The Beautiful Luo Ping: Golden Fields

As a photography enthusiast who has visited numerous rapeseed flower seas over the years, I still remember Luo Ping deeply.

As an economic crop, rapeseed flowers are planted over large areas in both the north and the south. The mature rapeseed seeds can be processed into the rapeseed oil we love to eat. Rapeseed oil is fragrant, delicious and has antioxidant properties, making it one of the top oils. Secondly, rapeseed flowers attract a large number of tourists, contributing to the tourism industry locally and increasing revenue.

Whenever weekends or leisure time, tourists come in small groups of three or two, or families together to relax and wander in the rapeseed flower seas, leaving behind the worries of work and life, letting time flow quietly along the fingertips, and fully enjoying the beauty bestowed upon us by nature. It's really a matter of delight.

Last spring, I was fortunate to visit Luoping, Yunnan, a long-cherished wish fulfilled, arriving at this location that has appeared on the covers of many albums and magazines. I ate local famous seven-color rice in small restaurants and chatted with the local old men, learning that Luoping was very poor and impoverished county twenty years ago. Later, the local government, taking advantage of the local conditions, decided to develop tourism based on rapeseed flowers, actively promoted and developed a tourism industry centered on rapeseed flowers, and after more than ten years of hard work, successfully removed the label of poor county. Rapeseed flowers played a key role as the protagonist.

Luoping rapeseed flowers are bushy and leafy, and the flowers are plump and beautiful. Compared to those in Northeast China, the Luoping rapeseed flowers are giants. Due to its location in the karst landform belt, it is filled with representatives of typical karst landforms – conical hills. The characteristic of conical hills is that they have a steep slope, high symmetry, sudden rises, and look like rice dumplings scattered vertically by heaven, adding beauty and charm to the endless sea of flowers.

Tourism is most taboo against being rushed and hurried. It is the same for photography. The reasons for traveling to Luoping were only three hours, and that day I also happened to encounter super dense fog, with low visibility, the photos were all gray and without a sense of transparency. It's a little regrettable. After all, photography is the art of regret, and only regret can make you more eager for perfection, and life is also the same!