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The Chinese Queen of Cottagecore Has Suddenly Reappeared After Three Years
After quietly settling a dispute with her management agency, the massively popular Chinese influencer Li Ziqi has started posting again, gaining her millions of new followers overnight.
Earlier this week, the 34-year-old content creator, who is best-known for sharing soothing, meticulously edited clips of herself cooking traditional Chinese dishes, farming, and working on elaborate art projects, posted three new videos of her bucolic lifestyle to all of her social media channels. Her content often features her doing things like peacefully hanging persimmons to dry in the sun, carefully assembling flower arrangements, and riding horseback through a misty forest, all without the presence of cellphones or other modern technology. As her videos became more popular, Li became an unofficial cultural ambassador of sorts for China, educating her Western audiences about traditional forms of Chinese art and cooking, without ever mentioning politics or human rights issues.
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