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All Those Who Loves Outdoors Has the Hearts of Her
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All Those Who Loves Outdoors Has the Hearts of Hero.


There is a team that started a journey since the first day of 2018. They planned to take pictures of a hundred 100-year-old veterans who fought in wars. This project named Ten Thousand Years of Veterans. One Outside exclusively interviewed the man in charge of this program——Lei Lu.


ONE OUTSIDE: What is the purpose of taking pictures the veterans who fought in wars?

Lei Lu: We did not have a definite aim in the beginning. We got in touch with organizations that cared the veterans who fought in wars and joined some public welfare activities about veterans which were mainly to visit and donate before. But we always thought that we could do more. So we started this project with Shenzhen Long Yue Charity and the Shenzhen class of EMBA28 term of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. The truth is that we did not have much time to think because those veterans are already 100 years old and they may be back to their team when we figure it all out. So we had to do it and record them first. As for what to do next, we are thinking while filming.

ONE OUTSIDE: What do you mean by back to their team?

Lei Lu: That is an established way of saying pass away among the volunteers who care about veterans. In this project, there were two rules when it came to choosing the veterans. The first one was the veteran must be 100 years old, and he or she must serve in a troop of National Revolutionary Army that has official designation during wars. Most of their comrade-in-arms had passed away, and only one or two veterans who served in the same division or corps are still alive. They named passing away as back to their team which sounds rather solemn.

ONE OUTSIDE: How did you find the veterans?

Lei Lu: There are many charity organizations have focused on caring veterans in recent years. We asked them to help and coordinate. During photo shooting, we found out that it was hard to find those veterans. There is a job called Going And Visiting in volunteers. This job means when they learn about a veteran somewhere, they need to find out the information such as which troop he or she belonged to? Which war he or she participated in? Who was his or her division commander or corps commander? That information needs a lot of energy to verify. Most of the veterans live in the villages which are far away from the cities. Sometimes, they need to conquer many difficulties to find the veteran's home. Driving past one village after another, when you arrive the end of the mountain and no way ahead, then you will find the place where the veteran lives in.

ONE OUTSIDE: Those veterans have pictures right? Why do you take new photos troublesomely instead of gathering the old ones?

Lei Lu: We had a theme, so we had to find veterans according to it. Our theme is Hero. Our photographer is Xiaowei Pang who is the number one portrait photographer in China. He is the best portrait photographer in China. He took pictures of Chinese Olympian champions and over 1000 movie stars. Xiaowei Pang is the photographer who has the most works that were collected by the National Museum of China.

ONE OUTSIDE: Why did you set the theme of the photos as Hero?

Lei Lu: Probably this has something to do with our understanding of hero. Those veterans are most bottom soldiers. When they enlisted, they may want to repay our country, but most of them just wanted a full meal. We think every soldier who joined the war with guns are heroes. When they talk about the battles during photo shooting, we always feel like their eyes are saying,I bled for our country during the war and endured many difficulties in life. After 100 years, I am still here.This is our understanding of heroes.

ONE OUTSIDE: You mentioned earlier that most of the veterans who fought in wars live in the countryside. Is their life difficult?

Lei Lu: Most of the people would focus on this point when they think of the veterans who fought in wars. Volunteer organizations such as Shenzhen Long Yue Charity are trying to offer them helps. While working on this Ten Thousand Years of Veterans project, we were doing what we could. Now we have taken photos of over one hundred veterans, and our feelings are that the help was mutual. Chinese people call those who live over one hundred years the auspicious omen of humankind. We used to think that we may never live until one hundred years old, let along meet any auspicious omen of humankind. But through this project, we met over a hundred of them. At their age, they experienced more obstacles than we can imagine and they no longer care about materials, money and even glories. They take everything lightly. This time, they would love to sit down with you, talk about the smoke and fires dozens of years ago and tell you about their comrades and commanders. It is like a blessing when they hold your hands and we are lucky to be the volunteers.

ONE OUTSIDE: Where are the volunteers who take care of the veterans come from in China?

Lei Lu: I cant give you actual numbers. But the volunteers have two things in common which are good hearts and heroism. One of the volunteers told me that caring veterans and joining the Hope Project for children feel different. The Hope Project is watching children growing up everyday while caring veterans means that we have to face the truth that many of them joins the rest of the army every year. But the volunteers insist on doing this because upon those veterans are the memory of our country and the heroism of our nation.

ONE OUTSIDE: What impressed you the most during taking photos of the veterans who fought in wars?

Lei Lu: Some of them graduated from Whampoa Military Academy, but most of them are the bottom soldiers as we call them Big Head Soldiers. In the army during that time, their mission was to fight. Their commanders are their skies and their pride. Every veteran remembers their commander clearly. The first veteran we took photo of was Dade Zhang in Henan Province. The day was cold, and he was lying in bed and covered in the quilt. He saw us and got up, but he was tired and gloomy. A volunteer asked loudly beside his year,grandpa, do you remember who was your commander?He heard it and then there was light in his eyes and yelled Xilian Song! The Ten Thousand Years of Veterans project has been to many provinces and went to Taiwan as well. As long as they could communicate, they all could say their commanders name out loud.

ONE OUTSIDE: How many veterans who are over one hundred years did you find in Taiwan?

Lei Lu: We found fourteen veterans in Taiwan with the help of friends. Most of them served under Lian Hu. In Taiwan, the veterans are honorable citizens and take care by the Home of Honorable Citizens. Mainland China should put more effort in this. The two lands of China has reached an agreement that they are soldiers who fought on the battlefield for their county, and they are our countrys memory and our nations spine.

ONE OUTSIDE: Thank you for your introduction. Our magazine is focused on people who love the outdoors. Those who love the outdoors have the hearts of heroes.  

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