Edition x NYT Travel | Mei Ting: Looking for the old taste that has never been lost

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From Edition Autumn18

Probably everyone's change of things, the replacement of time is a bit embarrassing. Whether it is the food stalls where the back door of the school has changed, the houseplates that have been removed from the childhood park, or the fireflies that disappeared in the yard, people need to find and familiarize themselves with the way to say goodbye to memory. Mei Ting accepted this allly and carefully sorted out the mark left on her.

In people's impressions, Mei Ting always plays the role of Wen Liang Xian De, and few people will associate her with the tenacity of being a soldier. She spent eight years in the military life of the Nanjing Military Region Cultural and Art Troupe. This experience is still very difficult even after recalling it. She said that these days are challenging the limits of the body.

Whether it is in the "frying in the oil pan" summer or "the same in the hail" winter filming, it is these boring and hard experience, let Mei Ting have a solid basic strength and strength. This tenacity is also rooted in her persistence as an actor.

Now she has returned to her hometown of Nanjing to film, the city's elegant temperament has attracted many crews to come to the scene. When Mei Ting talked about its beauty, she still thought of the scene she saw when she was young: the road where the branches of the phoenix tree were intertwined, and there was no need to use an umbrella in the rainy days. The salted duck and chicken juice of the Jinling Hotel’s monks were dried. And the Xuanwu Lake with a light and a large lotus leaf. These unusual images are the most authentic appearance of Mei Ting's life.

"Every summer, fireflies spent the summer with me, but it seems that I really can't see it now. In the past, we had it in our home. Later, we also had it in our group. Then it seems that we only went to Linggu. The temple is watching fireflies. Seeing so many fireflies in Linggu Temple is like a dream, especially a surreal feeling."

Mei Ting cherishes every memory here, revisiting her hometown with her husband Zeng Jian, and watching the fireflies at Linggu Temple. These simple and ordinary little romances are all my impressions.

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From Edition Autumn18

From the big cities that are rushing to the footsteps, occasionally returning to their homeland and slowing down, they will find that life has not changed with the passage of time, and it is an old taste that has never been lost.

The past does not necessarily mean losing. It just changed the way it reappeared in life.