Livestreaming Country Life Is Turning Some Chinese Farmers Into Celebrities
Enterprising young farmers in remote, rural areas have become Internet celebrities by livestreaming mundane details of their lives to urban Chinese audiences. They're part of a $3 billion industry.
It's early afternoon, and the roosters of Three Stones Village are clucking themselves into a frenzy. They're responding to the antics of farmer Liu Jin Ying, who darts this way and that between bamboo groves, rice paddies and livestock, carrying a tripod that holds his iPhone.
The barefoot 26-year-old climbs a tree and descends with a handful of flowers. He leans into his phone to explain.
"This is called ," he says, gazing into the camera while holding up the flowers. "It grows up here in the mountains of Sichuan
