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.

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.