Li Ziqi: Amazing the World with idyllic life vlog

After a video on planting and cooking peas was released on April 27, Chinese food blogger Li increased more than 10 million followers on YouTube.

This makes Li, who became famous for short videos recording the traditional idyllic lifestyle in rural China, one of the most popular Chinese content creators on the platform.

“It’s really surprising. I didn’t expect such a wide response, “Li said in an interview.

Li Ziqi’s short video was full of traditional artistry work. She can cut window grilles, write couplets, embroider and dye cloth, brew, and bake, make paper and engrave letters. She can carry a bag at least 70 to 80 kg on her back and climb hills and ridges.

Netizens wondered how she could master so many life skills. Li Ziqi replied, “Life skills in everyone’s eyes are just my survival instinct. It used to be for survival, but now it is life. ”

She frankly admitted that she also did not know everything, such as carpentry, embroidery, calligraphy, and painting, etc. she learned them in advance. “for example, when I made dumplings, I could never wrap fold well, and I was made ugly dumplings more than once.”

Li’s YouTube video mainly tells her and her grandmother’s rural life in Sichuan. In the videos, Li often dressed in elegant traditional clothes, gets up at sunrise, rests at sunset, sows and harvests flowers, cooks traditional Chinese dishes, and handicraft bamboo furniture.

Li’s overseas followers have praised her videos for showing the amazingly picturesque, simple, and elegant side of China’s rural life, but there are still have lots of debates on whether her presentation is unrealistically poetic.

In response, Li, who grew up in the countryside, said that when shooting a video about rural life, she never needed scripts or special arrangements because “everything is in my mind.”

“In the countryside, it is not difficult to plant flowers, vegetables, and trees. Of course, there are also some difficult factors need to conquer in rural life, but I didn’t put them in my video, “the blogger said. “Nowadays, most people are facing great pressure in their work and life, so I hope they can feel relaxed and get redress when watching my video.”

In the interview, the young woman said that she is still keen to protect traditional Chinese culture.

“In my mind, there are many ideas about ancient crafts and food that we have enjoyed for thousands of years. Some are on the verge of being forgotten. I hope to preserve them through my little efforts, ” said Li.