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Rednet Moment reporter Zhang Xingsha reported from Changsha
On the afternoon of February 15, the red network published a manuscript titled "Video | the Rural Life of Foreign Daughters-in-law and Chinese Mother-in-Law in Hunan, Sweet to Foreign Countries", which instantly caused millions of netizens to watch. Many media colleagues also asked reporters how to contact this "foreign daughter-in-law" Merlot who married into Yiyang, Hunan Province.
The reporter is thinking, why do everyone love to watch the daily life of foreign daughters-in-law and mother-in-law in rural Hunan?
Merlot and her mother-in-law went to fetch water together.
Perhaps, it is the original rural life in the short video, and the fast-paced urban life, forming a strong contrast, satisfying people's imagination of romantic pastoral life, so that everyone can temporarily put aside the pressure and troubles.
Or, it is infected by the fashionable French girl's full integration into the rural life of Hunan, the video is full of fireworks, a strong sense of humanity, and her sincere feelings of deep love for the beautiful countryside of Hunan.
"Xiang-style pastoral" does not lose "French romance", Hunan countryside is the perfect home
Merlot and her husband Luo Mengxiang.
Let's start with Merlot, the French girl.
Merlot, born in 1988 in Paris, France, studied at the Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures in Paris, France, graduated with a master's degree in Chinese, has been in China for 13 years, and now lives in Xiamen with her husband. She also served as the editor-in-chief of the book "I Am Fine in China", which is definitely an international big city girl who combines beauty and talent.
Merlot is editor-in-chief of the books.
However, Merlot, who appears in the lens, is extremely contrasting, wearing Hunan "provincial uniforms", carrying buckets, interacting with her mother-in-law with fluent Chinese, loving to eat Anhua bacon, and a meal is indispensable to chili peppers. Netizens commented that she was truly integrated into the rural life of Hunan, saying that she had her own "grounded" pyrotechnics.
Merlot's daily life in the countryside.
Like all foreign daughters-in-law, she returned to her hometown for the first time and did not understand the local dialect at all, was scared enough by the peppers in Hunan cuisine, and many relatives and neighbors came to see her at home, which made many people resonate.
And her mother-in-law completely treated her as her daughter, asked her whether she ate well, slept well, took the initiative to take her to do farm work, square dance, and prepared a farmhouse dish for the little two at the end of the year, one by one warm actions gradually let Merlot open her heart, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was enviable.
Merlot and her family make dumplings together.
The impatient mother-in-law has the romance unique to our Hunan people, and also makes Merlot feel the strong human touch in the countryside. Every time Merlot came home, she lived in a "house full of love", lived a "life with a soul", and felt "the warmest feelings". Slowly, the "Hunan Hometown" has become the most perfect home in her heart, not losing French romance at all.
Cultural communication and integration between the two countries, breaking the "stereotype" of the countryside
Sunrise, sunset and rest, slow pace of rural life videos, soothing the pressure of people's daily life, but also to promote more people to understand the new picture of rural life, such short video content who does not yearn.
In recent years, short videos with rural themes have been popular on major platforms, but most of them are shot from the perspective of Chinese.
Short video posted by Merlot.
In Merlot's video, it begins with a French voiceover, and then shows the landscape, customs and idyllic scenery of Hunan while experiencing it, which is both grounded and international, which makes people shine. At the same time, the transmission path of these videos has also become wider, attracting the understanding and attention of many foreign friends to the rural areas of Hunan.
Merlot's video was filmed in Anhua, Yiyang, the home of Black Tea in China, where people have made their fortunes through hard work. There are also tea towns with sea of flowers, black tea characteristic towns, Meishan Cultural Park, Yunshang Tea Tourism Ecological Park, etc. to attract foreign tourists. Facts have proved that China's rural areas have long been no longer the dirty mess that foreigners had remembered many years ago, and the new countryside has been built for many years, and the beautiful scenery can be seen everywhere.
The beauty of the tea mountains and the sea of clouds in Anhua, Hunan.
To a lesser extent, Merlot just records the ordinary life of the Hunan countryside through a video and a third-party perspective. To put it more broadly, this is a true fusion of the two cultures, and it is spreading to the world the most authentic Chinese countryside.
When chatting with Merlot, the reporter noticed a detail, she said that in her hometown in France, the ancestors also lived in the countryside, they raised a lot of horses, but also planted vegetables, chickens, but the varieties of dishes in the two countries are different.
The reporter realized that this may be a kind of blending and empathy, although the two countries have cultural differences, but the nostalgia is the same, the Hunan countryside must have made her find a sense of belonging to home, the Chinese countryside and France are as beautiful, life is as hot and desirable.
Rural areas do not need to PK cities, and happiness can be harvested in the fields
A French daughter-in-law's crazy love for rural life in Hunan made the reporter think of a truth: why should rural development define itself according to the "logic of the city"? What is not beautiful about romantic idyllic life?
Beautiful scenery in the Hunan countryside.
General Secretary Xi Jinping first proposed in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that "implementing the strategy of rural revitalization" is an important follow-up to do a good job in the "three rural areas" work in the new era. One after another, the revitalization picture of "industrial prosperity, ecological livability, rural civilization, effective governance, and affluent life" has continued to emerge throughout the country.
Maybe everyone understands "happiness" differently, but no matter how it is defined, the reporter believes that when your needs are met, it is happiness!
In the past, most rural people needed to support their families by going out to work, but now more and more young people are willing to return to the countryside and return to the countryside, and even many foreign daughters-in-law like Merlot are willing to marry into the countryside and live in the countryside.
Happy life for the villagers.
Better hardware facilities, broader development prospects, and a more superior living environment make people willing to return to their hometowns, which is not the evidence of the revitalization of the countryside, and the young people who return to their hometowns are not the best witnesses of rural development to a new level.
Through a series of vivid practices, the living environment and production methods in rural China have undergone significant changes, and the blueprint for rural revitalization is becoming a reality step by step. The reporter believes that in the vast land of Sanxiang, there will be more romantic stories about rural revitalization that will continue to be updated.