After a period of silence, Li Ziqi's new video suddenly brushed the screen again.
Colleagues in the editorial department opened it and couldn't help but exclaim "Wow~". This time, in addition to the food on her table, there was also a table called "Flowing Qu Shui".
In the video, everyone sits around the table, and a three-dimensional landscape scene jumps out on the table. Rockeries and vegetation tower in the center, surrounded by "streams" that bring the dynamic nature to the table.
What's more, the flowing "stream" can carry the cup and plate and bring it to the diners, which is in line with the ancient people's artistic conception of "flowing water".
In ancient times, people would sit around the canals and put wine glasses upstream to let it go down the river. Whoever stops in front of the wine glass will give a poem. There are good wines, delicacies, and poetry.
Later, large families moved this wild eating taste to the table at home, because there was no power device, and it was necessary to manually add water to promote the flow of water.
Source: "Know It or Not" TV series
After watching Li Ziqi's video, the colleague curiously went to Taobao to search for the price of the water table. Even the smallest type of table is priced from 5 figures.
Because netizens are too interested in the flow of qu water tables in the video, Li Ziqi sent another video to show its production process in detail.
The audience believed that this exquisite table was really Li Ziqi's handmade work! What she imitates is the table in the hit drama "Jinxin Jade" that she is chasing.
It is hard to imagine that the original form of the table in the video is just an old wooden bed.
Li Ziqi himself spliced, nailed and polished the wood, the grooves of the stream were made of cement, the rockery and vegetation were selected from nature, and finally several layers of waterproof paint were applied, and a table was considered to be a prototype.
In order to make the water flow, Li Ziqi also made a power device. It is connected to the inlet pipe and the outlet pipe respectively, and as long as the switch is pressed, the water begins to circulate. This is the soul of the Flowing Water Table.
It is said that this video quickly reached the extranet, allowing netizens around the world to see the beauty of Traditional Chinese.
Before Li Ziqi was known for her food creation, in fact, she was not only a traditional food expert, but also a handicraft master.
She dyes/weaves cloth and many of her clothes are handmade.
Li Ziqi participated in the award ceremony, and unlike other Internet celebrity bloggers, her clothes are not couture brands, nor are they the proud works of designers, but she spent a year dyeing, embroidering, and tailoring.
Because she wanted to make this dress, she also learned to embroider. The girl in red on the cloth comes to life, and the birds leap from the clothes, agile and full of vitality.
During the season of eating grapes, she used the leftover grape skins as dyes, fixed the color with salt, and made herself a light purple gauze skirt.
The same purple hydrangea flowers swayed on the side, and her body was in harmony.
When the peach blossoms were in full bloom, in order to enjoy the flowers with her grandmother, she specially made a "flower wedding dress", which was spring from head to toe.
She drew the shape of peach blossom petals on the silk cloth, and cut them off piece by piece to make flowers. The use of cotton thread to make flower buds, this is called the silk flower process. The peach blossoms that come out of this way are almost indistinguishable from real flowers.
Li Ziqi decorated them on hairpins, clothing, and cloth shoes.
In the "Life of a Rose" series, Li Ziqi also made a homemade distillation device to purify rose water into rose dew. That's right, it's a beauty treat that everyone uses as a toner and a face mask. (For health and safety reasons, it is not recommended that you buy homemade products)
Li Ziqi also did the four treasures of the study room. A brick platform is made of soot, a brush tip made of rabbit hair and wool, a pen shaft made of shrub stalks, paper made of bark, and finally a bamboo is drawn from them.
However, many people envy Li Ziqi because they only see the beautiful mountain and wilderness mood in the video, and ignore the hardships outside the video.
For example, when you go up the mountain to pick, you accidentally slip it off.
Doing farm work made her hands rougher than the other girls. While working on a watering device, his hand was accidentally shaken by a knife and the blood flowed continuously.
When stringing cherries, some netizens found that her fingernails were black, like scabs that had been bleeding and accumulated in them after being injured.
Clinging to the earth, she personally controls the camera, wanting every picture to meet her expectations.
You can ask a photographer, but you are still paranoid about wanting each frame to be presented according to your own ideas.
Such videos are very slow to make, and they are simply not as frequent as Internet media updates. But it is this kind of slow work that makes her ten minutes of video stand out and be shocked by people all over the world.
Since entering YouTube in 2017, Li Ziqi has immediately caused a sensation overseas, triggering various discussions. Looking at the comments of foreigners, it can be described as excitement:
No one can copy you Li Ziqi because you are unique.
We only needed 11 minutes to watch the video, but it took her more than a year to make it. There is no reason why we should not commend her efforts.
If I had a wife like Li Ziqi, I would delete the games on my phone and possibly throw away my phone.
Love your hard work and refreshing skills.
Your video also makes us want to visit China, and we pray for Chinese people.
Who says there are no fairy tale princesses in the real world? We're all watching her now.
I think Li Ziqi is a time traveler from ancient times who shows people how we can live meaningful lives alone.
If I were 25 years younger, I might travel to China and try to get your heart. Your work is stunning and fascinating.
Your video gave me the idea of a new life. I want to live like you. I'm going to work hard and be as healthy as you are. Thank you for these videos that remind me that such a life exists. (from a depressed person)
Young girls look, this is your idol and not the Kardashians.
I learned more about Chinese culture from your videos, and I am very sure of China's rich culture.
She teaches us how to live like ancient Chinese thousands of years ago, without modern products, living in peace with nature.
Another grandfather said:
I play your video to my three grandchildren, who are 3, 5 and 7 years old. They always look at you calmly. Your video is unique and unique. Thank you for making our world happier and more beautiful.
We were amazed at how much the kids loved the videos. But a swipe on the Internet found that the baby who liked Li Ziqi's video was not an isolated case.
Some children have drawn several paintings after watching the video, and after careful comparison, they can find the same picture in the video.
Probably because Li Ziqi's video presents a world that children in the city have never seen before. It was an artistic world that was self-sufficient through labor.
Today's children have watched a lot of popular science and memorized a lot of Tang poems, but they have no concept of how food comes from and how items are produced.
They don't understand why they should cherish food and protect resources, standing at the end of the assembly line, and the things in their eyes are born.
The video of Li Ziqi, starting from a seed, to flowering and picking, and finally making food and exquisite utensils, takes months or even a year to complete. This long process is something that children have never been exposed to.
In an interview, Ms. Li said she knew a student in a teacher's class who had always thought rice was growing on a tree.
It wasn't until he watched her video that he realized that the meal had come from this way, and then he didn't sneak out the school noon rice. That's what she's about making these videos.
We should let the child understand how much time, energy and effort it takes to harvest a result, because this object/food condenses the labor of the person and becomes valuable and meaningful. Human development also comes from labor.
Many people say that Li Ziqi's video can make you cry. Maybe it's because of the life shown in the video, it's idyllic, quiet, and beautiful. In the faster and faster pace of modern life, adults and children are working hard, but few people are paying attention. People gradually forget the true face of life, and only then will they yearn for it.
Since you don't have the opportunity to experience labor for yourself, you may wish to watch such a video to understand the four seasons, the origin of food, traditional culture, and perhaps you can get a short period of inner peace in this era of increasing anxiety.