Shenggu, a podcaster [Photo provided to China Daily]

Recording the sound of snow is one of his most unforgettable experiences. In January 2018, he went to the mountains near Hangzhou to record the sound of stepping on the snow. He took two pairs of shoes to make two different kinds of sound. He spent an hour recording his steps, the snow falling from leaves onto the ground and the breaking of a branch.

Besides Hangzhou, he has recorded his hometown, Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, as well as some cities that he has visited on business trips. He also plans to record the snow in northern China.

He will often take his recording equipment into the forest or to the river just to be a "gourmet" of nature's sound.

"When I bring my recording equipment and walk alone in the woods, I feel the peace in nature and all messy thoughts in my head can be thrown away," he says.

He adds that he will continue to record the sounds of nature, because, as time goes by, some may vanish like those no longer heard in the city, so he wants to preserve them in the recordings.

"My recordings are all authentic, so that even though the listener may not necessarily have been to that location, they feel a familiarity when hearing the sound," he says.