Introducing Li Ziqi, China’s most mysterious internet celebrity

Aug 30, 2019

This is the first in a three-part video series about Li Ziqi that examines what makes her so popular.

She has some 50 million fans in China and nearly 8 million followers overseas. Yet this online celebrity is still a mystery to many.

Li Ziqi is known for her videos where she makes seemingly everything from scratch using items foraged in the countryside. Some of her fans call her a real-life princess.

In this video, she chops down bamboo to make a sofa set.

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Credit

Producers: Daisy Qian and Venus Wu
Video Provided by: Li Ziqi
Edited & Mastered by: Victor Peña