Sea of ​​Songs

The Dong stories collected by Yan Lei, the author of "Yesterday's China" for 30 years. The original ecological life of the traditional Dong villages in the deep mountains of Guizhou and Guangxi 📸 Editor's recommendation: Follow the famous French photographer Yan Lei into the traditional Dong villages in the deep mountains of Guizhou and Guangxi in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
From the wind and rain bridge built without a single nail or rivet to the drum tower, the spiritual core of the Dong village, from the late spring when new green is sown to the late autumn when golden harvest is harvested, from the Dong cloth printed and dyed using ancient methods to the hand-woven straw hats, feel the diligence and wisdom of the Dong people.

Yan Lei immersed himself in the pristine life of the Dong people, experiencing their daily customs and traditional festivals firsthand. He captured close-up scenes of singing competitions, Dong opera, weddings, fireworks festivals, reed pipe festivals, bullfighting festivals, and more, capturing the Dong people's joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness unadulterated on film. The rich colors of the reversal film evoke a sense of time and space, allowing one to hear the echoing songs of those days.
📸Brief introduction: The Dong people, a nation famous for their grand songs, wooden villages and terraced fields, were not well known to the world before the 1990s.
French photographer Yan Lei and his friend Xi Meng were the first Westerners to visit the Dong village deep in the mountains, and they were also the first photographers to use color film to capture that magical land.
Since 1988, Yan Lei has made four long journeys to the Dong ethnic group's concentrated areas in Guangxi and Guizhou. There, you can find the most characteristic Dong-style wind and rain bridges, spectacular terraced fields, songs that permeate daily life, and shy yet friendly villagers...
During the six months he lived in the Dong village, Yan Lei excitedly used his camera to capture the Dong people's magnificent scenery, historic wooden buildings, lively bullfighting festivals and fireworks festivals, and recorded the Dong culture of the time in a relatively complete manner.

2020-11-01

后浪 | 贵州人民出版社

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