Human's desire for nature seems to be inversely correlated with the progress of civilization. With the increasing pressure of urban life, in recent years, a number of young people choose to come to Hainan Wanning to live. This migration towards the island and reverse urbanization seems to be the practice and experiment of the young people who come here to build an ideal life in order to resist anxiety, nothingness and futility.

Rather than being a place for them to live, the island itself is more of a spiritual symbol, isolated from the outside world of modern life in order to pay more attention to their own spiritual world. Young people voluntarily quit the city and took root here. They follow the natural humanity and tidal rhythm of life, and grow within the island because of the crowd from the spirit and values of (perhaps less systemic, but exists), like seaweed, adhere to the every once lived here, it looks like a more primitive, closer to the nature of human shape. This seems to be the mission of the island, to construct the ideal core of the spiritual world, like a vegetable dye that infuses the undertones of people's personalities that lie below the surface.

However, as the contact deepened, I began to have some thoughts and vague concerns about the life and spirit here: life itself is a big cage, no one can escape forever. Even an idealized return to the past is only an internal confrontation with life itself. Will the resistance to revolution, which does not destroy life itself, one day fall apart? Will the dream people created together create fissures in the future? Will it eventually become what Calvino calls "a false place of wonder and hope"?

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