松茸之雨的“雨”是指真菌子实体喷发的孢子，它们从菌褶中飘落的状态像阵阵雨水。松茸只有在生长到最成熟的时刻才会肆意的散落孢子，但连年的过度采摘让其很难生长至成熟，气候的异常也让松茸的生长更加严峻。尤其在2022年这个特别的夏季，极度的干旱让孢子雨和雨水一起在森林中缺席。

   孢子细微如尘，几乎是不被察觉的存在，但却充斥在我们的周围，真真切切的与维系着我们生存的网络相互关联着。孢子的沉降情况映射着松茸贸易与气候的变化 ，所以“松茸之雨”则是基于对云南松茸的生长情况与贸易情况的调研，从一颗孢子的视角去审视建立于松茸之上的生态网络与贸易网络。并在气候危机的背景下发出孢子的警示之语。

   The "rain" in matsutake refers to the spores of the fungus' fruiting bodies, which fall from the fungal folds like a shower of rain. Matsutake mushrooms will only scatter spores freely when they are at their most mature, but years of overharvesting have made it difficult for them to grow to maturity, and climate anomalies have made their growth even more severe. Especially in this particular summer of 2022, the extreme drought made the "spore rain" absent from the forest along with the rain.

   The spores are as tiny as dust, almost unnoticeable. But they are all around us and are really connected to the network that sustains us, and the spores reflect the changes in the Matsutake trade and climate. So "Matsutake Rain " is based on a study of the growth and trade of Matsutake in Yunnan, and examines the ecological and trade networks built on them from the perspective of a spore. It is a warning from the spore in the context of the climate crisis.