The Same Mountain Remains, The Same Water Remains

Introduction to The Same Mountain Remains, and The Same Water remains

It was shot in the Yan Mountains during a flight from Beijing to Hong Kong with an overlook position. “The place of Yan gains a grand and yet endangered terrain, linking southern to the Jianghuai Religion and northern to the desert in the north.” The elegancy and sense in the literati has been replaced by vulgar taste through the changing of time as the old dynasties become history. A new force is forming in this imposing region that could be observed clearly by an overlook position. People are working as hard as the ants. Their desire has been inflated under the stimulation of internationalization and consumption. A dream of democratic nation that has hailed in Sun Yat-sen’s time has been brown away. It becomes the cloud and mist among mountains, beautiful and yet surreal. As the cloud and mist disappear, the mountains and waters have left. They remain the same, while time and people have changed.

Technology brings us to the universe, to the virtual world, to a new time, and supplies a secularized and utilitarian place. The people keep replacing their tags patiently. The ancestry is gone, the culture is collapsed, and the moral characters of human beings have also been killed. A humble and tranquil heart has been buried into the earth under such a complicated relationship. As the mountains and waters unveil themselves, an infertile heart is seen. The interest has fostered groups of gamblers. The history walks on, and the technology keeps developing, but why the people at present become so evil? A fault of the collapsing of the Chinese tradition? Or because the people could not bear such a speed? Long time ago, the mountains and waters are not a cradle for gamblers. The mountains and waters remain, but where is the direction of the next generation?  
                                           
Jan, 2012  Shao Yinong & Mu Chen