Liangshan, Not Liang turns its attention to the everyday lives of the Yi people in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China, entering a social landscape shaped by geography, kinship, labor, ritual memory, and the long sedimentation of ethnic history. The title carries a quiet doubleness: “Liang”, which means coldness in Chinese, names a place often imagined through remoteness, hardship, and external projection, while “Not Liang” gestures toward the human temperature within it—warmth, dignity, intimacy, and the resilient inner life that persists beneath simplified social narratives. The series resists spectacle and refuses reduction, approaching Liangshan not as a symbol of poverty, exotic difference, or anthropological distance, but as a lived world structured by ordinary time, embodied experience, and collective continuity. Within these images, daily life becomes the site where history remains visible, where identity is carried in gesture, space, and relation, and where the pressure of modernization encounters deeply rooted cultural memory. Liangshan, Not Liang restores complexity to a place too often flattened by outside vision, offering a sustained reflection on presence, inheritance, and the irreducible humanity of lives that continue to unfold with gravity, tenderness, and strength.