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YouTube Wonders

SLB

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SLB

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I don't know if all of YouTube needs its own topic, or whether just the show I'm flipping over now needs to be the topic.  Mods will edit as warranted . . . .

 

But anyway.  People, this show has turned into my nightly meditation.  I respond to it in a manner that is similar to @Shelby's hunting thread -- exactly HOW did I end up with an apartment and an office in this life??? -- anyway.  I learned of it from a publication well known for its food reporting, The Economist.  (?!)

 

https://www.youtube.com/@country_life_vlog

 

The lack of dialogue won't suit everyone.  But for me, the enameled pails, the mountains, the birdsong . . . sigh.  

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liuzhou

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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

 

Her YouTube Channel

 

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Li Ziqi

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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Maison Rustique

Maison Rustique

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@SLB, I had seen one of these in the past and loved it. Thanks for sharing this. I'm making sure to add to my favorites. And @liuzhou, thank you for this introduction. Both of these channels seem like just the thing to put on when I need some calm in my life.

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Shel_B

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Both are great. Some years back, I watched Li Ziqi but lost the link in a computer crash. I am very happy to be reacquainted with her channel.

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 ... Shel


 

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