[Explanation] The Internet has given more and more ordinary people the opportunity to become famous overnight. In Ceyu Town, Jingxing County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, there is a post-90s couple who relies on short videos recording "life in cliffs" and sits on an online platform. Has 600,000 fans.
The short video content of Wang Meina and Gao Lei is based on the simple natural scenery of hometown, such as cliffs, caves, and mountain streams. His wife Wang Meina, dressed in coarse linen, interprets the rural life with strong characteristics of Taihang Mountain in the video.
[Concurrent] Gao Lei
I started to shoot short videos in July last year. My hometown is deep in the Taihang Mountains. Last year, I took pictures of the green mountains and green waters of my hometown and posted them to the short video platform, which received more than 30 million views.
[Explanation] Gao Lei was very excited to get such a high degree of attention from netizens, and he gradually had the idea of photographing the original ecological life.
An abandoned cave on the cliff outside the village aroused the interest of the couple. The young couple remodeled the cave and built a stone house at the entrance of the cave, which became the filming location of their "cliff cave" life.
[Concurrent] Gao Lei
Our short video content keeps increasing, and we find that people in the city are particularly yearning for life in the mountains. We think this century-old cliff dwelling is a good filming location.
[Explanation] In addition to showing the simple farm life, the couple sold local specialty mountain products through live broadcast. During the epidemic, they also helped the neighboring villagers bring goods for free to solve their problem of unsalable agricultural products.
[Concurrent] Gao Lei
There are walnuts and dried persimmons in my hometown. They are all natural. They were not picked and rotten before because they couldn't sell them. I think it's a pity.
I sold these special products through short videos, and this year the villagers started picking them, and the trees were not cut.
[Explanation] In recent years, the beautiful scenery of Taihang Mountain has attracted many tourists, and the village where the couple live has become a place for tourists to check in.
The couple who discovered business opportunities again renovated their idle old house and built it into a cave homestay with Taihang characteristics.
[Concurrent] Wang Meina
This cave dwelling is all made of stones. Before, there were a lot of stones in the mountains. The houses in the mountains are basically made of stones. They are very strong. If you live in it, it will be warm in winter and cool in summer.
[Explanation] Wang Meina believes that struggling does not have to be in the city, it can also be at home.
They choose to return to their hometown and become the "new generation of left-behind youths". Through short videos, they link the countryside with the city, allowing more people to see the beautiful countryside that is constantly changing.
Xing Lu reports from Shijiazhuang, Hebei
Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]