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... yeahh, right... see whose truer? Sure, we are supposed to beleive that imo, the greatest Secretary of State we ever had as in Mike Pompeo (x head of the C.iA. for christ sakes) just labeled this a genocide in China but it is NOT? I highly doubt this... they were thorough breds.... Mike def WAS....
Never stop calling out the CCP. May I suggest a video by the Indian company 'The Print'? It's about the Pentagon's latest report on the CCP's intentions.
Li Ziqi's channel is essentially the manifestation of the romanticization of rural life by urbanites. And the oriental-esque aesthetics of her videos have made it more appealing to the Western Urban audience.
@@ghost-user559 not quite starving. Been to rural parts of China for vacations, I noticed they ate well with fresh meat+vegetables cooked from scratch, no processed food nonsense like the West. Yes, a lot of ppl living in rural China were starving 20/30 years ago, but now, I highly doubt that food is a major problem in China rural areas. Thanks to technology+farming technique China now has an over production of fresh produce, a lot of fresh produce in China are selling for cheap. But, having excess of food doesn’t mean you’re rich. China’s problem now is not food, they’ve already tackled the food shortage problem . Now China’s problem is wealth equality. A farmer in rural China can eat one of the best quality food you can imagine, free range chickens, wild caught fish from the rivers, fresh greens, fresh fruits, grass fed beef/mutton, but, they’re still poor. I’m ethnically Chinese, but, I’m not from China. What I’ve noticed through my travels in China now is that food is not a problem in China now. Toxic food/fake food is a problem in China, but, shortage of food isn’t. Sure, there are still very poor ppl in the rural areas In China who doesn’t have much access to a wide variety of fresh food due to their geography (eg: those who lived deep in the mountains/grasslands), but still they’re not starving, they’re just eating the usual food that you would expect nomads/tribes ppl would eat.
she’s like those guys who dig out swimming pools in the middle of the jungle with their bare hands. if only we can turn the camera around to reveal the army of production crew and equipment used to produce the fantasy.
OK the digging swimming pool definitely staged, the story is some guy who knew how to work cameras went to this village and so to help them he made a channel to show their craftsmenship.
I get how you can be fooled by a girl and a grandma with 4 $40k full cinematic cameras and perfect soft lighting But how do you get fooled by 2 guys building an underwater swimming pool with nothing but a spoon
Why are so many comments childish, so what exactly does Li Ziqi's film promote? Both vegetables, fruits, delicious food and gardens are made by herself. She didn't say that this was the case in the countryside. Are you trying to find a ready-made in rural China? This is fantasy
I can't imagine anyone thinking she's actually a rural girl. She clearly lives on a huge, gorgeous estate. Actual farmers don't have time to grow a thousand rose bushes. For reference, one peony or rose plant costs about $20
@@Mary-cg1sl she is a city girl then gone back to rural for her grandparents. No one said her videos are not good but let's be real that her videos are more doing something EXTRA which is good for entertainment but doesn't occur in real life. I love her artistry.
I always find it so weird when they try really hard to make stuff specifically targeting an English speaking crowd that they don't bring in an actual English speaker to help them out. It's ALWAYS quite terrible English and sometimes it's so bad they wind up accidentally revealing the true motives behind those words because the translation is bad. You'd think an all powerful and mega rich propaganda machine would have such experts on their payroll to really refine it, but I guess it doesn't matter because a majority of people just believe things at face value these days, turrible!
Seriously, I was crying laughing! Isn't rap/hip-hop still banned from being performed in general public? I know it was at one time because it was considered 'gang related' and against China's 'values'. Also ironic considering hip hop was always about bucking the system!
It's f*ing hilarious. They could have just hired any old washed up US rapper to make it palatable and recognizable - like Juvenile's latest parody-but-serious hit "VAX THAT THANG UP"
The biggest problem is that she didn’t own her name, her brand, even her TH-cam channel! That’s why she can’t post bcs that’s all under her company(agent) ownership. She didn’t get all the money and she thought her company was taking advantage of her. That’s why she funded a new company under her own name (Li Jiajia) in 2019. And that’s when the war started between her and her company. She even posted few comments at the beginning implying her company was doing something bad behind her. I believe she was under some lawsuits right now so let’s see what happened next. For the record she made it clear many times on Weibo that she had a team help her make videos and she didn’t try to say that rural life is perfect. The point is to make everybody feel calm and relax while watching her video after a long hard-working day.
I’ve been experiencing rural China by Motorcycle for over 10 years now and I fully agree with the comments in this article. I too watch her videos as I find them quite interesting but knowing full well that their just fantasy land productions. Her entire film crew do a phenomenal job of putting her fiction to film and then post it. You never see her driving around in her high-end sports car or spending any time at her oceanfront villa. Ah yes, Smoke and mirrors for which China is famous, the land of the great façade.
because thats not what the channel is about? If she wanted to show that part of her life, she'll be vlogging instead. I dont get this "fiction" thing. so you all think, she doesnt actually know how to grow vegetables. she didnt actually make these mini furnitures? I dont see how any of the stuffs she did was impossible. Most, if not all, of those things are googlable. Maybe its cause i cant read chinese, but does it say in there that she represents rural china? I watch tons of videos about homesteading, and its the same exact thing.
@@aj-sz8mu When I chop vegetation with a machete, or haul bamboo, or dig holes, etc.....I sweat, I get bug bitten, scratches on arms from branches, have dirty/muddy clothes on, bits of dry leaves in my hair, etc 😂 I don't know what "homesteading" videos you watch lol
@@kng3785 so ur saying she doesnt sweat? She doesnt get bug bites? Like dude. Have you never heard of bug spray? Or sunscreen? Or products to protect your skin from these things? Dude. She aint a farmer. What part of homesteading isnt clear? Like i watch very beautiful people who homestead (Who in my opinion are more beautiful than her) Or at least i never once paid attention if they have any body imperfections. Are they all fake then? Is it wrong for them to not have callouses or bug bites and such? And you seriously think they would focus the camera on these parts of the body? She almost never show her arms. Onviously very modestly clothed. And somehow u know for sure she doesnt have any blemishes. Sigh. Do u need her face to be filled with acne or bug bites for you to believe shes been outdoors once in her life?
My colleague showed me her videos and was saying that she's making money from her man-made decorative sewing and making millions. But then I just watched her build a bamboo hut with her bare hands. So I'm like, if she's building everything by hand and cooking her own food and everything, how is she keeping her hands from going course? Like, if you ever stroked your hand down a silk blanket, you can tell immediately how damaged your hand is and ruining the silk at the same time. So if she's doing all that hard work by hand (wearing NO gloves for protection), how the hell can she keep her hands from NOT ruining her sewing? That basically shut my colleague up.
@@Jeeettttttt Olive oil is an often used easy one. I was shown this trick by a seamstress that handled silk from time to time. If it would work well if you perform hard labour as well, no idea but I doubt it. I do not only sew, and I mean fabrics as well as chicks, but also lift daily, and though the hands stay softer than the hardened skin that is usual, it does not eliminate it. Though the skin is less likely to catch any piece of fabric so to say.
@@jamegumb7298 even if you use oil everyday it won't work. It only works if you stop using your hands doing rough work when you use oil to treat it afterwards
The rural Fairy Princess with no tan? You'd have to be blind not to catch that detail. Thanks for the other details! She's toeing the line alright. You are always interesting; I'm glad you have clear eyes living here. America has amazing variety from place to place. I hope this winter won't be so cold this year, but all the 🌋 going off may lead to a very cold one. Give your Dad a nudge, would you? We're starved for a new story!
@@yountune9799 Really? Which part of China you been? I'm a northerner have a natural light skin. I lift weights and always trying to expose to the sunlight especially during the summer time. I get tanned. It has made me more ripped, high testosterone looking. Men and women I've encountered all think I'm hot and healthy.
Sunscreen... plus she lives in northern China where the uv index isnt as high as it would be here in Texas. And if she lives where they film, its in the mountains where fog hangs the majority of the day. Her skin tone as absolutely no bearing on her work.
it's a difference in beauty standards, in the US it's considered beautiful to have tan skin, but in east asia it's considered beautiful to have really light skin. so even if she was actually spending all day in the sun she'd be doing everything to lighten her skin
My mother grew up in a very small ranching community (plus oil) in West Texas and my dad lived on a dairy farm in Vermont. The rural life is hard, very beautiful landscape, but an extremely difficult life for most Americans. Only city folk can romanticize living in a rural economy. Long days and short nights, usually people wake up at 4 in the morning.
I grew up farming and have had other jobs but ended up coming back to it because I love agriculture. No other job I’d rather do. Makes me feel like I’m apart of something because I help feed the world.
I have been to China countless times. I have friends from rural areas. I have friends that were sent to rural areas for "education" during the Cultural Revolution. So I was pretty sure that Li Ziqi videos are eye candy, and that is what I watch them for. I know life is generally pretty hard in the rural areas When I watch her videos, I keep thinking, "This girl must be pretty wealthy. The common Chinese farmer wouldn't have much of that."
@@cristina8868 Because most people dont have time to do arts and crafts everyday just to make their garden look nice. They are too busy working to make a living. Only a person with plenty of money and dont need to work could live this lifestyle,
@@tubester4567 I do, I am one of the millions that said... I am done...I would rather become self sufficient and do without some things than be miserable with all things.. The transition had not been hard... yea...I am no longer co-dependent on a broken bankrupt country... us of a! So now I grow my own food from seed, scraps, I could already sew, but I do have quite a leather pile and am waiting to see if I can integrate any crafts she applies to this stack!
Pretty sure my aunt was forced to move crops in the country side for like a a year or so when she was like 16 or something and she definitely did not find it peaceful or idyllic
@@tubester4567 my grandmother ls hard working. We survived in the countryside. My grandmother knows how to plant and make a bed matt out of long leaves that she plants in our garden and she sells it. She knows how to make bread and other snacks too and sell it. I never think we are poor though what we have in our house are only basic needs and the foods served on the table is plain ir to say our diet is clean. Our garden has vegetables, some root crops and flowers . My grandmother knows how to make oils and perfume too out of the fragrant flowers in our garden. I missed her.
She gives people peace and calm through her videos, in a world where too many deal with anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses, I think it's priceless. There are a lot of youtubers who also get millions of views per video and make tons of money promoting hurtful behaviors and ideas to the younger generation...Unfortunately this is how social media works if you get a lot views doing whatever, you make a lot of money and the platform will protect you (because they also make money through you). I'm not surprised she has a lot money, with the numbers she gets with her videos it's a given. But I do hope she gets her fare share, she deserves it! She helps a lot of people with her content. She does portray the chinese rural princess and shows us their traditions and old ways. Do I expect to see what she portrays if I were to travel to rural China? NO(maybe that's just me). I see her videos as art, with beautiful cinematography. I don't follow her channel to watch a documentary.
My daily life is stressful, working so hard and earns just enough to go on living,every time I watch her, i allowed myself to imagine and relax, i love living in rural area, at least i can learn new things from her, better than watching other TH-camrs who has sometimes harsh contents, some are just jealous of her, it doesn’t mean you have to believe what your eyes could see, 😳😳 still watching her old videos though,❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰😘 i love her❤️
Exactly. Neither she claim that her videos represent exact copy of rural China. People must use brain. Edit: I love the last part of the comment "I don't follow her channels to watch documentary" 🖒
Wait, what? Hurtful ideas? What hurtful ideas are there being taught to the youngins? You know what is infinitely more damaging than any TH-cam monetized content? Oppression. Ocean floor dredging/decimation. Dog & cat torture. Ethnic superiority. Genocide. separatism. re-education. denialism. R*pe culture. Biological/chemical warfare. Authoritarianism. And all the best examples of such aren’t coming from the US, that’s for sure. And thank you for your scathing exposé, however youtube absolutely will and often does cancel anyone who dares sneeze funny. TH-cam censorship is rampant right now. IMHO, the slow-motion stick princess is potentially far more damaging with the ideology she represents. I’m sorry, but just as with child sacrifice and modern slavery, any culture that measures flavor in terms of pain and suffering is at best Evil. I’m knee deep in “get off my lawn!” right now, I think it’s airborne! But why do people become so cynical when they hit the back nine? Your name is literally the Baker, you make pancakes and watch the super relax happy Chinese garden pixie… why Karen when you could just as easily be a dog at festival time? It not worth it. Plus, the young adults of today might honestly be the best generation humanity has produced thus far from what Ive seen and know. I wish my generation was much more like them even though I believe my generation had way more fun! Some people will complain about the littlest things instead of what matters I guess though.
@@jibokomiuliI’m pretty sure none of the people commenting here all offended for their pixie (like you, India Use Your Brains) even watched the video past the first minute, but anyway… the last thing the ccp wants anyone doing, it’s use their brains! when we collectively began using our brains and demanded a stop to Uighur internment & genocide, the CCP pulls the same “trick” forcing Uighur women and children to smile, dress up and dance for brainless tourists and media! And when that fool of an American ccp TH-cam mouthpiece just happened to run into a whole gang of choreographed dancers with vegetables, where we supposed to read between the lines then, too? If there is one thing the ccp does not want ppl to have, it is the ability to think freely, critically and independently! The ccp always shows and says exactly what the people are to “think” about everything. The largest population on earth has been reduced to little more than automatons, parroting ccp tag lines. Forget having free will or imaginations! It’s inhuman and it is terrifying! it’s not the citizens fault per se, but they could resist a BIT, encourage using imagination at home, like all the great underground movements of music/dance/art/culture. But they’ve all given in to the lies where everyone’s the same, working for the greater good, while the poor toil, suffer and die never benefiting from this notion of equality. It’s a joke, a farce.
There is a difference between this girl and an actress in a movie, the movie is sold as fiction. People posting vlogs on youtube are supposedly showing their own, genuine life.
The problem is that no one watches the people who post real life. The fantasy stuff is infinitely more popular. I suppose this is why propaganda works.
I disagree. Liziqi inspired sri lankan, american and vietnamese girls to all create their own channels where they demonstrate traditional values and culture. It's a great way to breathe life into traditions regarding food, clothing, etc.
@@AzathothTheGreat You can watch her old videos where it shows her going back and forth to set the scenes, she also shows her callus hands with actual blood and tears on the skin, her videos are legit (maybe not anymore now). When she got big, she now has a camerawoman, stop spouting bs you don't know about.
Never believed her videos to be real the first time I saw them. Her hands were simply too smooth for someone who's supposed to be doing physical labor all day.
@@joeyjoejoejrshabadu lol, you're pretty clueless then, because literally all the nationalistic comments below claimed it as real, SHE claimed it as "real life", and all the foreign Sino-boos claimed it as real too
@@joeyjoejoejrshabadu tell me this - how many kids can really use the kind of deductive reasoning to ascertain this? Not many. So, most kids from around the world think this is real, nationalists from China will claim it's real because even if they know it's not they are forced to by the government and/or personally just want people to think China is superior to make themselves feel better, and adults that just casually watch a few videos just aren't exposed enough to it yet to realise it's not real. Anyways, sure, it does show some Chinese culture, BUT the techniques aren't really traditional, and it comes down to this - if you're practicing ancient traditions in a country that largely has abandoned them in modern life, AND the government actively tried to eradicate them in the past and is still eradicating tradition in order to craft a fake version of history so that they can control it, well....these traditional Chinese crafts aren't really Chinese anymore, it is a fairytale
Yep Real Farm Girl has defined muscled arms. Carpenter Hobbists, Even Dedicated Art Students have some form of Calloused hands or cuts on their handles. An Actual Chopping wood to build house manual farmer WILL NEVER HAVE SMOOTH HANDS.
@@joeyjoejoejrshabadu From the beginning of her very first video, a person with sharp eyes on details and understand the real China, will know that everything was faked and staged . . It is an irony that so many westerners were fooled by this scheming Chinese lady .
I love Liziqi! But certainly I don’t think she farms all of that land herself and does all of those things herself. Just the weeding alone would be multiple people’s full time job. But I love how she shares unique Chinese ingredients, plants, cooking, handicrafts. The fantasy is delightful. But it’s clearly entertainment and she has a huge team of people working with her to create it. And that doesn’t take away from her clearly awesome skills at cooking, farming, sewing, etc. Even if she’s showcasing the skills of others for a lot of it.
Agreed, I am pretty sure she has made it clear that people don't live like that there, and she's just kinda doing a sort of fantasy lifestyle for entertainment. Only fools think she's attempting to portray any real existence.
i really love how westerners underestimates easterners, we are hard working and we can till our own land. we are not spoiled and would just rely on machines.
@@scarlettohara7117 good lord I’m not underestimating her, but have you watched all her videos? We’re talking acres and acres of farmland. And her hands are pristine. It seems unlikely she is hand tilling all of this. There are a ton of Hmong farmers where I live and they sell at the farmers market. Their hands don’t look like hers. Again this is no shade at her she is amazing. I’m just saying I doubt she’s the sole farmer involved in the operation. I also don’t doubt she farms the small part by her house and a portion of her gardens. I don’t doubt she knows a lot about farming. But her hands just aren’t realistically full time farmer hands. And that doesn’t take away from the magic of her videos.
@@twitchascension yep I remember reading that controversy, which was MUCH bigger in China than in the west. Most westerners never even heard of it. Heck a lot of westerners just assume she became a CCP shill. In reality the CCP was scared of her. She was a self-made girl. She basically played along with the CCP to not get canceled. Unfortuanately because of haters boiling up her controversy so much, westerns don't see her the same anymore.
As an American I feel I can freely state that fantasy is something we are used to and mostly recognize. We've been offered up the fantasy life since the inception of television. Fantasy families living fantasy lives with their fantasy friends. It is a constant in our culture. I think most Americans view Liziqi's shows the same way, a delightful fantasy that makes you feel good. But clearly are no more real than flying monks bouncing through the trees. Her perfect manicure alone ought to tell you that. Farmer? Oh please...
I mean you can check real rural people of china in youtube videos, people struggle for even water. And here she has abundance of everything. I always had doubts on her authenticity but no doubts it's very aesthetic to watch.
I'm a Chinese, and I really do not understand why you guys believe there is a so called "social credit" in China , of course there is something like that , but I'm sure not the same as you imagine . When you say "social credit "to a local Chinese , the first thing come to his mind is the economic credit , which depends how much money you can load from the bank , and also if your credit card default you may become a defaulted executee by the judge of the court.
She made farm life look luxury which is not the case. Farming is hard work and she makes it look calm and relaxing. Lol this is why she’s so popular. Everyone is attracted to beauty and it makes sense that her channel is so well liked. But growing up in China and visiting the farm sites with my family, it is nothing like what is in her videos.
I quit watching her channel when she made that ridiculous video claiming that she was just a single girl living with her grandmother making all of her own videos. And she was trying to shame all of the doubters who didn’t believe her. Just outright lying to her audience.
@@charliezhou2711 No way. The videos have always been extremely high-quality, and were released at a very rapid rate. Definitely not the work of one person. Everything about her is fake, including that face, which cost thousands of yuan in cosmetic surgery.
I believe they only film her doing a bit of hardwork and then the crew took over behind the scenes. No way she can be looking so pretty and presentable after all the hard labour.
@@charliezhou2711 Actually someone already posted in these comments that her extremely light complexion alone shows that it's all just "show biz". Anyone who's grown up on a farm has sun darkened skin - it's just the nature of the lifestyle.
I listened to her recent interview and found her very awkward and stilted and I quickly realized she was conscious of every word she uttered lest she step out of line. Great analysis yet again - THANKS!!
I recently made a comment on a video about her. Being a boy that grew up in a farm area in rural Canada, I had to mention there is no way a pretty girl like her is working as hard as portrayed. Had a bit of a laugh on the reactions from the folk that never worked a hard day in their life. The hard work depicted in her videos weathers you even in a developed nation....
@@soggymoggytravels all the skills she pretends to know would take a lifelong pursuit assuming both gender roles in a very traditional nation. Living in the city beforehand just bolsters how manufactured her content actually is. It’s certainly a romantic notion being self sufficient, but it fades quick when your hands are bleeding,knee deep in pig shit everyday and stressed out because of a bad harvest. Not going to say it isn’t rewarding, but it’s certainly not glamorous and it will definitely take a toll on your body. Even if you “moved from the city”, within a year or two you would have recognizable traits anyone who has picked up a shovel or hammer and used them in earnest could recognize.
@@jimsabo1189 Yeah as a country boy from the farm now living in the city I have met so many city people who think country life is like working in your back yard on a little food garden. When you literally don't eat sometimes a day or two in a row or have not electricity for a couple of months because your crops were hit by a random bug invasion or bad weather you just wake up and get out and work all day hungry. You have no money for food and electricity because you paid the taxes. When I was 20 I lived on the streets for a year and a half busking with my guitar and traveling the country. It was so easy to survive in the city compared to the country. Free food and no need to work as long as you don't need much. That being said 20 years later me and the wife are looking to get a homestead going. I miss the country life. I expect it will be tough as Ive not done manual labor in years.
@@jimsabo1189 I agree. I spent one season as a farm hand, and I was covered in dust and manure every day under sweltering heat. Li Zhiqi certainly does look to have plenty of talent in crafts and cooking, and I’m sure she’s learned a lot from her grandparents, but it’s clearly not representative of typical agricultural workers, which is why it’s important to understand who is backing her and how authentic her context is.
I'm often reminded how lucky and blessed I am at having the ability to discern life from fantasy... I've watched her videos for years and always came back to the ones that show the process behind things, because I love learning how things were made before technology, but it was clear she had money and contacts, you don't buy food and pay the bills if you dedicate two years to a single crop or whatever... how could anyone think she was doing everything alone??
I have been watching her for that same reason I'm not from a rural area but my husband is and when I married i adapted to my new situation and there is no way to not get dirty if your life is in the country but I love my life and the freedom my children experienced.☺️🇨🇷
At the very beginning she did everything by herself, using only a mobile phone, and of course all of that was not easy! But over time, her hard work paid off. Her videos which she initially produced by herself, now makes with a small team.
She didn’t, she had to move to the city at a very young age to send money back to her grandparents in the countryside. She would sometimes be homeless, doing odd jobs and survived off bao buns most of the time. She started her videos as advertisement for her produce but since people only watched her videos she began to specialise in them. What you’re seeing her is the end product. The comments here are just assuming things about her while completely disregarding her hard work.
I always thought she was funded by the CCP and just manufactured to put out a good face for the CCP considering how TH-cam isn’t allowed on China it’s odd how she is a huge TH-camr.
Most people aren’t influencers. Besides you can be a farmer and an influencer at the same time? I never saw her advocating that. Look a Jeffree. She did the same thing jeffree did. It’s so much better to work hard so you can use that money to grow your farm business and stay away from the processed foods they sell at the store.
@@loopymomy2532 Pretty sure it's nothing being an influencer and farmer at the same time. But for her to say that she will "guide youth from being influencer", it's plain wrong.
I always felt like every Liziqi video are fake. No rural Chinese woman actually use serums and foundation and makeups while doing their hard labour jobs. She's a good actress.
You nailed it. You have some of the best qualities of Walter Cronkite and Tim Russert. Your honesty and integrity are truly a respite from our current condition.
This reminds me of when I was watching her one day and my boyfriend was like "how is she on youtube from rural china?" and that led me to asking more questions and finding out about the government approved influencers and I stopped watching shortly after
I reccomend you watching sri lankan and Vietnamese channels who show off their cultures, like liziqi does. I''m all for her genre of videos becoming more mainstream.
@@MegumiHayashida Americans showing their ignorance again. You think everyone except you lives in mud huts. Even in the mid 2000s India had 900 MILLION smartphones and people were more likely to have high-speed internet than a bank account. The US actually ranks very low on the internet connectivity list. Many other countries have better and more widespread high speed internet than the US does, out in rural areas. India and China STILL have higher smart phone adoption rates than the US. People may not have a computer or even running water but they sure as hell have a phone with high speed internet. Reminds me of when I moved to the US in 96 from GERMANY and people asked me if we had washing machines or if we lived in tree houses. Even the poorest countries on this planet have cities with all the amenities of a first world country. The difference between a developing country and the first world is, usually, How much the average person can afford and how many people make up that part of the population. The reason for this is that countries that developed later got the newer, better technologies for much less cost. Just like with a car or pc, the early adopter tax is very high on things like utilities while countries that skipped those legacy technologies and went straight to wireless internet, phone, etc. saved tons of money not having to lay copper/ cables to every home and business. Same goes for high speed rail, highways and bridges. Bigger equipment produced in modern factories has made things much cheaper. China used more concrete in roads and bridges in the last 3 years than the US has EVER used, in all of history.
@@AzathothTheGreat Because watching it is supporting it the more views the more they are promoted. You wouldn't watch movies from a company that has countless human rights violations and uses their media as propaganda to justify them would you? The difference between this and a movie or tv is the message it is trying to portray this attempts to make it look like people living in poverty are actually living a life many of us want when the reality is if you saw how most people in rural China live you would look at it no different than a poor area elsewhere in the world.
Winston I like how honest you normally are but you need to take this down. You clearly didn’t do your research on what happened, and generalized based on what happened to other Chinese influencers. People in the know about China will eventually call you out and it will hurt your credibility. Liziqi stopped posting for a very “capitalist” reason. A trademark dispute. Her agency trademarked her name, which means she no longer owns her own name! They each filed 5 separate law suits against each other, one suit led to a bunch a counter suits… they may finally have a settlement but until then you won’t see her post.
She is just pretending to do all those things, but there is an entire team on her back for the farming and videos shootings... None is done by her but acting for the videos !
I love Liziqi! She gives me a moment to sit down, relax, and remember to enjoy the simple things like making food, and spending time with my family. I never thought that her videos were 100% real. I think she's presenting an ideal life that she wants, and obviously many of her fans want that simpler life too. There are many Western TH-camrs who also have similar videos, like The Cottage Fairy, Jonna Jinton, Isabel Paige...the list goes on. I don't see a problem with these kinds of rural living type of videos and don't see any hidden agenda.
@@EricDMMiller she does not promote ccp or any political ideology. But of course you people's deep rooted hatred for Chinese people and their culture can't see past that.
"She probably was screwed over in her contracts" - Would love to hear more about other cases where you've seen this kinda thing in China. I've heard the horror stories about this in western media but wonder how it compares to cases in China.
Easy, you can just ask Hong Kong people about the promise CCP singed with UK for 50 years of guaranteed maintaining pre-1997 system. It has not even been 30 years, HK has becoming another city in China. CCP claims its a historic document only.
I figured that out after my 2nd or 3rd video I watched from her years ago. Her hands were soft, no calluses, cuts or bent fingers from hard work. (Much more too but like you said, "Making a toupee out of leaves.") (That made me laugh but I'm sure she could do it. ;) _Now Grandpa Amu seems legit but many things didn't add up either._ Anyway, I figured a few years ago it ALL was nothing but propaganda, yet I did enjoy those early years. ~ Thanks for bringing up this subject! Stay Awesome, eyes open & no fear. *James*
As a dude who work with his hand doing construction almost everyday, my hand are callous free and soft af. As long as you take care of them and clean your hand after working then that "working hand" appearance doesn't become prevalent.
I had seen her videos before but wasn't interested so I wouldn't catch those things, but the camera position and timing shown in this video looks too smooth to be a one person work. Also, the video I watched was the one where she dyed clothes with grape skin, at the time I thought the colour doesn't make sense as it's way brighter than it should be.
@@NoReply28 I can confirm that, for example cleaning well, wearing gloves and putting cream on your hands helps a lot. My dad, as a farmer, gets a lot of compliments when he shakes hands with other people. The extreme cold is a bigger problem if you work a lot oustside. Maybe she just does farming once in a while (as said, she is a millionaire not a farm girl but maybe grew up on a farm and married a rich man or something else). It's possible to do that alone with one person to film and some experience (I am sure TH-cam isn't her first social media). But what I can say too, is that it's very embelished, which isn't a problem if you know it but a lot don't.
@@skye387 If you watch her from the beginning then you know she started out filming by herself. She also record BTS to show how she does it. It wasn't until she got discovered that people reach out to help her. Eventually, she started to have a crew help her film. She even include the crew in some of her video. She never hid the fact that she had help filming so idk why people are calling her fake for it.
For those non-political watchers of Liziqi’s channel, what I appreciate most has been the imagination and creativity of her productions. She has an immediate soothing quality which always calms and delights. She inspires and stimulates imagination. Her creations are full of wonder and are outside of the box. I wouldn’t know the difference between a stage setting or actual rural setting we have become masters of fooling each other. An artist named Bergsma painted a picture many years ago of a barnyard full of “cute looking” critters with a saying that goes like this, “never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it”. I’m truly sorry that she is having difficulty. I miss her.
@@domitravel795 well I don’t know about that, it’s pretty obvious to this American anyway that the videos are a romantic version of rural life. Nowhere on earth is farm life easy, as rewarding as it may be. The people who believe it maybe have never been to a farm or talked to a farmer, maybe they also think that pro wrestling is real 😁
@@domitravel795 haha 😆 I used to think that pro wrestling was real…. When I was 10 years old! My dad put me straight on that and even though I still liked it and went to see some matches in the Atlanta municipal auditorium it was never the same. It’s still entertaining though, kind of like a romantic video of a bucolic life in the Chinese countryside!
This reminds me of my white friend who loves this woman and the rural idyllic lifestyle. Thought it was kinda funny back then knowing it’s not really like that in China.
I love her channel, I hope she gets it worked out and comes back soon. I always figured her channel had a full production team behind it, you simply can’t run a small farm and do the things that she does alone, or without significant income. I really got into her videos and other “domestic creators” like Nyangsoop and Choki when my mom was going through chemo and she needed some peaceful entertainment that wasn’t Hallmark films. We would put on a Liziqi playlist after a treatment and in the days afterward cause she could still barely move from the sofa, mom just particularly enjoyed her channel and thought it was beautifully made. After she was cured we still continued to watch Liziqi together. Her videos helped keep a sense of peace in a house that was crumbling under mortal stress, so I’ll always appreciate her work, even if it becomes a bit more propagandy
Very interesting. We, my friends and I, have long admired the various skills she demonstrates and have named her the “Chinese Martha Stewart” now on that comparison I have to say Martha Stewart’s original shows, back before the whole prison thing (hmm? Talk about controlling an influencer) we’re extremely idyllic versions of “American Life”. Again, Martha became very wealthy as a result, became a target for powerful figures as well. That none the less didn’t take away from the fact that she was talented and successful by simply doing what she was traditional. Traditions that were fading away in the, then modern, culture. Despite the later turmoil Martha experienced her influence on women of a certain age ignited a renaissance of the home arts in America that continues to this day. If by showing the unique skill and practices of the rural Chinese life, idyllic or otherwise, Liqzi influence in my opinion can be nothing but positive no matter what the Chinese government attempts. Perhaps that seems naive to some but time will tell and when all is said and done I will still enjoy watching her work.
China has a long history of Inventions that are not well documented and or credited. Look up "Chinese Inventions" and click on the wikipedia entry. What you will see, will blow your mind. Many of the things they invented, were invented and used, over 1000 yrs before places like Greece (which were the falsely assumed "Firsts"). I studied Kung Fu... and I can tell you, that not only are most of the arts in other countries a lower level derivative of Chinese arts teachings... but also... the complex metal forging to make combat weapons, were also spread by the Chinese, whom had mastered these things FAR before the others. (Such as folded steel, pattern welding, high carbon steel, heat treatment, anti-corrosion coatings, and much more) I wouldnt doubt that the Chinese had a similar dish to Kimchi. Though, I could not tell you for sure. A lot of Chinese traditions were erased / destroyed, in MAO's "Cultural Revolution". Only the Govt. might know, if they have it in their Historical records, which span over 2000 yrs. And even then, a lot of that knowledge, is not in the hands of the normal citizens anymore... let alone, to the world wide masses.
@@johndough8115 "Chinese Cabbage" is also not Chinese, it is also grown everywhere in SEA. And picking and fermentation is NOT Chinese either, it is done everywhere. Kimchi as we know it comes from Korea.
Whether it's real or not has nothing to do with you. Do you want to see the tired farming in the countryside and make yourself feel relaxed sitting in an office?
It’s like Jackie Chan; if they want to have a life in China, they must play the game in order to survive and continue to see their loved ones. I’m sure their private opinions are different and maybe, when the time comes, they’ll be able to do something about their government.
I don't think the people believe, the nationalists yes but I don't think the average citizen does. They have no choice. I have friends who's parents and grandparents came from the USSR and they admitted that nobody, outside of those who benefit with the minute amount of power afforded to them by the state, absolutely nobody within the citizen population believed a word of the Soviet Union's lies. They simply could do nothing about it.
As a Russian guy born in the late Soviet Union, I can confirm that nobody considered government propaganda as a reality, but people just didn't talk about it publicly.
@@pudanielson1 I'm not familiar with Putin's lies but it could have been a combination of things such as a generation that didn't grow up during the Soviet era, economic growth, an increase in individual wealth and prosperity, more liberties. All might have influenced the Russian people's feelings for their current government and their leaders. Its like being in a romantic relationship, you'll invent every excuse in the book to like the person you are dating or want to date.
It was the Soviet Union though and different era. Nowadays it's full 360 propaganda with lots of controls in place. USSR couldn't manage tha for the era. Also, a lot more empty bellies and strife. A lot of people in China are living well, and when people's bellies are full, they tend to overlook and buy into what their government is selling them. Even if they don't fully buy into it, they don't have much of a choice or need in going against the system or lifting their hand against it. There are the much poorer residents, but the CCP has the military to handle them.
It is almost certainly not what it was like back then, either. It's like a Ren Fest or Medieval Faire. She's a cosplayer. I love Ren Fests and Medieval Faires! But I dont pretend that it isnt a romanticized version of how it was.
For two long years, I was very ill. Watching her videos brought me peace and would calm me down from pain that took over my whole body some days. I knew it wasn't real but the entertainment level was just what I needed at the time. Her world took me out of my pain filled world. The videos are full of beauty that I needed to watch during the time I was ill. No cussing, no blood and guts, no one dying or killing someone, no malic, lying or cheating someone. It was a perfect medicine for my soul. I still, am very thankful for finding her videos. I would watch her videos and enjoy their content with all my family. All of her videos were family friendly and enjoyable for all ages. I hope she continues to make more videos soon. GOD bless her for the beauty she portrayed and the peace that one day will be all over the world. Waiting on Christ Jesus ! Amen!
Thank you for your comment. I'm really happy that Liziqi's videos were able to help you during such a difficult time in your life. Her videos are really soothing, and I have a memory or two of sharing some of her videos with my mother who had struggled with Crohn's disease for many, many years. The reason I wanted to reach out and say a personal thank you for sharing how Liziqi impacted you is because something about your comment prompted me to check out your TH-cam page. You have a music playlist there with some really great songs that have uplifted my spirit this morning. You see, a month ago, my mom passed away and while I know she's partying with Jesus up in Heaven, I still miss her a great deal. Some of the music you chose to place in your music playlist reminded me a little of her, and that helped me feel better. So, I just wanted to let you know that by sharing a little of your story here, you impacted someone in a positive way. Thank you and God bless you! :) I pray that you are in a much better state of health now. :)
My sister used to watch alot of her videos, until she noticed in one of them, when liziqi asked her grandmother to do something the glare that she gave was terrifying, as the grandmother made a tiny error. She didn't even know about the whole CCP info, she doesn't watch her vids anymore.
Liziqi is a true Genius, one of those few people touched by God just look at her videos and melt away. There is nothing more Evil likes than a person like her. In a country that is at war in nature and beauty the the beautiful nature she brings, hands traditions helped to bring me beauty to my life when locked during Covib. Thank you Liziqi a strong girl when half of the world is jealous of her brilliance.
This is why EVERYONE should resist mandatory ID for social media. No matter the excuse your government or the website has. It's all about silencing you.
I think that's only a thing in Mainland China, I highly doubt is gonna happen in western social media. Especially when you have users from all over the world.
@@kostis2849 uhh thats really up to you to provide or not. If you lose your facebook account. then assume u cant retrieve it with a fake name. thats pretty much what i assume would happen to mine. I dont think i was ever forced to send them ids? They only do that to businesses or suspicious accounts.
So glad I found you before I got too sucked into the liziqi thing. I had been interested when she "made" a bamboo bed, and watched a few other videos beyond that, before you came along and explained the channel's CCP propaganda status. Incidentally, it seems you've already got some CCP shills in the comments section.
From the first moment that I watched her so called countryside cooking etc... I never thought it was real but ALL was from a Fantasy movie not the reality .
Looking through the channel all the video doesn't feel organic at all. Feel like it put out by professional video editing. After doing some research it confirm my suspicion.
@@DB-hg7hg Same with me. I came across her channel a year or so ago. I never continue watching her nor subscribe her channel. It was so unreal and I know nothing about her. I have no idea how she get so many followers. No one can be talented to everything at her young age. One can consider lucky to be super talented in 1 or 2 things but not millions of things. Not to say, she have great photographs and videos skill that I believe she said she started by herself at the beginning.
I feel like an idiot. I’m glad I thought to ask myself some questions which lead me to your video. I thought she represented the absence of everything that was wrong with me.
I honestly love this channel, not because I hate China or Chinese people but because it say's exactly what's wrong with the country & it's their government pure and simple. I have always found Chinese people I have met to be friendly and polite but their government drags the collective reputation of them through the mud to the point they are constantly viewed with mistrust.
@@MrFuzziiWuzzii you can’t say the USA has north of two millions ethnic minorities in slave camps, suffering forced sterilization, torture, and organ harvesting.
The shit that is happening in China is because of the Chinese people, not Chinese government. The people who formed the Chinese government are Chinese………
@@SuperHanamizu not all Chinese people are like that, just like how not all Americans are KKK members. generalization is really dangerous, you should know this.
Yeah that puts the dots together pretty well. My mother and I tried to figure this out after we found that channel because on my end it didn't make sense. I like the old fashioned DIY stuff but I thought that she was operating in Taiwan. When my mom wanted to learn more, that's when I found out that she operates in China so she/her family had to be insanely rich to hold rural land like they do + If she hadn't already she was about to be co-opted into the propaganda machine.
You don't have to be rich to get rural land there is a shortage of youth that want to farm they all want office work with the least amount of labour so it has been easy to be granted leases to farm in China now. Although her scenery e.t.c is falsified at angles and hidden infrastructure to make it look secluded and clean
The insane amount of population in China kind of throws away anyone able to afford a plot of land and also being able to maintain it with an elder relative.
eh, land doesnt make one wealthy. Not sure about cvina but in the soviet union, property was given out like candy. Or rather redistributed once the undesireables have been stripped off it
Says the man that’s not even Chinese 🤦♀️ we don’t care what she has we only love to watch her at work. She’s still good at what she does, now stop the jealousy and actually do something and stop being the male version of Wendy Williams
I'll always laugh at the "cawttan" rap lmao. Btw, while I do think her videos are relaxing and pretty to look at, I've never believed a girl so pale and with no muscle definition in her arms could do all that hard work.
She has no tan as well. If your truly a farmer you’ll be darker skin because you spend a lot of time under the sun. I have seen farmer Chinese and they are not white fair skin.!! she is fake !! It’s all propaganda!!
@@njrom2975 she's not a farmer. She worked several years from city, different kinds of job until her grandmother got sick then decided to go back at country side. The knowledge and experienced she had gain from her worked maybe, it's easy for her to do that kind of job. As the way we watched from her videos it looks a fantasy and so unreal. The show is like a simple life and be content. In one upload as she said, it takes months and of course, she did editing by herself. She did byherself before until she got payed by utube then she hired a person to do for her. As time is limited in one upload I don't think she will show how the rice to grow for months or the trees bear fruits. For me, if I have a land maybe, I can do it. Just plant, cook as simple as that. To others it's fantasy for her it's the way of life. Now she got payed hundreds of millions. She's a deejay before.
Damn I wondered what happened to her and people like her, China was nice and all until I started watching your videos more, people are good but it looks like most of them are living in a dystopian country under tyrant rule.... Shame that such a beautiful country has this bad of a government.... Stay awesome Winston! Your videos are great and very informative and give plenty of insight on why Chinese people are the way they are and how their culture and government works, for all CCP fanatics Winston has covered China for a very long time, I remember his old "vlog" videos where he would go to a mall and talk about good and positive sides of China, but hey sometimes you just got to let people know about stuff that rots underneath... Sorry for my bad English, I'm not a native English speaker :)
I live in China. I can confirm that 90% of the facts Winston said is true. But not his opinion that "China was a great nation, and CCP is evil". CCP did many bad things, but they did good things too. Winston surely did not know what China was like before the CCP time. There r many bad sides of Chinese people, culture, and I would not blame CCP for all of the problems we are having.
During the communist era in my own country, 1948 - 1989 the superstar's singers pretty much everybody who was making serious money were taken advantage of a lot and the communist government made a lot of money from those people. I guess in China it is the same.
Hello serpentza, I don't know if you will read this message, but this past few days I've been seeing numerous reports about Uygur organs being sold for like 140k-160k. I think this might be true cause I also read a report stating that china is receiving a big amount of organs when in the past they didn't have that many. Could you investigate more please? This is quite worrying. (Sorry my grammar, english is not my native language). Thanks, I rlly enjoy you videos.
The organ harvesting has been going on for ages, its not a new thing. They can schedule organ availability ahead of time, statisticians have exposed the CCP's organ donor data as fake, and until 2015 by law it was perfectly legal to harvest organs from death row inmates. ITs something that's affected prisoners of conscience, Falun Gong, Tibetans, Ugyhurs, etc.
The reason why I liked liziqi is because her videos are simple and serene and mind you. Her videos now is a far cry from her videos when she just started!
When i saw the first time Li Ziqi's channel, i was impressed an mesmerized at the same time. Like every other country would do, China might use this image, to promote the country. For me there is nothing wrong with it. What i really like on Li Ziqi's Channel, is to see the old traditional craftsmanship. I see it as a conservation, of a very old treasure of knowlege, that might be otherwise lost. And btw, you can clearly see that Li Ziqi has real craftsman skills, when she uses tools to work. I am aware, that this is not the real China of today. But this is also a way of entertainment for me with a useful content. 🙂
I really appreciated the production value of her videos. They are gorgeous, the scenery is stunning, the projects are a real window back in time and the videos always make me feel very peaceful. Even without knowledge of the CCP, there was never any confusion over whether or not it was realistic. She personally knows and performs every step of every highly skilled project she takes on. She enters the frame in various outfits, always lovely and also appropriately themed, and her hair is always strategically messy and her makeup flawless. I knew it was fantasy but I loved the theme, but I honestly assumed that the videos were filmed at like a boutique countryside hotel / b&b, where the very wealthy can hold weddings and book holidays with that 'back in time' feeling and I honestly think that kind of holiday in any idyllic setting would be magical.
you only need to watch not even half a video to know her production budget and crew is massive. i love her films, the production is immaculate. calming. selling me the fantasy i knew i wanted to see.
I remember the first time I watched one of her episodes. It was beautiful and I loved it and so I watched another one and it only took 2 episodes for me to realize the whole thing was staged. As a farmer in the US I was embarrassed with myself that it took TWO episodes😂 I watched a few more before I decided I was probably feeding the CCP machine and not just this actress so I stopped.
Same. First vid I saw was charming and quaint - but as I watched more and paid attention to the production quality it became obvious that it's all very staged. Clearly lots of work goes into camerawork alone, and the things that she apparently is doing all by herself, painstakingly plucking fruits and crushing herbs etc, it all just looks very fake, there's no way this beautiful young woman with flawless makeup spends all her time studiously stewing plums and making tea for her grandma
@@M78356 You nailed it well. Very well stated! Day 1 of her first video, a very observant person can already observed that everything is fake and well staged!
Do you guys realize she doesn't work on a farm to support herself, right? Her livelihood comes from youtube. Farm life as content for youtube and farm life as livelihood couldn't be more different.
I keep telling people there's no way she's posting on TH-cam without the CCPs consent but everyone would rather believe the fantasy than the reality. I get it, I too have watched and loved the production quality of her videos. They seem inspiring and beautiful but she's a face of China that the CCP wants us to believe. I WISH people lived this beautiful in rural China but unfortunately it's not real. I hope she is okay and I hope they don't make her disappear forever for speaking out against her oppressors. May the CCP fall one day and the people of China once again find peace without that evil regime.
This comments literally funny..first of all i knew lots of youtubers from China that posting in TH-cam. cooking channel, mukbangers, vloggers (rural area vlogger) even the gay couple post it here. It is just they are not that famous internationaly, they quite famous in China. They don't need consent from CCP. Mostly post it here because 1. TH-cam is also profitable video platform for them beside their own video platform (bilili, xigua etc) 2. They don't need to do lots of censorship in TH-cam (ex kissing) In liziqi case, actually she is not being oppressed by CCP. I don't know how you get that information. Allegedly she had a legal battle with her former bussiness partner. She still famous, she didn't being oppressed, it seems like she did lots of job bts. If she really being oppressed she will not get a job at all. CCP actually is simple, as long as influencer didn't give a bad name or cause big scandal and effect them they are fine. If the influencer get famous especially out of China, they will took notice and they use them. Not everything is about CCP..
I was _never_ in the dark about her immense wealth, she’s obviously showing us a very luxurious rural experience, where you have to have money and a good estate already from which to operate. She inspired me in so many ways and is actually doing all of the work she shows us: building beds, harvesting wild mushrooms and from her garden and preparing grand meals, gathering stones from the woods in her basket and making a stone path; she works so hard even if she has nothing at all to do with the video editing, and I think THAT is what makes her such a good example and why the Chinese government thought of her as the ideal that people should be aspiring to. I would always go and work outside on my own property after watching one of her videos, and it’s been sad to lose access to her life. I wish she would just move to another country and show people that you can make that kind of life for yourself anywhere you go. 😊
They show you a cut where she starts and a cut where she ends. If you think she builds an entire well by herself, think again. There are dozens of people involved in keeping that property intact and producing stuff. She isn't sewing every day, isn't cooking every day, it's a fraction of her lifetime and only done on camera
@@LaNoir. I know she has a team recording and editing it, but the rest is assumption, we just don’t know, and assuming she doesn’t do hard work is insane when you consider how hard people (demonstrably the Chinese people) are capable of working… she has never done anything in her videos I didn’t think I could do if I wanted to. I do know the videos show her working plenty hard, she is clearly very capable. Also, most people online only film things they do once- ‘restocking’ videos are usually just people buying those products for the first time (or receiving them for free) and organising them aesthetically; people often film tasks nowadays because having an audience that responds to it is extra incentive (especially when you struggle with motivation, or demand avoidance, as many do), and especially when you can monetize the video as well, you suddenly have more reason to do this thing you might’ve otherwise paid to have someone else do or put off doing yourself as ‘technically unnecessary’, like when she went around gathering stones to make a stone path, she could have done without that path, but she chose to monetise a potential project by making a video about it. It’s very inspiring- even if she has help! Doesn’t everyone deserve to! But I’ve never felt I couldn’t do it alone.
@@kato2395 maybe it’s rare in the cities, the more integrated into government control/society you are (that’s true of everywhere), but certainly there are people making little pieces of heaven for themselves _everywhere_
@@highfae Ofc she chose to share the building of that stone path because she planned it herself and just wanted to vlog it for interested viewers 🤦do you know what a production crew is You probably also think Jamie Oliver waters his giant garden on his own and all his pans are hand-crafted by himself. Those people get a script, shoot the required scenes and go home - that's not her home, it's a shooting location What more than we already know has to happen till people finally understand that China sells propaganda wrapped in dreams, just because "we don't know the truth" doesn't mean that blind trust is a good idea when it comes to a country that imprisons journalists and everyone leaking precarious material that could reveal the truth. Jamie Oliver gets called out - because people don't go to jail for it Why would Liziqi stop filming if it's her honest hobby and her home, the management got her in the hand and she probably can't even use her usual shooting location because of it
I am so glad that I have watched this video. I was a blind fan of Liziqi. But funny thing is I am not watching her for more than a month, I see many women get so frustrated not having a life like she has. This strikes me a big time. Anyway, I love your channel.
Perhaps you have fallen into this TH-cam trap. Li Ziqi only shoots in rural areas. Perhaps it is difficult for rural China to reach such a beautiful level now, but what did Li Ziqi do wrong? She didn't mention filming documentaries herself, but if you want to see the real China, you can watch documentaries about rural China
I remember seeing her videos first time. I couldn't stop watching,they were so beautifully done. With right equipment, enough money and good people some wonderful movies can be done with really ordinary settings and all productions of Mr Attenborough and Martha Stewart programs are proofs of that. Propaganda or not, it's still cool to watch.
As one who has watched Liziqi for years, her focus and message has been "The Country Life" The sustainable beauty of back to the past, back to nature, and back to the way of life of our(everyone everywhere internationally)grand & great grand parents and their past downed cultural traditions. Country living, Country cooking, Country arts and crafts. I quote her Liziqi "I want kids to know where their food comes from." She wasn't born financially wealthy..but had a wealth in knowledge of the country life where and how she was raised. The rest came afterwards But, No one will ever take The Country out of her..as we say here in the USA South- a Country'Boy or Country'Girl will survive. I just can't see how what's being taught nowadays is better that..at least our children will be learning substance and will know how to take care of themselves and their families. -Mission Accomplished!😎 -OUT**
I read in an article about her that she moved from the countryside to the city and started working as a server at like...14? I certainly don't think she started out as wealthy. Then she decided to move back home to her grandparents. I think she saw what life was like in the city, and realized people there would enjoy videos about life back home. I wouldn't be surprised if her farm is so big/herself so put together because she can hire people to all the upkeep with money she made from her videos. It's sad she was co-opted by the government and her production company.
I remember my girlfriend showing me those videos, and while I enjoyed the videos, I immediately felt the production quality was way too high, I kind of suspected it was some sort of state funded propaganda and now this kind of just confirms it for me.
@@JohnSmith-wx9wj It's cottagecore, a subculture that is also popular in America. The fantasy of rural life has been around for hundreds of years. Marie Antoinette had her own little village she could play in at Versailles.
Li ZiQi isn't funded by the CCP. Through her own efforts (and again, to her own credit), she's engaged a professional production team to help her with her videos. That's why the CCP took notice of her, because her videos are so good (much better than anything the CCP can come up with themselves) they'll be a fool not to make use of her. But to say she's funded by the CCP wrongfully takes away the credit of her work from her. This is how the CCP works : Once you (the influencer, eg. Li ZiQi) have become successful & popular (through your own efforts and to your own credit), the CCP swoops in on you, and force you to toe the party line. They won't pay you a cent. They'll just imprison you and/or kill you, if you don't do as they say. Li ZiQi was never funded by the CCP, her popularity & success is to her own credit, not the CCP's, who are now making use of her under threat. If you understand Serpentza's video, you'll realize he's saying what I'm saying.
A question tho. Do you think state funded video could be this good? Like every country in the world, most good quality video are self produced. The government decide that her content aren't harmful so they didn't touch her until recently. Tbh, all this comment saying she was on some kind of mission from ccp sounds silly for me. TH-cam is a good way to get money. That's way there's a lot of content farm. Throwing some money to produce video is pretty normal. As for it's real or not, it has the same amount of reallness as your usual reality show
I guess I give people more credit than they deserve, because I was pretty sure everyone understood that her videos were fantasy made for entertainment. A beautiful fantasy that you watch when you can't fall asleep or you need an interesting idea for a rustic decor.
I spent 2 years living in the USA. I saw sooooo much poverty. I was shocked to see so many living in conditions far below the poverty line. This is not how a supposed 'world leader' country treats it's population. I call BS.
😂😂😂😂 she really got me!!! I though she was original, and I was thinking "man its must be hard for her to do all that work". Thanks to this channel am learning alot about China.
It's sad because she started from simple beginnings. Liziqi always said that her purpose was to teach the younger generation how to stay in touch with their roots. She had to fantasize it to get their attention. With such a simplistic goal in mind, I'm sure she couldn't have realized the domino effect that it would have.
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... yeahh, right... see whose truer? Sure, we are supposed to beleive that imo, the greatest Secretary of State we ever had as in Mike Pompeo (x head of the C.iA. for christ sakes) just labeled this a genocide in China but it is NOT? I highly doubt this... they were thorough breds.... Mike def WAS....
You should talk about censure in TH-cam and how SJW and the liberals are destroying the platform. Cheers!
Her content is fantasy Rapped in lies ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡
@@ReganMarcelis What are you babbling about?
Never stop calling out the CCP. May I suggest a video by the Indian company 'The Print'? It's about the Pentagon's latest report on the CCP's intentions.
Li Ziqi's channel is essentially the manifestation of the romanticization of rural life by urbanites. And the oriental-esque aesthetics of her videos have made it more appealing to the Western Urban audience.
Not only urban Western ones bro, but also other Asian and middle East countries as well, because the videos are so professionally made, that's why 🙄
Speak english god damnit
Yes it’s a “see this is how well the starving rural farmers live, don’t fret about them another moment!”
This is optics for East and West.
@@ghost-user559 not quite starving.
Been to rural parts of China for vacations, I noticed they ate well with fresh meat+vegetables cooked from scratch, no processed food nonsense like the West.
Yes, a lot of ppl living in rural China were starving 20/30 years ago, but now, I highly doubt that food is a major problem in China rural areas.
Thanks to technology+farming technique China now has an over production of fresh produce, a lot of fresh produce in China are selling for cheap.
But, having excess of food doesn’t mean you’re rich.
China’s problem now is not food, they’ve already tackled the food shortage problem .
Now China’s problem is wealth equality.
A farmer in rural China can eat one of the best quality food you can imagine, free range chickens, wild caught fish from the rivers, fresh greens, fresh fruits, grass fed beef/mutton, but, they’re still poor.
I’m ethnically Chinese, but, I’m not from China.
What I’ve noticed through my travels in China now is that food is not a problem in China now.
Toxic food/fake food is a problem in China, but, shortage of food isn’t.
Sure, there are still very poor ppl in the rural areas In China who doesn’t have much access to a wide variety of fresh food due to their geography (eg: those who lived deep in the mountains/grasslands), but still they’re not starving, they’re just eating the usual food that you would expect nomads/tribes ppl would eat.
At least Fox News and MSNBC News are classified as "News Entertainment." This romantic false rural princess stuff is labeled as just News. Lol
she’s like those guys who dig out swimming pools in the middle of the jungle with their bare hands. if only we can turn the camera around to reveal the army of production crew and equipment used to produce the fantasy.
There's some of them legit, they do a timelapse over weeks of effort.
OK the digging swimming pool definitely staged, the story is some guy who knew how to work cameras went to this village and so to help them he made a channel to show their craftsmenship.
@@generalyapwt makes sense
I get how you can be fooled by a girl and a grandma with 4 $40k full cinematic cameras and perfect soft lighting
But how do you get fooled by 2 guys building an underwater swimming pool with nothing but a spoon
Why are so many comments childish, so what exactly does Li Ziqi's film promote? Both vegetables, fruits, delicious food and gardens are made by herself. She didn't say that this was the case in the countryside. Are you trying to find a ready-made in rural China? This is fantasy
I can't imagine anyone thinking she's actually a rural girl. She clearly lives on a huge, gorgeous estate. Actual farmers don't have time to grow a thousand rose bushes. For reference, one peony or rose plant costs about $20
You clearly haven't watched her from the beginning. As she became more successful, her space upgraded.
@@Mary-cg1sl she is a city girl then gone back to rural for her grandparents. No one said her videos are not good but let's be real that her videos are more doing something EXTRA which is good for entertainment but doesn't occur in real life. I love her artistry.
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.....considering how easily chinese are brainwashed.....im not even surprised anymore
You obviously haven't been to other countries....
“The enemy can’t hit what they can’t see.”
- John Xina, the art of war
Lol 😂
Posting on Western social media?!
-10,000 Social Credit!! 😫😫😫
@@lightseeker5554 *John China
Or ….REFUSE to acknowledge that the enemy exists at all…..
Art of War was by Chinese Sun Tzu
The CCP using hip hop in propaganda videos is one of dumbest things I've ever seen. 😂
I always find it so weird when they try really hard to make stuff specifically targeting an English speaking crowd that they don't bring in an actual English speaker to help them out. It's ALWAYS quite terrible English and sometimes it's so bad they wind up accidentally revealing the true motives behind those words because the translation is bad. You'd think an all powerful and mega rich propaganda machine would have such experts on their payroll to really refine it, but I guess it doesn't matter because a majority of people just believe things at face value these days, turrible!
I can’t 😂😂😂😂
Seriously, who is their target audience for that? No American would ever take it seriously.
Seriously, I was crying laughing! Isn't rap/hip-hop still banned from being performed in general public? I know it was at one time because it was considered 'gang related' and against China's 'values'. Also ironic considering hip hop was always about bucking the system!
It's f*ing hilarious. They could have just hired any old washed up US rapper to make it palatable and recognizable - like Juvenile's latest parody-but-serious hit "VAX THAT THANG UP"
The biggest problem is that she didn’t own her name, her brand, even her TH-cam channel! That’s why she can’t post bcs that’s all under her company(agent) ownership. She didn’t get all the money and she thought her company was taking advantage of her. That’s why she funded a new company under her own name (Li Jiajia) in 2019. And that’s when the war started between her and her company. She even posted few comments at the beginning implying her company was doing something bad behind her. I believe she was under some lawsuits right now so let’s see what happened next. For the record she made it clear many times on Weibo that she had a team help her make videos and she didn’t try to say that rural life is perfect. The point is to make everybody feel calm and relax while watching her video after a long hard-working day.
This is the truth!
That’s right. I feel tall poppy syndrome coming on
Oh dear that CCP “rap” was delightfully terrible.
Which part?
The whole rap attempt was bad 😂😂 laughable
need to be used with the "that gave me cancer" meme
Maybe it's wasn't a ccp rap song . just some random idiot singing.
@@johnnywong1018 Yes a random useful idiot (CCP stooge)
I’ve been experiencing rural China by Motorcycle for over 10 years now and I fully agree with the comments in this article. I too watch her videos as I find them quite interesting but knowing full well that their just fantasy land productions. Her entire film crew do a phenomenal job of putting her fiction to film and then post it. You never see her driving around in her high-end sports car or spending any time at her oceanfront villa. Ah yes, Smoke and mirrors for which China is famous, the land of the great façade.
because thats not what the channel is about? If she wanted to show that part of her life, she'll be vlogging instead. I dont get this "fiction" thing. so you all think, she doesnt actually know how to grow vegetables. she didnt actually make these mini furnitures? I dont see how any of the stuffs she did was impossible. Most, if not all, of those things are googlable. Maybe its cause i cant read chinese, but does it say in there that she represents rural china? I watch tons of videos about homesteading, and its the same exact thing.
@@aj-sz8mu When I chop vegetation with a machete, or haul bamboo, or dig holes, etc.....I sweat, I get bug bitten, scratches on arms from branches, have dirty/muddy clothes on, bits of dry leaves in my hair, etc 😂 I don't know what "homesteading" videos you watch lol
@@kng3785 so ur saying she doesnt sweat? She doesnt get bug bites? Like dude. Have you never heard of bug spray? Or sunscreen? Or products to protect your skin from these things? Dude. She aint a farmer. What part of homesteading isnt clear? Like i watch very beautiful people who homestead (Who in my opinion are more beautiful than her) Or at least i never once paid attention if they have any body imperfections. Are they all fake then? Is it wrong for them to not have callouses or bug bites and such? And you seriously think they would focus the camera on these parts of the body? She almost never show her arms. Onviously very modestly clothed. And somehow u know for sure she doesnt have any blemishes. Sigh. Do u need her face to be filled with acne or bug bites for you to believe shes been outdoors once in her life?
My question is, if she isn't a CCP managed personality, how come she had access to TH-cam when no regular Chinese people have access to it
@@aj-sz8mu Don't make a fool of you, you understood what he meant...
My colleague showed me her videos and was saying that she's making money from her man-made decorative sewing and making millions. But then I just watched her build a bamboo hut with her bare hands. So I'm like, if she's building everything by hand and cooking her own food and everything, how is she keeping her hands from going course? Like, if you ever stroked your hand down a silk blanket, you can tell immediately how damaged your hand is and ruining the silk at the same time. So if she's doing all that hard work by hand (wearing NO gloves for protection), how the hell can she keep her hands from NOT ruining her sewing? That basically shut my colleague up.
Yup you can tell if a person actually working in the rural place is by observing their hands.
They use oil every morning every evening. That keeps your hands fit for silk. No joke, try it out.
@@jamegumb7298 What type of 'oil' we are talking about, mate? I need to know it badly.
@@Jeeettttttt Olive oil is an often used easy one. I was shown this trick by a seamstress that handled silk from time to time.
If it would work well if you perform hard labour as well, no idea but I doubt it. I do not only sew, and I mean fabrics as well as chicks, but also lift daily, and though the hands stay softer than the hardened skin that is usual, it does not eliminate it. Though the skin is less likely to catch any piece of fabric so to say.
@@jamegumb7298 even if you use oil everyday it won't work. It only works if you stop using your hands doing rough work when you use oil to treat it afterwards
The rural Fairy Princess with no tan?
You'd have to be blind not to catch that detail.
Thanks for the other details! She's toeing the line alright.
You are always interesting; I'm glad you have clear eyes living here. America has amazing variety from place to place.
I hope this winter won't be so cold this year, but all the 🌋 going off may lead to a very cold one.
Give your Dad a nudge, would you? We're starved for a new story!
@@yountune9799 Really? Which part of China you been? I'm a northerner have a natural light skin. I lift weights and always trying to expose to the sunlight especially during the summer time. I get tanned. It has made me more ripped, high testosterone looking. Men and women I've encountered all think I'm hot and healthy.
i would assume make up
Sunscreen... plus she lives in northern China where the uv index isnt as high as it would be here in Texas. And if she lives where they film, its in the mountains where fog hangs the majority of the day. Her skin tone as absolutely no bearing on her work.
@@yountune9799 *but* Singapore? Heh bro, *especially Singapore, and particularly from their gen z.
it's a difference in beauty standards, in the US it's considered beautiful to have tan skin, but in east asia it's considered beautiful to have really light skin. so even if she was actually spending all day in the sun she'd be doing everything to lighten her skin
Selling nostalgia is good business. Everyone's guilty pleasure.
...and fantasies of a utopian life.
My mother grew up in a very small ranching community (plus oil) in West Texas and my dad lived on a dairy farm in Vermont. The rural life is hard, very beautiful landscape, but an extremely difficult life for most Americans. Only city folk can romanticize living in a rural economy. Long days and short nights, usually people wake up at 4 in the morning.
Very hard, but very good. That is living. Waking every day to sit at your computer with no pants on is not living
I grew up farming and have had other jobs but ended up coming back to it because I love agriculture. No other job I’d rather do. Makes me feel like I’m apart of something because I help feed the world.
most people shall never know, but they don't wish for it all the same.
It's an internal need people are feeling to return to a solid environment and leave the artificial cities.
Rural life and work is like that everywhere in the world even in France they wake up while 3veryone is asleep
I have been to China countless times. I have friends from rural areas. I have friends that were sent to rural areas for "education" during the Cultural Revolution. So I was pretty sure that Li Ziqi videos are eye candy, and that is what I watch them for. I know life is generally pretty hard in the rural areas When I watch her videos, I keep thinking, "This girl must be pretty wealthy. The common Chinese farmer wouldn't have much of that."
@@cristina8868 because in majority of the world rural equals struggle
@@cristina8868 Because most people dont have time to do arts and crafts everyday just to make their garden look nice. They are too busy working to make a living. Only a person with plenty of money and dont need to work could live this lifestyle,
@@tubester4567 I do, I am one of the millions that said... I am done...I would rather become self sufficient and do without some things than be miserable with all things.. The transition had not been hard... yea...I am no longer co-dependent on a broken bankrupt country... us of a! So now I grow my own food from seed, scraps, I could already sew, but I do have quite a leather pile and am waiting to see if I can integrate any crafts she applies to this stack!
Pretty sure my aunt was forced to move crops in the country side for like a a year or so when she was like 16 or something and she definitely did not find it peaceful or idyllic
@@tubester4567 my grandmother ls hard working. We survived in the countryside. My grandmother knows how to plant and make a bed matt out of long leaves that she plants in our garden and she sells it. She knows how to make bread and other snacks too and sell it. I never think we are poor though what we have in our house are only basic needs and the foods served on the table is plain ir to say our diet is clean. Our garden has vegetables, some root crops and flowers . My grandmother knows how to make oils and perfume too out of the fragrant flowers in our garden. I missed her.
I'm just happy I finally found out where the "cotton" and "chinese manners" memes came from... :)
Great!
Caaaaatton
This was the first time I saw either of those and god it was gloriously hilarious 😂
Now you'll just need to uncover the origins of "Ballsack!"
She gives people peace and calm through her videos, in a world where too many deal with anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses, I think it's priceless. There are a lot of youtubers who also get millions of views per video and make tons of money promoting hurtful behaviors and ideas to the younger generation...Unfortunately this is how social media works if you get a lot views doing whatever, you make a lot of money and the platform will protect you (because they also make money through you).
I'm not surprised she has a lot money, with the numbers she gets with her videos it's a given. But I do hope she gets her fare share, she deserves it! She helps a lot of people with her content.
She does portray the chinese rural princess and shows us their traditions and old ways. Do I expect to see what she portrays if I were to travel to rural China? NO(maybe that's just me).
I see her videos as art, with beautiful cinematography. I don't follow her channel to watch a documentary.
My daily life is stressful, working so hard and earns just enough to go on living,every time I watch her, i allowed myself to imagine and relax, i love living in rural area, at least i can learn new things from her, better than watching other TH-camrs who has sometimes harsh contents, some are just jealous of her, it doesn’t mean you have to believe what your eyes could see, 😳😳 still watching her old videos though,❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰😘 i love her❤️
My video has about her latest interview
Exactly.
Neither she claim that her videos represent exact copy of rural China. People must use brain.
Edit: I love the last part of the comment "I don't follow her channels to watch documentary" 🖒
Wait, what? Hurtful ideas? What hurtful ideas are there being taught to the youngins? You know what is infinitely more damaging than any TH-cam monetized content? Oppression. Ocean floor dredging/decimation. Dog & cat torture. Ethnic superiority. Genocide. separatism. re-education. denialism. R*pe culture. Biological/chemical warfare. Authoritarianism. And all the best examples of such aren’t coming from the US, that’s for sure. And thank you for your scathing exposé, however youtube absolutely will and often does cancel anyone who dares sneeze funny. TH-cam censorship is rampant right now. IMHO, the slow-motion stick princess is potentially far more damaging with the ideology she represents. I’m sorry, but just as with child sacrifice and modern slavery, any culture that measures flavor in terms of pain and suffering is at best Evil. I’m knee deep in “get off my lawn!” right now, I think it’s airborne! But why do people become so cynical when they hit the back nine? Your name is literally the Baker, you make pancakes and watch the super relax happy Chinese garden pixie… why Karen when you could just as easily be a dog at festival time? It not worth it. Plus, the young adults of today might honestly be the best generation humanity has produced thus far from what Ive seen and know. I wish my generation was much more like them even though I believe my generation had way more fun! Some people will complain about the littlest things instead of what matters I guess though.
@@jibokomiuliI’m pretty sure none of the people commenting here all offended for their pixie (like you, India Use Your Brains) even watched the video past the first minute, but anyway… the last thing the ccp wants anyone doing, it’s use their brains! when we collectively began using our brains and demanded a stop to Uighur internment & genocide, the CCP pulls the same “trick” forcing Uighur women and children to smile, dress up and dance for brainless tourists and media! And when that fool of an American ccp TH-cam mouthpiece just happened to run into a whole gang of choreographed dancers with vegetables, where we supposed to read between the lines then, too? If there is one thing the ccp does not want ppl to have, it is the ability to think freely, critically and independently! The ccp always shows and says exactly what the people are to “think” about everything. The largest population on earth has been reduced to little more than automatons, parroting ccp tag lines. Forget having free will or imaginations! It’s inhuman and it is terrifying! it’s not the citizens fault per se, but they could resist a BIT, encourage using imagination at home, like all the great underground movements of music/dance/art/culture. But they’ve all given in to the lies where everyone’s the same, working for the greater good, while the poor toil, suffer and die never benefiting from this notion of equality. It’s a joke, a farce.
There is a difference between this girl and an actress in a movie, the movie is sold as fiction. People posting vlogs on youtube are supposedly showing their own, genuine life.
The problem is that no one watches the people who post real life. The fantasy stuff is infinitely more popular. I suppose this is why propaganda works.
If you believe that, you also believe in ‘reality’ TV
I disagree. Liziqi inspired sri lankan, american and vietnamese girls to all create their own channels where they demonstrate traditional values and culture. It's a great way to breathe life into traditions regarding food, clothing, etc.
@@AzathothTheGreat I think you and the next commenter missed my point.
@@AzathothTheGreat You can watch her old videos where it shows her going back and forth to set the scenes, she also shows her callus hands with actual blood and tears on the skin, her videos are legit (maybe not anymore now). When she got big, she now has a camerawoman, stop spouting bs you don't know about.
Never believed her videos to be real the first time I saw them. Her hands were simply too smooth for someone who's supposed to be doing physical labor all day.
@@joeyjoejoejrshabadu lol, you're pretty clueless then, because literally all the nationalistic comments below claimed it as real, SHE claimed it as "real life", and all the foreign Sino-boos claimed it as real too
@@joeyjoejoejrshabadu tell me this - how many kids can really use the kind of deductive reasoning to ascertain this? Not many. So, most kids from around the world think this is real, nationalists from China will claim it's real because even if they know it's not they are forced to by the government and/or personally just want people to think China is superior to make themselves feel better, and adults that just casually watch a few videos just aren't exposed enough to it yet to realise it's not real. Anyways, sure, it does show some Chinese culture, BUT the techniques aren't really traditional, and it comes down to this - if you're practicing ancient traditions in a country that largely has abandoned them in modern life, AND the government actively tried to eradicate them in the past and is still eradicating tradition in order to craft a fake version of history so that they can control it, well....these traditional Chinese crafts aren't really Chinese anymore, it is a fairytale
Yep Real Farm Girl has defined muscled arms. Carpenter Hobbists, Even Dedicated Art Students have some form of Calloused hands or cuts on their handles.
An Actual Chopping wood to build house manual farmer WILL NEVER HAVE SMOOTH HANDS.
@@joeyjoejoejrshabadu From the beginning of her very first video, a person with sharp eyes on details and understand the real China, will know that everything was faked and staged . .
It is an irony that so many westerners were fooled by this scheming Chinese lady .
@@dudugo_g 对对👌
I love Liziqi! But certainly I don’t think she farms all of that land herself and does all of those things herself. Just the weeding alone would be multiple people’s full time job. But I love how she shares unique Chinese ingredients, plants, cooking, handicrafts. The fantasy is delightful. But it’s clearly entertainment and she has a huge team of people working with her to create it. And that doesn’t take away from her clearly awesome skills at cooking, farming, sewing, etc. Even if she’s showcasing the skills of others for a lot of it.
Agreed, I am pretty sure she has made it clear that people don't live like that there, and she's just kinda doing a sort of fantasy lifestyle for entertainment. Only fools think she's attempting to portray any real existence.
i really love how westerners underestimates easterners, we are hard working and we can till our own land. we are not spoiled and would just rely on machines.
@@scarlettohara7117 good lord I’m not underestimating her, but have you watched all her videos? We’re talking acres and acres of farmland. And her hands are pristine. It seems unlikely she is hand tilling all of this. There are a ton of Hmong farmers where I live and they sell at the farmers market. Their hands don’t look like hers. Again this is no shade at her she is amazing. I’m just saying I doubt she’s the sole farmer involved in the operation. I also don’t doubt she farms the small part by her house and a portion of her gardens. I don’t doubt she knows a lot about farming. But her hands just aren’t realistically full time farmer hands. And that doesn’t take away from the magic of her videos.
@@twitchascension yep I remember reading that controversy, which was MUCH bigger in China than in the west. Most westerners never even heard of it. Heck a lot of westerners just assume she became a CCP shill. In reality the CCP was scared of her. She was a self-made girl. She basically played along with the CCP to not get canceled. Unfortuanately because of haters boiling up her controversy so much, westerns don't see her the same anymore.
When you are too good, people start thinking you're faking it
I hate CCP music, plz do not play it that often it's a lot of pain for my ears every time I hear it.
Did they send her to an influencer re-education camp? Huuuuh
Had the same idea when I saw the video title
FACTS
China is win in all subjects soft power .
Economic power Q3 2021 400,000,000,000 USD ABOVE USA 👩🏼🔬
@@comomeveisosvereis3865
Explain Evergrande, extreme power shortage, floods, forced evictions, CCP infighting and renewed CHICOM-19 sickness then?
@@comomeveisosvereis3865 Another old, unused, stolen account. Zero prior comments, zero history.
@@Xi_Pooh_Shill daam never thought about that
As an American I feel I can freely state that fantasy is something we are used to and mostly recognize. We've been offered up the fantasy life since the inception of television. Fantasy families living fantasy lives with their fantasy friends. It is a constant in our culture. I think most Americans view Liziqi's shows the same way, a delightful fantasy that makes you feel good. But clearly are no more real than flying monks bouncing through the trees. Her perfect manicure alone ought to tell you that. Farmer? Oh please...
its so popular for people to fantasise about living a life away from capitalism, i dont blame people i do it too
I think in JUST 15 minutes, you told things that won't be founded in any site or books.STAY AWESOME
He is right ....I am Chinese.
Wow! Thanks for honesty 👏
It's everywhere in Cantonese channels. Just the leftards control western media would not tell u becoz their bosses love China corrupted money
I mean you can check real rural people of china in youtube videos, people struggle for even water. And here she has abundance of everything. I always had doubts on her authenticity but no doubts it's very aesthetic to watch.
This guy doesn't shill out to the Chinese. Good on him. It's going to cost him all his social credits though.
Uh oh, I hope she hasn’t lost all her social credit. That won’t end well.
Yeah, it would be a shame if her skills at faking bowyery would go to waste
@George Washington i mean, yes, but i don't see what that has to do with any of this lol.
if she makes the gubmint mad she'll be in an iphone factory in no time...
If she loses all her social credits, she'll be sent to the re-education camps.
I'm a Chinese, and I really do not understand why you guys believe there is a so called "social credit" in China , of course there is something like that , but I'm sure not the same as you imagine . When you say "social credit "to a local Chinese , the first thing come to his mind is the economic credit , which depends how much money you can load from the bank , and also if your credit card default you may become a defaulted executee by the judge of the court.
She made farm life look luxury which is not the case. Farming is hard work and she makes it look calm and relaxing. Lol this is why she’s so popular. Everyone is attracted to beauty and it makes sense that her channel is so well liked. But growing up in China and visiting the farm sites with my family, it is nothing like what is in her videos.
I quit watching her channel when she made that ridiculous video claiming that she was just a single girl living with her grandmother making all of her own videos. And she was trying to shame all of the doubters who didn’t believe her. Just outright lying to her audience.
It was likely true at the beginning, until the CCP realized she could be useful propaganda
@@charliezhou2711 No way. The videos have always been extremely high-quality, and were released at a very rapid rate. Definitely not the work of one person. Everything about her is fake, including that face, which cost thousands of yuan in cosmetic surgery.
without a whole set of professional crew, no way her video have such quality.
CCP propaganda since day one.
I believe they only film her doing a bit of hardwork and then the crew took over behind the scenes. No way she can be looking so pretty and presentable after all the hard labour.
@@charliezhou2711 Actually someone already posted in these comments that her extremely light complexion alone shows that it's all just "show biz". Anyone who's grown up on a farm has sun darkened skin - it's just the nature of the lifestyle.
The propaganda rap cutaways made me giggle like a 12 year old
Well done, A+ editing
What is more worse than western rap: Chinese rap.
13:44 I was like woah! Now Serpentza has me simpin’ for China. 🇨🇳
Cardi C rap
@Google 😆😆😆😆 even Google agrees haha!
LET ME SHOW YOU CHINESE MANNERS
Chinese government has to realise that the only effective and relevant Chinese propaganda is the gay fantasy shows.
I listened to her recent interview and found her very awkward and stilted and I quickly realized she was conscious of every word she uttered lest she step out of line. Great analysis yet again - THANKS!!
she pretty much represents china on youtube so im not shocked . the government will disappear her if she messes up
是的，所以我确定你（1000000%）没有去过中国。
I recently made a comment on a video about her. Being a boy that grew up in a farm area in rural Canada, I had to mention there is no way a pretty girl like her is working as hard as portrayed. Had a bit of a laugh on the reactions from the folk that never worked a hard day in their life. The hard work depicted in her videos weathers you even in a developed nation....
She did start out in a city job in Shanghai, though.
I agree. I grew up on a dairy farm in BC. There is no way anyone can look as clean and pretty as she does while doing farm work. Still fun to watch.
@@soggymoggytravels all the skills she pretends to know would take a lifelong pursuit assuming both gender roles in a very traditional nation. Living in the city beforehand just bolsters how manufactured her content actually is. It’s certainly a romantic notion being self sufficient, but it fades quick when your hands are bleeding,knee deep in pig shit everyday and stressed out because of a bad harvest. Not going to say it isn’t rewarding, but it’s certainly not glamorous and it will definitely take a toll on your body. Even if you “moved from the city”, within a year or two you would have recognizable traits anyone who has picked up a shovel or hammer and used them in earnest could recognize.
@@jimsabo1189 Yeah as a country boy from the farm now living in the city I have met so many city people who think country life is like working in your back yard on a little food garden. When you literally don't eat sometimes a day or two in a row or have not electricity for a couple of months because your crops were hit by a random bug invasion or bad weather you just wake up and get out and work all day hungry. You have no money for food and electricity because you paid the taxes. When I was 20 I lived on the streets for a year and a half busking with my guitar and traveling the country. It was so easy to survive in the city compared to the country. Free food and no need to work as long as you don't need much. That being said 20 years later me and the wife are looking to get a homestead going. I miss the country life. I expect it will be tough as Ive not done manual labor in years.
@@jimsabo1189 I agree. I spent one season as a farm hand, and I was covered in dust and manure every day under sweltering heat. Li Zhiqi certainly does look to have plenty of talent in crafts and cooking, and I’m sure she’s learned a lot from her grandparents, but it’s clearly not representative of typical agricultural workers, which is why it’s important to understand who is backing her and how authentic her context is.
I'm often reminded how lucky and blessed I am at having the ability to discern life from fantasy... I've watched her videos for years and always came back to the ones that show the process behind things, because I love learning how things were made before technology, but it was clear she had money and contacts, you don't buy food and pay the bills if you dedicate two years to a single crop or whatever... how could anyone think she was doing everything alone??
I have been watching her for that same reason I'm not from a rural area but my husband is and when I married i adapted to my new situation and there is no way to not get dirty if your life is in the country but I love my life and the freedom my children experienced.☺️🇨🇷
At the very beginning she did everything by herself, using only a mobile phone, and of course all of that was not easy! But over time, her hard work paid off. Her videos which she initially produced by herself, now makes with a small team.
She didn’t, she had to move to the city at a very young age to send money back to her grandparents in the countryside. She would sometimes be homeless, doing odd jobs and survived off bao buns most of the time. She started her videos as advertisement for her produce but since people only watched her videos she began to specialise in them. What you’re seeing her is the end product. The comments here are just assuming things about her while completely disregarding her hard work.
I always thought she was funded by the CCP and just manufactured to put out a good face for the CCP considering how TH-cam isn’t allowed on China it’s odd how she is a huge TH-camr.
at very least, she _must_ have had unofficial permission (corruption) to use a vpn to post her videos and get away with it
Of course not, CCP is too dumb to elaborate something with this quality
I think these platforms which are banned by the CCP, shouldn't be giving a platform to the CCP.
@@Ghryst but how 🙄🧐👀 so stranghe all this theories
I know CCP gave her a "pass". Not hurting them.
"I'm going to guide youth away from being influencers."
~An influencer.
*An influencer being influenced by the CCP
Most people aren’t influencers. Besides you can be a farmer and an influencer at the same time? I never saw her advocating that. Look a Jeffree. She did the same thing jeffree did. It’s so much better to work hard so you can use that money to grow your farm business and stay away from the processed foods they sell at the store.
@@loopymomy2532 did watch the video ,she has her own HUGE store that sell manufactory foods
@@fatisummer9106 I wasn’t against her.
@@loopymomy2532 Pretty sure it's nothing being an influencer and farmer at the same time. But for her to say that she will "guide youth from being influencer", it's plain wrong.
I always felt like every Liziqi video are fake. No rural Chinese woman actually use serums and foundation and makeups while doing their hard labour jobs. She's a good actress.
You nailed it. You have some of the best qualities of Walter Cronkite and Tim Russert. Your honesty and integrity are truly a respite from our current condition.
Yes Winston has the most integrity of any journalist, by far.
This reminds me of when I was watching her one day and my boyfriend was like "how is she on youtube from rural china?" and that led me to asking more questions and finding out about the government approved influencers and I stopped watching shortly after
Ahhaha I feel dumb for never realizing it sooner 😅
@@AzathothTheGreat because you don't watch enemy propaganda
I reccomend you watching sri lankan and Vietnamese channels who show off their cultures, like liziqi does. I''m all for her genre of videos becoming more mainstream.
@@MegumiHayashida Americans showing their ignorance again. You think everyone except you lives in mud huts. Even in the mid 2000s India had 900 MILLION smartphones and people were more likely to have high-speed internet than a bank account. The US actually ranks very low on the internet connectivity list. Many other countries have better and more widespread high speed internet than the US does, out in rural areas. India and China STILL have higher smart phone adoption rates than the US. People may not have a computer or even running water but they sure as hell have a phone with high speed internet.
Reminds me of when I moved to the US in 96 from GERMANY and people asked me if we had washing machines or if we lived in tree houses. Even the poorest countries on this planet have cities with all the amenities of a first world country. The difference between a developing country and the first world is, usually, How much the average person can afford and how many people make up that part of the population.
The reason for this is that countries that developed later got the newer, better technologies for much less cost. Just like with a car or pc, the early adopter tax is very high on things like utilities while countries that skipped those legacy technologies and went straight to wireless internet, phone, etc. saved tons of money not having to lay copper/ cables to every home and business. Same goes for high speed rail, highways and bridges. Bigger equipment produced in modern factories has made things much cheaper. China used more concrete in roads and bridges in the last 3 years than the US has EVER used, in all of history.
@@AzathothTheGreat Because watching it is supporting it the more views the more they are promoted. You wouldn't watch movies from a company that has countless human rights violations and uses their media as propaganda to justify them would you? The difference between this and a movie or tv is the message it is trying to portray this attempts to make it look like people living in poverty are actually living a life many of us want when the reality is if you saw how most people in rural China live you would look at it no different than a poor area elsewhere in the world.
Winston I like how honest you normally are but you need to take this down. You clearly didn’t do your research on what happened, and generalized based on what happened to other Chinese influencers. People in the know about China will eventually call you out and it will hurt your credibility. Liziqi stopped posting for a very “capitalist” reason. A trademark dispute. Her agency trademarked her name, which means she no longer owns her own name! They each filed 5 separate law suits against each other, one suit led to a bunch a counter suits… they may finally have a settlement but until then you won’t see her post.
She is just pretending to do all those things, but there is an entire team on her back for the farming and videos shootings...
None is done by her but acting for the videos !
So u say she dunno anything.
She's probably back in Beijing doing her regular acting gigs.
doesn't need to. her merch is still selling
Keyword "probably". She isn't.
She could also be a mistress of one overlord.
@@Shaolinof36thChamber why does she need an overlord when she makes so much money?
@@aj-sz8mu in comunist countries overlords are beyond money it's amatter of influence power and status.
I love Liziqi! She gives me a moment to sit down, relax, and remember to enjoy the simple things like making food, and spending time with my family. I never thought that her videos were 100% real. I think she's presenting an ideal life that she wants, and obviously many of her fans want that simpler life too. There are many Western TH-camrs who also have similar videos, like The Cottage Fairy, Jonna Jinton, Isabel Paige...the list goes on. I don't see a problem with these kinds of rural living type of videos and don't see any hidden agenda.
@@EricDMMiller or a wonderful life in the prison camps.
she is weird, she has access to youtube like how do you that without supporting the government
@@namjoonie936 It's called VPN.
@@EricDMMiller you comparing an influencer to Hitler. You need to visit a psychiatrist.
@@EricDMMiller she does not promote ccp or any political ideology. But of course you people's deep rooted hatred for Chinese people and their culture can't see past that.
I LOVE her channel, it makes me want to visit! Taiwan.
😂
😩😭🤣💀
"She probably was screwed over in her contracts" - Would love to hear more about other cases where you've seen this kinda thing in China. I've heard the horror stories about this in western media but wonder how it compares to cases in China.
Easy, you can just ask Hong Kong people about the promise CCP singed with UK for 50 years of guaranteed maintaining pre-1997 system. It has not even been 30 years, HK has becoming another city in China. CCP claims its a historic document only.
Like the host of this channel, I was screwed over enough time in China than I care to remember.
Ah yes, that simple rural life with upwards of ten camera angles xD
I figured that out after my 2nd or 3rd video I watched from her years ago. Her hands were soft, no calluses, cuts or bent fingers from hard work. (Much more too but like you said, "Making a toupee out of leaves.") (That made me laugh but I'm sure she could do it. ;)
_Now Grandpa Amu seems legit but many things didn't add up either._
Anyway, I figured a few years ago it ALL was nothing but propaganda, yet I did enjoy those early years.
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Thanks for bringing up this subject!
Stay Awesome, eyes open & no fear.
*James*
I thought Winstone was weraing it. LOL!
As a dude who work with his hand doing construction almost everyday, my hand are callous free and soft af. As long as you take care of them and clean your hand after working then that "working hand" appearance doesn't become prevalent.
I had seen her videos before but wasn't interested so I wouldn't catch those things, but the camera position and timing shown in this video looks too smooth to be a one person work.
Also, the video I watched was the one where she dyed clothes with grape skin, at the time I thought the colour doesn't make sense as it's way brighter than it should be.
@@NoReply28 I can confirm that, for example cleaning well, wearing gloves and putting cream on your hands helps a lot. My dad, as a farmer, gets a lot of compliments when he shakes hands with other people. The extreme cold is a bigger problem if you work a lot oustside.
Maybe she just does farming once in a while (as said, she is a millionaire not a farm girl but maybe grew up on a farm and married a rich man or something else). It's possible to do that alone with one person to film and some experience (I am sure TH-cam isn't her first social media). But what I can say too, is that it's very embelished, which isn't a problem if you know it but a lot don't.
@@skye387 If you watch her from the beginning then you know she started out filming by herself. She also record BTS to show how she does it. It wasn't until she got discovered that people reach out to help her. Eventually, she started to have a crew help her film. She even include the crew in some of her video. She never hid the fact that she had help filming so idk why people are calling her fake for it.
For those non-political watchers of Liziqi’s channel, what I appreciate most has been the imagination and creativity of her productions. She has an immediate soothing quality which always calms and delights. She inspires and stimulates imagination. Her creations are full of wonder and are outside of the box. I wouldn’t know the difference between a stage setting or actual rural setting we have become masters of fooling each other. An artist named Bergsma painted a picture many years ago of a barnyard full of “cute looking” critters with a saying that goes like this, “never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it”. I’m truly sorry that she is having difficulty. I miss her.
Yeah aesthetically the videos are quite pleasing, regardless of the reality of the situation
Irrelevant to the video, but wow, Bergsma's art style is so beautiful!
@@domitravel795 well I don’t know about that, it’s pretty obvious to this American anyway that the videos are a romantic version of rural life. Nowhere on earth is farm life easy, as rewarding as it may be. The people who believe it maybe have never been to a farm or talked to a farmer, maybe they also think that pro wrestling is real 😁
@@domitravel795 haha 😆 I used to think that pro wrestling was real…. When I was 10 years old! My dad put me straight on that and even though I still liked it and went to see some matches in the Atlanta municipal auditorium it was never the same. It’s still entertaining though, kind of like a romantic video of a bucolic life in the Chinese countryside!
I miss her too, i love her 😍 her video makes me forget harsh reality. Please come back soon li ziqi!
I don’t think she’s ever said she’s trying to sell this is how it is. She’s just making beauty as an artist in the historical style of her culture.
This reminds me of my white friend who loves this woman and the rural idyllic lifestyle. Thought it was kinda funny back then knowing it’s not really like that in China.
Haven't watched yet so it could be related to the vid but why add "white".
@@brookie117 To show China’s influence is working on Western culture.
Does he have yellow fever?
@@brookie117 Probably because the OP isn't white and thinks of everything in race terms.
Even rural Vietnam is urbanized with internet. Nothing is that idyllic anymore.
I love her channel, I hope she gets it worked out and comes back soon. I always figured her channel had a full production team behind it, you simply can’t run a small farm and do the things that she does alone, or without significant income.
I really got into her videos and other “domestic creators” like Nyangsoop and Choki when my mom was going through chemo and she needed some peaceful entertainment that wasn’t Hallmark films. We would put on a Liziqi playlist after a treatment and in the days afterward cause she could still barely move from the sofa, mom just particularly enjoyed her channel and thought it was beautifully made. After she was cured we still continued to watch Liziqi together. Her videos helped keep a sense of peace in a house that was crumbling under mortal stress, so I’ll always appreciate her work, even if it becomes a bit more propagandy
I loved her todo.When I has depresión.I watched her videos.
Yeah same here
@@domitravel795 do you happen to know where ?
Otherwise they rob and kidnap her, I guess.
My video has about her latest interview
Very interesting. We, my friends and I, have long admired the various skills she demonstrates and have named her the “Chinese Martha Stewart” now on that comparison I have to say Martha Stewart’s original shows, back before the whole prison thing (hmm? Talk about controlling an influencer) we’re extremely idyllic versions of “American Life”. Again, Martha became very wealthy as a result, became a target for powerful figures as well. That none the less didn’t take away from the fact that she was talented and successful by simply doing what she was traditional. Traditions that were fading away in the, then modern, culture. Despite the later turmoil Martha experienced her influence on women of a certain age ignited a renaissance of the home arts in America that continues to this day. If by showing the unique skill and practices of the rural Chinese life, idyllic or otherwise, Liqzi influence in my opinion can be nothing but positive no matter what the Chinese government attempts. Perhaps that seems naive to some but time will tell and when all is said and done I will still enjoy watching her work.
Then Martha Stewart came back and co-hosted a show with Snoop Dogg.
She made a video where she blatantly claimed Korea's national food "Kimchi" is chinese
CCP is very experienced at taking things that don't belong to them.
She works for the CCP
Tbh, Kimchi is made with Chinese cabbage which comes from China, and chillies that come from South America.
China has a long history of Inventions that are not well documented and or credited. Look up "Chinese Inventions" and click on the wikipedia entry. What you will see, will blow your mind. Many of the things they invented, were invented and used, over 1000 yrs before places like Greece (which were the falsely assumed "Firsts").
I studied Kung Fu... and I can tell you, that not only are most of the arts in other countries a lower level derivative of Chinese arts teachings... but also... the complex metal forging to make combat weapons, were also spread by the Chinese, whom had mastered these things FAR before the others. (Such as folded steel, pattern welding, high carbon steel, heat treatment, anti-corrosion coatings, and much more)
I wouldnt doubt that the Chinese had a similar dish to Kimchi. Though, I could not tell you for sure.
A lot of Chinese traditions were erased / destroyed, in MAO's "Cultural Revolution". Only the Govt. might know, if they have it in their Historical records, which span over 2000 yrs. And even then, a lot of that knowledge, is not in the hands of the normal citizens anymore... let alone, to the world wide masses.
@@johndough8115 "Chinese Cabbage" is also not Chinese, it is also grown everywhere in SEA.
And picking and fermentation is NOT Chinese either, it is done everywhere.
Kimchi as we know it comes from Korea.
Winston has weaponized CRINGE, and the CCP keeps supplying the ammunition! :D
If cringe is not exposed it will grow like a fungus, unseen but beneath the surface.
@@saga960 Yeah, it actually hits them where it hurts, their stupid PRIDE!
Nowadays is almost impossible to find something real in the media: we better enjoy it being healthy skeptical...
Whether it's real or not has nothing to do with you. Do you want to see the tired farming in the countryside and make yourself feel relaxed sitting in an office?
It’s like Jackie Chan; if they want to have a life in China, they must play the game in order to survive and continue to see their loved ones. I’m sure their private opinions are different and maybe, when the time comes, they’ll be able to do something about their government.
US is becoming like that too.
Cancel culture.
@Bendover Khunt never if they put their heads in the sand. That's why you be open about it.
@@AlfDagg Hardly the same thing. You don't get disappeared by a tyrannical government for posting the wrong thing online.
Very true.
@@lutherblissett9070 I heard you could go to trial for hate speech in the UK though.
I don't think the people believe, the nationalists yes but I don't think the average citizen does. They have no choice. I have friends who's parents and grandparents came from the USSR and they admitted that nobody, outside of those who benefit with the minute amount of power afforded to them by the state, absolutely nobody within the citizen population believed a word of the Soviet Union's lies. They simply could do nothing about it.
As a Russian guy born in the late Soviet Union, I can confirm that nobody considered government propaganda as a reality, but people just didn't talk about it publicly.
They sure bye into Putin's lies though, what's changed.
@@pudanielson1 I'm not familiar with Putin's lies but it could have been a combination of things such as a generation that didn't grow up during the Soviet era, economic growth, an increase in individual wealth and prosperity, more liberties. All might have influenced the Russian people's feelings for their current government and their leaders. Its like being in a romantic relationship, you'll invent every excuse in the book to like the person you are dating or want to date.
Same with america imo, people just vote to piss each other off
It was the Soviet Union though and different era. Nowadays it's full 360 propaganda with lots of controls in place. USSR couldn't manage tha for the era. Also, a lot more empty bellies and strife. A lot of people in China are living well, and when people's bellies are full, they tend to overlook and buy into what their government is selling them. Even if they don't fully buy into it, they don't have much of a choice or need in going against the system or lifting their hand against it. There are the much poorer residents, but the CCP has the military to handle them.
"weave a toupee out of a leaf"
Winston you cracked me up 😆 🤣
It is almost certainly not what it was like back then, either. It's like a Ren Fest or Medieval Faire. She's a cosplayer. I love Ren Fests and Medieval Faires! But I dont pretend that it isnt a romanticized version of how it was.
Yeah imagine working on a farm with a full face of makeup, c'mon.
I feel like it's the Chinese version of cottagecore.
It’s just cottagecore.
How many different Grandma's can one girl have ? 😂😂😂
For two long years, I was very ill. Watching her videos brought me peace and would calm me down from pain that took over my whole body some days. I knew it wasn't real but the entertainment level was just what I needed at the time. Her world took me out of my pain filled world. The videos are full of beauty that I needed to watch during the time I was ill. No cussing, no blood and guts, no one dying or killing someone, no malic, lying or cheating someone. It was a perfect medicine for my soul. I still, am very thankful for finding her videos. I would watch her videos and enjoy their content with all my family. All of her videos were family friendly and enjoyable for all ages. I hope she continues to make more videos soon. GOD bless her for the beauty she portrayed and the peace that one day will be all over the world. Waiting on Christ Jesus ! Amen!
Thank you for your comment. I'm really happy that Liziqi's videos were able to help you during such a difficult time in your life. Her videos are really soothing, and I have a memory or two of sharing some of her videos with my mother who had struggled with Crohn's disease for many, many years. The reason I wanted to reach out and say a personal thank you for sharing how Liziqi impacted you is because something about your comment prompted me to check out your TH-cam page. You have a music playlist there with some really great songs that have uplifted my spirit this morning. You see, a month ago, my mom passed away and while I know she's partying with Jesus up in Heaven, I still miss her a great deal. Some of the music you chose to place in your music playlist reminded me a little of her, and that helped me feel better. So, I just wanted to let you know that by sharing a little of your story here, you impacted someone in a positive way. Thank you and God bless you! :) I pray that you are in a much better state of health now. :)
My video has about her latest interview
June 2023 hoping that you are ok now...
My sister used to watch alot of her videos, until she noticed in one of them, when liziqi asked her grandmother to do something the glare that she gave was terrifying, as the grandmother made a tiny error. She didn't even know about the whole CCP info, she doesn't watch her vids anymore.
which video? what's the title?
Video?
What video?
Omg
GIVE ME THE GODDAMN NAME OF THE VIDEO RIGHT NOW!
Liziqi is a true Genius, one of those few people touched by God just look at her videos and melt away. There is nothing more Evil likes than a person like her. In a country that is at war in nature and beauty the the beautiful nature she brings, hands traditions helped to bring me beauty to my life when locked during Covib. Thank you Liziqi a strong girl when half of the world is jealous of her brilliance.
This is why EVERYONE should resist mandatory ID for social media. No matter the excuse your government or the website has. It's all about silencing you.
On the other hand, all my US relatives fell in line with the "Real Names" Facebook policy like, IMMEDIATELY
I think that's only a thing in Mainland China, I highly doubt is gonna happen in western social media. Especially when you have users from all over the world.
@@kostis2849 uhh thats really up to you to provide or not. If you lose your facebook account. then assume u cant retrieve it with a fake name. thats pretty much what i assume would happen to mine. I dont think i was ever forced to send them ids? They only do that to businesses or suspicious accounts.
@@aj-sz8mu I am not talking about sending id's , i mean they use their real full name as their Facebook name.
So glad I found you before I got too sucked into the liziqi thing. I had been interested when she "made" a bamboo bed, and watched a few other videos beyond that, before you came along and explained the channel's CCP propaganda status.
Incidentally, it seems you've already got some CCP shills in the comments section.
From the first moment that I watched her so called countryside cooking etc... I never thought it was real but ALL was from a Fantasy movie not the reality .
I don't think that doesn't mean you still can't enjoy the videos, just understand it's a fantasy. It's like going to the strip club, but cheaper.
Uh huh And a half a dozen Wumao as well Winston holds the CCP to the light and they hate/fear that
Looking through the channel all the video doesn't feel organic at all. Feel like it put out by professional video editing. After doing some research it confirm my suspicion.
@@DB-hg7hg Same with me. I came across her channel a year or so ago. I never continue watching her nor subscribe her channel. It was so unreal and I know nothing about her. I have no idea how she get so many followers. No one can be talented to everything at her young age. One can consider lucky to be super talented in 1 or 2 things but not millions of things. Not to say, she have great photographs and videos skill that I believe she said she started by herself at the beginning.
I feel like an idiot. I’m glad I thought to ask myself some questions which lead me to your video. I thought she represented the absence of everything that was wrong with me.
I honestly love this channel, not because I hate China or Chinese people but because it say's exactly what's wrong with the country & it's their government pure and simple. I have always found Chinese people I have met to be friendly and polite but their government drags the collective reputation of them through the mud to the point they are constantly viewed with mistrust.
Same can be said for every government, US obviously included.
For the most part, the people are great
Well I hate both because of 'you know what." Gross.
@@MrFuzziiWuzzii you can’t say the USA has north of two millions ethnic minorities in slave camps, suffering forced sterilization, torture, and organ harvesting.
The shit that is happening in China is because of the Chinese people, not Chinese government. The people who formed the Chinese government are Chinese………
@@SuperHanamizu not all Chinese people are like that, just like how not all Americans are KKK members. generalization is really dangerous, you should know this.
Yeah that puts the dots together pretty well. My mother and I tried to figure this out after we found that channel because on my end it didn't make sense. I like the old fashioned DIY stuff but I thought that she was operating in Taiwan. When my mom wanted to learn more, that's when I found out that she operates in China so she/her family had to be insanely rich to hold rural land like they do + If she hadn't already she was about to be co-opted into the propaganda machine.
You don't have to be rich to get rural land there is a shortage of youth that want to farm they all want office work with the least amount of labour so it has been easy to be granted leases to farm in China now. Although her scenery e.t.c is falsified at angles and hidden infrastructure to make it look secluded and clean
The insane amount of population in China kind of throws away anyone able to afford a plot of land and also being able to maintain it with an elder relative.
They don't hold that land. The things are shot on a variety of properties. They've even featured crops that don't even grow in that part of Sichuan.
@@hbowman108
Very insightful.
eh, land doesnt make one wealthy. Not sure about cvina but in the soviet union, property was given out like candy. Or rather redistributed once the undesireables have been stripped off it
Says the man that’s not even Chinese 🤦♀️ we don’t care what she has we only love to watch her at work. She’s still good at what she does, now stop the jealousy and actually do something and stop being the male version of Wendy Williams
I'll always laugh at the "cawttan" rap lmao.
Btw, while I do think her videos are relaxing and pretty to look at, I've never believed a girl so pale and with no muscle definition in her arms could do all that hard work.
That was funny.
She has no tan as well. If your truly a farmer you’ll be darker skin because you spend a lot of time under the sun. I have seen farmer Chinese and they are not white fair skin.!! she is fake !! It’s all propaganda!!
@@njrom2975 she's not a farmer. She worked several years from city, different kinds of job until her grandmother got sick then decided to go back at country side. The knowledge and experienced she had gain from her worked maybe, it's easy for her to do that kind of job. As the way we watched from her videos it looks a fantasy and so unreal. The show is like a simple life and be content. In one upload as she said, it takes months and of course, she did editing by herself. She did byherself before until she got payed by utube then she hired a person to do for her. As time is limited in one upload I don't think she will show how the rice to grow for months or the trees bear fruits. For me, if I have a land maybe, I can do it. Just plant, cook as simple as that. To others it's fantasy for her it's the way of life. Now she got payed hundreds of millions. She's a deejay before.
@@fendiabdullah2625 she' herself said It was her fantasy, the way she' would like things to be.
@@njrom2975 She ain't a farmer tho obviously does these things for a video
Damn I wondered what happened to her and people like her, China was nice and all until I started watching your videos more, people are good but it looks like most of them are living in a dystopian country under tyrant rule.... Shame that such a beautiful country has this bad of a government.... Stay awesome Winston! Your videos are great and very informative and give plenty of insight on why Chinese people are the way they are and how their culture and government works, for all CCP fanatics Winston has covered China for a very long time, I remember his old "vlog" videos where he would go to a mall and talk about good and positive sides of China, but hey sometimes you just got to let people know about stuff that rots underneath... Sorry for my bad English, I'm not a native English speaker :)
Your language skills are fine and your reasoning is too. Bravo.
its a lot similar to north korea
You could have fooled me about being a native speaker, your English is great.
Your English is actually fine, I've come across many monolingual English speakers who can't write with correct grammar
I live in China. I can confirm that 90% of the facts Winston said is true. But not his opinion that "China was a great nation, and CCP is evil". CCP did many bad things, but they did good things too. Winston surely did not know what China was like before the CCP time. There r many bad sides of Chinese people, culture, and I would not blame CCP for all of the problems we are having.
An american that has no idea of chinese life or rural life talking about a chinese person? Hahahaha
That rap was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
Cheesy and corny.
@@ingulari3977 I said the same thing!😁 Right away I was like, man that is god awful!🤷♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@ingulari3977 that handily defeats individuals like takashi 69 who is of course a frickin clown! Eeck!
Cringeeee...
@@Mira-gu6we CRINNNGGGGGGGEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!😂
During the communist era in my own country, 1948 - 1989 the superstar's singers pretty much everybody who was making serious money were taken advantage of a lot and the communist government made a lot of money from those people. I guess in China it is the same.
I am glad she is off the internet .......she made her money and will move her company elsewhere
It's kind of a bizarre world record, since clearly people in China aren't allowed to watch Li Ziqi videos on TH-cam.
the more you think about it
the more you questions you get
Must be all those Chinese bot accounts. Much like the Russian bots. They are probably sharing bots.
This is such an interesting topic. This is going to be The West in a few years. It's already Australia right now
You just have to look at TH-cam and Facebook and how they censure content. Big corp like google destroy freedom.
I just asked about her fate on ADV Podcasts!! So happy that Winston is covering this!!
Just remember America has more privately owned guns than anywhere else on earth!!! So let’s see how that theory works out!
Who are the australian Liziqi? (I don't know a lot about Australia)
Li Ziqi's problem is a commercial contract dispute with the company.
Hello serpentza, I don't know if you will read this message, but this past few days I've been seeing numerous reports about Uygur organs being sold for like 140k-160k. I think this might be true cause I also read a report stating that china is receiving a big amount of organs when in the past they didn't have that many. Could you investigate more please? This is quite worrying. (Sorry my grammar, english is not my native language). Thanks, I rlly enjoy you videos.
The organ harvesting has been going on for ages, its not a new thing. They can schedule organ availability ahead of time, statisticians have exposed the CCP's organ donor data as fake, and until 2015 by law it was perfectly legal to harvest organs from death row inmates. ITs something that's affected prisoners of conscience, Falun Gong, Tibetans, Ugyhurs, etc.
The reason why I liked liziqi is because her videos are simple and serene and mind you. Her videos now is a far cry from her videos when she just started!
When i saw the first time Li Ziqi's channel, i was impressed an mesmerized at the same time. Like every other country would do, China might use this image, to promote the country. For me there is nothing wrong with it. What i really like on Li Ziqi's Channel, is to see the old traditional craftsmanship. I see it as a conservation, of a very old treasure of knowlege, that might be otherwise lost. And btw, you can clearly see that Li Ziqi has real craftsman skills, when she uses tools to work. I am aware, that this is not the real China of today. But this is also a way of entertainment for me with a useful content. 🙂
We’ll show you chinese manners ! That sounds onimous
Their manners of destroying places of tourism lmao.
I really appreciated the production value of her videos. They are gorgeous, the scenery is stunning, the projects are a real window back in time and the videos always make me feel very peaceful. Even without knowledge of the CCP, there was never any confusion over whether or not it was realistic.
She personally knows and performs every step of every highly skilled project she takes on.
She enters the frame in various outfits, always lovely and also appropriately themed, and her hair is always strategically messy and her makeup flawless.
I knew it was fantasy but I loved the theme, but I honestly assumed that the videos were filmed at like a boutique countryside hotel / b&b, where the very wealthy can hold weddings and book holidays with that 'back in time' feeling and I honestly think that kind of holiday in any idyllic setting would be magical.
Its stuff like this that tells me people in the west are so incredibly immature
@@FutureBoyWonder in the U.S., yes, we are a very young country with a short history. It’s only 245 years old.
you only need to watch not even half a video to know her production budget and crew is massive. i love her films, the production is immaculate. calming. selling me the fantasy i knew i wanted to see.
I predict she's gonna take all her money and move to the west when she's had enough
I remember the first time I watched one of her episodes. It was beautiful and I loved it and so I watched another one and it only took 2 episodes for me to realize the whole thing was staged. As a farmer in the US I was embarrassed with myself that it took TWO episodes😂 I watched a few more before I decided I was probably feeding the CCP machine and not just this actress so I stopped.
Very good and logical thing to do.
She's completely fake, since Day 1 of her first video!
Same. First vid I saw was charming and quaint - but as I watched more and paid attention to the production quality it became obvious that it's all very staged. Clearly lots of work goes into camerawork alone, and the things that she apparently is doing all by herself, painstakingly plucking fruits and crushing herbs etc, it all just looks very fake, there's no way this beautiful young woman with flawless makeup spends all her time studiously stewing plums and making tea for her grandma
@@M78356 You nailed it well. Very well stated! Day 1 of her first video, a very observant person can already observed that everything is fake and well staged!
Do you guys realize she doesn't work on a farm to support herself, right? Her livelihood comes from youtube. Farm life as content for youtube and farm life as livelihood couldn't be more different.
She’s not making a documentary. It’s entertainment and it’s very relaxing to watch. She’s still putting in a lot of work to make these videos.
I keep telling people there's no way she's posting on TH-cam without the CCPs consent but everyone would rather believe the fantasy than the reality. I get it, I too have watched and loved the production quality of her videos. They seem inspiring and beautiful but she's a face of China that the CCP wants us to believe. I WISH people lived this beautiful in rural China but unfortunately it's not real. I hope she is okay and I hope they don't make her disappear forever for speaking out against her oppressors. May the CCP fall one day and the people of China once again find peace without that evil regime.
This comments literally funny..first of all i knew lots of youtubers from China that posting in TH-cam. cooking channel, mukbangers, vloggers (rural area vlogger) even the gay couple post it here. It is just they are not that famous internationaly, they quite famous in China. They don't need consent from CCP. Mostly post it here because
1. TH-cam is also profitable video platform for them beside their own video platform (bilili, xigua etc)
2. They don't need to do lots of censorship in TH-cam (ex kissing)
In liziqi case, actually she is not being oppressed by CCP. I don't know how you get that information. Allegedly she had a legal battle with her former bussiness partner. She still famous, she didn't being oppressed, it seems like she did lots of job bts. If she really being oppressed she will not get a job at all. CCP actually is simple, as long as influencer didn't give a bad name or cause big scandal and effect them they are fine. If the influencer get famous especially out of China, they will took notice and they use them. Not everything is about CCP..
I was _never_ in the dark about her immense wealth, she’s obviously showing us a very luxurious rural experience, where you have to have money and a good estate already from which to operate. She inspired me in so many ways and is actually doing all of the work she shows us: building beds, harvesting wild mushrooms and from her garden and preparing grand meals, gathering stones from the woods in her basket and making a stone path; she works so hard even if she has nothing at all to do with the video editing, and I think THAT is what makes her such a good example and why the Chinese government thought of her as the ideal that people should be aspiring to. I would always go and work outside on my own property after watching one of her videos, and it’s been sad to lose access to her life. I wish she would just move to another country and show people that you can make that kind of life for yourself anywhere you go. 😊
They show you a cut where she starts and a cut where she ends. If you think she builds an entire well by herself, think again. There are dozens of people involved in keeping that property intact and producing stuff. She isn't sewing every day, isn't cooking every day, it's a fraction of her lifetime and only done on camera
"...show people that you can make that kind of life for yourself anywhere you go."
certainly not in the current China
@@LaNoir. I know she has a team recording and editing it, but the rest is assumption, we just don’t know, and assuming she doesn’t do hard work is insane when you consider how hard people (demonstrably the Chinese people) are capable of working… she has never done anything in her videos I didn’t think I could do if I wanted to. I do know the videos show her working plenty hard, she is clearly very capable. Also, most people online only film things they do once- ‘restocking’ videos are usually just people buying those products for the first time (or receiving them for free) and organising them aesthetically; people often film tasks nowadays because having an audience that responds to it is extra incentive (especially when you struggle with motivation, or demand avoidance, as many do), and especially when you can monetize the video as well, you suddenly have more reason to do this thing you might’ve otherwise paid to have someone else do or put off doing yourself as ‘technically unnecessary’, like when she went around gathering stones to make a stone path, she could have done without that path, but she chose to monetise a potential project by making a video about it. It’s very inspiring- even if she has help! Doesn’t everyone deserve to! But I’ve never felt I couldn’t do it alone.
@@kato2395 maybe it’s rare in the cities, the more integrated into government control/society you are (that’s true of everywhere), but certainly there are people making little pieces of heaven for themselves _everywhere_
@@highfae Ofc she chose to share the building of that stone path because she planned it herself and just wanted to vlog it for interested viewers 🤦do you know what a production crew is
You probably also think Jamie Oliver waters his giant garden on his own and all his pans are hand-crafted by himself. Those people get a script, shoot the required scenes and go home - that's not her home, it's a shooting location
What more than we already know has to happen till people finally understand that China sells propaganda wrapped in dreams, just because "we don't know the truth" doesn't mean that blind trust is a good idea when it comes to a country that imprisons journalists and everyone leaking precarious material that could reveal the truth. Jamie Oliver gets called out - because people don't go to jail for it
Why would Liziqi stop filming if it's her honest hobby and her home, the management got her in the hand and she probably can't even use her usual shooting location because of it
Just an ordinary country girl. Who has her own videographers, scriptwriters, editors, manager.
I am so glad that I have watched this video. I was a blind fan of Liziqi. But funny thing is I am not watching her for more than a month, I see many women get so frustrated not having a life like she has. This strikes me a big time. Anyway, I love your channel.
do you know why people love her? because she was so poor that when she started making videos, she have only flowers
oh my god , i just cannot believe that i fell into her trap .After reading comments ,watching this video and contemplating I realise i was fooled .
Perhaps you have fallen into this TH-cam trap. Li Ziqi only shoots in rural areas. Perhaps it is difficult for rural China to reach such a beautiful level now, but what did Li Ziqi do wrong? She didn't mention filming documentaries herself, but if you want to see the real China, you can watch documentaries about rural China
You forgot the funny thing! Youtibe is blocked in China but not for the CCP
I remember seeing her videos first time. I couldn't stop watching,they were so beautifully done. With right equipment, enough money and good people some wonderful movies can be done with really ordinary settings and all productions of Mr Attenborough and Martha Stewart programs are proofs of that.
Propaganda or not, it's still cool to watch.
Yes her content is beautiful it would be great as a movie/tv series that doesn't pretend to be real and also includes romantic subplots etc.
As one who has watched Liziqi for years, her focus and message has been
"The Country Life" The sustainable beauty of back to the past, back to nature, and back to the way of life of our(everyone everywhere internationally)grand & great grand parents and their past downed cultural traditions. Country living, Country cooking, Country arts and crafts. I quote her Liziqi "I want kids to know where their food comes from." She wasn't born financially wealthy..but had a wealth in knowledge of the country life where and how she was raised. The rest came afterwards But, No one will ever take The Country out of her..as we say here in the USA South- a Country'Boy or Country'Girl will survive. I just can't see how what's being taught nowadays is better that..at least our children will be learning substance and will know how to take care of themselves and their families.
-Mission Accomplished!😎
-OUT**
I read in an article about her that she moved from the countryside to the city and started working as a server at like...14? I certainly don't think she started out as wealthy. Then she decided to move back home to her grandparents. I think she saw what life was like in the city, and realized people there would enjoy videos about life back home. I wouldn't be surprised if her farm is so big/herself so put together because she can hire people to all the upkeep with money she made from her videos. It's sad she was co-opted by the government and her production company.
I remember my girlfriend showing me those videos, and while I enjoyed the videos, I immediately felt the production quality was way too high, I kind of suspected it was some sort of state funded propaganda and now this kind of just confirms it for me.
There seems to be several channels of pretty girls doing manual labor. Seems to be some kind of fetish.
@@JohnSmith-wx9wj It's cottagecore, a subculture that is also popular in America. The fantasy of rural life has been around for hundreds of years. Marie Antoinette had her own little village she could play in at Versailles.
Li ZiQi isn't funded by the CCP. Through her own efforts (and again, to her own credit), she's engaged a professional production team to help her with her videos. That's why the CCP took notice of her, because her videos are so good (much better than anything the CCP can come up with themselves) they'll be a fool not to make use of her. But to say she's funded by the CCP wrongfully takes away the credit of her work from her.
This is how the CCP works : Once you (the influencer, eg. Li ZiQi) have become successful & popular (through your own efforts and to your own credit), the CCP swoops in on you, and force you to toe the party line. They won't pay you a cent. They'll just imprison you and/or kill you, if you don't do as they say. Li ZiQi was never funded by the CCP, her popularity & success is to her own credit, not the CCP's, who are now making use of her under threat. If you understand Serpentza's video, you'll realize he's saying what I'm saying.
@@beck2127 She'll be forced to say what the CCP wants her to say, yes. But the CCP still won't pay her a cent.
A question tho. Do you think state funded video could be this good?
Like every country in the world, most good quality video are self produced. The government decide that her content aren't harmful so they didn't touch her until recently. Tbh, all this comment saying she was on some kind of mission from ccp sounds silly for me. TH-cam is a good way to get money. That's way there's a lot of content farm. Throwing some money to produce video is pretty normal.
As for it's real or not, it has the same amount of reallness as your usual reality show
Why am I surprised that people thought they were real?
I though I’d learned my lesson. 🤦♂️
I guess I give people more credit than they deserve, because I was pretty sure everyone understood that her videos were fantasy made for entertainment. A beautiful fantasy that you watch when you can't fall asleep or you need an interesting idea for a rustic decor.
To be fair, not many people know how bad China actually is. And many don't know that they can't access TH-cam.
I spent 2 years living in the USA. I saw sooooo much poverty. I was shocked to see so many living in conditions far below the poverty line. This is not how a supposed 'world leader' country treats it's population. I call BS.
Bull Shit?
@@itwipsy17 go look up 10 most homeless cities in America
@@SKaiM-mk3zu Which homeless cities?
@@itwipsy17 look up Nick Johnson on YT.
@@SKaiM-mk3zu I checked and these cities looking great.
I was just wondering about this last night! Thank you, love your channel and what you do💜
I didn’t believe she was doing any of the work but the video landscape shots were beautiful.
Lil bit of photoshop 101
Fake working for the camera then.
@@DaBeezKneez ---- Like picking peaches with snow on them.......lol
😂😂😂😂 she really got me!!! I though she was original, and I was thinking "man its must be hard for her to do all that work". Thanks to this channel am learning alot about China.
I agree,she never gets dirty. Makes work look.easy and glamorous
I knew a long time ago that Liziqi was co-oped by the CCP. Having lived in the Communist regime before, I know how the system works.
It's sad because she started from simple beginnings. Liziqi always said that her purpose was to teach the younger generation how to stay in touch with their roots. She had to fantasize it to get their attention. With such a simplistic goal in mind, I'm sure she couldn't have realized the domino effect that it would have.
Entertainment has always been the opiate of the masses. We just have to be sure we don't get lost in it.