Chapter 737

(I wrote this while running a fever; the seasons are changing too fast, everyone please be careful to add or remove clothing.)

Main text:

"Huaxia in the Tian Yuan, released with a bang!"

On the YouTube homepage, Miss Luo Quan, holding a sledgehammer, appeared prominently in a place where everyone could see her.

Before this, Miss Luo Quan had already unlocked many looks and poses.

Whether it was pure and alluring, sexy, magical, or swimwear, one could say she had it all.

But this kind of look, dressed for heavy labor on a construction site, was something everyone was seeing for the first time.

However, it actually felt quite interesting; looking at those tight, powerful muscles on her arms gave one the feeling of looking at an ancient Greek sculpture.

Regarding Miss Luo Quan's looks, people used to say she was a Venus with arms.

But this time, one should probably see Athena.

Only this female god of war could embody her strength and beauty.

It's a pity that the "eighty-eighty" meme doesn't exist abroad; if it did, it could have added a touch of humor to the comments.

At the very beginning of the video, Miss Luo Quan introduced this episode:

Summer is here, and I have returned to my old home in the mountains, which I have been away from for many years. In this place, far from the prosperity and noise of the city, I will begin a primitive life and show everyone the pastoral life of the Huaxia people from hundreds of years ago.

Actually, foreign audiences are no strangers to similar videos; long before Miss Luo Quan, Wang Xiaojiu had already made similar content, and it was quite popular.

It is indeed unexpected that pastoral scenery, which few people watch domestically, has unexpectedly become a hit abroad.

However, due to trademark disputes, Wang Xiaojiu had stopped updating for a long time and was slow to fill this void.

Until Miss Luo Quan appeared.

She, like Wang Xiaojiu, is from Huaxia and has even greater fame. Although her appearance might make people feel a bit of a disconnect, no one would ever question her level of Sinology.

*A Bite of Huaxia* has already provided excellent proof; to this day, it remains one of the highest-rated variety shows on Netflix, attracting countless foreign foodies to Huaxia to taste the flavors of this ancient country of thousands of years.

Less than a year later, Miss Luo Quan has once again proposed new content—*Huaxia in the Tian Yuan*.

It can be seen as a sister piece to *A Bite of Huaxia*; regardless of the form of expression, the main purpose is to promote Huaxia's culture to people, letting everyone see this unique Eastern beauty.

Of course, from this opening part of the program, besides Miss Luo Quan and the green mountains stretching into the distance, everyone has yet to see any beauty.

Miss Luo Quan was seen standing in front of an earthen house that had already collapsed halfway, stroking the ruined walls and sighing softly: "This is the place where my grandfather lived for decades; it has collapsed due to years of disrepair.

It would be very troublesome to repair it for continued use, and there is no need, so I decided to tear it down and use the bamboo here to build a new house."

After speaking, Miss Luo Quan swung a sledgehammer and struck it heavily.

The earthen wall was like paper in front of her; after a few hits, it completely collapsed.

"A thunderous opening!"

"It's hard to imagine a girl being able to achieve such power with a hammer, but Miss Luo Quan did it."

"She isn't a girl, she is a goddess, a true goddess."

"It feels like the theme of the video is very similar to Wang Xiaojiu's; is there any borrowing?"

"Let's finish watching before saying anything; Miss Luo Quan is only in her twenties, she shouldn't be out of inspiration yet."

…………

Doubts are always there, but compared to Wang Xiaojiu, Miss Luo Quan's is undoubtedly more hardcore.

At the very least, Wang Xiaojiu couldn't smash a pile of walls with one hammer like Miss Luo Quan, and then carry several bamboo poles on one shoulder.

Four days of construction time were condensed by Miss Luo Quan into forty minutes.

Among them, the mortise and tenon structure shown by Miss Luo Quan is probably the biggest highlight.

Throughout the process, she didn't use a single nail; just by tightly fitting the bamboo joints and binding the key parts, she erected a bamboo house.

Looking from the outside, this three-room house is exquisite, beautiful, and integrated as a whole.

As the camera zooms in, almost all the connections show only a thin line.

"This is Huaxia's unique mortise and tenon architecture; apart from being slightly troublesome to make, it can almost be called perfect," Miss Luo Quan said, shaking it to prove its sturdiness and reliability.

The subsequent thunderstorm was the climax of the entire video.

Miss Luo Quan stayed quietly in the room, listening to the rain hitting and the wind blowing.

Outside the window in the distance were the mountains in the misty rain, which set off the atmosphere so quietly and serenely.

At this moment, the foreign viewers watching the video understood a little bit of the so-called artistic conception that Huaxia people often talk about.

This is a realm that can only be understood but not described in words; people's vision and hearing feel a different kind of charm in this sounding ink painting.

After the rain stopped, Miss Luo Quan started a fire to cook.

She aroused everyone's appetite with the most ordinary dishes.

The camera gradually zoomed out, and a wisp of cooking smoke rose from the bamboo house, drifting toward the green mountains in the distance.

This segment can be called the finishing touch, making people feel as if they are in these quiet and leisurely mountains.

And the first episode of *Huaxia in the Tian Yuan* came to an abrupt end here.

Just when the audience was still wanting more, the ending song played:

"The raw embryo outlines the blue and white, the brush tip turns from thick to light.

The peony painted on the bottle is just like your initial makeup.

………………

The sky-blue color waits for the misty rain, and I am waiting for you.

The cooking smoke rises, separated by thousands of miles across the river.

Writing in clerical script on the bottom of the bottle, imitating the elegance of the previous dynasty.

Just consider it my foreshadowing for meeting you.

………………"

Originally a song about Ru kiln blue and white porcelain, playing here didn't seem out of place at all; instead, it added three parts more to the artistic conception of the video.

Less than an hour after being uploaded, the video views had already exceeded eight million, and this speed was clearly heading toward breaking one hundred million.

In the comment section, viewers from all over the world were also expressing their true feelings here:

"That scene with the rain reminded me of when I was at my old home in Norway.

It was a winter, and I was in my small wooden cabin, lighting a stove fire and lying quietly on a rocking chair, with my loyal and elderly dog lying beside me.

The crackling sound of burning wood and the whistling sound of wind and snow kept ringing in my ears, but my heart was unprecedentedly peaceful and quiet, as if the whole world had stopped time at this moment.

So many years have passed, and I have never gained such tranquility again, until I finished watching this video.

Really, thank you very much, Miss Luo Quan."

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"This is probably the so-called Huaxia countryside; there is no thrilling scenery, no magnificent momentum, only the moving feeling that can touch the deepest part of the heart and the leisurely feeling of seeing the big from the small.

However, Miss Luo Quan has only lifted a small corner of this beautiful veil; I look forward to the next program, letting me truly see the beauty belonging to the Huaxia countryside."

………………

With over one hundred thousand comments, except for some disgusting remarks in Korean saying that mortise and tenon are actually traditional Korean crafts, people from other countries rated the video quite highly.

Professional rating websites also gave data: 9.5 points, a quite good result.

On the other hand, the discussion about this video in the country was also quite heated.

Although Miss Luo Quan is not the first to do this type, it is definitely the best-produced and most authentic one currently visible.

Like Wang Xiaojiu, when the first video was released, she was questioned about having a huge team behind her, and that it was actually just for show, very fake.

She herself also responded that it was impossible for her to finish many farm chores alone, and a team was definitely necessary, but most of the work was completed independently by her, and there was absolutely no situation of fraud.

As for what the real situation was, with her stopping updates, no one discussed it anymore.

And on Miss Luo Quan's side, no one has questioned her about faking anything yet.

Because for these four days, except for sleeping at night, the live broadcast was on.

The audience watched clearly how she built this house, piece of bamboo by piece of bamboo.

Although Miss Luo Quan edited the video, the full recording of the live broadcast is in her personal space on Bilibili, and you can go watch it at any time.

It can be said that Miss Luo Quan completed all the work with her own strength; one person is a team.

This patience and ability are truly too amazing.

While Weibo was full of praise, including GQT giving her a like, Zhihu started a discussion behind the video.

"How to view the phenomenon of *Huaxia in the Tian Yuan* becoming a hit abroad?"

The highlighted answer is as follows:

"This once again proves that the beauty of our Huaxia can actually make foreigners empathize.

The so-called cultural barriers and aesthetic differences are really not as big as everyone imagines.

Wang Xiaojiu did it before, and now Miss Luo Quan has done it too, which shows that as long as you put effort into production and do less of those abstruse and mysterious things, even if you just film some farm chores, you can still gain huge attention.

In this world, ordinary people still make up the majority; not everyone has received a good education, and down-to-earth content sometimes has a bigger market than so-called elegance and the words of sages.

Just like in our Huaxia, the most popular thing is definitely not the *Lecture Room*, but the various lives on Douyin and Constable.

You can say this is vulgar, nutrient-less fast-food culture, but people nowadays are just willing to watch this.

After all, everyone is rushing for a living, and to relieve pressure and bitterness, they basically only choose these fast foods instead of listening to a sage's words to cleanse their souls.

I think this is a point that many content creators need to pay attention to now."

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This answer belongs to seeing the essence through the phenomenon, directly analyzing why the video became a hit.

In addition to Miss Luo Quan's own painstaking production, it also includes the fact that the threshold for appreciating the video is very low.

This doesn't mean the video is low-quality, but that anyone can watch it, anyone can understand it, and there is no situation of being confused after watching it.

"Suitable for all ages" sounds very ordinary, but to truly achieve it is actually very difficult.

Fortunately, Miss Luo Quan's artistic creation has always upheld the concept of being suitable for all ages.

To describe it with an anime, that would be *Tom and Jerry*.

As perhaps the best and most famous anime worldwide, *Tom and Jerry* achieved the point of being suitable for all ages.

Whether it's children or adults, they only need one look to be attracted by the story of Tom and Jerry.

And behind this great anime is the result of countless artists piling up thousands and tens of thousands of hand-drawn original paintings.

Being down-to-earth and striving for excellence is probably the shortcut to success.

Miss Luo Quan has mastered the essence of it and has shown it to everyone.

Unfortunately, there are not many who can truly learn it.

Most people just want to make quick money with shoddy or compiled and localized works.

May I ask, if one can easily get paid by reciting "1234," who would be willing to run into the mountains in the middle of summer to record like Miss Luo Quan?

Isn't that asking for trouble?

"I'm not asking for trouble here," Miss Luo Quan explained with a smile when she saw the fans' complaints.

After posting the video at noon, she didn't really look at the subsequent evaluations, but devoted herself wholeheartedly to the work of farming.

If the earthen house is not repaired, it will collapse; if the farmland is not taken care of, it will grow grass, and it was already so high that it was almost past her knees.

Compared to building a bamboo house, this kind of bending over to cut grass is undoubtedly more tiring and tormenting.

It's not just back pain; after a long time, the back also hurts.

As for why the back hurts, that can only be understood but not described; no matter how much it hurts, after straightening her waist, Miss Luo Quan only put both hands on her waist to rub and knead.

After cutting for more than an hour, Miss Luo Quan, who really couldn't help it, finally hid behind the camera and rubbed her sore shoulders and back.

"It's really hard work," Miss Luo Quan breathed lightly, relieving the shortness of breath caused by chest tightness.

If it weren't for the hot weather, she would really want to wear a posture corrector.

Although that thing has no scientific basis and relies entirely on hard bending to correct the body shape, it's unclear whether it has more benefits or disadvantages.

However, at least its quality is still very good, and after wearing it, it can also relieve a lot of her pressure.

But because it's not breathable, if she wore that thing now, she doesn't know how much sweat she would shed.

After thinking about it, she felt it was better to forget it.

Anyway, the soreness in her shoulders and back is only temporary, and her body recovers quickly; after rubbing and kneading a bit more, she can soon return to work.

After resting on the ground for five minutes, Miss Luo Quan returned to the camera: "I just went to the bathroom, now I'll continue working."

Miss Luo Quan put her hands on her hips, looking at the weeds in the farmland in front of her that had already been eliminated by half: "Another hour will be basically enough; although the field is not big, it's enough for me to grow a lot of vegetables."

"Yesterday you let the eldest sister suggest, I'll ask directly here, can you grow watermelons?"

"Watermelons are very easy to sell now, they are two yuan a catty where we are."

"Is your watermelon skin made of gold, or is the watermelon skin made of gold?"

"Look, where are there any watermelons now? They have all been bought up, you can't even get stock, if you think it's expensive, I think it's expensive too."

"Is this watermelon ripe?"

"I'll fast-forward directly to 'Sarilang'!"

"Haha, you guys are going to make me die of laughter."

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The comments in Miss Luo Quan's live broadcast room never disappoint.

A single watermelon directly triggered a large-scale meme craze.

However, Miss Luo Quan laughed, but still said: "Watermelons ripen slowly, I don't have that much time to take care of them, I can only grow some crops that ripen faster."