This girl's name is Li Ziqi, and her video is full of praise. Not only can she work in the fields, but she also has superb cooking skills. She can even restore the four treasures of the literary room. Bai Yansong said her Chinese story runs deep. In the video, she rides a swing hut in spring, dyes a thin purple gauze skirt in summer, brews osmanthus wine in autumn, and makes bacon with light tobacco in winter.
The picture is beautiful and clean, and the music is melodious and elegant. It depicts a fascinating paradise that has healed countless urbanites. She has not only been praised and supported by People's Daily, but also became popular abroad. What is the charm of this girl? How did she achieve a counterattack in life?
In the early years, Li Ziqi hid an unknown bitterness. It is not a matter of fate. Li Ziqi, born in 1990 in a single-parent family in Mianyang, Sichuan. Childhood is unfortunate. When she was very young, her parents divorced, and she lived with her father. Her father died when she was four. Her stepmother always punched and kicked her. At one point, he pushed her head into the river and almost drowned. The grandparents couldn't stand it and decided to take her back to raise her, and they depended on each other.
The so-called children of poor families are early heads of households. As my grandparents got older, most of the heavy work was done by Li Ziqi, and because the family was poor, most of the tools could only be made from ancient wooden tools. Traditional handmade silk and weaving dyeing, sunrise and sunset. These seemingly show-making operations are actually the real lives of rural people.
She couldn't afford to go to school, so her grandmother went to the Women's Federation. During the New Year, the aunt of the Women's Federation came to pick her up and brought her eggs to eat. Speaking of this detail, Li Ziqi choked and cried, because when he was a child, eggs were used to sell for money.
At the age of 14, she dropped out of school to go out to work. Slept on a park bench, went into a factory, worked as a waiter, DJed in a bar. Although life is difficult. But she never got discouraged.
Later, Li Ziqi returned to her hometown, because her grandmother was sick, which was the only relative she couldn't let go, so when shooting videos, she often let her grandmother appear. When I had free time, I started making antique food, shooting videos about the change of seasons, and confidently opened a Taobao shop, but I still barely managed to make ends meet. At first, the video didn't cause much reaction after it was released, so Li Ziqi began to learn shooting and editing techniques again.
But Li Ziqi's persistence is always overlooked. When shooting works about Lanzhou beef noodles, he directed and acted in selfies. Hold the camera with a stone, climb the tree after washing your hands, and set up the angle with the branches. When everything is ready, he sweats. You can only wait until the sweat is dry before continuing shooting. Press the shutter button and run towards the camera. However, the time was not stuck, the focus was wrong, the dough was not kneaded well, and the video had to be reshot. More than 20 kilograms of flour were used for filming, and it took three full days.
After persisting like this for several months, Li Ziqi finally saw hope. Later, a video she shot of Lanzhou beef noodles went viral unexpectedly. Since then, Li Ziqi has truly entered the public's field of vision. In the following days, Li Ziqi became more and more uncontrollable, harvesting rape to extract oil, picking grapes to make wine, hand-brewing soy sauce from soybeans, making silk quilts from silkworm cocoons, and making hot and sour powder with sweet potatoes. In just ten minutes of video, she shot it in several seasons. From planting to harvesting to final processing, she recorded it on video.
In 2016, she met the noble Liu Tongming and helped her expand her traffic. With the traffic Li Ziqi is famous, a large number of high-quality content has accumulated tens of millions of fans. There are no English subtitles in the video, but she manages to make foreigners fall in love with Chinese culture. Many people praised Li Ziqi's influence on the export of Chinese culture. After that, she opened a Tmall flagship store, and the sales exceeded 10 million in just three days after its launch, of which 40 million copies of snail powder were sold in a month. Through his own efforts, Li Ziqi has changed from an Internet celebrity to a brand. She seems to be indisputable, but in fact, she has completed her own business closed loop. After becoming popular, many people imitated her video style, but they were always imitated and never surpassed.
In 2017, her video, which realistically depicted the idyllic life praised by ancient Chinese literati, was uploaded to YouTube. Through her videos, foreigners can understand the traditional charm of the ancient country of the East and convey an idealized paradise life, and a short video has won tens of millions of likes, making foreigners yearn for China's pastoral life.
As of today, Li Ziqi has 48.96 million Douyin followers and 25.92 million Weibo fans. On January 25, she set a new Guinness World Record with 14.1 million YouTube subscribers, equivalent to CNN, the world's most influential media outlet. To reach this number of followers, CNN used 140,000 videos, while Li Ziqi only released 104.
Countless people watched Li Ziqi's video and yearned for the peaceful life of picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, but this kind of beauty is unattainable. What's more, the video we see today is not made by Li Ziqi alone. Well-known agents provide advice, and large-scale production teams plan and shoot. Li Ziqi's video is restoring the most simple truth with the most exquisite fake. More importantly, have you ever wondered why so many people would love these? Because the more you pursue busyness and utilitarianism, the more you want to look back at the poetic picture.
Li Ziqi bluntly said that she met many people in her life to provide her with warmth, so she also wanted to pass on the warmth. Netizens were very moved after seeing her speech, praised her inspirational, and wished her all the best.
Now Li Ziqi has stopped updating for more than a year. I hope she can adjust her status as soon as possible and continue to output high-quality videos to everyone. In fact, despite experiencing so many turmoil some time ago, I believe that even Li Ziqi can make a comeback with his own strength. After all, netizens recognize her. If Li Ziqi opens a new account, will the old irons support it?