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A man surnamed Liu in Wenzhou, Zhejiang turned his vegetable farm into a “character field” and became popular by growing Chinese characters and cutting them into song videos. They also accumulated a content library of more than 800 characters to answer the outside world’s doubts about AI generation.
A man surnamed Liu in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province “planted Chinese characters” in a vegetable field and made a video of these Chinese characters, combining them into the lyrics of various songs, which attracted the attention of netizens. This rare creative method made many netizens feel novelty, and some people suspected that the video images were generated by AI. Liu Nan emphasized that the Chinese characters he said in the video were not generated by AI, but were grown by themselves in the vegetable farm. He also said that in response to relevant doubts he had “released a video recording the growth process of vegetable seedlings”.
Jimu News reported that 38-year-old Liu Man previously worked mainly in shoe factories and even went to Hangzhou to work in 2025.spring Festival After that, he did not go back to work in the shoe factory, but decided to go back to the village to plant some vegetables and fruit trees; Once while browsing a short video, he saw someone writing calligraphy, and he came up with the idea of putting calligraphy in a vegetable field. “No one cares about the normal vegetables I grow, so I thought if I could grow some on the farm.”
The report said that initially he chose “Tao Te Ching”. Mr. Liu said that the reason he wanted to post this article was related to some insights into his life. Since he was not familiar with the planting method in the beginning, he tried and adjusted as he went along. It took him about 3 months to develop more than 100 words. Later, he began attempting to develop song lyrics, then filmed the developed Chinese characters and edited them into videos.
He told that the method of planting the characters is not complicated. First, use a small hoe to draw strokes of Chinese characters in the vegetable field, then sow seeds along the marks, and wait for vegetable seedlings to grow in the characters. “It usually takes more than 20 days for a character to develop, and this will slow down in the winter.” The vegetables used for planting should also be adjusted according to the season, mainly including radish, Shanghai greens, chicken wings, etc.
Currently, he plants more than 80 characters at a time, and each character occupies a plot of land about 1.2 meters long and wide. If you encounter characters with complex strokes, you’ll need to leave more space. But every word cannot develop smoothly. “A storm came and the rain destroyed them. Some of them had uneven germination rates. If they didn’t grow to the size of a word, they were useless.”
The report reported that Liu Nan said he had posted nearly 100 characters in more than a year. In this case, the only option is to replant and wait for some time. To prevent planted characters from being used only once, whenever a Chinese character grew, he would take a photo of it and save it on his hard drive. After more than a year, more than 800 words of video content have been accumulated in the hard drive, becoming his “word library”. From now on when making song videos, he only needs to find the Chinese characters corresponding to the lyrics and then edit them in order. The same letter can be used again and again in different functions, without repeating it every time.
On Douyin, Liu Nan changed his name to “Liu Twelve”. He has over 5,000 fans on his account and has posted several videos of growing vegetables in his vegetable fields; Among them, the video with the most likes has received more than 500,000 likes.
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He originally worked in a shoe factory. After returning to the village to grow vegetables, he watched a short calligraphy video and thought of planting Chinese characters in the fields. He thought that no one would care about normal vegetables, so he wanted to plant one in the fields.
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He first uses a small hoe to make Chinese character strokes in the vegetable field, then sows along the marks and waits for the vegetable plants to grow into the shape of Chinese characters; Each container usually takes more than 20 days, and it is slower in winter, and the vegetables will be adjusted according to the season.
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After Liu Nan develops the characters, he will create a video and save it to his hard drive. He has accumulated over 800 characters in over a year and has become his own “character library”. Later, when making song videos, he can directly call out the same Chinese characters and edit them again and again.
