Everything is changing during the time; stores, restaurants, people, and all other soundings. However, there are enough amount of things that are staying unchanged, which are things that people want to keep it unchanged, it is hard to change how people think. The recent twenty years, China is developing rapidly; thousands of modern buildings stand up over nights. However, there are some things staying unchanged during these twenty years: foods, culture, and beliefs. The photo “Full Moon over Old China,” is depicting the difference between the modern style and the traditional manner of the architecture and the environment. Through this photo, I would like to specifically look into the things that have not been changed and how people think about it.

To begin with, all human beings live on the earth; we stand on the same land, breath the same air. Therefore, the sky above us is never changed. However, within the sky could have a few changes. Sometimes, it is cloudy sometime it is not. And sometimes it has full moon, sometime has half-moon. Similarly, there are lots of different meanings for the moon, it is different between Chinese to all other countries. Chinese consider moon as a round table for dinner, everyone need to show up, and spending time together at least once per year, but, sometime people believe the moon can stand for the future, people are writing lots of poem about the moon and giving wishes to their future. In the opposite way, the picture “Full Moon over Old China,” has a deep dark image of a night sky, and we can see the cloudy sky with a circle of clear full moon. We can tell from this photo that the night sky is the background, which has been put into strong color of the darkness. This darkness brings others a feeling of negative impression, which is totally reverse from the crowed street and the golden building. However, that is the point that catches people’s eyes. It is using black and white style, but it looks more meaningful than other colored buildings. Chinese believed full moon is the symbol for family to reunite, and we even have a festival called “Zhong Qiu,” people are celebrating the time they spent with their family. Even though we can see the strong contrasts of the surrounding from the past till now, there is still one fact that has not been changed: the moon on the sky.

After that, we will discuss about the lighted building which has strong contrast with the dark sky. If we look the foreground of this photo, there are lots of building covered by all different kinds of lanterns and lights. These buildings have Chinese traditional outlook, which is finished building hundred years ago. However, we keep these building, even if we do not have emperor anymore. As we step into 20th century, everything become more modern, we change from riding a horse to riding a car, from big house to high apartment. If we watch this phot carefully, all the detail inside the buildings can help us to distinguish that, everything inside the store are the product in 21st century, huge Signboard, traffic light and the jewelry stores. People changed all the interior of the building, because they need more technology stuffs to support their business. Reversely, the traditional outlook of their store is the highlight that attract more customers. Because tourist is willing to buy things that contain culture features. At the same time, people are willing to give title to things that they don’t know; they will believe the product inside the store are all rarities. So, we are not changing the outlook of these building because the Chinese traditional architecture becomes to our own style already, we are proud of it and we are not willing to change all the things that proved by history.

Third, there is an interesting thing we have to talk about. On the bottom of the picture, we can see the non-countable people walking on the street, either going into the store, or finding restaurant. In China, people are good at enjoy their life, from thousands of years ago, people have the habit to walk out on the street, eating and shopping, because thousands of years ago, we created night market. Therefore, people show their willing to go out enjoy the environment rather than stay at home. Besides, if we look the left bottom, we can see there are few cars driving through this street, but it looks so hard to drive forward while they are stay right in the middle of the crowdy people. It seems like traffic light is a decorate, maybe that looks out of order, but nobody complain about it and no driver will horn to the people. It is hard to change one’ habit; therefore, it is even harder to change a nation’ habit while there are such a great number of Chinese population. I believe that the crowdy atmosphere in China is the feeling of home to all the Chinese, we enjoy it, so, we live with it.

 At the end, this photo is shoot for showing the new generations of the Chinese. That is because the younger generations are changing over time after they absorb all different kinds of information around the world, their beliefs, their living style and even their language. I do not consider that is a bad thing, but this photo is reminding them, even though Chinese are changing in order to develop, But, we cannot forget where we come from. Meanwhile, the overall design for this picture is great to demonstrate the prominent comparison of the old-style outlook of buildings and the modern interior of these buildings. The background of the dark sky, which stand out to illustrate the dark future for people who still fanaticism of modern life to give up the traditional value. This picture is pulling out my emotions of missing home, which let me realize how important is the history and traditions. We need to developing, but it is not using the premise of giving up all these traditions.  
