What is a soft sleeper?

Sleepingchinese is a website founded by German photographer Bernd Hagemann. Bernd Hagemann lived in Shanghai for 6 years. He often went to the streets of Shanghai to photograph Chinese people who were sleeping in extreme conditions, that is, sleepingchinese. The German photographer Bernd Hagemann Founded website. Bernd Hagermann lived in Shanghai for 6 years. He often went to the streets of Shanghai to photograph Chinese people napping in extreme conditions, adding to his huge photography collection.

Hard sleepers can fall asleep in any situation. Among Bernd's top ten most popular photos, there is one of a man in uniform and a big-brimmed hat (with red sleeves on his arms) sleeping on a bench in a street park. The wonderful thing is that there is a An armrest was specially designed to act as a partition to prevent people from lying down, but this man in the big-brimmed hat actually put his body on it, twisted it into an S shape, and slept without being affected at all. This is undoubtedly a typical "hard sleeper". Although "soft sleepers" also fall asleep on the spot in public places, they seem to be a little more "fastidious" and have higher requirements for comfort than hard sleepers. Included in this category is a man sleeping on his back on the concrete floor. The concrete floor is of course very hard, but he placed a box of flat cans over his closed eyes to block the strong sunlight. Another clerk from an aquatic product store slept peacefully in a huge red plastic basin. Although there was a big crab with its teeth and claws in the plastic bucket next to it, the round plastic basin was almost the same as a cradle. With such a pursuit, it is quite appropriate to be classified as a soft sleeper. Two or more people sleeping together are group sleepers. There are some funny ones, such as the scene where four men sit upright on a plane and sleep without disturbing each other. The best thing is the photo of two men sleeping on each end of a seesaw in an amusement park. They are both about the same height and weight, just enough to keep the seesaw balanced. There is also a photo of migrant workers sleeping on the street. There are four adults and one child in the photo. They are obviously not a family, but they are closely clinging to each other. Their relationship is thought-provoking.

In these photos, there are some obvious similarities: Judging from their clothing and belongings, most of them belong to Chinese people sleeping in the city

[1] The grassroots; being able to sleep so calmly under harsh conditions shows that their physical and mental energy has been exhausted to a certain extent - perhaps they simply do not have the conditions to create a better sleeping environment for themselves. Bernd realized that there was some kind of "pain" in China's most prosperous city, but he interpreted it from an "interesting" perspective. This may well represent the views of some Westerners on China today. Most of them are well-educated and full of curiosity about the foreign cultures of developing countries. Even if they live locally, they still belong to the privileged class and have almost no contact with ordinary people and have little understanding of their lives. Fifty years ago, the "Beat Generation" who came from the middle class praised Eastern Zen; fifty years later, the difficult life of the Chinese people was interpreted by the new generation of Western middle class as a "social attitude of acceptance and tolerance."