Li Ziqi, who has stopped working since July 2021, has disappeared for more than 1,000 days.
Although it has not appeared in the public eye for a long time, the topic of Li Ziqi has always been mentioned every now and then:
What is Li Ziqi doing now?
When will Li Ziqi continue to update?
Will Li Ziqi come back?
People have not forgotten her, but are full of curiosity about her current life.
Not long ago, some netizens shared Li Ziqi photographed by their friends, only to know that in the past few years since she disappeared, she has been silently cultivating intangible cultural heritage.
Li Ziqi in the photo, dressed plainly, without powder, took a group photo with the staff of the Shu Jin Research Institute, and his state was relaxed and natural.
can't help but think of her personal profile written on her account a long time ago: The Li family has a daughter, known as Ziqi.
Her otherworldly temperament and her "idyllic" lifestyle are deeply engraved in everyone's minds.
Each of Li Ziqi's videos, whether it is visual beauty or the story behind the lens, has a unique meaning.
Each frame is infused with her own personal experiences and insights, and has been reshot countless times before it is finally released.
This love and perseverance make the story in the video full of agility and warmth.
After the hanging persimmon after air drying, the color is bright, the finished product is attractive, and the strings are hung under the eaves, and they will flutter slightly when the wind blows, which is picturesque.
With grandma, one house, two people, three meals, four seasons, and naughty dogs, the grandparents and grandchildren snuggled up to each other like this, spending countless days and nights.
Some foreign fans once said:
"I definitely don't skip ads only when I see her videos, because I want her to make that money."
The life in Li Ziqi's video was directly praised by foreign media as "a mysterious force from the East".
In this "mysterious power", we can feel Tao Yuanming's comfort of "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and leisurely seeing Nanshan".
You can get a glimpse of the simplicity of Wang Wei's "spring doves on the house and white apricot blossoms at the edge of the village".
There is also the joy of Bai Juyi's "walking around the pond to watch the fish swim, just when children are fishing boats".
This is a girl who has truly turned her life into poetry.
Li Ziqi will be so enthusiastically sought after, I think, the most important reason is that she satisfies our heart's yearning for pastoral life.
In the hustle and bustle of the city, we see busy traffic and cold steel buildings every day.
But through her videos, we can see different things in the world.
We can see that the clouds on the distant mountains are surging, and the water ripples in the porcelain bowl are fluctuating.
You can see the moment when the green shoots probe and the moment when the flowers bloom.
Every frame is full of the fresh breath of life, which is the beauty that we have never noticed when we come and go every day.
The seasons change and slow down here.
In spring, there are horses walking in search of flowers.
In summer, there is lotus picking to enjoy the coolness.
In autumn, there are peach picking and chrysanthemum appreciation.
In winter, there is snow fishing.
It grows in spring and grows in summer, and is harvested in autumn and stored in winter. The charm of the four seasons is in full bloom.
And those delicacies that are made locally.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, I went to the bamboo forest to pick up a bundle of bamboo shoot shells and came back to wrap zongzi.
The sweetness of the bamboo shoot shell is mixed with the softness of the glutinous rice, and then a spoonful of warm brown sugar juice is drizzled, and the taste buds are full of childhood memories.
Qixi Qiaoqiao Festival, with purple potatoes mixed with flour, a small heat slowly roasted a crisp.
Make a wish to the Milky Way, put a few "smart foods", and eavesdrop on the speech of the "Night God".
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the fragrance of cinnamon overflows.
Make a Suzhou-style fresh meat mooncake with crispy skin and rich and fragrant meat juice.
Then sip two small cups of osmanthus wine, sit idly under the melon vine trellis and enjoy the moon and chatter, so uncomfortable.
This reminds me of a few lines of poetry:
There are flowers in spring, there are moons in autumn, cool breeze in summer, and snow in winter.
If there is nothing to worry about, it is a good time in the world.
This is exactly the uninhibited life that countless of us yearn for.
No busy work, no stress of life. Forget all your troubles for a short time, plunge into the mountains and green forests, go to the unbridled pleasure, and enjoy the rugged tranquility.
After seeing the vagaries of nature and feeling the aroma of food, Li Ziqi moved China's intangible cultural heritage culture to the camera, allowing us to see its unique side.
That side has gradually faded out of the public eye and has been forgotten by people.
"It rains in March in Furong City, and embroidery needles in April."
"The feather fan refers to the formation of thousands of troops, and the brocade is cut a few inches."
A few years ago, Li Yuchun's song "Shu Embroidery" brought this charming embroidery into the public's field of vision and became popular.
And now, Li Ziqi directly presents the embroidery process through the video.
As one of the national intangible cultural heritages, Shu embroidery has more than 100 kinds of exquisite embroidery methods, which are difficult to complete by self-study.
For this reason, Li Ziqi specially went to visit Ms. Meng Dezhi, the national intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Shu embroidery, to learn Shu embroidery from her.
In the video, Li Ziqi is lying in front of the table, embroidering hibiscus flowers on the embroidered yarn.
From dyeing cloth to designing embroidery and then to wiring. Stitch after stitch, focused, moving.
Although the final video presented in front of everyone was only a dozen minutes, it actually took more than a year.
Those countless boring days and nights, if you don't love it, it's really hard to stick to it.
Li Ziqi once said:
"Cultural transmission is a big thing that requires the efforts of countless people, and I just did a small thing that I loved. I am proud when I know that so many friends have seen my videos, liked my videos, and learned more about Chinese culture. ”
Therefore, she expresses her love in person, and at the same time shows us the profound wisdom of traditional culture.
A small wooden movable type engraved with the heritage of the Chinese millennium.
Antique indigo dyeing technique.
It has precipitated a thousand-year-old pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.
There is also the traditional soy sauce brewing method in the taste of China.
Sowing, production, and finished products, each step brings different surprises to everyone.
The ancient wisdom behind each story is also impressive.
In addition to these cultures that carry thousands of years of history, what is also unforgettable is the light in her eyes.
One night, Li Ziqi made a pot and talked with everyone around the fireplace.
When we talked about the rise, she held the guitar, sat on the mat, and played and sang softly:
"A cup of respect for the rising sun, a cup of respect for the moonlight, awaken my yearning, and soften the cold window......"
Listening to this gentle singing voice and looking at the hope in her eyes, I was touched.
The beauty that this tenacious and gentle girl brings us is so different.
There are many people who say, "That's because she has a team behind her."
They felt that Li Ziqi's shots were deliberately posed, and it was obvious that someone was helping to plan, and they had to pretend that there was only one person.
I also felt that the life in the video was far from the real country life, so I ridiculed her for being pretentious, disdained her works, and even made personal attacks.
But I don't think it has to be so harsh.
Yes, she has an assistant and a team.
So what?
It is because of the team that is helping to make suggestions and adjust each lens angle to the most appropriate and accurate that we can better restore those unknown stories and let us see more unique and interesting.
The beauty we see in her is real, and the satisfaction we feel is real, and that's enough.
Li Ziqi once told everyone in an interview that many friends told her that they got a lot of resonance in her videos, and the resonance brought by this sharing moved her, so no matter what others say, she will still stick to what she likes.
As she echoed the guitar and hummed softly:
"You can fly against the wind without looking back, not afraid of rain in your heart and frost under your eyes."
Be brave enough to stick to what you like, and don't be afraid of rain in your heart and frost in your eyes.
That's what life is supposed to be.