Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Ten years after the shoot: seeking for the living of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty.

If not for communication and Chengzi Tongkuangyu villagers, maybe 10 years, my the Great Wall feature film would not be in this small village, to the country. Especially for the the Great Wall building the descendants of the shooting, not only let me see solid the Great Wall, see a history behind it, as well as its builders and defenders of the family history, more let me find a living code reading of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty ""......

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Use the camera to interpret the hands of the Great Wall is my dream for many years, but this dream has been wandering. Ten years ago, I came near Shanhaiguan Chengzi Tongkuangyu due to collect folk songs. For a start, I like other photographers, every mountain, over here and ravines, making the Great Wall scenery from all angles.

As domestic and international photography widely circulated saying that, I found gradually, in my work from dawn to night hard shot pictures of the Great Wall, "the Great Wall is always a Great Wall (Great Wall), change is always cloudy or sunny rain snow season". Just as I was so frustrated when, unexpectedly with local villagers Zhang Heshan a chance conversation, has completely changed my shooting direction......

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Are you thereQinghuangdaoThe territory of 374.5 kilometers along the Great Wall of Ming, to retain the best, be located inHebeiQinhuangdao province Funing County Chengzi Tongkuangyu section in Cao Ying zhen. However, in my homeShenyang, so every time to Chengzi Village filming, I had to live in the village Zhang Heshan home. A long time, and each other well up. A chat, I happened to know that, the original Zhang Heshan's ancestral home wasZhejiangYiwu, not Hebei natives.

Under the wise I know, Zhang Heshan's ancestors, is actually 400 years ago for with Qi Jiguang came to town of thistle (Shanhaiguan toBeijingChangping area is one of the officers and soldiers) settlement fortification. And not only is the Zhang Chengzi Village, the old tenants are mostly so. I can't help but be startled at, say, not all of them are descended from the the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty architecture?

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Historical records, before and after the 1568 ad, the Northeast Manchu Jurchen tribes quickly strong. In order to consolidate border defense, the emergency Ritchie's Qi Jiguang Ren Ji Zong Bing in the town, and let him from Zhejiang,FujianTo mobilize the veteran soldiers and able captains, comprehensive rehabilitation on this section of the Great Wall. Due to the magnitude of the project, the mission is arduous, but also in order to stabilize the morale of the troops, the Ming court allowed the field officers and soldiers to keep dependents edge.

Chengzi Tongkuangyu was the Great Wall of Ming garrison "powder keg". That year, the soldiers will be houses and the Great Wall as a defense system, residential windows, all need to be built according to the layout of the war. The Great Wall repair, in order to better protect the city defense, Qi Jiguang will stand by households assigned to the guard, and named after the surname, so only the Chengzi Tongkuangyu the Great Wall on Zhang F, Li f......

The next few days, I have been immersed in the excitement of the discovery. I began to pay attention to the details of life from the villagers, found their customs has many different from Hebei local: ladies love a polo leaf rice, children are playing a unique "Gobang", even to their winter warming mud brazier brazier to a smaller size than the general...... And they be handed down from age to age such as "rainy day beacon lit quilt newspaper" and "husband was killed after his wife succeeded her husband keep edge" and other stories.

To understand more and more deeply, slowly, I and Chengzi Village to the the Great Wall building's descendants became indissoluble friendship, regardless of their spring harvest, Tianding import, or weddings and funerals, the village people would call me, let me help them take some photos as a souvenir. For years, Zhang Heshan and I have forged a profound sentiments of friendship is that I always feel.

Remember during the Spring Festival in 2006, I came to the city, to take some customs. When a brother, Zhang Village yangko dance, that provides a stepping on the street and temple fairs and other traditional activities, they did not for a moment to delay, hurriedly in the hazy night to borrow a tractor with me. Before departure, the driver asked Zhang brother "go after the village in the road, is not?" Zhang Ge said: "ah".

Who knows the car to the halfway, even occurred rollover. I am almost even with package rolled into the ice, a brother, a sister-in-law rushed to the other side of the center of gravity of the tractor, and shouted "Tian Li soon!" No response from me, tractor turned into the river, the crisis thanks to a sister-in-law to hold me, I didn't fall into the river, but she and Zhang brother but fell into no waist deep in the glacier. Then the driver with a rope until their two people pull up. All say adversity, that moment they love I will never forget.

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