/ 2025 / Portraiture / Culture

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Yuan Zhang, China

As China's first 3A game, Black Myth Wukong, is gaining global popularity, so are the mythical legendary character Wukong and the ancient architectures and sculptures adopted as the background scenes of the sensational Black Myth Wukong. On Dec 7, 2024, I happened to meet a group shooting a video with a young man dressed in Wukong's costumes at the Lingyan Temple in Jinan, Shandong province. With a history of more than 1,600 years, the Lingyan Temple is one of the places where Black Myth Wukong used as the background scenes in the game. With permission, I took the photos.