暖冬cool夏
這裏一年四季溫暖如春，沒有酷暑沒有嚴寒......
The first time I heard of Ziqi Li was from my coworker, an Indonesian Chinese, whose Chinese is so limited that she always consults me regarding the Chinese characters, movies or TV series. When she approached me the other day with Ziqi Li’s name, I thought it is just another actor/actress or singer she has a penchant for. The googling of Ziqi’s name returned with some of her pictures and information that I was not familiar with, making me think that she is just one of many cooks who introduces home style cooking on Youtube.
The name resurfaced lately when my husband started watching Ziqi’s videos on Youtube. Each single video she posted there boasted millions of hits and followers. Like many binge watchers, we whiled away our nights with her videos. What draws me to the screen is not her cooking, but the beautiful scenery in a remote backwater in Sichuan. I felt like being transported to the place where white clouds afloat above the misty valleys, and where pink lotus flowers abloom on the green ponds. What Ziqi lives in with her grandma is a home that is environed by an expanse of gardened vegetables, fruits and flowers, in the company of pet dogs, chickens, sheep, geese and pigs. It is against this idyllic setting that most videos are shot.
I don’t know what is roused in the hearts of millions of viewers. Stirring inside me is a longing to escape from the bustling city and to return to nature, where people are self-sufficient in a leisure environment. By sweat, people can harvest from the land what they sow and desire. Food is brought to table freshly off the field, the sumptuousness of which leaves them with more than they can eat. In Ziqi’s case, she pickles extra vegetables or meat for off-seasons and for different flavors. Flowers or fruits are dried and fermented into flower teas or wines. Life in winter could be just as extravagant with those in store. Though her cooking style, basically Sichuan cuisine, with lots of oil and hot chilies, is not to my liking, her aesthetic arrangements of food and the casting background are ingenious and provoking.
Ziqi is legendary. As a school dropout at age 14, she left her hometown to seek a better life in a big city. But it is back to the secluded home that she found her place and niche. In addition to being a cook, she embroiders. With cloth, wools or cocoons, she deftly hand-makes shoes, sweaters or quilts. As the only offspring or labor living with the old grandma, she toils in the field and does everything from plowing to harvesting. Surprisingly she knows how to make furniture, turning fresh green bamboos or logs to a tea table or a sink stand, with only the help of a few simple tools like a cutter, a manual saw, a screw and a ruler. And from the scratch, she mixed sand, soil and straws, used bricks into building a two-layered oven in which bread, chickens are baked by glaring woods.
Because of these videos, Ziqi becomes well-known locally and globally. What she presents to the world is not just her skills or a scene in southwestern China, but a lifestyle that evokes people’s aspirations and dreams.
看到暖冬在煽風點火啦，本周是“國慶歇斯底裏顯擺”周，請暖冬跟上，:))))
Did you mean "toils"?
在我看來，真正童話般詩情畫意的生活，是不帶功利心的，所有的行為是一種自然而然的流露，無需考慮是否會合他人心意，是否有點擊量，是否會給自己帶來知名度，是否會帶來更多的經濟效益，凡是需要考慮自身以外的各種外部因素，往往已經漸漸遠離了童話般的生活了。
但視頻確實拍得很不錯，還是要讚讚讚的(^o^)/~
我也是最近聽說過她，在你這裏看了她的視頻，很漂亮，很田園，但是擺拍的痕跡太重了。我特別同意你的這段話：
她撥動了人們心底裏的那根柔弦，把人們對世外桃源生活的向往變成了現實，展現在觀眾麵前。
妹妹文筆優美簡練，直擊要害，有空多寫一點。
不能讓小姑娘殺豬，做幫手接個血盆都不能想。豬那個叫聲，嚇死個人，還會電擊般的抖抖抖……放血時滋兒一聲……猩紅的血沫子趁著熱氣，帶著撲鼻的腥味……
李子柒要被咱逼吃素了：）
你的這個"殺豬"有意思，小時候看過人家殺豬的，李子柒要是殺豬，會如何？:)
真正的世外桃源是很少的，尤其在當今這麽發達的社會。
洋蔥妹妹周末快樂，問候你!
李子柒不長網紅臉，背景樸素，增加了表麵上的“可信度”，反之也更能達到讓普通大眾更易有可能的代入感。 我也愛看童話，嗬嗬～～～
回複 'warara' 的評論 : 不久前有人向我推薦她， 我開始關注。 其實她是先在國內的網絡起步，然後得高人相助，在國內的平台圈了大批粉絲， 然後才擴展到中國以外的youtube，吸引不常去國內網站的觀眾（比如我們），和papi醬的路子差不多。
這裏有一個關於她的專訪： https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/36134923
更多關於她的介紹： https://posts.careerengine.us/p/5bc8a54735d3303518577046
> Stirring inside me is a longing to escape from the bustling city and to return to nature,
> where people are self-sufficient in a leisure environment.
I think you are right and even I have felt the pull from my old tribe.
A very well-written post, by the way.
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暖冬cool夏 發表評論於 2019-09-26 20:51:09
回複 'warara' 的評論 : 你好，warara,這個問題我也有過疑問，沒有答案。我想國內的人可以翻牆，她也可以托人post到YouTube上吧。謝謝你的問題。
那麽如何泡製網紅呢？招數可多了。條件是先天條件要優質，然後再談細節。
也喜歡看她的視頻，喜歡看世外桃源的美麗， 雖然是做菜，但有一種不沾人間煙火的不真實感。
問好暖冬周末愉快！
要是告訴你她製作的食品在網上銷售， 其實工廠以她的名義大規模生產的， 她的年收入也許也能把你的詩情畫意打消一半。商業社會裏麵田園牧歌也是可以賣的。
（李子柒係列！祝各位新年快樂！！來源: Tiger666 於 2017-12-31 06:16:13）
國內不是不能上YouTube嗎？難道觀眾都是海外華人？
暖冬周末快樂！
我非常喜歡李子柒的視頻，美麗充實的田園生活，真是令人向往：）