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"A Lost Myth in Hong Kong" is the result of many years of creation by Yamanaka Yuko in the mountains. Behind the patterns of each T-shirt represent the historical and cultural stories of different places in Hong Kong. For example, the sword-biting spirit dog painted in Yamanaka Yuko was inspired by the headless stone dog statue in Tai O, a historical relic. Yamanaka Yuko imbues imagination and draws the myth of Panhu, in order to spy on the origin of the local ethnic group. According to ancient records, Panhu is a legendary dog in the folklore of southern China. "Mythology has many aspects. One is to tell the origin of the ethnic group and maintain people's centripetal force. Today, if we want to study the origin of the identity of Hong Kong people, the discussion will probably focus on the four major ethnic groups such as the Hakka and the Sujia. The style of the stone dog statue in Tai O is It is obviously different from the common style of Guanyin and Guandi statues, and it is said that the stone dog statue is the legendary King Pan, the source of the various tribes of the Southern Man.

Not all the characters in Yamanaka Yuko are created according to the myths that have been handed down. For example, the picture of the child climbing a tree was created based on the plant of sweetgum. From a perspective, through illustrations to guess and interpret the connotation of the local environment. The inspiration for the painting came from a trip to the mountains, and they heard the tour guide introduce sweetgum berries as the traditional Chinese medicine "路路通", which reminded them of "煤炭屎鬼", so they used a childlike way to talk about sweetgum Yes, I ended up drawing a little elf that collects "Passeiro".

12 types of T-shirts in the "Mountain Praise Series" produced by Yamanaka Yuko.Introduction of Yamanaka Yuko": Because two boys like photography, they went to the mountains to find subjects for hiking. They fell in love with hiking in the process, and found that the experience of being immersed in nature turned out to be the source of inspiration for creation, so they named "Wanderer in the Mountains" In the name of this group, they started the creation of "natural art" mainly based on video, using photography, design, painting and writing to compose the history of Hong Kong scenery.