Li Ziqi, a popular star on the Internet, has more than 58 million fans on social media platform both in China and around the world. She is famous because of her videos. She even became the ambassador(形象大使) for the 7th International Festival Cultural Heritage(形象大使) in October 2019 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
Li seems to be a master of all kinds of skills — cooking, painting, designing and brining. The most special thing is that she does almost everything in a traditional Chinese way. In her videos, Li always wears homemade hanfu. She raises ducks in order to make a sauce from salted duck eggs. She makes bamboo furniture all by herself. She also grows plants and vegetables, and prepares meals with what she harvests. She makes life in the countryside very beautiful.
Li was born in 1990 in a small village of Sichuan Province in southwestern China. Her parents died when she was still very young and her stepmother treated her badly, so she finally grew up with her grandparents. When she was 14, she went to the city in search of work but she decided to return to the countryside in 2012 to take care of her grandmother.
Four years later, she began filming her life there, "When I worked in the city, it was about how to survive," Li says. "Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I'm truly living." Li's videos record how she works and her daily lives with her grandmother in their modest home. She says: "I simply want people in the city to know where their food comes from," Li says. "A teacher friend once told me about some students who thought rice grew on trees, ___________.
Many people wonder why Li shares these videos. Li once said: "In today's society, many people feel stressed, so when they watch my videos at the end of a busy day, I want them to relax and sense something nice, to take away some of their worry and stress."
