New York, USA.
In an ordinary apartment in SoHo, midtown Manhattan.
Jack Henderson and Daniela Holly are an ordinary young couple walking around in this metropolis.
Thursday night.
After taking a shower and applying a facial mask, Daniela came to the bedroom in her pajamas. Seeing her boyfriend playing the recently popular "Counter-Strike OL" game in front of the computer, she deliberately took off her pajamas and showed her boyfriend a pose. A beautiful body wrapped in a set of black Victoria's Secret lace bra.
After a while, seeing her boyfriend still staring at the computer screen and turning a blind eye to her, Daniela finally rushed over and squeezed into Jack's arms, interrupting his fight.
Jack was a good-tempered man, but he hugged his girlfriend's waist helplessly, watching himself being headshot on the computer screen, and coaxed softly: "Baby, I will kill 1,000 people right away, and I will get the achievement. How about letting me play for another half hour?"
Daniela didn't care about this, grabbed the mouse and said: "Even if you get 10,000 kills, you will be headshot on the real battlefield. By the way, I made an appointment with Kate and the others today to watch "Titans" together tomorrow night "Nick", please pay attention to the time and don't be late again."
Jack was obviously not interested: "I heard it's a terrible movie. Why don't you wait until next week to watch "The Flash 2"?"
"Because Kate likes Leon very much. Besides, where did you hear that it was bad? When it premiered in Venice, the media gave it high praise. There was also the Los Angeles premiere yesterday, and the word-of-mouth ban was lifted today. You see..." As Daniela spoke, she had already opened the film and television section of the Igret portal, which showed the comprehensive media score of "Titanic" as high as 8.9, and then said to her boyfriend: "What's more, it is said that this movie cost two 100 million US dollars, I’m also very curious about where all this money is spent, let’s go and see it together.”
Jack could only nod: "Okay."
With that said, Daniela has closed the "Titanic" theme page and turned to the YouTube website, planning to watch a few videos.
The beauty blogger I often watched did not update today. Daniela glanced at the homepage and accidentally noticed a video with Chinese subtitles. She clicked on it curiously and muttered: "What is this?"
Entering the video page, there were some additional English comments, and Daniela read out: "In your free winter days, make some snacks."
While talking, the video has started playing.
The couple, who were not very interested at first, were instantly attracted by the fairyland-like scenery of Guilin's misty landscape. Jack, who was hugging his girlfriend, couldn't help but sigh: "It's so beautiful."
Daniela nodded and asked her boyfriend: "Is this China?"
"Obviously," Jack pointed at the blogger's name 'Lin Youran', which he didn't recognize but knew was a Chinese character, at the bottom of the video: "Look, the scenery just now is obviously different from those small towns in Europe."
As the two of them talked, the camera cut to a quaint farmhouse.
Daniela operated the mouse, maximized the playback interface, and adjusted the sound, and the natural sound of birdsong suddenly came.
In the refreshing atmosphere, a farm girl with a beautiful face and simple clothes left the yard with a backpack and a little yellow dog jumping happily around her feet, walked through the mountain paths, crossed the gurgling clear streams, and collected Various wild fruits.
Returning to the small courtyard, a variety of ingredients have been collected on the wooden table under the eaves.
There was also a tabby cat, which lazily curled up into a ball and occupied a bamboo basket on the table. It was sleeping soundly. When it noticed that the hostess had returned, it only moved its flexible little ears.
There was no soundtrack at all, and no human voice interpretation. In this almost pure atmosphere of birds chirping and dogs barking, the girl began to make various traditional Chinese snacks, such as candied haws, mung bean cake, ginger candies, roasted chestnuts...
The video is only 10 minutes long, but the day in the small courtyard goes by in the blink of an eye.
In the evening, the ingredients on the wooden table under the eaves have turned into neat boxes of snacks. The last picture is of the girl sitting on the recliner next to the wooden table, enjoying a plate of ginger candies, still lying on her lap. The lazy civet cat and the little yellow dog sticking out its tongue are at the feet. Next to the small courtyard are the green mountains. The sun sets in the west, making it cozy and warm.
When the scene darkened, the couple hugging each other came back to their senses.
Daniela spoke first and said: "I really want to live this kind of life. I'm tired of working at Bloomberg. Even ordinary employees like us are forced to find ways to compete with Aaliyah. I only get 35,000 It’s just a US dollar annual salary.”
Jack was still good-tempered and said with a smile: "If you don't like it, you can change your job. I may get a promotion after the New Year. It doesn't matter even if you haven't worked for a while."
After hearing this, Daniela turned around and kissed her boyfriend, and said, "Jack, you are so kind, but I still won't resign. I will wait until Bloomberg closes down one day. It will be very troublesome to change jobs."
Jack nodded with a gentle smile and said, "Actually, don't you think this is obviously staged?"
"So what, it's such a beautiful place, even if I'm followed by the camera all the time, I'd be happy," Daniela said, and suddenly became energetic: "Jack, why don't we take time to travel to China? You Aren’t you still on vacation? I’ll also keep my vacation, so how about just New Year?”
"It seems very troublesome to go to China. Visa is not required there."
"It shouldn't be too difficult to get a short-term travel visa. I'll take some time to find out," Daniela said. Seeing her boyfriend nod, she looked at the computer screen again: "Just go here. By the way, where is this?"
"I do not know."
Daniela sat up slightly, held the mouse and scrolled down to the comment area, and glanced at the video introduction. This was a video released on Tuesday night. In about two days, the total number of clicks reached 490,000, and there were tens of thousands of comments.
I didn't expect it to be so popular.
However, thinking about it again, it was expected. The two of them were immersed in it just now.
One of the most popular comments made Daniela feel the same way. A netizen from London said: "I don't know why I finished watching this video and watched it three times. In short, I really like it."
This comment has more than 3,400 likes, so it's clear that many people think so.
In the busy and fast-paced life, suddenly seeing such a leisurely and comfortable video will make you feel much better.
Daniela clicked a like casually, then thought about it, moved her mouse up, and pressed the subscribe button. This blogger was worth saving.
Then I scrolled down to comment, and quickly found a message where someone asked where the video was shot. A video blogger named Lin Youran personally responded, saying that the video was shot in Guilin, Guangxi, China, and everyone is welcome to come and play.
This reply also attracted a series of comments and likes.
Daniela didn't know where Guilin, Guangxi was. Even though the blogger wrote the address in both Chinese and English, she still didn't understand it. This didn't stop her from copying the address into a notepad file on her computer.
After doing this, after thinking about it for a while, Daniela also wrote a message of her own: "A salaryman from New York, I really envy the blogger's peaceful life, and I look forward to traveling to China."
Post a comment and give yourself a like by the way.
Jack watched his girlfriend finish her comment and pointed to the similar recommendations on the side of the video: "What else? Let's watch another one?"
Daniela took a glance and saw that the titles next to them were all in Chinese. The first two videos were also from 'Lin Youran'. However, after a little hesitation, Daniela selected another blogger's video and switched the page. The title is 'Build a Boat'.
Click in.
This time the blogger’s name is four words: Jiangnan Time.
Of course Daniela didn't know each other, but she just found the red stamp style mark in the lower right corner of the video that was obviously the blogger's name interesting.
[Send red envelopes] Reading benefits are here! You have up to 888 cash red envelopes to be drawn! Follow the weixin public account [Book Friends Base Camp] to draw red envelopes!
Very different from the Guilin mountain residence where Lin Youran lives, this time he came to a quaint water town.
The protagonist is a graceful young girl, wearing a beautiful blue and white porcelain dyeing-style cheongsam. She convenes a group of craftsmen with weathered faces but clean clothes to discuss making a awning boat that can shuttle in the stream in front of the door.
Compared to the video where Lin Youran didn't say a word in the entire video, this time there are some more English narrations.
Pretty standard American accent.
However, it is still mainly in Chinese, and the English narration is only the occasional punchline. As for the conversation of the characters in the video, even if you don't understand it, you can easily guess it just based on the narration and the actions of the characters, without affecting the viewing experience at all.
Jack, who had been obsessed with handicrafts as a boy, was quickly attracted to the video, while Daniela noticed the cheongsam on the girl in the video and liked it more and more. She has a good figure, and I think she would be very beautiful in this traditional Chinese dress, but I don’t know where to buy it.
Maybe I can take my boyfriend to Chinatown for a weekend.
The video is also not long. In 12 minutes, a brand new awning boat was successfully completed.
Then get into the water.
The old man is standing at the stern of the boat paddling, and the graceful cheongsam-clad woman is sitting on the bow of the boat, holding a flute in her hand. The song with an unknown name seems to be soaked in the years of the past year flowing through the town, and it follows the camera. The drifting awning boats went away together.
When the video ended, seeing his girlfriend immediately turning around, Jack immediately said: "I still don't know where it is, but I also want to take a look this time."
Daniela laughed, and suddenly seemed to have discovered something, and said to her boyfriend: "Isn't this a Chinese tourism promotional video?"
"Who knows, anyway, it's really good."
Jack said, stretched out his hand to cover the mouse with his girlfriend's little hand, and did not forget to click subscribe when Daniela reminded him. Then he picked around and chose another blogger with a Chinese name.
This time it was a small island in the middle of a large lake.
The same young woman, but with a different style, personally drove a fishing boat to catch fish in the lake, and then very skillfully made a 'squirrel mandarin fish' with a name that puzzled the couple in front of the computer.
I don’t understand why it’s called squirrel mandarin fish.
Fortunately, the woman in the video didn't use such a cute little thing as a 'squirrel' to serve her food, otherwise Jack and Daniela would definitely be tempted to report it.
Cruel!
In any case, the final dish served on a white porcelain plate feels delicious through the screen.
Greedy!
It looks like I really want to go to Chinatown on the weekend.
Cheongsam, squirrel and mandarin fish.
And the candied haws and ginger candies from the first video just now.
As for the awning boat, it was too big, so we had to forget about it.
Also, ask about traveling to China.
Daniela simply pulled up the keyboard and started typing away, making a memo.
After the third video, the two became more and more interested. They once again selected in the recommendation column next to it. Jack found the two Chinese characters for "Kung Fu" that he happened to know and pointed at them. Daniela wanted to watch another Chinese character. However, she was also interested in Chinese Kung Fu, so she obeyed her boyfriend.
Then there’s the wonder.
A person's hands can actually be trained to the point where they can scratch deep marks on a brick wall. Are you sure it's not a special effect
A wooden stick thicker than Daniela's calf hit the person. Daniela screamed and covered her eyes and did not dare to look. But the person was fine and the wooden stick broke into two pieces. Is this true
A five-year-old boy who is still childlike can easily smash walnuts with his bare hands. Doesn’t his hand hurt
There are actually people who can actually climb a four- to five-meter high wall with bare hands. Isn’t the light kung fu in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” all nonsense
so many kinds
This column called "Exploring Chinese Kung Fu" released a total of three videos, each lasting about 10 minutes, and the young Western couple sitting in front of the computer watched them in one go.
For a total of 30 minutes, there was not only a series of unique Kung Fu skills that could only be seen in movies, but also a Chinese old man with frosty white hair but high energy discussing and sharing the various principles and implications of Chinese Kung Fu with the host.
It turns out that real kung fu is very 'ugly'. According to the old man, it is a technique for killing people, not for people to watch. And many of the kung fu shown in the movie are beautiful moves specially practiced by actors. Nice to look at, but impractical.
It turns out that there really are such things as internal strength and luck. To put it simply, it is a method of accumulating and exerting force formed through repeated practice over many years to release the human body's potential to the greatest extent.
It turns out that true warriors need to have integrity, and they must be very cautious when teaching martial arts to younger generations, and it depends on the character and morality of the person.
The old man also brought out a junior to speak out. The strong man, who was over 1.8 meters tall, was one of the few people in the village who didn't know kung fu. Because the man was too impulsive when he was young and liked to fight, the elders unanimously decided not to let him learn kung fu. Kung Fu, I worry that if a man with good qualifications learns Kung Fu again, he will easily die.
After watching three videos about Chinese Kung Fu, the couple was no longer satisfied with just sharing the fun. Daniela simply picked up her phone and called her friend and recommended it.
Then continue.
It was already late at night when Jack and Daniela recovered from a series of China-related videos that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Before falling asleep, the two of them unanimously decided to start planning their trip to China as soon as possible, and they could also bring their friends with them.
at the same time.
With Simon personally explaining the large-scale recommendation by YouTube officials, countless users in the areas covered by the YouTube website have noticed such a batch of interesting videos from China.
Some people see the landscapes and scenery across China and feel yearning for them.
Some people understand the real Chinese Kung Fu, and their horizons are opened.
A housewife followed the video and tried to cook Chinese food.
There are also elderly Chinese people who have been away from home for too long and accidentally saw the traditional window grilles of their hometown paper-cuts on their grandson's computer and burst into tears.
With the careful production of Jinshu and the official recommendation of Simon's personal intervention, this Chinese style quickly spread in the Western world.