During the past two decades, Chinese rock band, Miserable Faith, has performed in arenas, theaters, and outdoor music festivals across the country, surrounded by wildly cheering fans.
痛仰樂隊是中國的一支搖滾樂隊。過去二十年，痛仰在中國各地音樂現場、戶外音樂節演出，受到樂迷的狂熱追捧。
圖源：搜狐
However, when the band visited a small village in Zhenghe county in East China's Fujian province, they stood on a rudimentary flagstone path and performed their piece, Song of the Road, to an appreciative, though small, audience.
痛仰樂隊最近探訪了中國東部福建省政和縣的一個小村莊。在那裡，他們把古舊的石闆路當成舞台，演唱了《公路之歌》，觀衆雖然不多，但反響不錯。
Villagers gathered around and enjoyed the performance against the backdrop of blue sky, white clouds and green trees.
天空一片湛藍，白雲浮動，綠樹掩映，村民們聚在一起欣賞了痛仰樂隊的這次演出。
圖源：騰訊視訊《中國這麼美》第一集
It's a scene from a new TV show titled China is So Beautiful, which features nine groups of singer-songwriters and indie rock bands traveling to and performing in villages. Miserable Faith and the small village in Zhenghe county were featured in the first episode of the TV show, which premiered on Tencent Video on Nov 18.
這個場景是戶外音樂旅行紀錄片《中國這麼美》的一個片段。節目集結了九組創作型歌手和獨立搖滾樂隊，邀請他們去到鄉村進行表演。11月18日上線的《中國這麼美》第一集中，痛仰樂隊來到福建政和。
"We love performing here. It is so close to nature," says leading vocalist and songwriter Gao Hu. "It's the first time that we traveled to Zhenghe county, where we saw beautiful scenery and met lovely people."
痛仰主唱兼詞曲作者高虎說：“我們喜歡在這裡表演，這裡太貼近自然了。這是我們第一次來政和縣，風景很美，遇到的人也都很可愛。”
Located between two mountain chains Wuyi and Jiufeng, the county is famous for its tea.
政和縣以白茶揚名，西有武夷山東翼餘脈，東有九峰山脈橫貫。
In the one-hour show, audiences followed the band picking tea leaves in a vast garden, run by Yang Feng, who keeps his family tradition of growing tea trees in the small village. Before they left Zhenghe county, the band played with children of a primary school of Jinping village, where they met a teacher Ye Xiangmei. The 35-year-old Ye has been teaching at the school since 2013. While the school suffers from a teacher shortage, Ye teaches multiple courses, such as Chinese language and music.
第一集時長約為一小時。痛仰樂隊帶着觀衆來到一個大茶園，采摘茶葉。茶園是楊豐經營的，他延續了家裡世代種植茶葉的傳統。離開政和縣前，樂隊和錦屏村一所國小的孩子們一起演奏了幾首歌曲。在那裡，樂隊還見到了葉相美老師。葉老師今年35歲，自2013年起就在該校任教。學校老師短缺，葉老師一個人擔任國文、音樂等多門課程的教學。
"She is a great teacher who is warm, enthusiastic and caring. She reminds me of my mother, who was also a teacher before her retirement," says Zhang Jing, the band's bassist.
樂隊貝斯手張靜說：“葉老師很偉大，她很溫暖，有着滿腔的熱情，也很有愛心。葉老師讓我想起了我的母親，她退休前也是名老師。”
In the show, they performed four of their songs, all against the backdrop of the villages in Zhenghe county they visited. Sunset, waterfalls, animals and villagers were featured in the show, which added a different layer of meaning to their songs.
在節目中，他們演唱了四首歌，每首歌都在他們到過的政和縣的各個村莊裡表演。落日殷紅，瀑布倒懸，動物悠然，村民親切，為這幾首歌帶來了獨特意義。
The first man the band met was Song Zengfu, who took the band to see his bees, his rabbit, and his handcrafted pieces, like wooden rocking horses and bamboo baskets. Song's wife made them lunch and invited the band to drink their homemade glutinous rice wine.
樂隊最開始見到的是宋增福。老宋帶着樂隊去看他養的蜜蜂、兔子，還有他自己做的一些手工作品，有木馬，有竹籃。老宋妻子給他們做了午飯，還請樂隊喝他們自制的糯米酒。
Both in their 60s, the couple enjoy their lives in the small village.
老宋夫婦都已經60多歲了，在這個小村子裡住得很開心。
"Our children asked us to live with them in the bigger cities, where they work now. We found it very boring to live in the cities," said Song in the show.
老宋在節目裡說：“孩子們都叫我們去城裡住，他們在那裡打工。我們覺得住在城裡不好玩。”
"Though he is getting old, he still loves climbing trees and catching fish in the river. He just cannot leave the village," added Song's wife.
老宋妻子說：“雖然老宋年紀大了，但還是喜歡爬爬樹、去河裡抓抓魚。他就是離不開村子。”
"Many people may decide to leave their hometowns and pursue a better life in bigger cities, but there are still some enjoying themselves in the villages. That's a different definition for happiness," says Gao.
高虎說：“很多人可能會離開家鄉到大城市追求更高品質的生活，但還是有一些人在農村也過得很開心。這就是對幸福定義的不同。”
The band also met Chen Mujin, 53, who is known as the "Chinese calligraphy master". Chen couldn't read or write because his family was too poor to afford school fees. However, Chen loved looking at Chinese characters and hoped that he could write one day. While working on the farmland, he taught himself to read and write as a teenager. His wife supported his dream and used the money kept for her dowry to pay for Chen's calligraphy classes.
樂隊還見到了53歲的鄉村書法家陳木金。小時候因為家裡窮，沒錢讀書，陳木金不認字也不會寫字。但陳木金很愛看漢字，想着自己有一天也能寫出來。在地裡幹活兒的時候，他就自己學認字、學寫字。他的妻子很支援他，用自己的嫁妝供陳木金上書法班。
According to Wang Shengzhi, director of the TV show, besides Fujian province, the creative team also visited villages of other places across China, such as Lianping county in Guangdong province, Jianshui county in Yunnan province and Jingyuan county in Gansu province. Chinese bands, including Jiulian Zhenren and Wu Tiao Ren, are featured in the show.
節目導演王聖志表示，福建政和一行後，主創團隊還探訪了中國其他地方的村子，去到了廣東連平、雲南建水、甘肅靖遠等一些地方。九連真人、五條人樂隊也在後續節目中登場。
"These places may not be very popular among tourists but they are beautiful and deserve to be discovered," says Wang.
“遊客可能很少去這些地方，但這些地方很美，值得去探索。”
The director says the TV show was inspired by his other shows, such as Breakfast of China, which brought viewers to travel across the country to taste as many as 30 types of popular breakfasts.
王聖志還表示，他拍攝的其他節目給了這個節目很多靈感，比如說《早餐中國》。《早餐中國》帶着觀衆的味蕾在中國各地暢遊，多達30種早餐在觀衆舌尖綻放。
"I met many interesting people when I shot the other shows. They have a very different lifestyle from people living in bigger cities and I want to introduce them to the audiences," says the director.
“拍攝其他片子的時候，我遇到很多有趣的人，他們的生活方式和大城市的人截然不同，我想把這種不同展示給觀衆。”
"It feels like an escape from the fast-paced city life by watching the show, especially when we cannot travel due to the coronavirus pandemic," says Zhu Lexian, head of A4 Studio, content production department of Tencent Online Video, who supervised the TV show, China is So Beautiful. "Like the name of the show suggests, there are many beautiful places and beautiful people in China."
騰訊線上視訊節目内容制作部A4工作室負責人朱樂賢是《中國這麼美》的監制，他表示：“看這個紀錄片會讓你感覺能逃離快節奏的城市生活，尤其是現在，大家受疫情影響，沒辦法出去旅遊。就像這個紀錄片的名字一樣，中國這麼美，地方美，人也美。”