Photography
"Just like research, photography to me is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…"
Hongcun - Yellow Mountains
Famous for its Ming and Qing architecture, Hongcun sits at the base of the Huangshan Mountains. It is listed as one of China's top 10 charming villages and it was added to UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage List in 2000.
Almost every day, there will be dozens of art students lining the paths painting the scene in a variety of different styles. Morning mists, gray tiles, white walls, stone bridges, water lily ponds, and hills at the background, all of these features are combined together to make these amazing traditional Chinese landscape paintings.
Yellow Mountains - The Four Wonders
Yellow Mountain pines are particularly hardy, seeming to twist directly out of the smooth rock. Greeting Guest Pine is the most famous pine in the Yellow Mountains, and doubtless in all of China. It grows like a man standing by the path and stretching out his hand to guests in a greeting gesture.
Oddly-Shaped Rocks. Each rock's name has a story, which gives the rock life.
The seas of cloud have contributed much to the ethereal atmosphere of the Yellow Mountains, making peaks look like islands in the sky.
There is a tale that the Yellow Emperor, the earliest ancestor of the Chinese nation, bathed in the hot spring and became younger. So the springs are also called the Springs of Youth.
Nanjing
Winter - Photos taken in FuziMiao/Confucius Temple, the most famous tourist attraction of Nanjing.
Spring - Nanjing is also famous for her Cherry blossom. These photos were taken at Nanjing Normal University and Jiming Temple.