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Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
Near the end of the year, it is very meaningful to look back at the distant places you have traveled. On the afternoon of December 28th, the new book sharing meeting of "I want to waste time with you - Li Yuansheng's "Menghai Worm Hunting" was held in Chengdu Yanjiyou Bookstore. Li Yuansheng, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize and a famous poet from Chongqing, shared his experiences, feelings and stories behind photographing insects in the rainforests of Yunnan, Hainan and around the world.
Li Yuansheng has been photographing insects since 2000, observing and recording them with the help of macro lenses, magical and beautiful moments of life. From Chongqing's Wuling Mountains and Simian Mountains to the tropical jungle of Xishuangbanna, from the dry ants of The Wuzhi Mountains in Hainan to the Starry Night Lantern Temptation in Costa Rica, from the smallest butterfly in China that flies like a dragonfly, to the first male leaf "insect" photo in China... Li Yuansheng photographed insects, which has far exceeded the nature of amateur tickets, he once accepted the invitation of a scientific research base in Costa Rica, walked with domestic entomologists, and traveled across the ocean to the local rainforest for more than 20 days. They shoot in the rainforest with the most venomous snake species for "light lure" and "night patrol". Because nocturnal insects often have a phototropic nature, Li Yuansheng will use "lamp seduction" and "night patrol" methods to shoot. "It's a very fascinating shooting experience: the endless night is like a huge trap, and a lamp hanging deep in the jungle or on the wide grass is like a summoning spell, summoning all kinds of insects to come to the stage, and we are the photographers of this 'dance'."
"In May 2008, on the mountainside of Jianfengling in Hainan, just as I was holding a 105mm lens and 'fighting wits' with a deer gray butterfly, I suddenly saw a pair of dangling 'ribbons' wrapped around each other from the strong backlight above the bushes not far away, giving people a surreal illusion. I was shocked, it must be the butterfly, because only its wings are transparent, and only its head and sword protrusions will turn into a 'ribbon' in the backlight. Based on years of shooting experience, Li Yuansheng judged that the swallow butterflies he had just seen should fly to a puddle or stream. Sure enough, after more than half an hour of painstaking searching, he finally got his wish to take the first photo of The Swallow Phoenix Butterfly. "It was an experience that impressed me, insect photography is like that, it is encounterable and unattainable, and the only thing the photographer can do is to wait with perseverance."
Li Yuansheng photographs insects
With the support of a team led by entomologists, Li Yuansheng has gained a lot from shooting in Menghai, Yunnan Province, for nearly a year. Li Yuansheng said, "With the support of the Menghai County Forestry Bureau, Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve and Nabanhe Nature Reserve, together with the insect research team, hundreds of insect species that have not been included in local biology have been photographed. This is also an important source of the content of the book "The Hunt for Insects in the Menghai Sea". Li Yuansheng and his companions also experienced the attack of the drought ant, "We went deep into the jungle to shoot, and when we found that there were drought ants on the body, everyone present involuntarily took a breath of cool air. No one knows when the marmots climbed up, nor how much blood they have sucked. I had 7 drought ants and 3 wounds on my body that could not stop bleeding, and the situation of my companion was even more unbearable, and the path he walked was intermittently blood all the way..."
Li Yuansheng shares his photographs of insects
"Together the short silence of the void, the long meaninglessness, and the consumption of the exquisite and old universe together", in 2015, because of a song "I want to waste time with you", it was composed and sung by the singer, which made Li Yuansheng's poetry name "out of the circle", and in 2017, he also won the most weighty "Chen Ziang Poetry Award" of the annual "Chen Ziang Poetry Award" issued by the "Poetry Journal" of the China Writers Association. In parallel with his poetry career, in the past 20 years, Li Yuansheng has taken more than 100,000 insect photos, accumulated more than 200,000 words of insect observation notes, and published many botanical books such as "The Beauty of Insects", "Walking with All Things", "Dear Insects" and so on. Among them, the "Beauty of Insects" collection of pictures and essays was selected as one of the top 100 books recommended by the Press and Publication Administration to young people across the country, and its photographic works were selected into more than 20 kinds of natural illustrations and popular science books. He also co-authored the "Great Atlas of Insect Ecology in China" with Chinese insect taxonomist Zhang Weiwei. In 2019, his latest wentu work "The Story of The Insect Hunt in Menghai" was also published by Chongqing University Press, and the response was very good.
Standing on the sharing stage, Li Yuansheng shared that his experience in insect photography in the rainforest was so rich and interesting that people would be in a trance, forgetting that he was actually a writer and poet, but felt that he was a professional field explorer. Whether it is writing poetry with words or photographing insects with photography, it is the expression of different carriers of Li Yuansheng's poetic life. Li Yuansheng does not feel that he is an insect photographer. He was only interested in the beauty presented in insect activity. It was beauty that impressed Li Yuansheng. "Good insect photos, more wonderful gestures, more wonderful looks are more important." In fact, since 2000, he has been fascinated by field expeditions, photographing insects and plants, and has also really influenced Li Yuansheng's poetry writing. "When I look up from the infatuation of nature and look at the world again, I see things I haven't seen before. The impact of these years of natural investigation on my poetry writing has been profound and at the same time concrete. A lot of my poetry stems from walking in the wild. From the sentence pattern of poetry to the structure of poetry, I have learned a lot from the forest and the river. ”
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