Ever wonder what life is like in a remote rural setting? Baoshan is a group of little villages in the mountains of Yunnan near Lijiang. Home to the Naxi minority, these villages are unreachable by car. Life in Baoshan’s Stone Village is self-sufficient and simple, and beautiful but numbers are dwindling, as youngsters are drawn to the outside world for bigger horizons and bigger paychecks. But what remains for the older villagers?
在遍佈高山峻嶺的雲南高原,大大小小的村莊坐落在群山之間。這些村莊裏住著不同的民族,有著各自不同的生活。位於麗江縣寶山鄉的牧牛科村是延綿大山中的一個納西族村莊,要到達這個村子需要先搭車到石頭城這個地方,然後再步行走四十多分鐘到山路。雖然石頭城是一個小有名氣的文化遺產,但是通到那裏到唯一公路比較險峻,所以來訪的遊客並不多。與石頭城相比,沒有公路到達的牧牛科更是閉塞。牧牛科這個村子本身並不算小,但是現在幾乎人去屋空。那麼,現在這個村子裏不到一半的居民們他們的生活是怎樣的呢?
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