sipping on that warm bowl of sour soup and feeling the crazy energy of the torch festival—i took it all in firsthand. even though the mountains stayed totally silent, they gave me the absolute gentlest summer ever.
📸👒☘️☀️🌀🥢
the #magical_summer escape 🌟
(…) stepping into guizhou for this bazaar shoot felt like entering another world. i just wandered through the stunning xijiang miao village, soaking it all in—the way the silver ornament and intricate miao embroidery caught the sunlight was unreal.
everywhere i went, the cozy, comforting aroma of traditional sour soup hung in the air, and watching those huge clusters of torches light up the night at yeyuhai lake literally painted the twilight sky. ★%
( mood. ) off-duty. cici’s tiny diary :
i. corn bagel check! 🌽🥯 so crunchy.
ii. the pose and pout-perfecting era. ✌🏻
iii. being the view in a messy room. 💙
iv. ( oooopsie! 🤷🏻♀️) cici being chaotic.
leaning back gently into the wooden chair and letting the warm breeze drift over my head, i looked out and felt the sweet, quiet magic of summer breathing all around me right now. 🍃🍀
i’ve had way too many summers, but this brave little core memory is way too alive to forget, so i’m handing it over to the universe to keep safe. 🫧🪄🤍✌🏻
i’m currently reading a collection of chinese poems, and this page features a piece by yu shiwu dated 1917, simply titled ‘faraway’. its simplicity is just so captivating. 🍫👓📖