I’d seen a few of these. Thanks for the reminder.
For a parallel view of country life, with a heavy leaning to food matters, I suggest the Li Ziqi (李子柒) channel, the world’s most followed Chinese vlog according to Guinness Book of Records. (She currently has 22.3 million followers on YouTube and even more on Chinese equivalents.) Like the above, her videos are not language dependent, as she rarely speaks in her videos.
Orphaned at a young age, she lives with her grandmother in the Sichuan countryside and what she can’t forage, raises or grows for herself. She is also adept at handcrafting any tools she requires. There is one video where she decides she needs an oven to cook something, so builds one from scratch. And I can't think of anyone else who could make a 20 minute video called "The Life of Cucumbers" enthralling and beautiful!
She has very recently returned to YouTube after a three-year hiatus due to some legal problems regarding her intellectual rights. I had several excited people calling me and messaging me to say “Li Ziqi is back!” Of course, it doesn’t harm her that she is easy on the eye, to say the least!
Li Ziqi on Wikipedia
Li Ziqi
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