The Yellow River, which has its source in Bayan Har Mountains in the Tibetan Plateau, roars eastward. After several twists and turns, it rests on Hetao Desert. Seen from the map, it could move straight east passing Beijing and Tianjin and merge itself with Bohai Sea. But the truth is: it makes a sharp turn at Baotou and moves southward, passing around the west of Taihang Mountain. It turns at the east and moves northward and then merges with Bohai Sea. Here in the river a fated love for the Chinese landscape may be hidden behind epic stories. If this is so, Huashan Mountain, Luliang Mountain and Dongtiao Mountain are part of these epics... What is meant by Taihang Mountain? It has the elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth. I already mentioned this in 2005 in the preface to Wang Mang Ridge by Qin Hongyu, a photographer from Shanxi. At the time I wrote the preface, I did not consult books or dictionaries. I did not know that Taihang meant Five Elements in ancient China. I hit upon this idea purely by accident.In these works, I clearly see the shadows of the author and the stories behind the works. In the wind, the snow, the rain, the fog, in the thunder, in the flood, in the face of ferocious animals, in the cracking of heaven and earth, the photographer was Preface Chen Changfen 07 a participant and witness. The good thing about this album is that it brought me to the scenes of the stories and felt their presence physically and spiritually.I was able to experience wilderness and exotism there and the origin of human progress. This is "character". It is Taihang's "character", China's "character", "the character" of human race as well as "the character" of the author himself.