How could an ordinary man mocked across the internet as “Zhao Kuangyin” spark a nationwide wave of cultural revival with just a phone and an AI?
Zhao Guangyin, a factory clerk crushed by the pressures of everyday life, is constantly teased by his neighbors as “Zhao Kuangyin” because his name sounds the same. By chance, he downloads the AI app Doubao and, on a whim, creates an AI agent called “Stories from the Hometown of the Song Founder.”
He only intends to use AI to dig up local legends and make amusing videos to help support his family.
To his surprise, a funny short video about “Zhao Kuangyin stealing watermelons” goes viral overnight, racking up over a hundred million views in five days! The traffic surges like a tsunami, transforming him from the ignored “Zhao Kuangyin” into the “hometown boy of the Song founder,” celebrated across the internet.
But going viral is only the beginning. Accusations of plagiarism, corporate predation, academic skepticism, international cultural clashes... One challenge follows another.
Drawing on his heartfelt devotion to his hometown's culture and his masterful use of AI tools, Zhao Guangyin meets each challenge head-on. He turns AI from a “copywriting generator” into a “cultural gene bank,” goes from working alone to building a “culture creator” platform, expands from making short videos to creating the “Legends of Song Style” IP universe, and moves from answering domestic critics to taking the stage at international forums, winning traditional culture a voice in the digital age.
This is no simple feel-good story of an underdog's comeback. It is an in-depth experiment in “using technology to empower the humanities.”
See how an ordinary man, Zhao Guangyin, uses AI as his brush and culture as his ink to write a legendary chapter for every ordinary person on the screen of our times.