I was accidentally recommended Li Ziqi's video "Soybean Soy Sauce" on station B. It had a high number of views, so I went in to watch it out of curiosity.

My previous impression of Li Ziqi was that there were heated discussions on the Internet about whether she had a team, and whether her talent was worthy of the hype.

In fact, I am still biased against people who are good-looking and capable of doing things. After all, how can there be perfect people in this world?

Okay, I admit that I am jealous... but after watching her countless videos, I feel that there is nothing wrong with it even if there is a team operation, because the process of making soy sauce is really too long!

She works really hard.

Of course, since she became famous, many people have been discussing whether she is an internet celebrity packaged by the Internet.

She rarely comes forward to explain, but looking at her first video and her unskilled editing techniques, you can basically judge that it is her own work.

In the past few years, her popularity has continued to increase, and the quality of her videos has also improved rapidly, and then there are more and more doubts.

The teams listed in her explanation above should really not exist, but she did not say that she did not sign with a company, which can be said to be a cover-up.

But with or without a team, her achievements and efforts cannot be ignored.

Home-made firewood, rice, oil and salt, as well as pens, inks, paper and inkstones, papermaking, wooden movable type printing and other things that represent traditional culture. It took someone two years to make just one pen, ink, paper and inkstones. This dedication is worth learning from.

Whether on Bilibili or YouTube, Li Ziqi's videos have exceeded one million views.

Moreover, she already has 7.34 million fans on YouTube and "earns millions of dollars every year" from YouTube.

More and more urban people want to return to the countryside and live a pastoral life of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains".

More and more foreigners are learning about Chinese traditions through Li Ziqi’s videos.

What is it that made her receive such high praise from CCTV as "From today on, love life like Li Ziqi and live out the splendor and confidence of the Chinese people"? Today we will talk about it.

01On July 6, 1990, Li Ziqi was born in Mianyang, Sichuan.

Her parents divorced when she was very young, and she stayed with her father.

However, not long after, her father passed away when she was four years old.

Her childhood was not happy. Li Ziqi once said: "When I was 6 years old, my stepmother pulled my hair and pushed me into the ditch. When I was beaten until I was half dead, I never shed a tear." Later, Li Ziqi

and living with grandparents.

Later, soon after her grandfather passed away, Li Ziqi had only her grandma as a relative. She was only 14 years old at that time.

Li Ziqi had no choice but to drop out of school and go work.

In order to support herself and her grandmother, she worked as a restaurant waiter and a bar DJ for eight years.

She endured all the hardships she could endure, and shouldered all the pressure she could bear.

Just when her life was stabilizing, an accident happened.

Grandma got seriously ill, so she rushed back to her grandma immediately.

She is well versed in the principle of "a child wants to be raised but not a child", and she also knows what is most important to her, so in 2012, Li Ziqi returned to the place where she grew up.

After returning to her hometown in Mianyang, she began to think of ways to make money. The small mountain village was poor and backward, with underdeveloped transportation.

But in order to stay with her grandma, Li Ziqi chose to open a Taobao store.

In 2015, in order to promote the Taobao store, she began to take selfies and direct short videos of ancient food. As a result, the short video became popular, but the Taobao store was forced to close because she had no energy to take care of it.

But her videos didn’t become popular instantly, she stayed up for a long time.

At the end of April 2016, she filmed an episode of "Kirsch". According to Li Ziqi, this video was: a head with cancerous yellow hair, oily bangs, and a slow pace that she thought she was beautiful until she died.

The abrupt switching between shots often exposed the scene to the point where it was impossible to look directly at it and was out of focus. She only relied on the editing method of "overlaying" to switch shots.... But that was already the most perfect work she could produce at that time.

, she had already been working on the beauty shoot for more than a month at that time, so after filming "Cherry Wine" she began to wonder if she couldn't eat this food anymore.

Li Ziqi said: I did some ideological work for myself at that time, and kept a diary seriously. Of course, I don’t know where the diary has flown to now, and I can’t remember the specific content. It’s probably that - maybe I really did this on this road.

Wrong move, I'm not suitable for this... No one will watch the video I shot so hard and tiringly... Forget it, I won't shoot the last video after I post it... Keep doing my job honestly

Business went... As a result, just when she was about to give up, a turning point came.

"Cherry Wine" went from not having a single like for two days to getting over 10,000 likes in one and a half days!

It turned out that "Cherry Wine" was seen and liked by the CEO of Meitu, and it was also pushed to the popular list on Meipai's homepage.

That day, Li Ziqi was extremely excited and posted a screenshot on WeChat Moments to record this historic moment.