under the calm surface.
The film depicts the story of two families, one is called Deji and the other is called Ram, in addition to the two heroines who live up to the local reputation, the most important thing is that their stories are very tense, constantly facing the tests and pulls of life and choices. Deji went to school in Chengdu, but what should she do after graduation? Stay in the city or return to her hometown? The city brings her prosperity, convenience and hope, but can the family and love of her hometown be easily parted with? As for Ram, who lives in the countryside and hopes for a better family but constantly encounters difficulties, both stories record the contradiction between tradition and future lifestyle, and their final choice.
Director Shen uses the perspective of the field and anthropological methods to shoot and tell the content, the shooting team maintains a good relationship with the local residents, and also faces and bears all the problems and difficulties with the subject, so that the subject will have trust, the following photo is the scene of them accompanying the subject to tell fortunes.
The film crew spanned two Chinese New Year's Eves, using the dimension of time to record their life and development, record differences and identities, record their choices of life and destiny, marriage, career choice, etc., and pay attention to the contradictions and identities intertwined by different cultures. The stories of the families show how China's ethnic minorities have developed in this vast country, protected their culture, and integrated into this complex "big family of the motherland".
The documentary "Beauty Valley" was distributed by Jingshang Media.