Since 1994, Feng Jicai, a noted writer in China, has got 100 cameramen to take sweeping photos of almost every object of his hometown - the old city of Tianjin, for which he has spent hundreds of thousands of yuan from his royalties. He did so because he was strongly worried about the status quo of national and folk culture, which he believes is on the verge of extinction in the shadow of modern style of living. Initiated by Feng, the China Folk Artists Association has launched a project to rescue the state class folk culture. The costly project, estimated to take ten years to complete, is the biggest of its kind to preserve folk culture in China. It indicates that Feng’s worries have become the worries of the Chinese government as well.