In the spring mist of China's Qiandao Lake—the Lake of a Thousand Islands—lies one of history's most haunting ironies. Beneath the serene waters rest the ancient cities of Shicheng and He Cheng, founded during the Eastern Han Dynasty nearly two millennia ago, their wooden beams and stone carvings preserved in silent testament to a vanished world.

Thousand Reflections on Lake Qiandao is a meditation on memory, displacement, and the complex relationship between humanity and nature. Through an impressionistic blend of photography, personal narrative, and poetic reflection, this work explores the tragic history of Qiandao Lake's creation in 1959, when the Xin'an River Dam project flooded over 600 square kilometers of the Chun'an County—the land of "pure peace." Nearly 300,000 people were forcibly relocated, and 1,300 villages, 27 towns, and 50,000 acres of farmland disappeared beneath the rising waters.

Yet within this tragedy lies a paradox: while the flooding destroyed countless lives and…