In a small courtyard dressed in cloth and retired to Zhongnan Mountain, her life is more carefree than Xiao Longnu.

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The age of 23

Xiangzi stepped into Zhongnan Mountain and lived in the mountains.

Everyone says that a little girl will never live long.

2018 will be here in the twinkling of an eye.

This is her sixth year of life in Zhongnanshan.

Who she is now.

A buttoned dress, a long skirt

Happy, unrestrained and unrestrained, a mountain fairy.

Xiangzi said

Turn a blind eye to what you are attracted to.

That is the great regret of life.

Drop out at the age of 17

Run to Beijing alone

And then to Shenzhen.

From a handyman assistant to a professional photographer

She has a decent job in the studio

But photography that is supposed to be creative

But here it becomes an assembly line.

This way of shooting is not what she wants.

She tendered her resignation to the studio

She returned to Beijing in 2010 and became an independent photographer.

No money to do a studio.

Why don't you stay on the road?

Wherever she goes, there is her studio.

32 provinces and 56 cities in China

Farther away, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia.

She has been walking around the world

The camera in my hand has been recording the beauty of the way.

Her fate with Zhongnanshan

Was in September 2013.

She accompanied her friends to Qingxiu in Zhongnan Mountain.

See here for the first time

It's like I've been in a dream.

A mud hut next to a peach grove at the foot of the green hill

A gurgling stream flows across the field into the distance.

There is a large peach forest of nearly 100 mu in front and behind the house.

Accompanied by breeze, birdsong, boundless sunshine and silence

This is the courtyard of her dreams!

It had been abandoned for a long time at that time.

There's nothing in it but a pile of waste wood.

There is no water.

Come back and walk to the village for half an hour every day

No electricity

She made do with candles and then went to buy solar energy.

The days seemed hard, but Xiangzi always enjoyed it.

Make a fire, cook

Hang noodles under wild fresh shepherd's purse picked in the woods

It was her first meal here.

Repair wall seams with mud, repair windows, lay the floor.

Grey face every day

The original hearth has collapsed.

Xiangzi simply dismantled it.

I built a new one myself.

By the way, I also built a tatami for drinking tea.

Lay out a mat

Put it on the little table.

Make tea, read a book, chat.

Rescue the dead wood that was nearly burned from the villagers

Dig some dirt and load the florets

Put it in the corner

In a simple cabin.

Always decorate with fresh florets

Blooming with vitality

Finish repairing the house

She thought about ploughing in the wasteland next to the hut

Grow some vegetables you like.

A good pastoral life is not as simple as you think.

The calluses in the palm of the hand were worn off by a hoe.

I was caught by the grass on both sides when I went to fetch water and water the vegetables in the stream.

Can only look at the wet shoes with a wry smile

Fortunately

Her vegetables are as tenacious as she is.

They are good at keeping up in a state of barbarism and helplessness.

Even if you meet someone who is not good at managing the vegetable field.

And still repay her with fruit.

Whenever you step into the vegetable field

Xiangzi has more than the joy of harvest in his heart.

And full of piety and gratitude.

Someone asked

Ran into the mountains alone.

Will the family agree?

At first

Parents naturally disagree.

There is nothing to worry about at home.

But my daughter went to this poor place where there was no electricity or electricity to suffer.

I don't understand how I gave birth to a freak daughter.

Until they feel a little bit of their daughter's happiness here.

Saw her grow up.

Up to now

From time to time, Xiangzi's mother would come to stay for a while.

The initial disagreement also became more and more supportive.

I brought my little nephew for the summer last summer.

In 2015, Xiangzi's mother came to stay in Zhongnan Mountain for the third time.

She took her mother to climb the mountain

Finally can hug each other without hindrance.

Live in the mountains

Bring her closer to the four seasons of nature.

In early April

The Peach Blossom Garden around the yard is in blossom.

Some lovely friends come quietly.

A lamb came to graze by the yard.

A fat magpie took shelter from the rain under the gate of the yard.

When it rains, it stands there.

Watch the rain for a while.

Peck a feather for a while

Xiangzi took the stray cat he picked up in the mountains in autumn.

Go out for a walk and look at the flowers

Put it on the apricot tree.

A beautiful man alive.

How can there be the skinny and black look of six months ago?

Make a pot of good tea in the peach blossom forest

Drink up with the fragrance all over the world

Xiangzi, who loves lotus most in summer

I always have to run in the lotus pond once a day.

Blowing in the air and smelling the fragrance is enough.

Spring goes and winter comes.

Watching the drops of water under the eaves turn into ice

The stream is cut off.

When the mountain is closed by heavy snow

Deep in the mountains, we cook tea by melting snow water every day.

Except for drawing water and burning fire.

Tea and books are the best companions.

The plum blossoms are in bloom.

Occasionally add two plum blossoms to the tea

A day of heavy snow

Ice glass can be seen everywhere around the courtyard

A snowy river

Preserved plum in ancient temples

Escape from the wind and rain and persimmons pecked by birds

And pick up the camera.

She found the true meaning of photography.

It is the blooming season of southern flowers all year round.

A friend came from afar

Traveling in the mountains, enjoying flowers, tasting tea.

Wander between vegetation and earth

Seems to be a teenager at the right time.

In her eyes,

Clean clothes hang on the branch

It's all beautiful into a painting.

Most of the girls in her camera appear without makeup.

There is no gorgeous dress

There is no magnificent ostentation.

What's more, there is no need for a later stage of makeover.

The girls who come here have the simplest and most real makeup.

The most chic and smart posture

It's the communication of the heart.

It's more about beautiful creation.

So far.

She has recorded their beauty for more than 500 girls.

Several years of living in Zhongnan Mountain precipitated the nature of the mind.

Hostility is getting weaker and weaker.

Fear is diminishing.

More and more leisurely

Xiangzi, who has always been afraid of heights

Unexpectedly, you can take the path between the cliffs at the top of the Jiayu platform in Zhongnan Mountain.

Xiangzi said he was not a hermit.

Nor is he a practitioner.

Just a lover of nature.

And break through all obstacles and tests.

Ordinary people who reflect their dreams to reality.

And everything here makes her feel more at ease.

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