A Hometown: 2056 kilometers, 360 villagers, countless apples & a farewell / 一个故乡：二千零六十五公里，三百六十位村民，不可数的苹果和一次离别

Since 2011, Zhang has shifted all his work to the hometown he knows best, a place closely associated with his growth and memory. At the beginning, he created a series of works through polaroid emulsion lift, as a metaphor for the process of tearing and repairing himself and his hometown, and through these collage images, to find a balance between memory and reality.And Zhang Xiao at that time, to the hometown, is more like a wandering kid in the village, aimlessly looking for the hometown "ruins" in the reflective coins. He dumped all the old stuff out of the old drawers of his house, rummaged through his relatives' old photo albums, roamed the photo studios hidden in the market, and even borrowed the village council's rural cooperative medical certificate for everyone in the village in order to get a portrait of all villagers.In his work on hometown, Zhang Xiao quotes Fei Xiaotong in His work Rural China: "Every specific living group has its special language, and there are many words