Doctor Ma's Country Clinic 馬大夫的診所

Huangyangchuan town, Gulang county, Gansu province, China. It's a place of arid mountain area with poor traffic conditions. Ma Bingcheng is a respected local doctor. As for his good medical skills, many patients (most of them are farmers) come to see him everyday.In this narrow and small clinic, when people wait for seeing doctor or making up prescription, they usually chat with each others about their lives, local conditions, or the experience of people they know. This narrow country clinic becomes an open space, the information and experiences of different people who came to the clinic intertwine together, thus reveal the living conditions of local farmers, and the fate of the old generation and the new generation connected together. And I believe that the condition of the farmers in Huangyangchuan is not exceptional, instead, it's something common in a wider range for Chinese people. Life and death, illness and old age, they are just like changing of the seasons. Death exists, while life goes on. Dr. Ma, keeps on seeing his patients everyday.

甘肅省古浪縣黃羊川鎮。這裏乾旱少雨，自然條件惡劣。

馬秉成是當地一位受人尊敬的鄉村醫生。由於病看的好，他狹小的私人診所裏，每天都有很多前來求醫的普通農民。等待看病或抓藥時，人們時常談起各自的生活，當地的現狀，或者他們知道的人的遭遇。他們的疾病也時常帶有生活經歷留下的烙印。

這個狹小的診所成為一個開放的空間，一個視窗，每天來到這裏的人們，將各自的資訊和體驗彙聚在一起，從而勾勒出農民生活的基本境遇，老一代人和新一代人的境遇也產生了聯繫。黃羊川農民的這種處境並不特殊，而是具有更為廣泛的普遍性。