《Yangzhou Old Bathroom》——The Expression And The Historical Heritage Of Civilization

The Yangzhou old bathroom history has deep significance and long taste. Today, the old bathroom vanishes gradually in the urban reconstruction construction. This documentary recorded the existing form of the old bathrooms in Yangzhou, and simultaneously recorded the old bathroom-goers coexisting with that.Taking bath is a unique living style of Yangzhou people and is carried forward generation after generation. To make the common life full of vigor and interests and polish it bright and shiny, it is what the regular Yangzhou bathroom-goers wish to do. The time-honored Yangzhou bathrooms will remain in the people’s mind forever.As the main form record history in this era, image broke the previous material conditions, letting time retained, memory eternal. Image narrative is so new, that we lack sufficient distance in-depth survey and evaluation for its meaningful value. As a historical expression means, how to conbimming both historical meaning and aesthetic value together in the expression of the objective reality,meanwhile, reflecing the real world are worthy of our attention. This paper attempts to explore the nature of the relationship between image and history, combined with the practice of documentary flim "Yangzhou old bathroom".