Today we’re in Dushi Village (独市村), part of Huzhou (湖州) but far away from it. Dushi is a village built around a 600-year-old ginkgo tree, a temple for women, and three key waterways connected by a few historic bridges. Nearly all houses are vacant as this town will be demolished soon, and the few residents that remain are outnumbered by animals. Nature grows back through cracks in the buildings, through the walls and through the roof, and there’s a green layer on everything. But it’s the silence that is most present here.

I’m going home with too many photos taken, because I feel this is the last chance to document these alleys and buildings. There are so many details here I want to take home; ornaments, tools, Hanzi characters, or just stuff left behind on walls or in between them. And I finally found some ‘拐弯抹角’ corners in the wild.