The wonder and gloom Li Ziqi brings/228M migration population try to run away from the countryside
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- She’s China's No. 1 online content creator. Her name is Li Ziqi. She has become popular in many countries worldwide for her videos on the simple, idyllic farming life of rural China.
She seems to be in trouble recently as her channel stopped updating three months ago. On October 25th, her company confirmed to have officially filed a lawsuit against its partner in a court in Sichuan province.
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Have people really ever thought she's portraying anything but an idealised view of country living? If anything she was cottagecore ambassador before the movement even took off! It's beautiful to look at and appreciate the history of the labour, and for me having a production team doesn't take away from the magic, just makes it easier on her. Hoping the best for her and that she can regain the rights to her trademark and make videos again ❤️
@@paddyotterness What I know it existed before, I'm just speaking of her channel in particular in this timeline and how it came before the newest wave of idealizing country living. This genre of aesthetic vlogs isn't to realistically document their living situation but to create a fantasy.
I also don't see how any alternative would work out for her. If she were to film current realities in the countryside, she has great outreach in Chinese social media and something like that could increase criticism of government and have her business snuffed out at the least, or land her in jail.
I know plenty well CCP is terrible at treatment of their peoples, but I doubt the main actors have time to worry about funding youtubers, no matter how fitting as propaganda it may be. A thing with communism is that everything on the top level is related to the government control somehow, no matter who funded her would somehow be tied back to that (monetized in weibo or youku - > media controlled by government censorship bodies).
I'm sorry this turned terribly long, I just don't think Li Qizi is to be villanized in this matter 😊
@@paddyotterness Why is it that these kind of videos in other countries are taken at face value (just vloggers doing their thing for business reasons), but in China they are automatically considered to be propaganda? She was showcasing ancient Chinese farming, food preparation and cultural practices in a beautiful and inspiring way. Of course the CCP will approve and support her. That doesn't mean she was in cahoots with them or doing it on their behalf. Doesn't mean that at all.
"Doesn't take away from the magic", except that it means it's all utterly fake and pathetic.
@@SelfMadeBum because the CCP literally funds her. The CCP has ownership in every detail of China. Any business venture, any social media star, etc. They are owned and controlled. The fact you even ask that question exposes a severe ignorance to the state of China.
@@brednbudr2406 You assume that. Where is the evidence? What is presented in this investigative video is Li Ziqi and her videos and the company she linked up with. Nowhere in there did they say anything about her being bankrolled by the CCP. Nowhere. Why wouldn't they report that if it was the case? Seems an easy thing to say.
Never let someone else own 51% or more of something that involves your image.
Yeah i didnt understand why this happend in the first place, its a really big mistake
@@Les-recettes-de-meli Poor understanding of contract law. Based on her educational background and social status they knew that they could get away with ripping her off completely. They probably figured she would never understand how little she was getting since she was poor and would be making more money than she had ever seen in her life.
@@KnightsWithoutATable yeah im aware of this, but with this great money in hand you, she should have asked an expert like every normal person would do! Dont she have someone who advice her or monitor her ? ( i fond it hard to believe since she was already in the field )
@@Les-recettes-de-meli The average person is not aware of basic contract law even in a modern country with a good public education system. Few people consult lawyers when they should, mainly because of the cost, and those who have not dealt with large sums of money or potential earnings rarely understand what they are signing away.
They there is the agent from this huge company that is going to not only sell you on working with them, but also that you don't need a lawyer and that this is a "good and fair deal". The agents large companies use to do this sort of thing are very manipulative. Think about somebody that makes a used car sales person look like an amateur. They ripped her off and the contract is likely ironclad. Her only hope would be getting the CCP involved, but that would be making another Faustian bargain and with the corruption in China would probably just rip her off more.
@@KnightsWithoutATable yeah you’ve summarised all the situation!
Hope she can get the least of what she can deserve…
She is a blessed person and her country should appreciate her. The court needs to hear her complaint. Stand tall and keep fighting. God blessed
Why would one do that when they can make money off of them.
she is from china
@@Vision_Voyagers maybe they're worried abt how she represents china's culture
She explained in one of her interviews that her goal was two-fold: To simplify her life while taking care of her family, and to become an ambassador for the farming community. She recalled hearing of kids in the city who had no idea where rice came from, and that greatly bothered her.
It's a shame people would rather expect a scheme than seeing her as an honest worker, taking advantage of the internet's vast reach as an education system (making money probably didn't hurt, either).
It sounds like she got cheated, an all-too familiar story of capitalism and a company abusing contracts.
sad, so many content creator do a honest content,
some of them blatantly saying sad thing and taking negative life till they do their end on Cam...
Li Ziqi is one of those doing positive but the same treatment, almost half or more than half didn't believe...
she spreading positivity and showing what can do in rural
I want to beat the sh** out of the promoter Weinian for their treachery.
It's not about what people would rather do it's about a vibe and not being naive. You seem really naive if you can look at her content and not see how staged, idealised and romanticised this lifestyle is, it's propaganda.
a farm productive enough to sustain her and her family would require mass industrialisation and mechanical gear.
There are still plenty of people farming with her outdated methods and lack of modern equipment but they genuinely live in poverty.
There's a reason hundreds of millions of people are leaving the Chinese countryside to live in dystopian urban hellholes.
@@lachlanmclennan2188 I say, if you're leaving a secure life to follow a 'vibe', you probably deserve whatever hardship comes your way.
While it's super obvious she is staging her area, her work is legit. Families in rural areas do this all the time, year round.
Unless there's an interview I missed, she never wanted to sell the lifestyle. She just wanted to teach people where their food comes from, why farmers are important, and- maybe- why an open life like hers is preferred to a city life. I know I'd rather be poor in the woods than poor in a dirty cage apartment.
It isn't fair people are 'blaming her' or 'crediting her' with people moving out- I think she was the final push for some. City life is exhausting, house prices are worsening by the year, and the air itself is getting deadlier every year.
Yes, it's not a life everyone is meant for, but what she's showing is miles better than the other influence garbage. I want her to be rich from her work.
In countries with freer market capitalism, people who get cheated can sue the company that abused the contract. In China, the authoritarian government blends the worst of crony capitalism with corrupt state socialism together so you can't make a ruckus that makes the government or country look bad by suing the govt, govt associated companies, or filing high profile lawsuits.
Of course she's not making all the content herself, she never even claimed to, and it takes about two brain cells to understand that yourself when you watch even one of her videos. What's wrong about making aesthetic videos about farm living? She genuinely has all the skills portrayed in the videos, and the filmography is actual art. People don't watch her videos because they want to get educated on real life in Chinese rural lands, they watch them because they are peaceful, artistic. Just because she decides to 'wrap' her videos up beautifully doesn't mean she's trying to harm/harming any struggling farmers in China (by not shedding light on them). It's not her job. She started making videos because she wanted to, she can decide what goes in them and what doesn't. She's one woman. Stop trying to put the burden of solving a problem with Chinese poverty on her shoulders, she didn't create the problem, she even lived that reality for most of her life. She deserves all the good that finally came to her and more.
She used to make the videos by herself. Only recently she hired a team.
@@horses4555 I know, but my point is, it was a very obvious shift in filmography at the point when she hired a couple people to shoot for her.
The only thing I worry about is once someone becomes really popular/famous...and makes China look good (as she does ever so perfectly) then the damn cCp jumps in to control that person or channel and I worry about her and her family being threatened.
Thats really sweet and understanding
Wise comment. People seem to blame her for what CCP is at fault.
Damn she's worth 800M from making videos about rural living. That's crazy.
have u watch her video , its top notch filming production like Hollywood , many naive people fell into her fantasy , lol
@@sdqsdq6274 I know that. It's still incredibly low budget. 800M networth is insane given what her brand is and the costs associated.
@@GimR but that doesn't go to her... Watch documentaries of yt stars like her from China... So many of the people who handle her get so much of the money from platforms as such and the main face barely get anything from it... That maybe what google or yt says, but in the end the ones who really profit are those behind the camera.. It reminds me of boy bands back in the 90's and what their manager did to them..
800M dollars or Chinese yuan?
@@sdqsdq6274 she did what all vloggers aspire to.
Really really hope she will be alright. She's a very genuine person.
Are you somehow relate with Just Some Guy With a Mustache?
shut up man what do you mean "genuine"??? absolutely no one just casually farms, digging soils and sh1t while still keeping their clothes clean, it's 100% staged
@@UnsungAces DAMN YOU REALY ARE BRAINWASHED!!!!!!!!
''genuine'' come on dude...
I love the subtle sarcasm in your comment.
Liziqi has a CREATIVE way of protraying rural life..it may not be for everyone but this is how Liziqi would like for herself in rural life...its her choice...she worked hard to achieve it and i have TOTAL RESPECT for such a creative person...just hope she's wiser when it comes to business and i pray and hope that all things goes well for her in the future...m waiting patiently for her next video...Liziqi Jia You
Indonesian cooking in the village
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Her work is essentially meant to feel magical and artistic. She has awed many people with her skill set and the quality of the videos she and her team have created. I hope people will see it that way. It is her own form of art that she wanted to show to the world. Realistic or not, she doesn't claim that it is exactly how rural life is lived in China. She's just passionate about what she does. Even before CZcams, she had been in the entertainment industry as well. And that's all that she wants to share with us. Her art, creativity and skills, while portraying the beauty of her environment. She has also educated us with how much labor our farmers do to make us live comfortable lives. Not everything might be a general situation for all rural residents, but she has captured our attention and given us sights to see.
Kimchi propaganda by CCP
@@happydrawing7309 ridiculous
When your government starts to focus more on how they present your country and culture to the world rather than fixing it internally for the citizens living there, you know it's really fvcked up.
It's called a "Lighthouse Politics" in my country. Like a lighthouse, it's bright from a distance but actually it's a rugged rock and cliffs with roaring waves. It's actually a sign that you should not to come near.
So true! That's how Chinese communist country are. They see your making good money and popularity they'll try to get rid of you. China is seriously selfish!!!
@@lilacfairy. ଘ !! ଆପଣ ଓଡ଼ିଆ କି ?
Welcome to the 21th century were everything is filtered to look nice - from a personal photo on social media to whole governments…
You mean like the states
I feel that she has done nothing wrong, except show life as nicely as she can. Also, she is in a way documenting old practices and introducing those to ppl who may never see them otherwise
Agree 😊🙏❤🌏🌟
I’m worried for her.
I know her videos are not realistic, but they give me hope for a brighter future and they help me relax and de-stress after a hard day. I think most people realize that agriculture is a lot of hard work and that vlogs are not an accurate depiction of reality.
Indonesian cooking in the village
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Did people really think she was creating these content all on her own with no assistance? I thought it was a mutual understanding that we are simply just seeing everything in her pov but not the whole big picture. Either way she put the work in for what she did and deserve her recognition.
She was creating this content ALL ON HER OWN for years.
She actually started all alone, filming editing directing and everything.
Yes she's legit and true. Look her up or view all her interview for her story. I too thought she had an empire behind the scene to help her until I saw her weibo and most of her interviews. She even tells her struggles in the starting when she was still penniless....only when her few videos were recognized and she got paid that she was able to hire a cameraman and 1 assistant to help her with filming but she is still fully in charge of editing, choosing content to show and selecting music....
@@staceyknueppel6424 well there lots of comments on her videos that she has an army of helpers behind her. People these days are so spoiled and coddled they can't believe that one person could do all that :/
I like her content, but I know it is not real, it literally looks like a Studio Ghibli's live action movie about asian cottagecore: a aethereal fairy stranged in the human world with her adoptive grandmother, living a simple but beautiful and idyllic rural live.
Also, damn, the CCP really live for "cutting down the tall poppy"
Nothing wrong with her content. We have similar CZcams channels promoting "cottagecore". You see models with perfect unblemished skin doing kitchenwork on wood stoves
Just watch homestead videos. Rural life like this is very much real. Tons of people in rural areas of the US and Canada does this, especially after so many moved out of the cities during the pandemic and started working from home. She just knows how to make it movie quality. No, 90% of them dont make money out of their produce, as Li Ziqi doesnt either. Its for sustaining the family with organic products.
@@aj-sz8mu that is so true. People who eat organics are healthier, thus the skin reflects their good condition. My family are farmer, bc we are traditional asian , we have habits making organic body skincare. Even my mom who works at the capital city still does it, she did not buy any body soap, she use organic scrub that she made herself, on her 60's now, her skin as smooth as mine (im in late 30's.. ) ---a few eye wrinkles and forehead, though.
@@alphacuremom6541 fake for you who know nothing about rural village. You don't live in asian country (village).
@@nonienandya6585 what in thee world are you disagreeing with what i said again? What is so not true? cause from the sounds of it, you're agreeing with what im saying.
She's quite a self made millionaire, very impressive.
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I'm suprised ppl took her videos as being a standard example of rural life or are shocked that she has a full production staff. Even without explicit mention of the former it should've been obvious to all based on the quality of her vids. I never got the impression she was trying to be an example of typical rural life either. Her vids aren't much different from the "cottagecore" vids of western YT'ers, the few I've seen having never presented themselves as the standard example of rural life either. The charm of her vids is in their relaxing beauty. All I see is a corrupt regime taking advantage of a person's honest interest in showing parts of their countries old culture. CCP is ugly but actual Chinese culture is pretty cool. That the CCP choose to use her as a tool to brainwash the populous into thinking CCP = Chinese culture so bad mouthing of them equals bad mouthing Chinese culture is unfortunate. Not sure if there was anything she could do to stop CCP meddling but let this be a lesson to other content creators to keep as much control over there stuff as possible and properly vet potental partners. I've seen more YT'ers then I like run into problems with greedy media partners they joined hands with with.
Yeah exactly. Why would these people even thought the videos are how she lives everyday life. She never claimed it was her everyday life. She never once said she is portraying a farmers life 🙄🙄
She was saying her brother was helping her produce the videos
The CCP killed Chinese culture and demoralized the entire nation. If anyone didn’t need communism, it was China. It’s insanely unfortunate and I wish they would beat the CCP one day
@@firebirdstark It's going to be a hard fight because it has other countries' backing, including the UN ( China is one of the UN's big 5 and because of this, the UN has not recognised Taiwan as a country but a part of China. So whenever there's a meeting, the delegate of China will represent all of China + Taiwan. Even though CCP has been trying to press Taiwan into converting to be part of China again through cutting vaccines and many more. Mainland Chinese will know Taiwan as China's province, while Taiwanese and the rest of the world will know Taiwan as Taiwan )
This comment says it all 👍
I've watched her for a couple of years. I hope she is well, safe and remains so.
She shouldn't partner up with someone, he sees her success and took advantage of her.
I'm glad i found this channel. No other YT channels has given any detailed info on why she suddenly stopped uploading videos
stop watching that fake crap.. She will never like you or be your friend. She is allowing forced organ donation and other horrible things to continue just by working with the ccp and furthering their reach with lies.
@@raymaster GO SEEK HELP!!!!!!!!!!
no ownership for her own content is the crazy part, tf man this world is fucked
The perfect example of someone being successful for an idea backed by hard work and others being envious about it
Indeed, and only dismiss her as propaganda or being supported by the parent company. Obviously her life is not a standard rural life, but everything was done with her own hard work
li ziqi's videos: rural china is a nature wonderland
real world rural china: a few notches below post-apocalyptic mad max
😂😂😂😂😂
@@chuchu5946 😂😂
@@chuchu5946 ok that's actually even more hellish than mad max
That needs a movie ….
"Just walk away, you can leave with your lives, just walk away"
I started watching Liziqi's videos years ago...I think the first one I saw was her making traditional cosmetics from botanicals. It's all very dreamy & somehow calming to watch her do these things. In my head, I know that her bountiful garden did not just spring to life from the earth with no effort on her part, but it certainly looks like it did. Just like I know that a farmer isn't doing daily labor in hand dyed lavender silk gowns that flow down to the ground, or wearing billowing dresses to harvest lotus pods. At one point, the tagline was "Liziqi A Fairy"...so no, I never in my life imagined that her daily life looked anything like the videos. And you can track her growing production team by the quality of her videos. As her popularity grew, the production quality improved & you could tell that even her method of filming had gotten better. Never once did I see this as "oh, well this is daily life in rural China & they all live like this, with walled gardens & gorgeous hand made clothing in silk with elaborate embroidery. " What rational person would? If I told you I live in the mountains of Appalachia, what would you expect the videos to look like, if I were to adopt her route? If I showed traditional Appalachian farming, complete with a rustic log cabin & sweeping panoramic shots of the Blue Ridge mountains, and me making traditional Appalachian crafts , would you just enjoy the fantasy, or would you be cynically commenting on the proliferation of meth labs, poor education & poverty that are also traditionally Appalachian?
To me, it feel like she grew a brand that surprised everybody with it's appeal & popularity & the Chinese government just sort of latched on to her coattails for the ride.
Sad, but that's how it goes in china. You can't get too big without the govt stepping in and
" helping you out" so to speak. They have to give her permission to " go higher and further". It's almost the same system in USA only in reverse. You get a really good business going here, then you submit to the govt. So in a way she did thank them for everything, she just needs to clip the past and start again. A lot of copy cats are popping up but I believe she has a channel under her new name so I will he fervently looking for it this weekend.
@@blackleague212 I didn't know she'd gone to a different name. If it's not too much trouble, could you respond to this comment if you find her new channel? I'd love to continue following her videos. Its a lovely bit of escapism...
@@greenmtnmellie yeah I haven't been in my account for a few weeks and I'm just seeing this message. I didn't mean a new name. The channel name is her * actual name. I'll look for it and try to come back to this comment. But her name isn't liziqi it's something else
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People don’t watch her to become farmers not is she’s claiming to be a farmer. She’s trying her skills in everything to know and show the world how it’s done if someone has a will. Of course everyone knows farmer’s life isn’t glamorous, but I who grow my own vegetables know it’s hard work but it still is worth it. And my grandparents who used to do it because they had small land. They grew some veggies and raised some animals because they had free time on their hands after work and they did for sustainable living. People at that time liked saving money and using their own talent to work hard to get something instead of spending money. It can still be hobby that gives you pleasure, whatever it is, painting, sewing, gardening, cooking those are all hobbies. And people saying, “ it’s not reality, it’s because of camera angles, lighting and editing” don’t know how they look when they are gardening. Sometimes beauty can’t be captured with cameras too. Like how you take selfies and don’t look pretty even though you look pretty in mirror to yourself. You can’t capture how you look amazing when you’re passionate or laughing or in love. Point is, yes camera and editing might make it look pretty sometimes but it actually is beautiful and peaceful if you love something. I hope with all her hard work she can bring prosperity to her city. Hopefully she will not be used by government when they need her but also become the voice of her people. No matter what the results are of the lawsuit, they should know karma is a B***ch, it always come back.
She’s totally state backed. Cmon guys. People are suffering in the rural.
100% AGREE
I think they are using her.
@@ThePatriot6 I'm pretty sure it's both ways bud. Can't have a YT channel and surpass the great firewall of China without SOME ties to CCP. I highly recommend watching some YTers that have more info on this topic such as my Fave SerpentZa, Laowhy86 and China Uncensored.
@@ThePatriot6 She's not being used; she works for state media...
We already know that. There's no part of China except with rich folks that looks like her area and that level of cooking
LONG LIVE THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT NATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAIWAN!!!! 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
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Under US control, lol
Is that really free?
@@marc-andrelachapelle5707 Better than eating toxic corn in China. Where the word freedom gets you arrested.
@@genericscout5408 Taiwan is not even a country. You guys get used by US and China like a pantin.
@@marc-andrelachapelle5707 How is Taiwan not a country? Mainland Chinese can't even get in without a Visa.
Girl makes video:
Communist China: Ahhhhh "Its free real estate."
Jack Ma builds Alibaba:
Communist China: Ahhhhh "Its free real estate."
Anyone in China who has just a lick of influence over the population
Xi: *"You don't happen to have honey with you, do you?"*
Chinese real estate industry:
"AAAAAAhhhhhhhhh!!!!"
Chinese person: owns something
CCP: OURS!
Can't take half truth propaganda from this outlet.
Imagine if they show you this..
Not saying China is better, but have you seen this much crackheads on the street? They all looks and walks like zombies..
Streets of Philadelphia , Kensington Avenue, What happened today, Aug, 2021.
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Here's how the street look in China
Shanghai Most Cyberpunk Areas Walking Tour
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Communists, am a right?
She's self-sufficient by planting fruit, vegetables, and spices in her garden. She's not one of those who grow seasonal crops and sell them. She's genuinely skilled because she grew up being assistant of her grandpa who was a cook in their village during impt occasions. She also worked in a restaurant that had increased and refined her skills. And she never stops learning. She's not perfect but her skills is not mediocre.
her skills are piece of cake she dont know nothing about cuisine,
@@BlackMamba-lt8oeooookaaay...
@@BlackMamba-lt8oe when you don't know nothing, it means your know something. Two neg atives equal positive
ㅋㅋㅋ 갓만든 김치로 김치찌개 만드는거 못봤나요?
@@happydrawing7309봤어요. 그래서 뭐? Did she ever say it was ORIGINATED in China or just a Chinese version? Did that video make her skills of making and creating crafts and food fake and staged? Do farmers only can do what she had shown in her channel? ㅋㅋㅋ
A lot of people don't seem to get that this is not an all or nothing situation. There are layers of nuance here, so it is both true that she does the work herself and true that she has a team who helps her and the government supports her.
I fully believe she started by herself and that she does most of the work. Looking at her work you can see that certain tasks she has an easy familiarity with, enough so that the action has become graceful. Other things she's clearly new at and trying for the sake of a video - she probably doesn't do them often.
No matter how valuable her videos are I doubt the Chinese government is going to do them for her, so they probably just lean on her and her company to meet certain standards.
In a country like hers, it honestly doesn't matter what she feels about the politics going on, it's in her best interests and the interests of everyone she knows, to keep her head down and be obedient. Since they're not asking her to do anything obviously harmful, she's probably just fine doing so.
It's not up to her if the ccp thinks her videos are great for their agenda. No one could have known they'd be so popular, so I imagine the idea really was hers.
Now that they are big she's a single, second-class, unmarried young lady trying to keep control away from big corporations and her own government.
Obviously she's going to struggle. She was never prepared for a this. She's doing the best she can.
As to whether she's lying to people, yes and no. If you're gullible enough to believe that all of China looks exactly like her house, and that her dreamy, well-shot videos are exactly what things look like everywhere, then sure.
But most reasonable people understand what creators do to shoot videos. They choose the best angles and shots, stage them, and make sure the final product looks good.
For example, she owns at least 1 tv and a computer. I've seen them in her own videos, in split second shots or bts.
Naturally, she makes sure that the TV and computer aren't in most of the videos because they don't fit the anesthetic. But logic tells you they have to be there. She edits the videos somehow.
Is that a lie? Not really. It's common sense. If I was shooting cottage ore videos, I'd clean my room and hide the electronics too.
Mostly I hope li ziqi can win her lawsuit and go back to doing what she loves. It seems like she really has plans to help her neighbors and her family and, I understand that entirely. I hope it works out for her - I love her videos. So much effort and hard work!
Her only family member is her grandma seen in her videos, and she did grow up in the villages. She does have a team and so what? Why are Americans connecting every single thing to the ccp?
@@jocelynlin6044 because the United States always struggles with nuance, sadly.
@@jocelynlin6044 because china and the US dislike each other. Both sides say the other is bad while praising their own side.
100%! I’m not sure why people think everything needs to be political. I mean the people making these videos that insinuate she’s working for/with the CCP are doing the same thing…using her fame to promote their channel/agenda.
you're the only one making sense here in this comment section. whatever the outcome is if she's now backed by a company or its still all her hard, I don't care. I really loved her videos as it's calming and therapeutic, it makes me remember the farm i grew up in. i hope she's okay amidst all this situation shes in
She has milky white skin and I bet her hands are silky smooth.
She resembles the typical Chinese farmer as much as the statistics released by the CCP represent the actual state of the Chinese economy.
Well, she definitely will not work 5 hour non stop that for sure. Her body is just not possible. Just look at farmer, even women are tough and have more meat there.
Also, sunsreen and lotion exist. She is rich and can afford it. Don't forget cosmetic too.
Edit: Gosh, some of you can't read. I did not say every Farmer is using lotion, read it twice before replying. If u can't understand english just google translate it to your native language.
She got plastic surgery.
typical troll and liar from the internet!
if i have not seen her vids, i might have believed you. But too bad that i have.
can't fool all the world.
her recent trip to the celebrity gather has showed her to not have silky white skin.
in many of her vids, she showed to her audiences that her hands are rough. at least to compare your hands.
so keep on lying, i would love to see it!
@@luutuan7162 Wumao🤣
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The brand is a carefully constructed Potemkin village
EXPENSIVELLY CONSTUCTED
Look how great the lighting, acting, and props are prepared.
Yeah it's all fake, like everything else in China
What isn't Potemkin's village in social medias? You think fit perfect bodies, lavish lifestyle, success stories are real? Yeah, maybe one in a million.
psikogeek I am sure Liqizi is mainly self-taught in many things like photography, graphic designs, video editng, audio editing, etc. She shows that. She is already an *ARTIST* who knows how to make her videos stand out and win audience. She is already a *FRUGAL* filmmaker. It is possible to *RENT* studio equipments. Else, she has bought good cheap cameras and has good camera tricks.
As to video editing, there are *FREE* open source softwares that can enhance details, correct colours, etc. Open sources cost nothing.
It is as beautiful as it is impossible to keep everything up to immaculate standard, film and acquire skills to a seemingly high level by one person caring for her grandmother... even non stop 7/7 24/24 work will not suffice
She is a lady with talent, a hard working. Nobody has right to sue her.
They do if they own 51% of her brand.
You need to learn how capitalism works. It’s quite evil.
No, she doesn't have talent. She's product of Chinese propaganda as noone is China is allowed to setup CZcams channel.
She has NOT been sued. She is in fact suing the PRODUCTION CREW for UNPAID ACTRESS WAGES.
Ofcourse it's fantasy ! Who can actually live like that in real life and capture it on video with such superb editing and lighting scene by scene. It's still an amazing concept and teaches people to enjoy the simplicity of a humble life . I still enjoy her content. I hope she can keep filming, greed ruins everything.
Bruh, she grew up in the village. That women is actually her grandma. Yes she has a filming team so what? She grew up living like this and started working in the city later on.
Of course her recent videos have superb editing and lighting because she already have a videographer but if you compare her old videos, the quality is very different. One thing, for those people who keep on saying that it's all staged or it's fantasy, you're wrong. You can't relate because you haven't experience a life in a countryside. Her countryside lifestyle do exist
"Fantasy " as in it's a polished , edited , storytelling video performance she does these days that is a romanticised life of farming . Not that she haven't lived this kind of life before. I NEVER said she didn't grow up as such , or that she didn't know any of the skills or that she's faking it . So you have no reason to harp on me about it.
The whole point is that she's hardly living this kind of life in the woods at this very moment 24/7 is she. Nor is authentic farming life idyllic as she portrays it to be . It's entertainment, it's a performance that's a mixture of cinematic and hard physical work. But all these haters are dissing her for apperently not living life up there in the mountains 24/7 and seclude herself and that's what I find ridiculous , them mixing up reality vs the performance. Also I am on her side defending her. And that's the last I'm going to say about this to anyone
@@jocelynlin6044 bruh.
may khaing try watching Dianxi Xiaoge of Yunnan which is similar. There are many farming channels from China that are interesting.
"Most subscribed Chinese CZcams Channel with 14 million followers."
CZcams is also illegal in China. That's a lotta VPNs getting abused.
No, the channel is Chinese but the subscribers are not from china
@@krto7663 please. Most of them definitely aren't as how many people speak the same dialect of Chinese she does.
@@samsonsoturian6013 isn't she speaking mandrin? Like, the one dialect every chinese knows?
@MrStoofus let's still be realistic here and assert there are many millions of Chinese people accessing CZcams via VPN.
Just employ foreign team and editor or chinese people abroad, you shot the picture then send it to them.
That way, it is a genuine youtube, and no vpn was abused.
I like her content but also understand no rural life is like this 😂
Exactly, most people who think rural life is like this is just naive. There is a different between farm work on camera for money and rely on farm work for money.
It's like they are/she is showing a lie as reality. No farmer life living like her in real life.
I think her contents are real, different country, different location, different rural life.
Because, I ever see the real one of rural life like her 😂 it's on the mountain, very isolated, no big farming machine and most populations are elderly.
Yes, most rural areas in China are very poor.
Yeah I lived in a village and I absolutely know what she is doing fake content.
Her videos showing rural village/farm life are akin to when there are videos or documentaries done on the Amish...while 'ignoring' the social problems the Amish themselves have that they hide. Tho, I will say, Li's videos are more of an 'art' for entertainment, not an actual representation of rural life it appears.
Rural areas in reality: monocultures with heavy use of pesticides, farmers stressed with the risks and costs of the business.
Rural areas on CZcams: huge diversity of cultivated crops intercropped by organic methods and relaxed and happy farmers.
She is not doing anything different from hundreds of other channels on youtube.
@@fmac6441 rural areas in real life:
L O C U S T S
Look at her skin, look at her hands. She is an actor, a very good actor. And her success comes from tapping in to a state of mind that many people yearn for, community.
wtf you see her nails? shit got dirt in it
not just her hands, the camera positions, cuts etc. just on a technical level this cannot be pulled off in the quality we see without a team
I don't think anyone would believe that she really makes a living working the land. This is clearly a state-sponsored propaganda to keep people on the countryside
@@felinychan True, true! She has said it herself that she started filming herself with one staff member and eventually got a whole production team.
Her hands aren't clean at all she has shown them before and she does have a team around her and are clearly shown when she made food and would invite them to eat if you actually watch her video
Made up... she's good actor
whenever i go the rural countryside, i see some elderly people just sitting there looking bored…yeah, its really lonely
They're really lucky for not living in shithole cities,they just dont know it yet.
@@bladerunner4720 Yeh. Cities are really shitholes when you're poor.
Also most people in the cities sometimes look down on those from country side because they are poor. Eyyy humans.
@@williebeamish5879 nope,they really are! Come to china. 😂
She does all this hard work and is never dirty ,fake,fake,fake
Exactly
No it is not fake. It is just she only record the part where it is all nice and wrapped up.
No one is recording the entire sequence or behind the scenes and publishing that on the internet cuz no one would watch it.
@@joeisawesome540 ofc. She have +999999 credit and you want it to be negative?
say you havent watched her videos w out saying it lmao
Lol her nail was black and busted up for several videos, she gets dirty. But yeah, its a youtube channel, of course it's crafted.
She is true to what she wanted to show. Many people in industrialized countries are tiring of the rat race and desire the simpler life their older relatives had with hard work and skill. She has worked hard for what she has. I hope they don't mess up this young lady for her love of her grandma and country.
I used to always watch her videos. I’m not Chinese but I find her videos so therapeutic. She is also very knowledgeable, and it’s interesting seeing all the skills she knows.
It's sad, I knew her videos were made possible by the CCP, that she wasn't doing it all alone and that the image she gives her viewers of China is a dreamy image and not quite real, same with Dianxi Xiaoge, but still I loved watching every video. They are beautiful despite being propaganda. I guess it is for the best that they are no longer being produced, since the majority of her viewers thought it was all real... I swear, most people on this planet look no further than a pretty video. It's all sad but true. Hopefully some more people will wake up if they find this video by China Insights.
Its even better when they try to defend her in comment section...
I think most Chinese knew it was make-believe cottagecore from the get go. Those videos are still popular as a form of escapism (like movies, books, video games)
Personally, I have seen more people saying her video are fake or propaganda rather than those who truly believe it's 100% real.
It's village core. It's not 100% true, but It's not all make believe either. The diy and step by step are still authentic
If you keep watching them it's like you knowingly supporting CCP propaganda.
I don't know about her but Dianxi Xiaogi...her videos seems real.
It’s only a matter of time before the state comes for you if you are a celebrity in China
Unfortunately this is true
@@matrixlim4050 that's what they said to Alot of billionaires too before they -dissapeared- I mean *"Unexpected Suicide"*
@@matrixlim4050 just searched up "where is jack ma". It seems he disappeared last October but was spotted in Europe recently. Definitely spooky.
@@matrixlim4050 considering what he said in his October speech and that he was called to Beijing immediately before this break you can understand why people might find it a little concerning.
@@matrixlim4050 it's true that it comes across as a conspiracy theory given his wealth and the publicity on him. Also make sure you fix the spacing on the punctuation, learned that the hard way during my Spanish class. "You are guessing and many others . Can we confirm ? Not likely."
She should have just kept her content and brand for herself, rather than going with a big company. Shame. I love her videos.
You don’t get it she never had a brand, CZcams is Illegal in China. Without the approval of some state’s media beforehand, she wouldn’t even be allowed to post on CZcams
@@LucielStarz123 what does that have to do with anything? The content is still excellent and they are her ideas that she implemented. The communist party may have approved and tried to piggy back but that doesn't make it not hers.
It's just another fake Communist party created brand. There is nothing original or true in China as they keep the people as slaves many unhappy but many are collaborators of the CCP, willingly working to release their fake happy propaganda
@@rejectionistmanifesto8836 There is evidence they tried to promote her videos but no evidence they actually created or controlled the content. Do you think she is the only one doing these kind of videos? There are many many many non-Chinese channels about living farm to table in rural areas. Hers was simply the best as far as editing and storytelling and her particular talents. And I don't think people who are fans believe that rural life in China is really like that for all farmers, but just like other shows like on food network it shows a type of idyllic version which is relaxing and inspiring. Her videos are being politicised by both sides just because it happens to be in China and it is unnecessary imo.
sadly not how china works
Most people who idealise farm life have never worked on a farm. Honest accounts show that it can certainly be good, but the work is long and hard. Li Ziqi certainly has worked hard, but what she shows isn't commercial rural life. The type of farming needed to support a large urban population is far different. I guess an argument might be that mass industrialisation and commercialism aren't necessary, that populations can be sustained in a mainly agrarian culture. Strictly speaking, this may be true, but I wonder if proponents of such views have considered how much industrial capacity is needed to provide a regular supply of the tools, vehicles and other products even agrarian people need. More fundamentally, though, such idealism ignores the fact that not all will be on board.
I enjoyed her videos, but I understand that there are strong aspects that are not the reality of rural life.
Agree.
You gave the most objective comment in this comments section! 👏
They have no idea.. my hands has many scars and darkened by the sun it is big and very rough..
Perfectly said. I live in a rural community that produces agricultural products that also gets shipped off to outsiders, and NOTHING looks as idyllic as in these videos. Even when I visit more isolated farms, it's peaceful but efficient thanks to heavy machinery. Beyond that, even basic tools like vinyl houses let alone the machinery cost a ton of money. Most of the farmers and fisherman I know live like any other investor: in debt, and constantly trying to leverage what they have.
It's more beautiful than life in the city imo, but not easier. It's just more soothing for one's mental health I think, because you can spend time surrounded by plants and not too many people...
well... i guess that can be interpreted as deceit but i don't understand why people don't get that some parts of her videos are idealized (and she never made it seem like this is how really farm life works) . i grew up on a farm up until i was 14 and i knew it was hard work.
I want to say Thank you for providing so much information about the internal struggles that are rampant in china and how many good people living there are suffering along with the many government made disasters such as the many dam problems they have. Thank you .
My pleasure, thank you for visiting our channel. :)
@@chinainsights4458 Chinese in countryside live happily and prosperously
Li ziqi interviewed by China's state-owned TV station CCTV and news china tv
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Wow so fast to capitalise on china's problem to benefit western agenda to demonised china. Why dont you just worry about your own country problem instead of minding others.
@@mranonymous9034 because this is a video about China. Why df are we going to criticize other countries when it's not related to this topic? Another ccp bot.
People! When something sounds and looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Same common sense applies to her (and other similar vloggers) videos. It's a SHOW, not a documentary of real rural life. This means it's a PRODUCTION (with aid of a professional camera crew ) from the get-go.
For sure, it look like a movie set, perfectly executed, I saw her back in the day and subscribed, but I think it not actually her own work.
As someone who has farm and experienced farm life with livestock and agriculture. Her videos are pure fantasy, which is not bad, but it's bad when everyone under her videos think that this is how rural life works.
When the real voices of villagers are being silenced, these kind of videos are exploiting the under privileged.
And the fact that she knows the reality, as she went through that too, I think what she's doing is just pathetic.
@@mwkcheng
She's what a real "deplorable" is.
@@wisdomleader85 Popular at the disco?
She's literally a breathing-walking "milk cow" for the greatest capitalists in the planet so it's really not surprising they won't let her go no matter how much she's done for her own motherland as an incredible influencer followed by millions of people... I, as a foreigner, who fell inlove with chinese drama including the four arts... literally fell even deeper ever since discovering her channel.
Indonesian cooking in the village
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Her first mistake was letting someone else own 51% of what is essentially her image/brand. Doesn't matter how good the money is, don't do it. I do hope she'll be alright though.
On a different note, as a viewer I'm very aware that what she's showing is a fantasy more or less, it's not the way real farmers live. But that doesn't take away from the hard work and dedication that goes into it. And I think it's really great that she has a few people help her do this now. Before it must of been way to much work after a while.
you DO know what country she is living in... right?
what you said is absolutely true. i hate how this video tries to push politics into this.
how is this any different from any up and coming stars being exploited by their companies?
she's just product of Chinese propaganda.
@@williamwanzaiyi tbh. Her video is also influenced by politics. She is also one of the face for chinese video influencer stars. China will never let her become popular without her adhering to their rules and influence.
Countryside girl with paper-white skin. Not possible
I appreciate her dream, even if it's a pie in the sky. It is unfortunate that her videos are being used as propaganda to give a false image of China's rural life, but at the same time, I'm hoping they will serve to motivate the CCP themselves to help improve and revitalize rural areas in China. Creating rural tourism like the Yuan Jia Cun Village might be one way to go about it. I would personally be very interested as a tourist to buy items that were hand-made the traditional way like those that she shows in her videos. And also eat the various dishes that she cooked up made from locally grown ingredients. Maybe even take classes like learning to make wooden movable-type printing that she mentioned.
@@solarydays Did I say that I think they will be influenced by Liziqi? No. I said "hoping". An improvement in rural regions can help make China look better to the world, which is good news for the CCP. And if things improve for the citizens, they'll be less likely to rebel or cause disturbances - "stability" makes the CCP happy. Moreover, there's money to be made and that could help improve the economy. All in all, it could be beneficial for the CCP, so it would make sense for them to be motivated to invest in revitalizing rural areas. Now whether or not its potential benefits are great enough for the CCP to bother to do anything is another question.
The CCP isn't made up of a bunch of insane people who gets pleasure out of being destructive. They don't randomly put people in concentration camps, harvest organs, threaten Taiwan etc., for no reason. If something was beneficial to the party, they will allow it, even help foster and/or protect it. Sometimes, they will even go to lengths to capture/hold captive of it (in a way, you can think of Tibet and Taiwan as such instances). If they think something poses a threat to the party, they will try to fix it by attempting to placate the source, or by silencing them, or by punishing them, etc. Their methods could get rather ruthless and extreme, which could seem like they stem from sheer madness, but they are not. Their actions are well calculated, always balancing the pros and cons of how they will affect the party and the maintenance of the autocratic regime (which holds priority over everything else).
Liziqi, just one village girl and her dream of what rural life in China could be like, has already managed to garner so much attention nation wide as well as internationally - enough to catch the interest of the CCP to use her as propaganda. I'd say she already has a little influence on those in power, don't you? As I see it, helping to realize her dream to some extent is inline with the CCP's own interest, so it's very much a possibility. Again, I personally do hope that her work will serve to motivate the CCP to help improve and revitalize rural areas in China. In this particular case, the CCP acting to reap the benefits for their own selfish gain can potentially also benefit those who are most vulnerable.
@@solarydays Thanks! :)
I thought it was obvious she had a staff of a few people that help her record but just cuz she shows a small portion of her life and makes it fantasy ideal doesn't mean it isn't outside of the videos either and that hard times happens. She just doesn't choose to show that. Her farm is her farm and what she does is still done by her. Someone can have an animal farm but record videos to show it in a fantasy light cuz that makes them feel good or that's how they feel when they do it. I believe she has interest in what she does and chooses to show the bright and fun sides and how cooking makes her feel. They are lucky to have a beautiful farm and I find her videos relaxing and they make me want to cook and work on our own little garden. I hope she's alright.
Yeah she has even showed her crew enjoying meals and drinks she made in videos
I love her videos!!! But, in terms of staff, I remember that she said that she only has a secretary and a guy who films, but it seems very unlikely that she gets so much quality on her videos with so few people. But, I could be wrong. Anyway, I hope everything works out and she comes back with the videos.
Her videos helped me when I was mourning the loss of a loved one. Her videos brought inspiration to my 70 year old mother and entertainment to my 74 year old father (who can't be entertained by a single thing lately). Her videos also bring peace of mind to a dear friend of mine. She actually also shares some knowledge so... all I have to say to her is Thank You! Please be safe and return soon!
Indonesian cooking in the village
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Her content is nice, but sadly doesn't reflect the harsh reality of rural china.
It's escapism. The grinding reality of life over there doesn't even bear thinking about
I'm grateful for everyone at China Insights honoring Li Ziqi, she truly is a youtube gem
Doppelganger
Sadly it was only a matter of time before this remarkable women’s increasing popularity got her noticed and then either financially exploited or into political trouble.
I hope that she is not another ‘national treasure’ that is suddenly disappeared after upsetting the CCPs carefully crafted PR surrounding her ‘idyllic country girl’ image...
Please stop this stupidity nothing will happen to her, you westerners are so brainwashed against China, I'm not even Chinese, I'm middle easterner but I know that most Chinese including her are not against their own country and this whole exploitation is happening in the very US let's not forget Britney Spear and kesha and how they got exploitated. She did a good job for showing the culture of China which is why westerners are pissed off
I know she's showing best things which may not be real. Just like movies.
But her videos are relaxing and good 💗.
I remember in one of her interviews, she said that the life she shows in her videos is an incorporation of her fantasy/dreams and rural life.
No, she's just product of Chinese propaganda.
When I first watched her video, the first thing I noticed was how blessed her village.
Crystal clear water, unpoluted land, morning mist providing humidity to grow plants, etc. It shows that her village must be quite far away from any big city; which means high chance they're *forced* to have a self-sufficient livelihood.
That's why imo it's just plain weird if some people suddenly think such lifestyle is easy. No, *it's never easy to live self-sufficiently* . It's basically a life where money barely circulates, where the majority of your needs are procured from the nature instead of your wallet. No money means no internet, so your smartphone, laptop, TV, modern gadgets, or even electricity basically lost their values. No entertainment, living in an enclosed world far from the modern society. That's what it means to live self-sufficiently in rural area.
Is it possible to live like her? Yes, but are you willing to pay for the price? Not to mention you need to find area with abundant resources like the one in her video. Forest area where you can forage for food, water source, and enough farmland to plant crops.
So it's not really impossible, it's just difficult to aim for.
And that's why technically she hasn't lied, because she actually exposes everything on her videos… well, only if you observe her properly instead of too busy blindfolding yourself with your majestic ‘rural village’ delusion.
I agree completely.
Far away from big cities, sure. They are definitely not in an isolated village. She has shown many times that she uses an iPhone and a Macbook. She got 4G on her phone right in her garden. I have been to remote areas in China a few years ago, and aside from some valleys which block the cell signal, 4G was available almost everywhere. Anywhere with the internet, you can order stuff online. She had demonstrated that some tropical fruits were delivered to her in one episode. Just some examples. China’s infrastructures and supply chain are more advanced than you think.
Eh, no alot of the thing you mentioned is basically extremely wrong.
My grand parrents have been selfsustained their whole lives and they have electricity, internet, computers, tablets, TV and so on.
And no it's not as hard as you make it seem aslong as you educate yourself enough to sustain yourself in the enviroment. And that also highly means you have parrents who arent self sustaining which also means they cannot pass onto you the knowledge and resources instead you have to make it yourself.(which would be what you'd be learning 100 years ago as you grew up on the country side)
And no the livehood is easy, and it's easy because you spend majority of your day just on sustaining yourself and can be drought down to 4-5 hours a day instead of being lazy or just working in a specifc division. There are multiple videos on youtube even with people doing this along with stories you can read about who did this.
Also, compared to 100 years ago, your chances of being self sustained is actually many times greater now with both the tools and access to knowledge.
RURAL CHINA DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THAT. PEOPLE ARE DIRT POOR & LUCKY TO HAVE A SMALL ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS. YT & VPN'S ARE ILLEGAL.
Indonesian cooking in the village
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It's interesting to see how her vlogs are super picture- perfect, the food and drinks always looks like they come out of a restaurant, everything posed to look aesthetic and make good shots etc, it seems like a whole production team to make the "farmer lifestyle" vlogging influencer seem authentic / up-sell what really is considered a 2nd class citizen life of struggle and poverty....so richer people in the city can go "...awe :') " while she makes millions in USD (so way more local currency)
she gets funding from a 900million dollar company pretty easy to hire professionals when you have that kind of money. the whole point of the channel is to sell merchandise for the parent company so her videos have to be brand friendly. Have you never heard a youtuber talking about how CZcams policies have forced them to change how they make videos to receive ad revenue? Same thing here they want partnerships and sales so they have to be brand friendly in CHINA.
Ever since I was young I love the fairy tales, not found in books, but realistically portrayed on the screen
She worked in a restaurant. But there are also some people who are just talented with food. I have some friends like that. They just have talent. But it's probably easier when you don't rely so much on processed and boxed food.
she's just product of Chinese propaganda.
Its not like she started out with a while production crew. Like any youtuber she started off making videos by herself and it grew to the point where she was able to hire production teams and editors to make her videos.
even knowing it is fake, i like how she tried to capture older techniques and skills that are no longer "needed"/used these days. at least in some way part of the world's older cultures' skills survive in our modern day -- and hopefully not forever lost to the sands of time.
It isn’t fake. She grows food. She prepares it and eats it. Everyone doesn’t do that but it doesn’t make it fake.
how and when it became fake?
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
It's not fake.
Whatever it is , she has won the hearts of many and her videos give us inner peace and we love it ♥️
Look cooking from Indonesia in the village
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*Liziqi decides to make an actual communist movement in her village by distributing wealth and, subsequently, giving them more opportunities for social growth*
CCP: how DARE YOU do what we’ve been supposed to do since the start and never did??
Look cooking in the village Indonesia
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It’s really ironic that the very cultural heritage that Liziqi is discussing in this video ended up becoming “so intangible” only due to half a century of brutal and relentless oppression that the Chinese Communist Party ruthlessly enacted against it...
@Ernest Khalimov he’s saying that due to CCP’s destruction of Chinese culture, the videos the women makes are now not how the normal Chinese rural live
@Ernest Khalimov she talks about “exploring this intangible cultural heritage and forgotten traditions” at one point in the video, and what I found ironic is that the main factor that transformed all of those rural traditions (which before were active part of Chinese culture) in something that was “forgotten and intangible” are the decades of CCP campaigns to brutally repress ancestral farming culture and traditions to “break the unity of farming society and have the Party at the helm”.
That’s my point.
@@adolfolerito6744 imo is more than ironic but really heartbreaking; China is one of the most ancient civilizations and in a few decades they’re burning to the ground thousands of years of culture. There’s no fixing that.
So I supposed it is the same for those chinese videos where beautiful women are doing factory work while they don't even show any sign of really working there (perfect skin, clothing without grease stains, etc)
A lot like that, yes. Only add in tranquil nature shots as well.
My toddler tells me “I want to see the Chinese lady” my kids love 💕 her videos and so do I. Nothing but inspiring videos, that with hard and HARD work and creativity it is possible!
My son calls her China Girl, he has fallen in love with Chinese culture through her videos.
My lola also wants to see her new video😭
Watching a person get finessed out of their brand is always sad to witness.
Pancake Cherry kersen from Indonesia. Cooking from Indonesia
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They are going to get in with her and then take her for all she’s worth smh She won’t even have her name to fall back on when it’s through…
its not her real name so does she have any claim to it?
She got scammed. Now they own her. She should have been like Martha Stewart and incorporated her name and not let anyone own her name but her.
Martha Stewart made her name by stealing other people’s ideas, products and stepping in the backs of those she knew and those she worked with. Li is not like Martha. I do wish she would have maintained at least 55%. I love her videos, idealistic or not you learn from her videos as well as get pleasant entertainment. I especially love the creating something from something that would have wasted away items. She is a gem.
The issue displayed here through Li Ziqi is basically the state of the whole entertainment industry since their debuts. Using social issues and struggles for their own benefits while never tackle and help fixing all those issues, that way the whole industry can keep sustaining its global profits...
just like hollywood
Thank you Liziqi. Because you are the one who inspired me to build my own flower and vegetable garden. Even though before this I was very....very lazy 😅. Love you 😍~ 🇲🇾
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I love Liziqi and subbed to her when she only had 2mil and didn't even have Latin letters next to her name so I used to have no idea what she was called... But her videos are so beautiful I enjoyed a lot
I really love all her videos. We are all aware that all Li's videos are too ideal and borderline in fantasy. But let's not deny the fact that all her works inspired us. Most of her viewers probably tried to start their own backyard farming.
She may romanticized a lot about farm life or rural life, but it's possible. We can possibly live a life just like the way she's showing. It may take a lot of hard-work, but IT's NOT IMPOSSIBLE. And that's what I learned from her videos.
And as one of culture and heritage lovers and a tourism industry worker, I really enjoyed everything I watched and learned from her videos. The preservation of our tangible heritage, the appreciation of our environment and the love of simple life away from the stress and hustle of city life. Her videos are refreshing and soothing.
I hope everything will turn out fine for her. And will start making video again. Don't let greed ruin this amazing work of an amazing woman.
Once, I was so amazed by the beauty of the rural scenery depicted in LZQ's video, that I asked in the comment section of one of LZQ' early YT video (when she wasn't so popular yet), if it was her real home: because it looks nothing at all like my family home in a rural town of China. A lot of people liked my comment, so I think I wasn't the only one being curious. But quite a few people also answer me back that this is a real chinese rural scenery, that all is real; the underlying meaning of their answer is I don't know anything of china rural life and I shouldn't criticized LZQ's work...I only ask it out of curiosity because of the disparity between what was being filmed and what I know of China rural scenery, without ill intent, I also am LZQ's fan... Since then I don't dare to comment to much on her chanel...
It is not suprising the CCP is interested in her work, they love every thing that give "them" a good "face" (aka reputation). Just look at the documentaries they filmed for their state owned media, where poor peasants and minorities look happy working together in their traditional clothes, all smiling. Then we all know what really happened to one of the minorities... 🤐
Yes face is everything to Chinese people heck even Asians in general but I think Chinese take it hardcore
My daughter and I have been watching Li Ziqi's videos for many years now - well before she became so popular.
She strikes an enchanting and inspiring figure, encouraging people to try their hand at a vast array of skills and recipes.
Personally I think she has fully earned every success and I hope her legal woes can be resolved to her advantage.
The fact that China may have sought to use the face of a popular personality to promote a national identity and culture is nothing unique to China, so I don't see the problem.
People understand any country experiences many ills and injustices, despite there being individual personalities which appear to rise above the mud and drudgery of everyday and inspire us all anyhow.
We love you Li Ziqi.
💝💖
Those movable types would take ages to create with a knife if it was your regular day job. This woman is supposedly running a farm on her own and making top quality videos with all the b-roll and editing that entails and she still has time for making types and all other stuff she's doing? I don't think so. This is a large production with at least 10 full time employees
She runs a homestead, not a farm... I don't think she even said that she runs a farm so where did you get that from is beyond me; probably from those rolls of rice paddies. Also, she posted like a video a month. Do you really think that it is impossible to make 49 of those wooden pieces in a month? By the pure speed, she was making them at, I assume she can make them in a week so she has 3 weeks for other stuff. I actually watched one of her interviews a few months ago and there are 2 of them. She started alone and after a while hired a guy for camera work and some editing because it took too much time from her, to think about new ideas and keep the quality at a high level. Most things she posts are not even that time consuming considering she plants a few plants and not thousands like a farmer. Sorry mate, but from all the things she does wrong(and there are a lot) you could mention you decided to mention something that takes common sense to debunk... Countless homestead owners on CZcams do more than her and post video's every week... The only difference is that the quality is worse than hers.
@@masterdrive4033 funny how u didnt confronted him when he wrote that she got help recording..... also no u need way more than 2 people to create such quality videos as she does. The fact that u re blindfolded by some chineese waifu shows
@@spardasquadspqr3535 Why would I confront someone on something he is 100% correct about? She is getting help recording and editing... In her very early video's the quality was very similar so no she did not need more people apparently; it did help with her posting more video's. She got help to keep the quality at that level and not because the quality was bad. Go and watch a few of her first video's; they are shorter but the quality is very similar. Just because you do not believe that such quality can be achieved by one person is laughable considering that many CZcamsrs have achieved a great quality of video's and are alone. Many tech CZcamsrs are still alone at their studio's and have an even better quality video's. I am sorry but you are talking out of your ass right now.
I am certainly not blindfolded by her because I stopped watching her video's after it became apparent that she is glorifying lifestyle for farmers in China while their farms are being drowned by expelling water from 3 gorges dam or their land (that generations of their families have lived on) gets forceful taken from them to build apartments. They are getting shafted by CCP for 70 years now(2 classes of citizens that are being mentioned in the video) and she makes it seem like living in rural China is actually such a nice and easy lifestyle in the beautiful countryside while a lot of it is a literal shithole no one wants to live in. That is the worst part about her whole channel and why the FDK got confused that she is a farmer. She tries to show stuff that is 100% false and as time went on it got worse. I am just criticizing someone who probably did not even watch her video's(similar to you) and is talking out of his ass. If you watched her video's the simple facts I stated should have been known to you so I am pretty sure that you saw a video in passing but never really watched more of them...
She has a team. It is no secret. She even said that in an interview. Also her content normally takes several months to complete into one video, some even take a year. I'm not defending her for showing a fantasy world of rural China but still, what she puts out there is quality content for which she/her team should be commended for.
@@masterdrive4033 I used to watch Li ZiQi and thoroughly enjoyed the experience . Then I moved onto watching other videos as well, depicting rural living , woodworking, art and crafts etc. There is something so relaxing about watching someone fully absorbed in the activity of skilled work and producing something I didn't know how it was done before. You shouldn't be so harsh on her for creating an idyllic scene when in fact we all know that working on the land is not an easy way to earn a living. I suspect you wouldn't advertise a bra by showing how the underwire digs into the skin, instead you'd put the bra on a size zero model who needs socks to prop up each of her non existing boobs.
Her videos are heavily edited but I still enjoy bingeing on them.
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I’m surprised and impressed how educated she is. Also her determination not just to make money but a sustainable rural China. That in it self proves life is not all it seems in the videos. Rural living is really hard. Often times what you make is what you cook to eat. In her gardens it seems she has everything imaginable. Reality must be different. wish her best her videos show me a way to do things naturally.
She's from the city, moved back to her hometown to take care of her grandma
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I’ve been sad not seeing her. It’s such a relaxing channel
Look cooking in the village from Indonesia
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I hope all the best for her. Her videos are too lovely, very Ghibli and dreamy aesthetic to it, and it's so calming to watch. I assumed everyone knew it was very idealized and that rural is much more harsh and unforgiving, but it's good to highlight the simple beauty in things too
Amazing contents. I've been a big fan of her for years, and it saddens me to know her current situation. She's still a millionaire tho, but no one should have the fruit of their hardwork taken away like this.
She is deceiving shallow people just like CCP or VC does.
@@WanderingShadow100 then these people deserve to be deceived. They're not only shallow but also stupid
@@WanderingShadow100 if these people think it is real, then they deserve to be deceive.
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I discovered her a few years back, I enjoyed watching her videos, they were always so calm and beautiful. I always knew that there was some level of acting and production going on, but nothing was overly dramatic, tailored, or otherwise seemed super fake. One of the things I really loved was when she brought the cameraman over to eat with her and her grandma, very cute and touching. I know of all the horrible things that go on in China, and how the government tends to operate, but I also understand that China has not always been the way it currently is, and that there are still some beautiful things and people who take pride in their culture, Li being one of those people. It's a shame she got wrapped up in all of that mess, and I sincerely wish her and her family all the best.
I wonder if more people would choose this sort of lifestyle if the chinese government was not so inhumane
She must be a super natural being .. doing all that hard physical work while maintaining her silky smooth skin.
Yeah but can we be real, so silky and smooth 💗
Thank-you for in depth coverage. I never knew that she is not authentic content creator.
Is anyone on CZcams am authentic content creator?
Paraphrase: “Real or fake is irrelevant, what matters (to the CCP) is the (nonexistent) lifestyle of the Chinese people she portrays.” The CCP are so expert at gaslighting it’s frightening.
Yeah I remember this channel being called out as a ccp fraud. It is great propaganda to people living in rural areas.
Li, Ziqi, multi talented skill at such a young age is amazing. Coexisting with nature and taking us thru journeys back thousands of years of Chinese arts and culture. From roots to nurturing , seeing flowers blooming, harvesting vegetables, preserving , making bamboo furnitures, fence, paper, silk, cloth, dye, printing, brewing beer, cooking & table ,wine, soya sauce, bean curd, variety of desserts etc. No doubt her videos could be used as educational tools in schools across China which will be a good start to promote migration back to rural areas.
Cooking from Indonesia in the village. Pumkin cake
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CZcams is illegal/blocked in China. Her channel is totally state-backed.
Yeah it's not like millions of Chinese cross the great firewall every day. Anything that shows China in a way that is a hell scape is evil cpc propaganda
So true
I hope she'll be okay and she can pull through this I really love her videos and love to see her bring out new content I think your videos on country living and taking care of her family is an awesome way to express yourself through videos much love from USA
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This makes me sad. I really like Liziqi and enjoy all she does and teaches us her wonderful recipes, crafts, and dedication to her family in her videos.
I pray she does get this resolved and comes back to making more fascinating and wonderful videos.
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That is a very good source of information. I’ve been worried for her for a year. Now I see the big picture with my studies of Chinese information. I see her getting stronger. Thank you Robby Au..
What I know is, She is Gorgeous as well as Talented and Hard working woman who enchants not only men but everyone across the globe by her Skills.
I hate all the negative comments. I love her videos they are so beautiful to watch and just good to escape into a world of nature. I hope she can resolve her issues and I can’t wait to watch her content again!!! I miss you Liziqi :-)
Her videos are so therapeutic it gave me a sense of peace and made me forget about the crazy world we live in today. I hope she’s ok and hope to see her making videos again.
Look cooking in the village from Indonesia
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I need her 😭 She makes me feel a lil bit of passion in life
Point is she isn't pretending to be a farmer she is one. The company is taking advantage she is a pawn in the middle they are making money she probably isn't seeing any of it. Like the dog whisperer guy Caesar Milan, didn't even own his own image and show the corporations own these rights and make a lot of money from people and their natural talents. She isn't at fault here.
State backed for sure. How did someone so rural end up getting such high production quality and the cameras alone would be years of pay. Next thing, How does she have a youtube channel when it is illegal to do?
Vpn exist and it's not illegal to open CZcams channel. Tencent, big CCP supporter also have CZcams channel
It was pretty obvious her videos are faked. Pretty girl with flawless complexion working the fields? Using what is clearly very expensive cameras for filming with expert cinematography and editing? No way she is a simple peasant girl. I can't believe people bought that bullshit.
Sounds like you just hate her because she’s way better than you huh. Pretty girl with flawless complexion? Have you seen how rough her hands are cause they sure look rough enough for a farmer. Faked? Lol no you’re talking outta your ass now. It’s staged. She admits to having a team behind her but there is no way what she does is fake. There’s no way you can fake skills to the level that she shows. Expensive cameras? What does that have to do with farming?
@@muhammadzulhusni6876 its the sad truth.
Been waiting for her to upload new videos.
Her videos is quite relaxing and my stress reliever
Great video, & the English of the narrator is quite spectacular! Well done!
She is one of our wonder, such a talented being in this world. Eventhough I'm a indian proud of her work and consistency.
Finally We are just a human being so appreciate others work without any hesitation and ego.
Hollywood: Scarlett Johanson doing incredible fights.
Chinawood: Li Xi Qi doing farming.
BOTH ARE STILL FAKE HAHAHAHA
Its like reading a poem. Its a beautiful, graceful snap shot of a moment in life, minus the mosquitos, the back ache, the calluses, the rock in your shoe, the chilly wind cutting through your clothes, the sweat soaking through your shirt.
I learned i wasn't an outdoorsy person a long time ago, but i still like to fantasize about it sometimes.
This is just like watching a fairytale of farming life. Peace and beauty and simplicity.
I am one of her subscribers her content is really great and enjoying to watch