The appearance of Li Ziqi reminds me of the earliest batch of Chinese who crossed the ocean, and both have one thing in common.
This group of Chinese people was the first time in the true sense of the word that they had close contact with people from all over the world,Chinese and the way they let each other know about China was Chinese culture.
Hundreds of years later, when Li Ziqi began to take the world by internet short videos, she also communicated with the world by choosing to show the most traditional way of life Chinese.
Both, both Are Chinese.
Her video was played so much on the Internet that I took a special look at it, and the most played video exceeded 100 million times!
The content is to make Spring Festival snacks, which begins with Li Ziqi picking chestnuts at the edge of the village with two puppies and a sheep.
There are also many videos that have been viewed more than 50 million and 60 million.
Her works, in general, are more than 10 million broadcasts in YouTube, and millions of them are counted as few in her channel.
Correspondingly, she had more than 16 million subscriptions to YouTube, which would have been more, but she stopped for several months because of a well-known copyright dispute.
However, the ending is expected to be good. Although the dispute has not really ended, CCTV directly endorsed her and arranged an interview for her, which has a very different meaning.
Many people say that such a person who vigorously promotes Chinese culture is very appreciated at the national level, so he will support her to the end.
So happy!
The rare years in the short video will be quiet and there will be a new beginning.
Li Ziqi will continue to shoot, and more foreigners on youtube will see the most real China - we will be seen and understood, and the plans of some people with hearts will fail.
But the Chinese shadow people hundreds of years ago were not so smooth.
Few Chinese know them.
But in fact, it was this bloody Chinese who influenced the original Hong Kong films.
Why did Bruce Lee, "Huang Feihong", "Jingwumen" later, why was Hong Kong able to produce so many films that "contributed to the country" during the anti-Japanese era...
It's all because someone has already photographed something similar, giving future generations plenty of inspiration.
But when it comes to these Chinese, it is a little difficult to convince the public to point out that their vision was outstanding.
Because the efforts of this group of Chinese people are put to this day,
Because many of their works did not achieve so-called success, limited to the difficult situation of the Chinese at that time, although the dissemination was not widespread, but the content was full of populism and blood.
They influenced the Chinese people at that time on a small scale, especially Hong Kong filmmakers.
Everything is accumulated in small steps, and Hong Kong films can develop steadily and become the driving force for the rise of the early patriotic stream of consciousness, also because this small part of the Chinese are nurturing the soil, so there are them at that time!
At the same time, it is also because these Chinese have broken out of the world in the United States, so that more theater artists can perform in the United States and earn money to come back to fund the country's war.
For example, Bruce Lee's father, Li Haiquan, was a famous actor in Cantonese opera. When his brother was born, his father was sent to the United States because his troupe decided to raise money in overseas communities to support the War of Resistance.
During the tour, Bruce Lee was born in the United States.
This small group of Chinese, in the 19th and 20th centuries, began to realize the need to attach importance to Chinese culture, in addition to foreign exchanges, it is more important to remind the immigrant Chinese not to forget their roots.
So, when the mainland was at war, they exported strong Chinese culture on the American mainland.
They always fought in small groups, and although legally they were American nationals, they were more anxious than anyone else in terms of national identity.
For example, the first Chinese-American drama film "Guanwudi" was filmed in 1916 and released in 1917, when Chinese people were still persecuted by the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States.
But the content of the film, do you know how bold and avant-garde it is?
"'Guanwu Emperor' tells the story of the Chinese after the immigration, who was cursed by the Chinese god Guanwu Emperor because of the influence of Western culture."
(Culture is always to be remembered, not cannibalized by exotic cultures)
Up to now, which Chinese filmmaker would care about their anxiety back then?
Only more people will come forward and tell you that orthodox culture will not have box office appeal in modern times, because this is the era of globalization!
It is said that it is globalization, but for the control of the right to speak, the knees of many directors, producers and screenwriters in China are now much softer than those of the older generation, and they kneel longer!
Seriously, the Chinese artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were really fierce.
Just a few examples.
The United States relied on the "Chinese Exclusion Act" to hit the development of Chinese theater and film, leading to their first decline!
If you think about the Time When the Chinese were going to take a boat to the United States, in 1852, the first Chinese stage play appeared in San Francisco, usa, and by 1882, a full 30 years later, Chinese drama + movies began to sweep the United States.
The fact that our plays are popular in the United States is actually quite understandable.
At that time, theaters were just emerging, and our Chinese culture was too broad and profound and colorful, and it was very attractive to put it in front of Western audiences.
Stronger than the cultural output of other countries, or even stronger.
(But objectively speaking, I believe that there are still people who do not want to believe the above paragraph, because the Chinese of that generation were not treated kindly, and even if they did well, they would be slandered into another way.)
Americans don't want to see Chinese strong in any way, and then there's the Chinese Exclusion Act.
The Chinese Exclusion Act was widely influential, and when it was introduced in 1882 (repealed in 1943), San Francisco's Chinese theater and film industry was immediately hit the hardest.
Coupled with the subsequent San Francisco earthquake, the earthquake was so strong that even Chinatown could not be saved. As a result, Chinese theaters and movies disappeared for a while.
When the Chinese Exclusion Act was still in force, the Chinese people only took 14 years to carry the pressure to complete the second strong!
Do you think that the Chinese at that time gave up the road of promoting Chinese culture overseas?
Not really!
You think of them too vulnerable.
In 1906, there was a major earthquake in San Francisco, and although it was extremely destructive, by 1920, they had erased all the negative effects of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Continue the cultural output!
Many people know that Hollywood has a long history, but the time it first appeared is that this point in time also has significance for the Chinese.
At that time, the Chinese had already noticed the movie, this new birth.
When Hollywood first began to take shape, Chinese theater and film also had a new growth, especially movies.
Around 1914, they saw that americans in San Francisco intended to vigorously develop the film industry, so they also tried to establish their own in the United States.
The older generation Chinese are like this, I have what you have, and I have a relatively early awareness of the right to speak in the industry.
Don't follow the Americans!
As a result, Oriental Film Company, Great Wall Film Company, Daguan Film Company and so on have been established.
From scratch to full commercialization, the Chinese people, especially the Chinese from Hong Kong, have gained a firm foothold in the United States.
According to one statistic, the New York State Archives has kept all 55,000 audio film scripts until 1965, all of which were produced in the United States.
Among them, Hong Kong films are the first in the number of foreign films, with 2454 films, surpassing the number of Mexico and the United Kingdom.
At that time, Hong Kong filmmakers were in the United States,
Foreign countries and suppressed and restricted by the local government, it is in such a non-friendly environment that they have always tried to maintain the development of the Chinese film industry.
The Chinese shadow people of that generation can be said to care more about Chinese culture than the current Chinese, and they are also more concerned about the survival and change of the Chinese people.
Although it cannot be positioned on the issue of Chinese nationality, the Chinese are still very deeply concerned.