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While people from China's remote regions typically flock to big cities, a group of individuals have instead made Deqing county their new home

In Chinese culture, most intellectuals dream of living like hermits in the countryside after they have attained a deep understanding of life and achieved success in their career or in academia. In the old days, many of them gave up living in the city and moved to villages to embrace nature and inner peace.

This tradition has been in vogue for thousands of years.