Above the Cliff: The domestic spy war film "boutique" still needs to be polished.

Original title: Domestic spy war film "Boutique" still needs to be polished.



The director’s new spy war film has been highly praised since its release. According to the cat’s eye data, the film won 46.823 million box office on the first day of release, exceeded 200 million on the second day, and the douban score remained at 7.7 points, ranking first in the "May 1st" film. Above the Cliff can achieve such excellent results. It is very important that it shows the new style of domestic spy film creation, especially in audio-visual language.


The film creates a tense and bleak atmosphere with oil-painting colors and unique sound effects. In the opening shot of the film, the brushwork technique similar to Russian classical oil painting shows the magnificent scenery of the north to the fullest. Russian painters often use strong tone contrast to express natural scenery, wash and practice with pens, and create a unique space atmosphere. The use of sound effects perfectly laid the overall tone for the film. When four underground party member parachuted into the snow, the friction between clothes and snow was particularly harsh in the empty and lonely mountain forest. Combined with the restrained facial expressions of the actors, the inner pressure and fear of the characters were amplified, which also made the audience feel anxious.


In addition, the creator also creates characters through light and shadow and scenery, which makes them have a certain sense of sculpture. For example, in the scene of Zhou Yi chasing Chu Liang, Zhou Yi leans against the wall, and the background is dark. The light source on the right side hits him, and the strong light and shadow outline the figure’s face, body outline and clothes texture. He leaned against the wall motionless, his eyes focused, and the whole person was like a sculpture. The shadow of the brim forms an oblique shadow on his face, which divides the side face of the character in half. This cutting method implies the complex identity of Zhou Yi in extreme environment.


The irregular composition in the film creatively combines the classic elements of foreign films such as street fighting, chasing and crashing. For example, when the underground party was chased by the enemy, the director used a panoramic view to shoot, and the characters fled in crowded, closed and chaotic residential alleys. The large building walls formed a sense of oppression on the characters, which was the externalization of the power contrast between the two sides and the embodiment of the psychological pressure of the characters themselves. The audience also produced a kind of extreme fear, anxiety and depression.


Undoubtedly, the audio-visual language of Above the Cliff is exquisite and unique, and it is not an exaggeration to call it an audio-visual feast. But unfortunately, it is still slightly thin in narrative, especially compared with domestic spy war TV series.


First of all, spy war TV plays pay attention to the ethical basis and emotional expression of creation. Vow Silence, Latency, The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes, Cliff and Kite, which are highly praised by the audience, all sew the elements of spy war into the family narrative. In each "special" family, members have different social backgrounds, political positions and complex emotional entanglements. For example, Yang Liren and Yang Liqing, two brothers in the TV series "The Right Way on Earth is Vicissitudes", are both brothers and political enemies, one is the Kuomintang and the other is communist party. The two men not only retained the frankness between brothers, but also had the vigilance and preparedness between political enemies. At the same time, everyone’s ending is inseparable from the historical trend. This is also a continuation of the traditional narrative mode of "integration of family and country", which fits the audience’s psychology of watching movies.


The movie "On the Cliff" also tries to integrate the family and the country into the spy war narrative, so it designs the scene of Zhang Xianchen and Wang Yu looking for their children. However, the two clues are in a free state, and it is difficult for the audience to "empathize".


Secondly, spy TV plays attach importance to the polishing of the text, with meticulous plot logic and delicate suspense delay. The TV series "Latent" is good at making use of the casual words of little people to become an important incision for the protagonist to reverse, and this important information is often interrupted by another important plot point. This interlocking narrative way makes the audience dare not slack off. The spy film The Wind attaches importance to the rigor of logic, and it adopts a unique closed space narrative, learns from the game of "Wolf Man Killing" and integrates elements of western game theory, all of which enhance the audience’s sense of participation in discrimination and analysis. The stunning reversal of the role identity has prompted the audience to ponder every detail carefully.

In contrast, Above the Cliff lacks flipping, and the protagonist Zhou Yi is too upright. As soon as he appears, the audience can already guess his true identity, and the sense of suspense is weakened, which can’t perfectly release the charm of spy war works.


Furthermore, the spy war TV series also maximizes the tension of the story by showing the disparity between the enemy and ourselves. The TV series "Cliff" created Gao Bin, a treacherous and meticulous spy leader. He trusted Zhou Yi on the surface, but in fact he secretly designed it many times to kill Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi’s repeated self-help not only shows his shrewdness and wisdom, but also shows the cruelty of his struggle against the enemy incisively and vividly. Even some villains in the play can’t be ignored, such as special agents Lu Ming and Liu Kui, who are skilled and loyal, not only don’t leave any chance for Zhou Yi, but also have to be on tenterhooks all the time and dare not make any mistakes.


At this point, the plot setting and character relationship of Above the Cliff are slightly simple. Although Gao Bin is sinister and cruel, it is not enough to compete with Zhou Yi, thus weakening the narrative tension of the story. In addition, the portrayal of villains is too faceless and low-energy. For example, Jin Zhide, a supporting role, appears to be full of rage and lack of wisdom.


It is worth mentioning that both the films Wind and Above the Cliff are trying to create group images, which requires the works to be more comprehensive and meticulous in depicting characters. The characters in the movie "Wind" have distinct personalities, and are feminine and biting "sissy" Bai Xiaonian; Gu Xiaomeng, who is graceful and enchanting but has a deep mind; Li Ningyu, who is gentle, cool and arrogant, and Wang Zhiguo, who is serious and deep, have unique personality-driven behaviors to create impressive characters. However, the four main characters in Above the Cliff are not distinctive enough, especially Xiaolan. The creator lacks a deep description of her personality and professional ability, and it is difficult to convince the audience that she is a qualified spy.


Group drama also requires that each character should have a solid plot line, but Above the Cliff has obvious character line fracture. The main character Xiaolan’s character line is obviously weaker than the other three, which undoubtedly lacks the necessary driving force for the development of the core plot.


Undoubtedly, On the One hand, On the Cliff, with its unique audio-visual performance, we can see the progress of China’s spy war movies, and stylized spy war movies are on the way. In order to make a better domestic spy film, the creator should not only polish the audio-visual techniques carefully, but also base himself on the story, and combine the real beauty with the artistic beauty with solid narrative logic, delicate suspense settings and real and full human images. Only in this way can the audience’s emotions be summoned and the core beliefs be effectively conveyed. (Author: Jiang Muyang, Ph.D. student of film science in 2020 in China Academy of Art)

Online celebrity, the top stream that my parents like, looks like this, and 100 middle-aged and elderly people study Tik Tok.

Original title: online celebrity, the top stream that parents like, looks like this, and 100 middle-aged and elderly people study Tik Tok.

Cultural Industry Review No.3928

Recently, because of the news that "a 72-year-old grandmother has traveled thousands of miles to see a man online celebrity", the discussion between "@ Scholar" and "Laugh at the City" soared, and they were named "the dream lover of 26 million old babies" by netizens. As early as a few years ago, many organizations predicted that the middle-aged and elderly market would be a trillion-dollar consumer market. From the professional level of short video production and live broadcast, the competition intensity of middle-aged and elderly content tracks is not high, and there is still a lot of room for display. Online celebrity like "@ Scholar" and "Laugh at the City" is just the beginning. With the deepening understanding of middle-aged and elderly people, there will be more content creators with better content and more scientific realization in the future.

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Recently, because of the news that "a 72-year-old grandmother has traveled thousands of miles to see a man online celebrity", the discussion between "@ Scholar" and "Laugh at the City" soared, and they were named "the dream lover of 26 million old babies" by netizens.

According to the new statistics of Tik Tok data tools under the new list, "Laugh at the city," Tik Tok powder.The number of silk was 17.17 million, of which 81.48% were male users and 77.75% were users over 40 years old. The number of fans of @ Scholar in Tik Tok is 9.72 million, of which 70.44% are female users and 79.8% are over 40 years old.

An aunt who charms thousands of people, and an uncle who attracts countless people. They can be called "middle-aged and elderly top flow online celebrity".(PS. There is no accurate definition of the age division of middle-aged and elderly people at present. This paper refers to the definition of middle-aged and elderly people in People’s Daily, and mainly discusses people over 40 years old. )

Why can "@ Scholar" and "Smile" capture a large number of middle-aged and elderly people? Besides the two top streams, what do middle-aged and elderly people watch online? Today we will talk about this topic.

Online celebrity, the top stream that my parents like,

So it looks like this.

When you open the Tik Tok account of @ Scholar, the first thing you see is a man with three or seven hair and wearing a shirt and trousers. His signature actions are to grin, tease his hair, smile and compare his heart. Occasionally, he will walk slowly towards you with a thermos cup in his left hand and a trouser pocket in his right hand.

After a series of tricks, it is the climax of the talent link:

In the green vegetable field, @ Scholar will pick a few peppers with a basket and say, "It’s not my fault to love you, it’s your beautiful fault".

In the wheat field of Huang Cancan, @ Scholar will bite a grain of wheat and sing affectionately "My little sister sent her lover to the east gate".

In the spring season, @ Scholar will go to the rape field, touch the yellow rape flowers and sing "Will you come or not?".

Occasionally, @ Scholar will become a "melancholy prince" and say to the camera with remorse, "I think I am not gentle enough to share your sorrow".

Since the first video was released on July 3rd, 2020, all the 1329 videos of @ Scholar have been in this form. Aunties are also very fond of this set. In the comment area of @ Scholar, many aunts left a message "Scholar’s younger brother, my sister picked up her mobile phone to see you just after finishing farm work" and "If only you were my husband".

Some aunts simply changed their names to "the scholar’s wife", leaving a sentence of "I wish I could be crazy for you all my life, and I will sing poetry and miss you."

In order to express their love for @ Scholar, many aunts also took a co-production video. For example, just by collecting the co-production videos of Auntie and @ Scholar, "Brother Cai is very handsome" attracted the attention of 190,000 fans.

When the "@ Scholar" was broadcast live, the aunts were even more careful. As can be seen from the account avatars on the PK contribution list, the rewards for "@ Scholar" are all aunts who are crazy about love.

Confessing in the comment area, rewarding in the live broadcast room, and co-producing videos with "@ Scholar" have become the fashion of aunts.

If "@ Scholar" is a "mother killer" and "Jin Dong in online celebrity", then "laughing at the city" means "giving in the well that is more suitable for dad’s physique".

Show your trademark smile first, squint your curved eyes, then naughty ask "Who says I’m not cute" and affectionately shout "Can you hear me when I call you brother?" In the eyes of many uncles, "laughing at the city" is as beautiful as "first love girl".

Just like @ Scholar, the talent of "Laughing at the Beauty" is lip-synching. In addition to the old songs "I really loved you", "I loved this life without regret" and "You were the man of my dreams", I occasionally catch up with the trend and play a Tik Tok divine comedy, such as "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky".

After singing a song, the uncles couldn’t wait to leave a message: "You have a bunch of eyes that hook people’s souls", "You are so cute, and my brother likes you" … In addition to these hot confessions, there are also literary uncles who can’t help but recite a poem, leaving a sentence of "Smile with Spring Breeze and Wanjin".

"This is too earthy and oily. Why do aunts and uncles like it?"

Young people don’t understand the popularity of "@ Scholar" and "Laugh the whole city". A large group of people poured into the comment area and live broadcast room of @ Scholar and Smile, leaving messages: "Be careful with your pension", "Don’t brush off my living expenses", "Be careful that I take a screenshot for your wife" and "I’m coming to arrest my mother" …

In the young people’s understanding, "@ Scholar" and "Laugh at the City" seem to be the real version of the succubus, while aunts and uncles have become network idiots, so they should give their own pension money. For a time, the young people’s comments on playing stalks even overshadowed the normal comments of aunts and uncles.

But in fact, if you think about it carefully, there is no essential difference between the young people who admire idolize idols and online celebrity, and the aunts and uncles who admire "@ Scholar" and "Laugh the whole city".

Young people may think that "@ Scholar" and "Laugh the whole city" are not as rustic as their own understanding of online celebrity, but they are more like aesthetic differences.

For example, the male powder accounts of "Flower Broken Flower", "Nie Xiaoyu" and "Smile Beautiful City" all account for more than 80%, but because of their different styles, they are more concerned by users of different ages, among which "Flower Broken Flower" accounts for 50.23% of fans aged 18-23, "Nie Xiaoyu" accounts for 62.25% of users aged 24-40, and "Smile" accounts for 62.25%.

Different ages, different preferences. In the eyes of uncles, "a smile is beautiful" is "pure natural beauty".

Similarly, young girls can shout "I want to give birth to a monkey for you" to idols, and aunts can also leave a message "If only the scholar were my husband". Young people can get emotional comfort from idols. In the comment area of @ Scholar, there are often aunts who pour out the details of their lives, such as just doing farm work for a day today, recently quarreling with their husbands, and someone at home is sick.

As for consumption, at present, the main income of "@ Scholar" and "Laughing the whole city" is live broadcast and rewarding. according toNew shake According to statistics, in the past 30 days, the cumulative number of live viewers of "@ Scholar" exceeded 11.32 million, and the cumulative number of live viewers of "Laughing at the City" exceeded 15.16 million. From the perspective of liquidation, no violations have been found between them.

For young people who are slightly excited, the media people "whispered Bibi" to post: "Young people brush short videos every day to watch the little sister dance and watch the big muscle bully posing. Why can’t the old man watch Jin Dong bite his lip? As long as you don’t live your pension in vain, you can’t be happy. Young people don’t spend more than they do? "

Just as some netizens left a message: you can’t understand it, but you must respect it.

"@ Scholar" and "Smile",

What else do parents like to watch?

Young people may think that accounts like "@ Scholar" and "Laugh at the City" are amazing, but in fact, in Tik Tok, where 600 million people live, there are quite a few such accounts.

Recently, the editorial department of the new list refers to the fan portraits of "@ Scholar" and "Laugh at the City", counts the accounts of users over 40 years old in Tik Tok, and sorts out the TOP100 Middle-aged and Old-aged Accounts with Fans in Tik Tok (hereinafter referred to as the "list"). It is found that there are at least 20 middle-aged and elderly accounts with more than 10 million fans, and all accounts in the "list" have more than 5 million fans.

(PS. Among the accounts that meet the screening conditions, there are some official accounts of David, such as "Thank you for coming" and "Liaoning Voice of Liaoning Radio and Television Station", which are not reproducible for ordinary creators, so they are not within the scope of discussion. In addition, there are a large number of film and television clip numbers, which are out of the scope of discussion because of the large number and copyright violations. )

So, what are parents looking at? Combined with the "list", the editorial department of the new list has sorted out five account types.

First, the positive energy segment

"Positive energy" is the key to understanding the content preference of middle-aged and elderly people. In the list, the core theme of 18 accounts including "Er Dan" and "Ni Ke Song" is "positive energy".

"Two Eggs" mainly shoots short dramas with positive energy, and the topics include filial piety, good health, kindness to daughter-in-law, a sense of security for the elderly, and family responsibilities.

On April 28th, "Two Eggs" released a video "Motherly Love Selfless" about a mother who worked hard to send her daughter to college, only to find that her daughter didn’t want to recognize her mother even in person in order to marry a good husband. Fortunately, my daughter’s fiance knows wisely, so that her daughter realized her mistake, and finally the ending was happy.

As of press time, the number of "two eggs" fans reached 14.3 million.

Just as spitting out parents and complaining that family of origin is a traffic password to attract young people, it is also the expectation of middle-aged and elderly people to hope that their children will be filial and their families will be happy.

In addition, by sharing "social truth" such as "dogs look down on people, and poor dogs bully them" and "when a man often drinks, he must not drink alcohol, but heartache" and other emotional chicken soup, "Chocolate, Little Lemon" and other accounts also suck a lot of powder.

Young people will praise "Let’s gather together and stay away from love rat" crazily, and middle-aged and elderly people will discuss it enthusiastically because of these "positive energy" golden sentences.

Second, Yan value talent

Yan value talent video is the key to glimpse the hearts of middle-aged and elderly people. In the list, 20 accounts, including "Laughing at a Beautiful City", "@ Scholar" and "Beggar Girl", all focus on showing their talents.

In terms of face value, as mentioned in the discussion of "@ Scholar" and "Laugh at the Beauty", the aesthetics of middle-aged and old people and young people are not the same, and "Hug 917" and "Lonely People" on the list are more suitable for the old baby’s physique, online celebrity.

In terms of talents, it can also be found from the listed accounts that middle-aged and elderly people prefer folk talents and comic sketches. For example, the main content of "Brother Yang" is to imitate Xiao Shenyang, while "Bean Girl" is a folk funny artist, and the performance style is similar to that of Northeast Errenzhuan.

Young people will watch handsome guys and beautiful women and listen to pop songs. Middle-aged and elderly people also get the emotional comfort of "intimate people" from these accounts, as well as the simple joy of enjoying performances.

Third, life sharing.

Life sharing video is a mirror to help understand middle-aged and elderly people. In the list, the number of life sharing accounts is the largest, with 31 accounts.

"Enshao" mainly shares the joy and daily life of a mother and son. The background is funny, but the background is rural. "The most beautiful couple in Master Liu’s construction site" mainly shares the story of a couple improving their lives by live broadcast. The background is inspirational, but the background is the construction site.

In addition, middle-aged and elderly people also have their own plums, such as "@ Xiaomin" by 15.12 million fans and "Listen" by 8.37 million fans. Taking "Listening" as an example, it is also to create a clean and dreamy rural life. Liziqi is talking about fleeing from the north to Guangzhou, and young people returning to their hometowns to find inner stability. But "Listening" is more about stories between neighbors, and it is the ups and downs of people who stay in their hometown.

It can be found that simplicity and country are the main labels of these accounts, which may also be related to the childhood memories of middle-aged and elderly people. Before the large-scale urbanization in China, most of them lived in the countryside.

Of course, this does not mean that middle-aged and elderly people have no yearning for exquisite life. Among the life sharing accounts, the core content of 10 accounts is to share all kinds of exquisite life.

"Longmei" and "Xiamen Finland" are accounts opened by two tour guides. The daily content is to introduce various tourist stories in Nanjing Presidential Palace, Shanghai Peace Hotel and other attractions. Relying on these contents, the two accounts absorbed 7.1 million and 6.25 million respectively.

"China Future Consumer Report 2023: Generations" refers to Generation X (people born in 1965-1979) as "the generation with accumulated material wealth".Middle-aged and elderly people may have more time and money to travel. A reference data is that the number of users over 60 years old on Ctrip platform reached 10 million last year.

△ Source: "2023 China Future Consumer Report: Generations"

Similarly, Zhou Lijun, president of Easy Car Research Institute, once said that around 2026, the largest car buyers in China auto market are middle-aged (old) people in big cities, accounting for 40%. Recently, Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the Association, also said that the main consumers in the automobile market are still middle-aged and elderly people. "The wealth accumulated by middle-aged and elderly people has never been seen before, and there has been no one since."

Perhaps for this reason, the core fans of car bloggers such as "Jiufang Beaver", "Mr. Ye’s vlog", "Wo is fanfan" and "Yu Ning Cici" are all users over 40 years old.

It is worth noting that in order to get middle-aged and elderly users faster, some operators choose to use positive energy short plays to suck powder first, and then change the content to plant grass cars, such as "Liu Yifei" with 5.58 million fans.

△ "Liu Yifei" before and after the content comparison

Fourth, dry goods of knowledge.

Middle-aged and elderly people also have knowledge needs, and 13 accounts in the "list" are knowledge dry goods accounts.

From "Hao Ge teaches cooking" to "Dr. Wang Cardiovascular" who teaches medical science, from "a red star" who talks about modern history to "An Lan" who talks about Chinese studies, and then to "Pan Lv’s theory" which analyzes family legal disputes, middle-aged and elderly people have a very wide range of concerns.

The difference is that the concerns of middle-aged and elderly people and young people are very different. Take the food account as an example. Young people like food bloggers who are lively and eye-catching, such as "Mianyang cuisine" and "Nanxiang doesn’t like eating", but what middle-aged and elderly people need is simple and easy-to-operate home cooking teaching.

Fifth, e-commerce sells goods.

Middle-aged and elderly people have not only content needs, but also shopping needs. In the list, there are 13 typical e-commerce accounts.

QuestMobile’s Insight into the Development of Short Video Live E-commerce in China in 2022 shows that 36.3% of users in Tik Tok and Kuaishou are over 41 years old. Among them, users over the age of 51 accounted for 18.9%, and nearly 30% of users’ monthly online spending power exceeded 2,000 yuan. "China Future Consumer Report 2023: Generations" also shows that there are about 330 million people in Generation X in China at present, and 23% of the population accounts for 34% of the wealth.

△ Source: "2023 China Future Consumer Report: Generations"

The consumption power of middle-aged and elderly people should not be underestimated.

"Sleeve Women’s Wear" mainly sells original women’s wear, and the customer unit price is mostly between 100-300 yuan, according toNew shake According to statistics, it is estimated that "Xiuen Women’s Wear" will bring goods between 50 million and 75 million yuan in recent 90 days.

"Enron Beauty-Diandi Brand Manager" mainly sells beauty and skin care products, according toNew shake According to statistics, "Xiuen Women’s Wear" is estimated to bring between 75 million and 100 million yuan in the past 30 days, of which the highest sales volume is an emulsion with a customer price of 3,899 yuan.

△ Source: New Shake

It should be emphasized that the female powder of "Xiuen Women’s Wear" accounts for 85.07%, and the female powder of "Enron Beauty-Diane Brand Manager" accounts for 79.42%. There are not many accounts with more male powder and high sales in the list. From the perspective of realization, middle-aged and elderly women have more potential.

There are also accounts in the list that are mainly small department stores that grow grass and live at low prices. Among them, "good things as scheduled" is estimated to bring 5 million to 7.5 million yuan in the past 90 days; It is estimated that "Qitong Haowu" will bring 1 million-2.5 million yuan in goods in the past 90 days.

It is worth noting that the number of these account works is extremely large, with a maximum of 40,000, and the number of likes is extremely low, with the lowest single digit. Selling goods depends on quantity to win. Combined with the historical data of the new shake, some accounts have also adjusted their operational content. Referring to "Liu Yifei", it is not necessarily impossible to rely on film and television clips, positive energy short plays and other content to absorb powder, and then adjust the content to plant grass and bring goods.

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On the whole, from the popularity of "@ Scholar" and "Laugh at the City" to the existence of a large number of middle-aged and elderly accounts, it proves the strong content consumption demand of middle-aged and elderly users. The results of accounts such as "Xiuen Women’s Wear" and "Enron Beauty-Diandi Brand Manager" also verify the good consumption potential of middle-aged and elderly users. From the professional level of short video production and live broadcast, the competition intensity of middle-aged and elderly content tracks is not high, and there is still a lot of room for display.

As early as a few years ago, many organizations predicted that the middle-aged and elderly market would be a trillion-dollar consumer market. In recent years, there have also been platforms for middle-aged and elderly people, such as candied beans and beautiful articles. With the aging trend in China becoming more and more obvious, there are bound to be more and more middle-aged and elderly business cases.

△ Source: Xiaomi App Store

Online celebrity like "@ Scholar" and "Laugh at the City" is just the beginning. With the deepening understanding of middle-aged and elderly people, there will be more content creators with better content and more scientific realization in the future.

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Hao Jingfang won the Hugo Award for Beijing Folding: I don’t want the novel to come true.

  Yesterday morning, Beijing time, just a few minutes before the China women’s volleyball team won the championship in Rio, good news came back from Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Hao Jingfang, a female writer, won the Best Short Story Award in the 74th Hugo Award for her "Folding Beijing". Hugo Award is known as the Nobel Prize in Literature of science fiction, which is the second China writer to win the award after Liu Cixin’s Three-body. In her speech, she said, "I don’t want my novel to come true. I sincerely hope that the future will be brighter."

  acceptance speech

  I hope the future is brighter.

  Last year, Liu Cixin won the Hugo Award with the English version of Three-body, which promoted the development of the whole science fiction industry in China. This year, Hao Jingfang continued to heat up from being shortlisted to winning the award again. Coincidentally, the English translators of their winning works are both Chinese science fiction writers Liu Yukun. At the end of April this year, Hao Jingfang won the attention of domestic publishers after being shortlisted for the Hugo Award. First, he published the autobiographical novel Born in 1984, and then he concentrated on publishing Lonely Deep, Far Away and Wandering Sky.

  In the face of outside enthusiasm, Hao Jingfang himself is relatively calm. In an interview with the Beijing Times, she said that she didn’t want to create a cage for herself. "Too much attention may not be a good thing, which will affect the pace of life." Before the winners were announced yesterday, she was in a normal and tangled state. On the one hand, she felt that "winning the prize was not completely unexpected", on the other hand, she was thinking about going to the loser’s party.

  When Hao Jingfang delivered her acceptance speech, she expressed her thoughts on the plot setting in the novel. She said, "Science fiction writers like to consider all possibilities, good or bad, lucky or unlucky. They will discuss what strategies to adopt to deal with aliens and so on. Basically, they live in countless parallel universes. In the novel Beijing Folding, I put forward a possibility of the future and faced various problems. At the same time, I also put forward a solution, which is obviously not the best result, but it is not the worst. I personally don’t want my novel to come true. I sincerely hope that the future will be brighter. "

  Inner circle reaction

  Liu Cixin: I find it hard to believe that she wrote it.

  China’s science fiction literature circle is not big, and Liu Cixin has always appreciated Hao Jingfang. He once compared Hao Jingfang’s style with the works of science fiction master Ray Bradbury, saying that "she sprinkled a poetic sunshine on our common science fiction themes". At the Shanghai Book Fair yesterday, Liu Cixin launched and signed the English version of the trilogy "Three-body", and nearly a thousand copies were signed on the spot, which shows the popularity.

  After learning that Hao Jingfang won the prize, he first expressed his congratulations. When talking about the work "Beijing Folding", Liu Cixin said that it was well written: "This work is very different from her previous works. If you just show me this work, I can hardly believe that it was written by her. Jing Fang’s previous works are very beautiful and elegant, and because she has a doctorate in economics, her settings are all based on the economy. " Hao Jingfang once said that her novel wanted to write the "warmth" of this cruel setting.

  During the signing process, a reader asked Liu Cixin if he would write short stories in the near future. Liu Cixin said: "At the beginning, I wrote a lot of short stories, mainly because it was difficult to send long stories at that time." In just two years, Chinese people’s enthusiasm for science fiction has rapidly warmed up. Yao Haijun, editor-in-chief of Science Fiction World magazine, believes that Liu Cixin’s award has ignited Chinese people’s enthusiasm for science fiction, while Hao Jingfang’s award will help readers adjust their mentality to normal.

  Who’s Hao Jingfang?

  Hao Jingfang was born in Tianjin in 1984. At the age of 9, he read "100,000 Why" and decided to become a scientist. In 2002, he won the first prize in the 4th New Concept Composition Competition. When she was shortlisted for the Hugo Award, a Zhihu netizen said, "This girl was a scholar in the class next door that year. The ranking she took in the new concept composition seemed to be enough for the Chinese Department of Peking University to be exempted from the exam, and then she was admitted to the Physics Department of Tsinghua. At that time, I also thought that this kind of learning god appeared in the list of scientific research cows a few years later. As a result, I saw that she was nominated for the Hugo Award. It was really IQ crushing all the time. "

  In 2006, Hao Jingfang graduated from the Department of Physics in Tsinghua University and entered the Tsinghua University Astrophysics Center. In this year, he officially began to write science fiction. So far, he has published the novel Wandering in the Sky, the collection of short stories, such as Star Traveler, Far Away and Lonely Deep. Later, Hao Jingfang transferred to Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management to pursue a doctorate, and in 2013, he began to work for China Development Research Foundation.

  In the novel "Beijing Folding", she fictionalized Beijing as a triple space, and people in each space were in different situations. The protagonist was a garbage man, Lao Dao, who ventured to deliver letters in other spaces in order to pay the kindergarten tuition for the picked-up children. At present, the novel is included in the new book "Lonely Deep". In addition, the reporter learned from Palm Reading Technology that the electronic version of "Lonely Deep" has downloaded more than 300,000 copies in just two months since it was launched on June 17.

  Jinghua Times reporter Tian Chao

French armour

At 20 o’clock on the evening of October 29th, Beijing time, in the 10th round of Ligue 1 in the 2023-24 season, Paris Saint-Germain challenged brest away. In the first half, 17-year-old Zaire emeri broke the deadlock with a long-range shot, and then Li Gangren assisted Mbappé to expand the score and Mounie pulled back a goal; In the second half, brest equalized the score with a corner kick, and Mbappé finished the winner with a penalty in the 89th minute. In the end, Paris Saint-Germain beat brest 3-2 and rose to the second place in the standings.

In the 3rd minute, Paris broke into the opponent’s restricted area. Li Gangren’s shot was blocked by goalkeeper Bizot, and then his teammate’s supplementary shot was confiscated by Bizot. In the 6th minute, emeri received a return volley from his right foot at the top of the arc, and Bizot saved the ball with his fists. In the 13th minute, Donaruma passed the ball from the backcourt directly to the opponent, but the cross from the brest player directly crossed the bottom line.

In the 16th minute, emeri received a cross from his teammates in front of the penalty area. He passed a defender and came to the penalty area and slammed the door with his right foot. The ball was like a shell, and Bizot could do nothing. Paris was 1-0 brest.

In the 22nd minute, Li Gangren volleyed vigorously from the right side of the restricted area, and Bizot held the ball out of the crossbar.In the 28th minute, taking advantage of brest’s massive pressure, Paris fought back. Li Gangren picked up the ball in the backcourt and passed it to Mbappé. The latter caught the ball and formed a single-handed trend. He entered the left side of the penalty area and missed the defender. His right foot shot low and scored near the corner. Paris scored 2-0 in brest.

In the 41st minute, Mbappé received a cross shot from his right foot at the top of the arc, and Bizot saved the ball again.In the 44th minute, brest pulled back a goal, and the high ball on the right side of the frontcourt passed to the middle. Mounie in the restricted area pressed the Parisian defender to head the ball, and the ball bounced to the net, but Donaruma couldn’t save it. Brest 1-2 Paris.At the end of the first half, Paris temporarily took the lead.

In the second half, change sides and fight again.In the 52nd minute, brest’s right corner kicked into the restricted area, and Ledoualon, who was in front of him, headed the ball back, and the ball flew into the far corner. Donaruma’s whip was not as long as brest’s 2-2 Paris.

In the 57th minute, Mba took the ball to the left side of the restricted area, and shot wide from the far corner with his right foot. In the 62nd minute, Fabian Ruiz stopped the ball in front of the restricted area and buckled the defender, and the long corner was slightly missed. In the 64th minute, Paris stepped up its attack, and Enrique changed into Dembele and Muani.

In the 68th minute, brest got the chance, and the right side of the frontcourt shot the ball into the restricted area, but Ledoualon, who was in the back, outflanked the shot and kicked it. In the 70th minute, brest’s two shots in the restricted area were quite threatening, both of which were resolved by Donaruma. In the 74th minute, the Parisian frontcourt got a chance, but Dembele didn’t stop the ball in the restricted area and was cleared by the opponent’s defender.

In the 75th minute, Vitinia got the ball on the left side of the penalty area, which was quite threatening. Bizot got the ball sideways. In the 83rd minute, Muani in the restricted area tripped after passing the ball on the left side of the Paris frontcourt. The referee watched VAR on the sidelines and awarded a penalty. Because of the conflict caused by this penalty, many players from two teams got yellow cards.

Mbappé took the penalty. His first shot was saved by the goalkeeper, but Mbappé immediately made up the shot and scored the ball. Paris led brest 3-2, which was the 89th minute of the game.

In the end, the whole game ended and Paris Saint-Germain beat brest 3-2.

Re-elected the global new energy vehicle sales champion! BYD sold 3.02 million vehicles last year, and it is expected to earn a maximum of 31 billion yuan.

BYD (002594.SZ) handed over its best report card since its listing.

On the evening of January 29th, BYD released its performance forecast for 2023. During this period, the company realized a net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies of 29 billion-31 billion yuan, up by about 86% year-on-year. The non-net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was RMB 27.4 billion-RMB 29.7 billion, up by about 90% year-on-year.

This performance is basically in line with market expectations. IChoice data shows that the average forecast of BYD’s net profit in 2023 is 28.332 billion yuan, which is almost the same as the median forecast of the company’s performance.

On the whole, the new energy vehicle industry continued to maintain a high-speed growth trend, and BYD’s new energy vehicle sales reached a record high, further consolidating the leading position of new energy vehicle sales in the world. The competition in the industry is more intense. With the rapid growth of the company’s overseas sales, the scale advantage of continuous expansion, and the ability to control the cost of the industrial chain, the profit has been greatly improved.

Judging from the production and sales data, BYD produced a total of 3,045,200 new energy vehicles in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 62.24%; Accumulated sales of 3,024,400 new energy vehicles, up 62.30% year-on-year.

BYD’s sales in 2023 clearly outperformed the industry. Minsheng Securities Research Report pointed out that the national sales of new energy passenger cars are expected to reach 8.62 million in 2023, up 31.7% year-on-year; Benefiting from the further improvement of the quantity of new models and the product pedigree of each price segment, BYD achieved the target sales of 3 million vehicles, significantly outperforming the industry.

In addition, BYD has continued to lay out in the sea. In 2023, BYD sold 243,000 new energy passenger cars overseas, a year-on-year increase of 334.2%.

Since the second half of 2023, BYD has continuously strengthened its overseas layout. In July, BYD announced the establishment of a factory in Brazil, with an annual production capacity of 150,000 vehicles. In September, Uzbekistan’s state-controlled automobile group announced that it would establish a joint venture company with BYD. The first/second phase of the factory plans to produce 500,000 units per year, and the output will reach 300,000 units after the completion of the third phase. In December, BYD announced that it would build a new energy vehicle production base in Segde, Hungary.

Minsheng Securities Research Report believes that BYD’s going out to sea is expected to usher in rapid development in Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, helping sales to rise again in 2024.

Soochow securities gave a more optimistic judgment about the future. According to its research report, BYD actively promotes the layout of overseas markets, and the volume of overseas markets helps sales growth. 2024-2025 is the year of products, and the estimated sales volume is about 4 million and 5 million respectively, up by 33% and 25% respectively.

As for BYD’s other major business-mobile phone parts and assembly business, its profitability has also increased with the recovery of the consumer electronics industry.

BYD said that thanks to the increase in the business share of large overseas customers and the recovery of Android customers’ demand, the rapid growth of new energy vehicles and new smart products, the capacity utilization rate has been significantly improved, the business structure has been further optimized, the profitability has been significantly improved, and the profit has increased substantially.

From 2020 to 2022, the gross profit margin of BYD’s mobile phone parts and assembly business was 11.20%, 7.57% and 6.06% respectively, showing a downward trend year by year. The semi-annual report in 2023 showed that the gross profit margin of this business was 8.77%, up 2.70 percentage points year-on-year.

Although the performance is very gratifying, BYD’s share price has not kept up. On January 29th, the company’s share price fell by 3.99%, hitting a new low since May 2021. BYD’s latest market value is 519.5 billion yuan.

Five treasure destinations suitable for everyone to travel, the locals are enthusiastic and don’t kill customers, and they have all said yes.

China, with its vast territory and abundant resources, always has some places, which are not short of beautiful scenery, but also infiltrated by history. However, it is just a little bit of luck, unknown to outsiders, or only briefly loved by the world.

For example, the five destinations introduced to you today.

01

Hefeng

Enshi, located at the mysterious 30 north latitude, is a famous summer resort and the ultimate feast of China landscape.

Hefeng is located in Enshi.

Tired of playing crowded public attractions? Why don’t you go to Hefeng?

Starting from the cliff-hanging highway comparable to the South Taihang, we can appreciate the secluded scenery of Hefeng.

Cliff-carving and wall-hanging highway,This magical road stands between the cliffs and the abyss. When the clouds are filled in summer, driving by car is like shuttling on the clouds, and you can have a panoramic view of the canyon cliffs, which makes you feel breathtaking and beautiful at the same time.

18 kilometers longPingshan gorgeIn the valley, there is a blue-to-green Jasper River, on which boats are suspended in the air, which is incredible in beauty, so Pingshan has the reputation of "China Semporna".

Not far from Pingshan Grand CanyonDongjiahe slope valley, is the largest slope valley in the world, known as "Hubei Xiaojiuzhai".

Muershan tea garden,This is the largest contiguous tea garden in Hubei Province. With the ups and downs of the mountain, a long green tea tree has spread all the way to the horizon.

Laishui gallery,Laishui, which originates from Yunmeng Village, Xiaping Township, Hefeng, is the mother river of Hefeng people. It runs through the whole territory of Hefeng, nurtures Hefeng’s children and also shapes a beautiful landscape picture.

Figure/Hefeng.com

Rongmei Tusi City Site,According to legend, Rong Mei’s toast has thrived here for more than 400 years, and Yong Zhengdi in Qing Dynasty once commented on it: "Of all the toasts in Chu and Shu, Rong Mei is the most prosperous". Up to now, there are more than 50 sites such as Juefu, Laojie and Wanquandong, and thousands of historical relics have been unearthed.

Figure/Tujia national costumes

Daluping, Tujia village,Tujia village on the line of 30 north latitude is located in an ancient and mysterious place in the hinterland of China.

Figure/Enshi Daily

Coordinates: Southeast of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

02

Mangya

Mangya, surrounded by four famous no-man’s land, is the most lonely city in China.

But just like the city with the least sense of existence, Mangya has also gained a small number of fans in the most inaccessible place where everyone wants to go.

Because:

There is the largest and most fantastic Yadan in the world-

Oberliang;

Here is a rare eye in the world-

Aiken spring;

There is a beautiful imaginary lake here-

Emerald lake;

There is a road that seems to go to the end of the day-

315;

There are Buddha and Bodhisattva shapes shaped by nature-

Thousand Buddha Cliff;

It’s like being on Mars 55 million kilometers away-

Cold Lake Mars Town.

Coordinates: Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province

03

Delingha

Delingha, located in the northeast edge of Qaidam Basin, is endowed with Gobi and desert by nature, but at the same time, it also allows her to have both wetlands and grasslands.

Figure/Ferris wheel on the Bayin River

Bayin River, which runs through the city, is known as the "mother river" of Delingha. Where the source of life flows, bushes, Achnatherum splendens and Haloxylon ammodendron trees grow.HaiZi ShiGe ChenLieGuan, grow a.Baishushan.

Standing on the cypress hill overlooking, Delingha city is in the forest and water is in the forest.

Delingha is a small town that can surprise people, with sand dunes stretching for 20,000 square kilometers, which makes the world amazed.Yadan landform.

In Delingha, you can also see the universe that the secular people are striving for. Here is a place.Alien site.

At first glance, it’s just an ordinary triangular cave, but explorers found a rusty iron pipe in the cave, which is more than 2 meters above the ground and about 6 meters deep without any trace of manual excavation.

The mysterious site attracts people’s attention, but the charming "Lover Lake" next to it also attracts thousands of people.

Lake Keruk, Lake Tosu,One big and one small, one full of vitality, and one inch of grass is barren.

Legend has it that these two lakes were transformed by a loving couple. Tuosu Lake is the husband who died with salt on his back, and Keruk Lake is the wife who shed tears because of sadness. They are connected and closely dependent by a small river, which has become the "lover lake" in people’s mouth and the beautiful myth of Qaidam Basin.

Figure/Keruk Lake

Tu/Tuosu Lake

In the territory of Gahai Township, Delingha, there is also a saltwater lake calledGahai Lake. It is lush with aquatic plants and rich in wildlife resources. Gahai Grassland is one of the best grasslands in Asia and an ideal place for people to spend the summer.

Coordinates: Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province

04

Jingxi

It is said that Guilin’s landscape is the best in the world, the mountain light in Jingxi is not inferior to Guilin’s, and the water color is not too rich. Therefore, it is also known as "Small Guilin with mountains and rivers and a small climate in Kunming".

There is a highway that is burning all over the world-Hena highwayAlong the way, two peaks are densely forested and picturesque, and the beautiful peaks are looming in the mist, which is as beautiful as walking through a fairyland, and is called "the most beautiful highway in the world".

There are many Jingxi canyons dominated by karst plateau landforms. Known as "a beautiful scar on the earth"Tongling Grand CanyonRight here, it is the waterfall with the highest single-stage drop in Asia. The moment when the giant waterfall with a drop of nearly 188.6 meters rushed down from the top of the mountain, it was magnificent and quite spectacular.

In addition, there is "the largest original ecological cave canyon group in China"-Gulongshan Canyon Group.Gulao Gorge, Xinling Gorge and Xinqiao Gorge are connected with three underground caves, which constitute a rare natural wonder connecting the three caves and the Three Gorges, and also make Gulong Gorge famous.

There is a spring about 5 kilometers away from Jingxi County, named after Goose Mountain lying on the water like a goose.Goose springIt, together with butterfly spring in Dali and Xishan Ruquan in Guiping, is called "the three famous springs in southwest China", and the source of Detian Waterfall, the first transnational waterfall in Asia, is located here.

More than 40 kilometers away from goose spring, there is aQuyang LakeIt is called "Guilin on the Water".

This is a large-scale karst plateau lake and reservoir, with more than a dozen single mountain scattered in the water. At dawn and dusk, the water surface is like paper and the glow is like a pen, leaving a soft and poetic picture, which exhausted all foreigners’ imagination of China’s landscape.

Coordinates: Southwest Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

05

Yongzhou

Yongzhou, an ancient city that has been baptized for more than 2,000 years, is bordered by Guangdong and Guangxi in the south and Hengyue in the north. The number of historical remains is complicated and the natural scenery is beautiful. Celebrities and poets write countless poems here.

The landscape here is picturesque:

In 2019, more than 30 domestic experts and scholars gathered at the Xiaoshui River in the ancient city of Lingling. From then on, "111 degrees 36 minutes 10.20 seconds east longitude and 26 degrees 15 minutes 37.10 seconds north latitude" became the first scene of "Eight Scenes of Xiaoxiang"."Xiaoxiang Night Rain"The landscape point.

Jiuyi Mountain,Also known as Cangwu Mountain, the Water Classics Note says: "The wilderness of Cangwu, between the peaks and the counties, and the nine peaks of Luoyan, each leads a stream and a gully, and the different mountains are in the same situation. The traveler was suspicious, so he said: Jiuyi Mountain. "

It is like a picturesque natural scenery, with numerous peaks rising from the ground, mountains and streams flowing freely, exotic flowers and plants everywhere, and many strange caves, which are fantastic and beautiful.ZixiayanIt was once listed as the first of the "Twelve Famous Caves in South Chu" by Xu Xiake.

Jiucailing,China, the top of the top ten non-famous peaks, is called "K2 of Hunan", which soars into the sky and is a paradise for hikers.

It is antique here:

Lingling ancient city,This is the soul of Yongzhou, so it is also known as the "ancient city of Yongzhou". It has gone through more than 2,200 years and is an old dream left by the years in Yongzhou.

At the beginning of the Hua Deng, the lanterns in the ancient city of Lingling are hung high, and the bustling scenery of the "famous county of Han and Tang Dynasties" is swaying. The splendid melody on the thoroughfare of Chu and Yue seems to come across time and space.

Liuzi street,Liuzi Street, which is connected with Lingling Ancient City, was originally a part of the "Xianggui Ancient Road". It was built in the Tang Dynasty, and now the style of the ancient street is well preserved. Most of the two ancient buildings were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Liuzi Street is named after the center of the street.Liuzi TempleLiuzi Temple was built by the people of Yongzhou in memory of Liu Zongyuan. In addition to Liu Zongyuan’s life story, poems and paintings, there are many inscriptions related to celebrities in the temple, such as "Lychee Monument" related to Han Yu and Su Shi.

Upper Gan Tang village,Even in Yongzhou, one of the most out-of-the-box places, ShangGan Tang Village remains unchanged. It hides in the depths of time and turns life into a poem.

This is one of the oldest Millennium villages in Hunan. Its history began in the Tang Dynasty, and the Millennium years passed leisurely. Due to the love of time, there are many places of interest and monuments, and the pavilions and pavilions are intact.

Goulan Yao nationality,This well-preserved ancestral home of the Yao nationality has been meaningful here. Whether it is the warm and simple "mud washing festival" or the long-standing "Goulan match", it is a wonderful work of Yao culture and precious.

Coordinates: the confluence of two rivers in southern Hunan and Xiaoxiang.

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Through "rhyme", we can see China fashion and the beauty of the East.

Incense and static gas, live boiled sweet spring, proud as a peacock and Ye Jia rewarded guests, Meng Chen Mulin and Oolong entered the palace … Yin Chao still remembers that when he went to tea with his friends for the first time, he watched the elegant processes and realized an unspeakable beauty.

Text/Lu Xiaoming

In ancient myths and legends of China, many sacred trees were mentioned: building wood, searching for wood, and if wood … Among them, the representative Fusang is composed of two big mulberry trees that support each other. In myths and legends, Fusang is the sacred tree where the sun lives. "Shan Hai Jing Overseas East longitude" mentioned that "there is a hibiscus on the Tang Valley, which was bathed on the 10th and lived in the water. Nine days in the lower branch, one day in the upper branch. "

Such a "god" is not uncommon in Shan Hai Jing. The Classic of Mountains and Seas was written from the Warring States Period to the early Han Dynasty. Together with The Book of Changes and Huangdi Neijing, it is called the three wonderful books in ancient times, and it is an important treasure in China culture and even eastern culture.

After thousands of years, The Classic of Mountains and Seas still affects people’s lives, from which well-known fairy tales such as The goddess patching the sky and Kuafu’s pursuit of the sun and Jingwei’s reclamation evolved. When The Classic of Mountains and Seas is combined with modern fashion, generate can also shine with unique brilliance.

In the chaotic scene, abstract lines with endless changes are selected to show the fractal shape of ancient trees, and the virtual scene uses the visual characteristics of Shenmu, which is more dependent on each other, to create a sense of movement in the still picture. This is a scene in China famous fashion photographer Yin Chao, the founder of SUPER STUDIO’s recent work "Looking at Mountains and Seas"-winding with knots, in which elements such as hibiscus trees are added.

Yin Chao’s work Chaos

Through five scenes of chaos, knot, Kunlun, fog and magic flowers, Yin Chao shows a prosperous scene from the chaotic state of the beginning of heaven and earth to the wanton growth of everything. In the works, Zhao Liang, a contemporary dance artist in China, joined hands with Tang Shiyi to improvise with the music, taking mountains and seas as inspiration, and expressing with the body, showing the rhythm of ancient oriental myths and conveying the artistic expression of "flowing mountains and seas" between ink and wash textures.

"I think ink painting is the most representative art form in China culture. The natural smudging of ink and pen in the works has become mountains and seas." Yin Chao mentioned that this work has attracted a lot of people’s attention, and also opened up an artistic expression form-expressing China traditional culture in a modern way.

In these years, Yin Chao traveled around China, experienced national culture, and tried to add more elements of oriental aesthetics to his shooting. He hopes to truly tell the fashion that belongs to China people, rather than "fashion-like without rhyme" imitated by technology.

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Looking back on his career, Yin Chao mentioned that about 20 years ago, he accidentally opened a fashion magazine and was deeply attracted. "The expression of such beauty is so special that I have never seen such characters, scenes and creations. It is an unprecedented feeling." It is precisely because of this idea that Yin Chao resolutely went to Beijing and tried to gradually enter fashion photography.

Yin Chao spent many years from getting started to getting started. In order to embrace the "beauty of fashion", he worked as an employee in a photo studio for two years and an assistant to a photographer for four years. He once saved money to buy foreign magazines when his monthly salary was several hundred yuan, and studied photography and art history after work.

It takes less than a second to press the shutter, and the camera can generate a photo. This "per second" work seems easy and simple. But in fact, "pressing the shutter" is only a very small link in fashion photography. Pre-planning is often carried out one or two months ago, and the whole "universe" in the photo is constructed with the idea of fashion photographers, which reflects the unique style of fashion photographers everywhere.

For his own lens "universe", Yin Chao used the word "soul" to define it-let the photo have a soul and a story. He hopes that the photos are "flowing", seeing the movement in the stillness, and realizing the stillness in the movement. "Motion and static are relative, depending on metaphysical expression, and they are an internal state." Just like the movement characteristics of "Tai Chi"-absolute movement and relative quietness.

Once upon a time, Yin Chao felt that "fashion" was a kind of aesthetics that people looked up to. Now, this view has long changed. "The so-called fashion is just an expression of beauty that keeps pace with the times and records what is happening now."

In many people’s cognition, "earth" is the opposite of "fashion", which seems to be a derogatory term and is used as an analogy to "not beautiful" Yin Chao thinks this is a misunderstanding. Over the years, he has walked through many places in China and felt the local customs rooted everywhere. "What our ancestors left us is too precious." People often think that the "earth" used to be difficult to connect with modern society, but when Yin Chao integrates it into fashion as a design element, there is a comfortable and decent new experience.

Yin Chao’s works

It is Yin Chao’s pursuit for many years to let the world see China fashion about nationality, culture and life.

What is the fashion in China and how to express the story of China people? Yin Chao integrated Beijing Opera, Zen and Guqin into his photography to find those timeless fashions. The idea originally came from a cup of tea.

"When the spring breeze comes in February and March, Shijie knocks on the fire to try new tea." "On a cold night, guests come to tea as wine, and the bamboo stove soup is boiling." In the life of ancient literati, there is no lack of tea. Nowadays, drinking tea is a daily habit of many people in China, but drinking tea is relatively rare.

Incense and static gas, live boiled sweet spring, proud as a peacock and Ye Jia rewarded guests, Meng Chen Mulin and Oolong entered the palace … Yin Chao still remembers that when he went to tea with his friends for the first time, he watched the elegant processes and realized an unspeakable beauty.

At that time, he just received a photo invitation from a foreign magazine, and he thought of moving the tea ceremony into the camera "universe", hoping to share this beauty with you-maybe it will let more people know about tea culture and make tea a way of life for more people. Nowadays, tea tasting has also become a part of Yin Chao’s life. "It is almost a necessary sense of ritual every day."

"China culture has given me a lot of creative inspiration." These explorations and perceptions have continuously enriched his heart. "Besides technology, photography also hides the photographer’s cognition of things", which also affects the expression of his works invisibly. Yin Chao combined fashion photography with China culture and opened a new door. When he entered the field of China culture, he also came to the peak of his creation. "There are too many things to express, and that is a constant source of inspiration."

In Yin Chao’s understanding, western aesthetics is more straightforward and concrete, while eastern aesthetics is metaphysical and more implicit. "I think it is particularly accurate and wonderful to express it with’ rhyme’. It is a temperament and a state."

Yin Chao mentioned that China culture has brought him a lot of creative inspiration.

In daily shooting, Yin Chao often comes into contact with some western art forms, which is really beautiful, but he feels that this is someone else’s way of life, and it seems that there is still some distance from his daily life. "When understanding and expressing oriental culture, it will be more like a duck to water."

Yin Chao feels that fashion photography and cultural heritage are mutually fulfilling. Oriental culture adds luster to Yin Chao’s photographic works, and Yin Chao also hopes to let more people know about it through his own works. His works not only record the current ideology, but also serve as a symbol of cultural heritage, allowing modern people to understand the inside story of oriental culture and the lifestyle and unique symbols belonging to China. "I think this is the significance of fashion photography."

Over the past century, western culture has exerted a wide and profound influence all over the world, and also influenced the lifestyle and life pursuit of many young people in China.

At the same time, with the country’s strength, cultural self-confidence and other factors, the fashion of oriental culture has become more and more popular in these years, and it has gradually returned to public life in a simpler and more acceptable form for contemporary people. The "national tide wind" shows the charm of oriental culture.

"The traditional oriental culture has evolved into a very modern way and has come into our lives." Yin Chao mentioned that many young people are now wearing traditional China costumes, and some products in supermarkets are packaged with inspiration from the past. "Tradition and modernity have been connected, mainly thanks to people’s creativity, especially young people."

Yin Chao mentioned that such a combination is still constantly innovating and is ubiquitous in people’s daily life. Recently, he tried to ride the red flag HQ9 Oriental luxury flagship MPV and felt the oriental charm of "waiting for everything to be harmonious".

"Our generation has known Hongqi Automobile since childhood, and it has appeared in many classic historical photos. Hongqi Automobile is a very representative brand in the modernization process of China." For the recently listed Hongqi HQ9 Oriental luxury flagship MPV, Yin Chao’s first impression is that it is atmospheric and luxurious. "Both the front grille and the body lines can be recognized at a glance-this is the red flag."

Yin Chao thinks that the red flag HQ9 is a manifestation of fashion.

In addition to its graceful and graceful appearance, the interior design of Hongqi HQ9 Oriental luxury flagship MPV is also very promising. The beautiful, fashionable and exquisite interior, as well as the super-large car and super-enjoyed space that surpass all products of the same class, bring the ultimate comfort experience. Among them, the exquisite and self-sliding welcome auxiliary board exudes the fragrance of "fragrant rhyme", which makes the sense of privilege and beauty come with pleasure.

"The space inside the car is spacious, the panoramic sunroof is open, the whole light in the car is particularly bright, and the functions carried on the car are also very intelligent and ceremonial, giving people a calm and elegant experience." Yin Chao also noticed that the design of Hongqi HQ9 Oriental luxury flagship MPV used many elements related to traditional oriental culture, such as the flying crane wing lines and landscape painting patterns, which combined tradition with modernity, which was in line with the aesthetics of China people.

The appearance of the atmosphere is luxurious, and the intelligence in the car is luxurious. He feels that this is a manifestation of fashion. "There are both contemporary aesthetics and oriental charm."

Under the background of "subversive" changes in the automobile industry, New Hongqi has always adhered to oriental aesthetics and China culture, and created luxury automobile products with unique China essence, independent research skills and all things’ strengths. With the arrival of the new Red Flag HQ9, the Red Flag brand is telling the story of China and striving for the dream of China with the charm of harmonious, harmonious and beautiful national cars.

If you want to take a group of photos for the Red Flag HQ9 Oriental luxury flagship MPV, Yin Chao said that such a lens "universe" would be an atmosphere full of China Zen, which is both atmospheric and simple.

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