LiZiqi has made a name for    1    (her)in her videos that highlight a traditional Chinese way of life in the rural area of Sichuan Province. Her videos cover    2     (vary) crafts   related   to traditional culture,     3     (range) from making paper and ink to building her own bread kiln (窑) with blocks. Nothing seems impossible with Li’s hands as they work their magic to bring these things into existence.

Li,     4     was born in 1990, has lived with her grandparents in Mianyang, Sichuan, since the age of 6 after her father died. Life was difficult for her during her youth as she and her grandparents had little to live on. Li herself said that she was     5     (financial) supported to continue schooling. She started to work in the city at 14 and would not have returned to her childhood home but for her grandmother falling ill in 2012. After returning home, Li opened    6     online shop to   sell mostly food   products. To increase sales, she began making short films in 2016 about how these products    7     (create).

A Weibo user remarked, “ Li’s success lies    8     her passion for life.” Another one wrote, “Thank you for giving me an opportunity    9     (appreciate) the landscape in the countryside.” Li is not without criticism. Some people have expressed skepticism because it is unbelievable    10     she looks so perfect after a long day of work in the fields.

Nuseir Yassin was a Harvard graduate in economics and was once an IT expert in Venmo, earning thousands of dollars a year. However, he     1    (prefer) doing something outdoors to staying in the office. Soon after saving enough money, he quit the job and started touring the world and was greatly attracted     2    the beauty of the nature.    3    (record) his travels, he set up a Facebook page called Nas Daily. It was     4    (amaze) that over 12 million people follow and pay close attention to his vlogs. He went to remote places, and made videos about people’s stories. It was for this reason     5    his videos made a strong     6    (impress) on the viewers. In 2019 Nas Daily set up its TikTok channel (频道)     7    (official) and grew to 40 million followers. Since 2019, two companies     8    (found) by Yassin in order to reach more people with     9    same interest. He said he was lucky to make     10    (he) dream come true while making money from it.

As one of the most popular short-video platforms in China. Kuaishou had gained millions of users and children are also including. As we all know, spending too much time watch short videos or playing online games is no good to the young. However, the app appeals to the public to ensure children register with our own identities. In this way, the app can automatically limit the time and help the young use it more proper. It is believed what this policy will be great benefit to those who are under age. Also, the young may get knowledges from the app to improve themselves. Every coin has the two sides. Some youngsters argue this policy may lead to the leak of their privacy.

8 . Picture a young Chinese woman, dressed in traditional clothing, picking flowers in a field to create make­up for her cheeks, making a sofa from bamboo and cooking up all sorts of delicious Chinese food by herself. It may sound unreal, but such a person does exist in real life.

Li Ziqi, 30, has become one of China’s most popular Internet celebrities with over 10 million followers on YouTube, over 42 million on Douyin and over 24 million on Weibo.

Li Ziqi’s videos featuring her cooking and creating DIY products greatly attract people living in big cities. To our amazement, she does it all without using any modern technology or devices.

What dominate her videos are scenes of picking seasonal ingredients (食材) from her own garden and sometimes in the mountains and turning them into tasty dishes on her wood­fired oven. Li stresses the seasons in her cooking, as China’s traditional 24 Solar Terms (节气) also do, and makes food suitable for the particular climate.

There came an intense debate about the image of China and its culture she presented. She was accused of presenting an “outdated” image of the country by some critics. Nevertheless, state broadcaster CCTV and People’s Daily praised her for her initiative (主动性) to help rural youth become rich.

Li Ziqi, by telling an inspiring China story, is promoting traditional Chinese culture to international audience.

Tan Zhouhai is a frustrated villager in Hunan,     1     (attract) potential customers for his agricultural products by uploading short videos in Douyin — known as TikTok outside China.     2     , he only received dozens of likes from his audience last year. That changed when he uploaded a video of his 83-year-old grandfather dancing     3     a popular song called Little Apple,     4     gained 10,000 likes.     5     (inspire) by this unexpected success, Tan asked his grandfather to perform     6     (regular) in videos featuring the 30-year-old cooking for the elderly man, who has lost all his teeth, wearing a pair of round sunglasses for added comic effect. With 1.6 million fans, the account     7     (accumulate) at least 3 million likes up to now.

“Before my grandfather joined me, my account was just     8     ordinary one about food and was     9     (notice) on the internet,” Tan told the South China Morning Post. “With my grandfather in my videos, my account expresses family love and companionship. Many of my fans have said     10     are touched.”

Tan's grandfather is just one of a number of elderly people, who have taken Chinese social media by storm by breaking the public stereotype of the typical senior citizen.