The short commercial film One Bucket produced by Chinese director Jia Zhangke has melted the heart of many viewers. The movie portrays the love a mother for her son through the journey of a bucket which the young man takes along with him when he returns to city after spending the Spring Festival holiday at his hometown.
In China, migrant workers often carry buckets with them on their journey home during the Spring Festival travel rush. Moreover, buckets also come handy in a host of other occasions, sometimes in unusual places. Let's have a look.
Migrant workers hold paint buckets when embarking a train ahead of the Spring Festival at Jiaxing Railway Station in Zhejiang province, on Jan 21, 2011. [Photo/VCG]
A man sits on a pile of buckets when waiting for a train at Luoyang Railway Station in Henan province, on Jan 28, 2019. [Photo/VCG]
An elderly person carrying empty paint buckets walks down a mountain to fetch water at Langwo village in Shandong province, May 26, 2017. [Photo/VCG]
Urban patrol officers, or
chengguan, destroy a bucket used for roasting sweet potato confiscated from roadside venders in Beijing, Dec 14, 2008. [Photo/VCG]
A band performs using waste buckets as musical instruments at 2010 Shanghai World Expo. [Photo/VCG]
Plastic buckets are used to occupy a parking space at a residential community in Jinan, Shandong province, April 1, 2015. [Photo/VCG]
Paint buckets are used as dividing blocks on a road in Zhengzhou, Henan province, April 13, 2016. [Photo/VCG]
A senior resident plays a self-made instrument made of plastic bucket in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, June 15, 2016. [Photo/VCG]
Residents of Niumian village in Anhui province use plastic buckets as blocks to prevent vehicles from running over crops they dried on the road, Sept 20, 2016. [Photo/VCG]
