During the past two decades, Chinese rock band, Miserable Faith, has performed in arenas, theaters, and outdoor music festivals across the country, surrounded by wildly cheering fans.
痛仰乐队是中国的一支摇滚乐队。过去二十年，痛仰在中国各地音乐现场、户外音乐节演出，受到乐迷的狂热追捧。
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However, when the band visited a small village in Zhenghe county in East China's Fujian province, they stood on a rudimentary flagstone path and performed their piece, Song of the Road, to an appreciative, though small, audience.
痛仰乐队最近探访了中国东部福建省政和县的一个小村庄。在那里，他们把古旧的石板路当成舞台，演唱了《公路之歌》，观众虽然不多，但反响不错。
Villagers gathered around and enjoyed the performance against the backdrop of blue sky, white clouds and green trees.
天空一片湛蓝，白云浮动，绿树掩映，村民们聚在一起欣赏了痛仰乐队的这次演出。
图源：腾讯视频《中国这么美》第一集
It's a scene from a new TV show titled China is So Beautiful, which features nine groups of singer-songwriters and indie rock bands traveling to and performing in villages. Miserable Faith and the small village in Zhenghe county were featured in the first episode of the TV show, which premiered on Tencent Video on Nov 18.
这个场景是户外音乐旅行纪录片《中国这么美》的一个片段。节目集结了九组创作型歌手和独立摇滚乐队，邀请他们去到乡村进行表演。11月18日上线的《中国这么美》第一集中，痛仰乐队来到福建政和。
"We love performing here. It is so close to nature," says leading vocalist and songwriter Gao Hu. "It's the first time that we traveled to Zhenghe county, where we saw beautiful scenery and met lovely people."
痛仰主唱兼词曲作者高虎说：“我们喜欢在这里表演，这里太贴近自然了。这是我们第一次来政和县，风景很美，遇到的人也都很可爱。”
Located between two mountain chains Wuyi and Jiufeng, the county is famous for its tea.
政和县以白茶扬名，西有武夷山东翼余脉，东有九峰山脉横贯。
In the one-hour show, audiences followed the band picking tea leaves in a vast garden, run by Yang Feng, who keeps his family tradition of growing tea trees in the small village. Before they left Zhenghe county, the band played with children of a primary school of Jinping village, where they met a teacher Ye Xiangmei. The 35-year-old Ye has been teaching at the school since 2013. While the school suffers from a teacher shortage, Ye teaches multiple courses, such as Chinese language and music.
第一集时长约为一小时。痛仰乐队带着观众来到一个大茶园，采摘茶叶。茶园是杨丰经营的，他延续了家里世代种植茶叶的传统。离开政和县前，乐队和锦屏村一所小学的孩子们一起演奏了几首歌曲。在那里，乐队还见到了叶相美老师。叶老师今年35岁，自2013年起就在该校任教。学校老师短缺，叶老师一个人担任语文、音乐等多门课程的教学。
"She is a great teacher who is warm, enthusiastic and caring. She reminds me of my mother, who was also a teacher before her retirement," says Zhang Jing, the band's bassist.
乐队贝斯手张静说：“叶老师很伟大，她很温暖，有着满腔的热情，也很有爱心。叶老师让我想起了我的母亲，她退休前也是名老师。”
In the show, they performed four of their songs, all against the backdrop of the villages in Zhenghe county they visited. Sunset, waterfalls, animals and villagers were featured in the show, which added a different layer of meaning to their songs.
在节目中，他们演唱了四首歌，每首歌都在他们到过的政和县的各个村庄里表演。落日殷红，瀑布倒悬，动物悠然，村民亲切，为这几首歌带来了独特意义。
The first man the band met was Song Zengfu, who took the band to see his bees, his rabbit, and his handcrafted pieces, like wooden rocking horses and bamboo baskets. Song's wife made them lunch and invited the band to drink their homemade glutinous rice wine.
乐队最开始见到的是宋增福。老宋带着乐队去看他养的蜜蜂、兔子，还有他自己做的一些手工作品，有木马，有竹篮。老宋妻子给他们做了午饭，还请乐队喝他们自制的糯米酒。
Both in their 60s, the couple enjoy their lives in the small village.
老宋夫妇都已经60多岁了，在这个小村子里住得很开心。
"Our children asked us to live with them in the bigger cities, where they work now. We found it very boring to live in the cities," said Song in the show.
老宋在节目里说：“孩子们都叫我们去城里住，他们在那里打工。我们觉得住在城里不好玩。”
"Though he is getting old, he still loves climbing trees and catching fish in the river. He just cannot leave the village," added Song's wife.
老宋妻子说：“虽然老宋年纪大了，但还是喜欢爬爬树、去河里抓抓鱼。他就是离不开村子。”
"Many people may decide to leave their hometowns and pursue a better life in bigger cities, but there are still some enjoying themselves in the villages. That's a different definition for happiness," says Gao.
高虎说：“很多人可能会离开家乡到大城市追求更高品质的生活，但还是有一些人在农村也过得很开心。这就是对幸福定义的不同。”
The band also met Chen Mujin, 53, who is known as the "Chinese calligraphy master". Chen couldn't read or write because his family was too poor to afford school fees. However, Chen loved looking at Chinese characters and hoped that he could write one day. While working on the farmland, he taught himself to read and write as a teenager. His wife supported his dream and used the money kept for her dowry to pay for Chen's calligraphy classes.
乐队还见到了53岁的乡村书法家陈木金。小时候因为家里穷，没钱读书，陈木金不认字也不会写字。但陈木金很爱看汉字，想着自己有一天也能写出来。在地里干活儿的时候，他就自己学认字、学写字。他的妻子很支持他，用自己的嫁妆供陈木金上书法班。
According to Wang Shengzhi, director of the TV show, besides Fujian province, the creative team also visited villages of other places across China, such as Lianping county in Guangdong province, Jianshui county in Yunnan province and Jingyuan county in Gansu province. Chinese bands, including Jiulian Zhenren and Wu Tiao Ren, are featured in the show.
节目导演王圣志表示，福建政和一行后，主创团队还探访了中国其他地方的村子，去到了广东连平、云南建水、甘肃靖远等一些地方。九连真人、五条人乐队也在后续节目中登场。
"These places may not be very popular among tourists but they are beautiful and deserve to be discovered," says Wang.
“游客可能很少去这些地方，但这些地方很美，值得去探索。”
The director says the TV show was inspired by his other shows, such as Breakfast of China, which brought viewers to travel across the country to taste as many as 30 types of popular breakfasts.
王圣志还表示，他拍摄的其他节目给了这个节目很多灵感，比如说《早餐中国》。《早餐中国》带着观众的味蕾在中国各地畅游，多达30种早餐在观众舌尖绽放。
"I met many interesting people when I shot the other shows. They have a very different lifestyle from people living in bigger cities and I want to introduce them to the audiences," says the director.
“拍摄其他片子的时候，我遇到很多有趣的人，他们的生活方式和大城市的人截然不同，我想把这种不同展示给观众。”
"It feels like an escape from the fast-paced city life by watching the show, especially when we cannot travel due to the coronavirus pandemic," says Zhu Lexian, head of A4 Studio, content production department of Tencent Online Video, who supervised the TV show, China is So Beautiful. "Like the name of the show suggests, there are many beautiful places and beautiful people in China."
腾讯在线视频节目内容制作部A4工作室负责人朱乐贤是《中国这么美》的监制，他表示：“看这个纪录片会让你感觉能逃离快节奏的城市生活，尤其是现在，大家受疫情影响，没办法出去旅游。就像这个纪录片的名字一样，中国这么美，地方美，人也美。”