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Rural Stars, Global Fans

In today’s global supermarkets, people can easily get condiments from all over the world, such as soy sauce, which has an indispensable role in Chinese kitchens. So it is not strange that today few people know how to make the sauce, especially young people.

However, 29-year-old Li Ziqi is an exception. Li, who lives in a village in Sichuan Province in southwest China, recently uploaded a video to YouTube that records the entire process of making soy sauce, and attracted millions of global fans with her natural-style craft.

More and more people in rural areas share their daily life and nature-style crafts on the Internet and social media platforms, which is considered a way of spreading the aesthetic value of traditional

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