The river around the city was named 无定河(Wu Ding He, "Never-Settling River") prior to the 1600s to describe the constant flooding and course-changing nature of the river. Emperor Kangxi of Qing despised this name, so he started several hydraulic engineering projects to settle the river to its current course, and renamed it 永定河(Yong Ding He, "Ever-Settled River").
Oh my gosh I wonder if that's what ATLA was referencing with that line about the city being called Ba Sing Se ("Impenetrable City") and not Na Sing Se ("Penetrable City")
If you think Beijing is like a square city, you should try Xi'an. It's like a CPU chip level city design, during Tang dynasty, small squares make up the city which is also very rectangular.
@@Tower_Swagman beijing's poor geography with too many northern mountains means there are limited urban expansion, too many people moving in will overcrowd everything
Excelent. Ps.: you can see the growth of the actual size of the city (the area really covered by buildings) by the new circular roads, that were build just outside its current boundaries at the time.
@@kalpeshmanna7233 Because they were usually planned and build in one single take. When a area was destroyed, for example by natural disaster or war, ( parts of China lost two thirds of their population during the Mongol invasion) they were often mass-repopulated. The cities until the Ming era were often build of not very long lasting materials like wood and stamped earth (actually very effective) and there was not that much left after for example a attack and several decades of decay. You can see this for example in the ruins of the northern capital of the Mongol Yuan dynasty: its essentialy a flat plain with the city walls of rammed earth quickly degradatet to green hills. So it was often easier to rebuild the city from scratch nearby (something that happened several times to most Chinese cities) during such phases of mass reconstruction the cities were build by identical Standarts for the whole country, set by the central administration. These usually involved a square shaped wall around the city and a grid of streets,also the construction of the houses was strictly reglememted. These laws were particularly strict during the early Dynasties. Cities had always to be perfect square and were, for example, had zoning laws for in wich part of 5he city what kind of people was allowed to live mostly by the kind of their work. There were walls between all parts of the city and their various subdivisions. In some cities, especially in the capital, a low status in society prohibited you from entering certain areas. This kind of urbanism greatly restricted economic activity andmany of the rules were slowly dropped. From the Song Era the walls between the city's subdivisions were abolished, and it allowed for the exiting street live, with many businesses and attractions, Asia is known for today. Bevore that cities, outside the designated market squares, were boring, since all Streets were surrounded yust by blend walls with large gates to the subdivisions and from there with gates to the individual houses, the windows of wich pointer only to the inner court. By the ming Era the use of bricks was promoted, because of wood shortages, especially in the northern plains of the country. Also cities were sometimes allowed to adopt to their natural surroundings, and be less square. PS. Sorry for the bad English.
Many cities in the old world, especially those in China, India, Italy, Iran, Egypt, have histories of more than 1000 years, for example, Wuhan, was built almost 2000 years ago.
I see what you did there but athens was held by the greeks before Istanbul so in my opinion and Istanbul currently being a city of turkey athens is more hellenized
A minor inconsistency: Yuan Dynasty is referred to as Mongol rule period, which is true, but Qing dynasty isn't referred to as Manchu rule. The Manchus in fact ruled over the Chinese, the Mongols, the Muslims and the Tibetans as a distinct overlord caste, so it was not just an imperial dynasty of China
Habsburg Dynasty, Swiss rule over Spain, Austria, Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, Croatia, and Romania? Bourbon Dynasty, French rule over Spain? Wittelsbacher Dynasty, German rule over Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Greece? Jagiellonian Dynasty, Lithuanians ruled over Poland, Czech, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, and Estonia? Normandy Dynasty, French-speaking Vikings ruled over England and Ireland? Bernadotte Dynasty, the French ruled over Sweden and Norway? Mughul Dynasty, Irian speaking Uzbektianian ruled over India? Japanese Imperial Dynasty, Korean decedent ruled over Japan Islands? I think you get the point, trying to use the modern Nation-State standard to explain the political and diplomatic relations in the period when nation-states and nationalism still did not exist was a dumb idea. You may refer then to Yuan Mongol Dynasty and Qin Manchu Dynast, but whether a Dynasties belongs to a country is based on whether the rule and the population claimed and consider the ruler the legitimate ruler of the country.
Beijing has Been traditionally Han district since the zhou dynasty. What are you talking about,manchu are people from guanwai, in dongbei, please go away to homeland, Beijing is Chinese Beijing. Manchus are outsider
Well, I think the key difference here is Manchus people claimed their rule as a Chinese Dynasty. Throughout the Qing Dynasty, they used a word “traitor to the Han” to discredit the ultimate disloyalties to their Dynasty. The bizarre part of this is they do not have the equivalent word for “traitor to the Manchus”, or even the idea of “traitors to the Manchus.” So it literally means if you defy the Qing Dynasty, you were seen as a traitor to the Han people instead of Manchus from Qing emperors’ point of view. One of the greatest Qing emperor, Qianlong, even compiled a book to discredit those Han ministers who defied Ming Dynasty and served Qing Dynasty, contending the betrayal to Han was the Ultimate evilness. I think this unusual use of words could reveal the complexity of the relationship between the two ethnics. In a sense, the assimilation between the two groups is so tightly to the degree Manchus fully adopted world views of Han Chinese. Today’s national-state mindset may not be suitable to analyze it.
@@yibeichow744 Excellent points. So the Manchu ruling class got assimilated in their quest to be authentically Han, while they still paradoxically forced the working class Han Chinese people to wear the Cue as a symbol of submission to Manchu rule? Weird, but interesting dynamics. Are there even an ethnos known as the Manchu in China today, or have they become indistinguishable from/absorbed into the larger Han identity? Wikipedia says the government has promoted the culture and language as a distinct minority, but from all the videos I've seen from different cities in Manchuria (admittedly a very selective and small sample size), it was hard to tell.
*Fun Fact:* This massive city was called "Northern Barbarian Territory" to Han-Chinese Scholar-officials(士大夫) until the Forbidden City was built in 1406. Because that area was owned by Yan-kingdom(燕) for a long time ago, and engraved as unknown lands, not midfield(中原) that lived whose ancient Chinese. A most famous example is Scholar-officials "Fang Xiaoru" has insult Ming Emperor"Yongle(永樂帝)" with words like this "Thief of Yan area are stealing imperial-succession illegally(燕賊簒位)."
One minor correction, during the Qing Dynasty, the official name of the city was not 北京 (Beijing, "Northern Capital"), it was 京师 (JingShi, "Capital"). "Beijing" was official during Ming Dynasty because of the two-capital system that Ming used, Beijing as the north capital, Nanjing as the South Capital. When the Manchus established Qing Dynasty, they renamed Beijing "Jingshi" and designated it the sole capital. They also renamed Nanjing to 江宁(JIangNing, "Pacify Yangtze"), removing the capital status of Nanjing. The name "Beijing" was still heavily used in day-to-day life, but it was not official during 1644-1911, you won't see any use of it in the official documents. For example, the original name of Peking University was 京师大学堂(JingShiDaXueTang, "Grand University of the Capital").
No, it was natural causes. The river around the city was named 无定河(Wuding River, "Never-Settling River") prior to the Qing dynasty to describe the constant flooding and course-changing nature of the river. Emperor Kangxi of Qing despised the name of the river, so he started several hydraulic engineering projects to settle the course to the current location and renamed it 永定河(Yongding River, "Ever-Settled River").
Amazing how this city truly took off during the 1950s and 1960s, the exact time period so many like to think of as "genocides"... And yet the city declined disastrously throughout its past prior to the establishment of PRC. Makes you think
The video is great, but that doesn't mean it's entirely right. There are many historical mistakes that can be avoided originally, especially since the special city period of the Republic of China. For example, Tong County did not belong to Peping during the Republic of China. There is also a so-called Tongzhou City in its interior, and its management scope is larger than that indicated in the video. Video producers, on the other hand, have only used recent administrative boundaries, while history has had more complex changes. If you are interested in this, you may wish to take a look at the historical atlas of Beijing's administrative divisions written more than ten years ago.
It's in the video (4:49): in the 18th and 19th centuries the city became known in most western languages by it's name in the Nanjing dialect (Pequim, Peking, Pékin etc.)
Can you do the history of Indian cities like Delhi, Patna (Pataliputra), Madurai, Thanjavur, Hyderabad, Varanasi, Mathura, Ahmedabad, Vijayapura, Jaipur, Agra etc?
which happened a lot in China history. The sand and mud from the Loess Plateau carried by the river would accumulate and block original river course. Usually this ended up with a dam or embankment breached
River courses aren't permanent like a lot of people assume, they frequently change over the course of centuries and millenia, partly dependent on changing climate conditions and especially dependent on geological changes. All rivers are ultimately formed from rainwater, as that rainwater flows downhill, it picks up some of the dirt it rolls over, gradually eroding it to produce channels through which more water can flow. Given enough time, this develops into a full fledged river system. But erosion doesn't stop once the river is fully formed, and if some areas of the riverbed are eroded more than others, it can result in the river changing course. Flooding erodes a lot of the land surrounding the river, which can intensify this effect, so rivers that flood extremely often like the Huang He are particularly prone to changing course. Usually it's small scale, pretty insignificant stuff, that creates 'meandering' rivers like the one in this video ua-cam.com/video/kJuWNjYBudI/v-deo.html The giant changes you see in the video are called 'Avulsion', and they can have devastating effects for human populations. Rivers continue to take sediment from the land and push it towards the sea, creating new land which is extremely flat and swampy. Example image here upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Mississippi_Delta_1976.jpg/600px-Mississippi_Delta_1976.jpg As this new land forms and the river continues to erode, the slope of the river becomes less steep, meaning that gravity doesn't pull the water down the river channel as much. When the river floods, some of the water might fall down a shorter and steeper path towards the ocean. This newly formed river will start as a tiny stream branching off from the main river, but as time goes on, further flooding and erosion will allow more and more water to go down the tiny stream, causing it to grow, pulling more and more water down, and over the course of a few years to a few decades, completely replace the original river. Additionally, if too much sediment builds up in one part of the river, it may physically block the main path to the ocean and cause a much faster change in the river's course. The amount of time avulsion takes can vary dramatically from case to case. For example, in the year 1128, a Song dynasty army deliberately sabotaged some of the levees meant to protect Northern China from flooding. This caused avulsion to begin, but it took until 1194 to be complete. The most devastating example in Chinese history though is a lot more recent and happened far more quickly, as the Yellow River changed course in just a few years between 1851 and 1855, causing a famine which killed over a million people.
@@p00bix God, that is interesting, being a member of a new nation, the idea that rivers change as time goes surprises me, especially if it is just a series of centuries for the change to take place, thanks.
Seems that the river keeps changing course. Also, it's kinda odd that the city used to be called Nanjing. Does it have any connections with the present Nanjing?
From what I heard, it's because Nanjing probably may mean "southern capital". I don't know exactly, but I think Beijing either means 'eastern capital' or 'northern capital'. Maybe someone who knows Chinese will know better than me.
It was Liao dynasty, Liao was ruled by khitay in sinicization, they have "Shangjing" (upper capital, today's inner Mongolia) "Zhongjing" ( central capital, also inner Mongolia) Finally "Nanjing" (southern capital, today's Beijing) :)
as Liao Dynasty had 5 capitals and circuits like 中京Zhongjing(Central Capital, located in Inner Mongolia nowadays), 上京Shangjing(Northern/Upper Capital , locate between eastern Inner Mongolia and southern Seberia nowadays), 東京Dongjing(Eastern Capital, locate in Primorskij kraj nowadays and not the Japanese one), 南京Nanjing( the one video shown), 西京Hsijing(western capital, located in Shanxi Province nowadays).
The history of Peiping北平 is the shortest one compared to other Ancient Chinese Capitals like Si'an西安（Kingchao京兆）Honan河南（Loyang洛陽） Kaifung開封 Kiangning江寧 Taiyuen 太原
@@chantomato232 It was the southern capital of Khitan not the Southern capital of Chinese dynasties.The southern capital of Song at the same period is Yingtien應天（Shangkiu商丘）
No , Beijing ( bei = north , jing = capital) it’s mean Northern Capital , use to be called Peking. While Nanjing ( Nan = South , jing = Capital ) means southern Capital. It’s very different geography location. Fun fact , Tokyo , Japan in their Japanese and Chinese language written as Dongjing ( Tokyo) , Dong /To = East , Jing /kyo = Capital . Means Eastern Capital because Japan located at East of China
The river around the city was named 无定河(Wu Ding He, "Never-Settling River") prior to the 1600s to describe the constant flooding and course-changing nature of the river. Emperor Kangxi of Qing despised this name, so he started several hydraulic engineering projects to settle the river to its current course, and renamed it 永定河(Yong Ding He, "Ever-Settled River").
Thanks for the information! That's a really interesting river!
我竟然不知道北海和中南海是由河形成的
Oh my gosh I wonder if that's what ATLA was referencing with that line about the city being called Ba Sing Se ("Impenetrable City") and not Na Sing Se ("Penetrable City")
南海是人工挖掘的
@@bodo-bing Instantly reminded me of that too.
If you think Beijing is like a square city, you should try Xi'an. It's like a CPU chip level city design, during Tang dynasty, small squares make up the city which is also very rectangular.
AMD YES
Too bad we can't actually build a CPU chip :')
3:09 "comfortable"
I have been to Beijing twice, amazing city. Also my condolences for the families of the victims of the floods in Zhengzhou.
Simp
From 2017 onwards the population is slightly decreasing since the government prevents further moving to it to boost the population of 2nd tier cities.
Wait why would they do that, why not just leave Beijing be?
@@Tower_Swagman beijing's poor geography with too many northern mountains means there are limited urban expansion, too many people moving in will overcrowd everything
@@Tower_Swagman pretty sure stopping ppl moving into a crowded city with limited expansion space is leaving it be
@@Tower_Swagman There are already 30 million people around that little square
Excelent. Ps.: you can see the growth of the actual size of the city (the area really covered by buildings) by the new circular roads, that were build just outside its current boundaries at the time.
1:18
Beijing: World's squarest city
All ancient chinese cities had square shape.
1:17 beijing becomes square
What?
@@user-uf2df6zf5w why
@@kalpeshmanna7233 Because they were usually planned and build in one single take. When a area was destroyed, for example by natural disaster or war, ( parts of China lost two thirds of their population during the Mongol invasion) they were often mass-repopulated. The cities until the Ming era were often build of not very long lasting materials like wood and stamped earth (actually very effective) and there was not that much left after for example a attack and several decades of decay. You can see this for example in the ruins of the northern capital of the Mongol Yuan dynasty: its essentialy a flat plain with the city walls of rammed earth quickly degradatet to green hills. So it was often easier to rebuild the city from scratch nearby (something that happened several times to most Chinese cities) during such phases of mass reconstruction the cities were build by identical Standarts for the whole country, set by the central administration. These usually involved a square shaped wall around the city and a grid of streets,also the construction of the houses was strictly reglememted. These laws were particularly strict during the early Dynasties. Cities had always to be perfect square and were, for example, had zoning laws for in wich part of 5he city what kind of people was allowed to live mostly by the kind of their work. There were walls between all parts of the city and their various subdivisions. In some cities, especially in the capital, a low status in society prohibited you from entering certain areas. This kind of urbanism greatly restricted economic activity andmany of the rules were slowly dropped. From the Song Era the walls between the city's subdivisions were abolished, and it allowed for the exiting street live, with many businesses and attractions, Asia is known for today. Bevore that cities, outside the designated market squares, were boring, since all Streets were surrounded yust by blend walls with large gates to the subdivisions and from there with gates to the individual houses, the windows of wich pointer only to the inner court. By the ming Era the use of bricks was promoted, because of wood shortages, especially in the northern plains of the country. Also cities were sometimes allowed to adopt to their natural surroundings, and be less square.
PS. Sorry for the bad English.
Hebei: How many things you want to take from me?
Beijing: Yes.
Hebei, the Maryland of China
What do you think about taiwan?
@@like31000 天生万物以养人，人无一德以报天，杀杀杀杀杀杀杀
@@NaturalSelection1452 Can you translate in english?
@@like31000 he means we love taiwan
구글지도 보면 성곽 안쪽의 구도심은 후퉁이라는 골목이 있는데 신도심에는 크고 길쭉한 건물들이 있더군요. 우리나라나 일본에는 없는 건축인데 신기하네요.
such a historical city omg
Search about varanasi, patna and rome.
Many cities in the old world, especially those in China, India, Italy, Iran, Egypt, have histories of more than 1000 years, for example, Wuhan, was built almost 2000 years ago.
2:38 square expands
@@Abhishek-sr2pu Rome was built like 5 centuries after Beijing lmao x)
Yep
This video is amazing! It is so detailed that the rivers around are also changing.
Hey man, can you also do one for Athens? That city has huge history! I'd appreciate that!!!
best greek city is istanbul
@@lee-fc5bu bruh
@@lee-fc5bu no? The most historical city in Hellas for Greeks is Athens
I see what you did there but athens was held by the greeks before Istanbul so in my opinion and Istanbul currently being a city of turkey athens is more hellenized
A minor inconsistency: Yuan Dynasty is referred to as Mongol rule period, which is true, but Qing dynasty isn't referred to as Manchu rule. The Manchus in fact ruled over the Chinese, the Mongols, the Muslims and the Tibetans as a distinct overlord caste, so it was not just an imperial dynasty of China
Habsburg Dynasty, Swiss rule over Spain, Austria, Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, Croatia, and Romania?
Bourbon Dynasty, French rule over Spain?
Wittelsbacher Dynasty, German rule over Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Greece?
Jagiellonian Dynasty, Lithuanians ruled over Poland, Czech, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, and Estonia?
Normandy Dynasty, French-speaking Vikings ruled over England and Ireland?
Bernadotte Dynasty, the French ruled over Sweden and Norway?
Mughul Dynasty, Irian speaking Uzbektianian ruled over India?
Japanese Imperial Dynasty, Korean decedent ruled over Japan Islands?
I think you get the point, trying to use the modern Nation-State standard to explain the political and diplomatic relations in the period when nation-states and nationalism still did not exist was a dumb idea. You may refer then to Yuan Mongol Dynasty and Qin Manchu Dynast, but whether a Dynasties belongs to a country is based on whether the rule and the population claimed and consider the ruler the legitimate ruler of the country.
Qing claimed to be Chinese. They claimed the Mandate of Heaven, continuing Ming to be the legitimate ruler of China.
Beijing has Been traditionally
Han district since the zhou dynasty. What are you talking about,manchu are people from guanwai, in dongbei, please go away to homeland, Beijing is Chinese Beijing. Manchus are outsider
Well, I think the key difference here is Manchus people claimed their rule as a Chinese Dynasty.
Throughout the Qing Dynasty, they used a word “traitor to the Han” to discredit the ultimate disloyalties to their Dynasty. The bizarre part of this is they do not have the equivalent word for “traitor to the Manchus”, or even the idea of “traitors to the Manchus.” So it literally means if you defy the Qing Dynasty, you were seen as a traitor to the Han people instead of Manchus from Qing emperors’ point of view. One of the greatest Qing emperor, Qianlong, even compiled a book to discredit those Han ministers who defied Ming Dynasty and served Qing Dynasty, contending the betrayal to Han was the Ultimate evilness.
I think this unusual use of words could reveal the complexity of the relationship between the two ethnics. In a sense, the assimilation between the two groups is so tightly to the degree Manchus fully adopted world views of Han Chinese. Today’s national-state mindset may not be suitable to analyze it.
@@yibeichow744 Excellent points. So the Manchu ruling class got assimilated in their quest to be authentically Han, while they still paradoxically forced the working class Han Chinese people to wear the Cue as a symbol of submission to Manchu rule? Weird, but interesting dynamics. Are there even an ethnos known as the Manchu in China today, or have they become indistinguishable from/absorbed into the larger Han identity? Wikipedia says the government has promoted the culture and language as a distinct minority, but from all the videos I've seen from different cities in Manchuria (admittedly a very selective and small sample size), it was hard to tell.
*Fun Fact:* This massive city was called "Northern Barbarian Territory" to Han-Chinese Scholar-officials(士大夫) until the Forbidden City was built in 1406. Because that area was owned by Yan-kingdom(燕) for a long time ago, and engraved as unknown lands, not midfield(中原) that lived whose ancient Chinese. A most famous example is Scholar-officials "Fang Xiaoru" has insult Ming Emperor"Yongle(永樂帝)" with words like this "Thief of Yan area are stealing imperial-succession illegally(燕賊簒位)."
"What's up Beijing"
-Xi Jinping
One minor correction, during the Qing Dynasty, the official name of the city was not 北京 (Beijing, "Northern Capital"), it was 京师 (JingShi, "Capital").
"Beijing" was official during Ming Dynasty because of the two-capital system that Ming used, Beijing as the north capital, Nanjing as the South Capital. When the Manchus established Qing Dynasty, they renamed Beijing "Jingshi" and designated it the sole capital. They also renamed Nanjing to 江宁(JIangNing, "Pacify Yangtze"), removing the capital status of Nanjing.
The name "Beijing" was still heavily used in day-to-day life, but it was not official during 1644-1911, you won't see any use of it in the official documents. For example, the original name of Peking University was 京师大学堂(JingShiDaXueTang, "Grand University of the Capital").
Interesting to see how the river around the city also moved around, how did that occur? Is it due to human engineering or natural causes?
That's what I was wondering too
No, it was natural causes. The river around the city was named 无定河(Wuding River, "Never-Settling River") prior to the Qing dynasty to describe the constant flooding and course-changing nature of the river. Emperor Kangxi of Qing despised the name of the river, so he started several hydraulic engineering projects to settle the course to the current location and renamed it 永定河(Yongding River, "Ever-Settled River").
@@ShibalotonSeattle Thanks you for the precision !
Both, usually natural causes, but sometimes rivers change courses due to human intervention (rivers that used to flow into the aral sea, for example)
Actually many rivers still moving, maybe in the past or in history some of the river are not on the same place that we think.
Cool you did it good job👍🙂
what an amazing video! Could you, one day, make a video about the history of São Paulo? Keep up the great work!!
Thanks so much for the video!
Amazing how this city truly took off during the 1950s and 1960s, the exact time period so many like to think of as "genocides"...
And yet the city declined disastrously throughout its past prior to the establishment of PRC.
Makes you think
Nice video! I’m from Beijing’s neighboring city Tianjin
I’m from chaoyang district. Thank you so much for making this video
Wait, you can see youtube? isnt it like, censored or something?
lets cut it short, what do you think about taiwan?
@@like31000 Probably this person is using a VPN
@ROChina SH Aren't you scared they might catch you and arrest you?
@@like31000 Its China not North Korea lol
pls do Hochiminh City or Hanoi pls
Please do Rome, Mexico City, Shenyang, Sao Paulo, Lhasa, Hanoi, Tunis, Meca, New York, Moscow, Ulanbator and Macao
new york is brand new
ollie bye's latest video a month ago is a video about new york
I think by ulanbator you mean Ulaanbaatar
@@Tower_Swagman
Sorry, in Brazil we said Ulanbator
Between September 2004 and July 2005, the Changping District was my home.
Welcome to China, though!
i was waiting days for you to publish a video od the history of the cities
0:40 they turned river
The city wall of Ming Beijing wasn't same as the city wall of Yuan Dadu, it's been moved south at least 3 kilometers.
Very detailed after the establishment of the Republic of China.
DADU: LOL I AM MEGA CITY AT 14TH CENTURY
germs: hold on my black death
The video is great, but that doesn't mean it's entirely right. There are many historical mistakes that can be avoided originally, especially since the special city period of the Republic of China. For example, Tong County did not belong to Peping during the Republic of China. There is also a so-called Tongzhou City in its interior, and its management scope is larger than that indicated in the video. Video producers, on the other hand, have only used recent administrative boundaries, while history has had more complex changes. If you are interested in this, you may wish to take a look at the historical atlas of Beijing's administrative divisions written more than ten years ago.
Why in Brazil the people said that is Pequim not Beijing?
It's in the video (4:49): in the 18th and 19th centuries the city became known in most western languages by it's name in the Nanjing dialect (Pequim, Peking, Pékin etc.)
It is origined from the pronounce of old mandarin “Pekin”
In fact,it's official name was Shuntien Fu and the city name Beijing is just a modern one.
@@趙守法-j5e Now I get it, thanks for explaining
Great job!
Can you do Manila?
Can you do the history of Indian cities like Delhi, Patna (Pataliputra), Madurai, Thanjavur, Hyderabad, Varanasi, Mathura, Ahmedabad, Vijayapura, Jaipur, Agra etc?
Good job and very detailed video! Looking forward to the history of Indochina mainland.
this city's population is almost north korea's population xd
Do history of Athens
Great!
3:05 Yuan Dynasty
Can you work a Ha Noi pls
Can you do one about Berlin?
I don't understand, how did the rivers change so much?
which happened a lot in China history. The sand and mud from the Loess Plateau carried by the river would accumulate and block original river course. Usually this ended up with a dam or embankment breached
River courses aren't permanent like a lot of people assume, they frequently change over the course of centuries and millenia, partly dependent on changing climate conditions and especially dependent on geological changes.
All rivers are ultimately formed from rainwater, as that rainwater flows downhill, it picks up some of the dirt it rolls over, gradually eroding it to produce channels through which more water can flow. Given enough time, this develops into a full fledged river system. But erosion doesn't stop once the river is fully formed, and if some areas of the riverbed are eroded more than others, it can result in the river changing course. Flooding erodes a lot of the land surrounding the river, which can intensify this effect, so rivers that flood extremely often like the Huang He are particularly prone to changing course. Usually it's small scale, pretty insignificant stuff, that creates 'meandering' rivers like the one in this video ua-cam.com/video/kJuWNjYBudI/v-deo.html
The giant changes you see in the video are called 'Avulsion', and they can have devastating effects for human populations. Rivers continue to take sediment from the land and push it towards the sea, creating new land which is extremely flat and swampy. Example image here upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Mississippi_Delta_1976.jpg/600px-Mississippi_Delta_1976.jpg As this new land forms and the river continues to erode, the slope of the river becomes less steep, meaning that gravity doesn't pull the water down the river channel as much. When the river floods, some of the water might fall down a shorter and steeper path towards the ocean. This newly formed river will start as a tiny stream branching off from the main river, but as time goes on, further flooding and erosion will allow more and more water to go down the tiny stream, causing it to grow, pulling more and more water down, and over the course of a few years to a few decades, completely replace the original river. Additionally, if too much sediment builds up in one part of the river, it may physically block the main path to the ocean and cause a much faster change in the river's course.
The amount of time avulsion takes can vary dramatically from case to case. For example, in the year 1128, a Song dynasty army deliberately sabotaged some of the levees meant to protect Northern China from flooding. This caused avulsion to begin, but it took until 1194 to be complete. The most devastating example in Chinese history though is a lot more recent and happened far more quickly, as the Yellow River changed course in just a few years between 1851 and 1855, causing a famine which killed over a million people.
@@p00bix God, that is interesting, being a member of a new nation, the idea that rivers change as time goes surprises me, especially if it is just a series of centuries for the change to take place, thanks.
I liked the music.
Seems that the river keeps changing course. Also, it's kinda odd that the city used to be called Nanjing. Does it have any connections with the present Nanjing?
From what I heard, it's because Nanjing probably may mean "southern capital". I don't know exactly, but I think Beijing either means 'eastern capital' or 'northern capital'. Maybe someone who knows Chinese will know better than me.
@@hungrehsden3808 Oh yeah, both of them ends in -jing so you may have a point
It was Liao dynasty, Liao was ruled by khitay in sinicization, they have
"Shangjing" (upper capital, today's inner Mongolia)
"Zhongjing" ( central capital, also inner Mongolia)
Finally "Nanjing" (southern capital, today's Beijing)
:)
@@hungrehsden3808 Yes, you got the point, Nan+jing means south+capital not a specific city
@@hungrehsden3808 Yep you're right. "Eastern Capital" is Tokyo (Dongjing)
Greetings from China.
세계에서 가장 인구가 많은 나라의 수도가 베이징입니다.
Zhou dynasty are related to shatuo tribes, so the city is build by non chinese people
串台了哥们，沙陀人已经是7世纪的事情了。周代北京地区是皇室家族的封地，但因为位置偏远被中原地区的人们当作蛮夷
Bean 0:04
You should redo the Austroasiatic languages one
다음 모스크바 가능합니까
Seeing the population go down during mongol times-
Evolutuon of rome city plese.
should have shown China map in an inset to facilitate time tracking.
Wazzup Beijing
Do Hong Kong but neglect country parks
So, it was destroyed and reconstructed several times
thats china for ya
do london or istanbul(constantinople)
The history of Jakarta, please.
어라 2일전에 올라왔는데 이걸 못봤네
마지막에 무슨 거미줄 짓는줄ㅋㅋㅋ
Make the history of Alexandria every year
wazzup beijing
wazzup
자막을 안켜서...
+켰음
Plz make Berlin
Why the river move
padrino, haz uno de shenzhen...
Make the history of the city of Kyiv, Ukraine
Wow in English its named Beijing from the Qing and in german Peking from the Manchus intresting thad there are more Name for the City
Do a history of MÉXICO CITY
Xi'an plz the most famous ancient capital in China
No,the most famous one is Henan fu (河南府）😄
@@趙守法-j5e The five cities of Changan（长安）, Luoyang（洛阳）, Kaifeng（开封）, Beijing（北京） and Nanjing（南京） are the most famous capital😀
@@brilliantchristian7849 西安 河南 江寧（建康） 北平（大興） 開封 非京都時期的正式名
@@趙守法-j5e 西安（長安 京兆府（北宋 金）奉元路（元））
洛陽（雒陽（東漢）東都 （隋）神都 （武周））西京洛陽府（北宋）河南府（明清））
開封（大梁（戰國）汴州 東京開封府（北宋）南京（金）汴梁路（元））
南京（建業（三國吳）建康 南京應天府（明）江寧府（清））
北京（幽州（唐）南京析津府（遼）中都大興府（金）大都路（元）北平）
這應該差不多全了
Do Athens next
Nah
The Nanjing part is very funny
as Liao Dynasty had 5 capitals and circuits like 中京Zhongjing(Central Capital, located in Inner Mongolia nowadays), 上京Shangjing(Northern/Upper Capital , locate between eastern Inner Mongolia and southern Seberia nowadays), 東京Dongjing(Eastern Capital, locate in Primorskij kraj nowadays and not the Japanese one), 南京Nanjing( the one video shown), 西京Hsijing(western capital, located in Shanxi Province nowadays).
The history of Peiping北平 is the shortest one compared to other Ancient Chinese Capitals like Si'an西安（Kingchao京兆）Honan河南（Loyang洛陽） Kaifung開封 Kiangning江寧 Taiyuen 太原
@@chantomato232 It was the southern capital of Khitan not the Southern capital of Chinese dynasties.The southern capital of Song at the same period is Yingtien應天（Shangkiu商丘）
@@趙守法-j5enever said that Liao Dynasty is one of the Chinese Dynasty
@@chantomato232 It was a khitan dynasty lah
3:29 Not a square anymore
During Ming Dynasty's Capital Shapes like Square almost
Can you make Hong Kong?
Hong Kong is nothing without our help
Hong Kong is just a rural area before we come
Rome please
Do rio de janeiro pls i wan't right now
The music choice is dreadful
Was up Beijing
0:04 bean
S Q A U R E Music 1:44
Make the history of tokyo
5:59
1:43
tokyo plz
I don't think Tokyo would be interesting because it doesn't have long history
Kyiv pls
I doubt it bugged.
it (referring to the app you are using to create the visualization map)
History of Moscow pls
강줄기 바뀌네 ㄷㄷ
Oh so Beijing used to be called Nanjing? That's could be quite confusing.
No , Beijing ( bei = north , jing = capital) it’s mean Northern Capital , use to be called Peking. While Nanjing ( Nan = South , jing = Capital ) means southern Capital. It’s very different geography location. Fun fact , Tokyo , Japan in their Japanese and Chinese language written as Dongjing ( Tokyo) , Dong /To = East , Jing /kyo = Capital . Means Eastern Capital because Japan located at East of China
Because from Khitans' perspective, Beijing was located in the south compared to their homeland.
@@TheNINECity during liao dynasty beijing was south of liao
It was 南京析津府
Bejing
wo ai beijing tiananmen
Xi'an Luoyang Nankin Taipei Tokyo Kyoto Hanoi Gyeongju Lhasa plz
Do Shanghai.
사랑해
아 놔 ㅋㅋㅋ
вот и все равно что там происходит только в России не будет никаких сомнений в том то и дело
seoul pls!!!!!!!!!
I've already made one: ua-cam.com/video/LoaZIoyxUy8/v-deo.html
@@TheDragonHistorian thanks
要好好学英语了，看不懂啊😂
Did the population just start... dropping?
China's population is shrinking especially in the cities
yes wars n stuff