Photographer Tan Jin'en once staked out the Gobi Desert in Jiuquan, capturing the Tianhe core module for the cover of a national photography exhibition. Today, he turns his lens to shop curtains on Zhongshan's streets, chasing the light of children hidden in the folds of Spring Festival couplets and between plastic chairs.

▲Children lend a hand with whatever they can (Photo series)

▲Work with gusto, eat with relish

▲Pure childhood joy

▲Chess never gets old

▲Hitch a "free ride"