Temple

Incense burner in the rain

A temple, a rainy day, near Chengdu. The man in blue lights incense sticks in the great burner. At the bottom of the photo, bright red Party flags. Above, an imperial roof. And he holds a modern transparent umbrella. Three eras in the same image. Nobody sees a contradiction. This might be the photo that best sums up what I understood in China : here, the sacred is neither dead nor protected. It lives with its time.