【4K, 60Fps Colorized】Peking (Beijing) in 100 years ago, Ancient China (Around1910-1920)【AI Recovery】

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  • Опубліковано 7 тра 2020
  • This video is for studying purpose.
    Hello this is DGSpitzer! I use a series of AI to recover a video from 100 years ago!
    It's about Beijing street scene during 1920-1929. Shot by a Canadian photographer.
    SFXs come from Internet, and thanks to Yan Qiuxia & Luo Yusheng for their music masterpieces.
    Special thanks to Denis Shiryae for his tutorial!!~ Thanks ' v '
    AI Pipeline - Using DAIN, DeOldify & ESRGAN ;P
    Hope you like it!
    Source video: • Rare HD historical foo...
    Library and Archives Canada. National Film Board of Canada fonds, 1990-0347. IDC: 164831.

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  • @andraslibal
    @andraslibal 4 роки тому +7542

    Does anyone else have this weird feeling about black and white movies, that they are just history and not "as real" whereas if they color them, it feels much more real?

    • @BritskNguyen
      @BritskNguyen 4 роки тому +89

      yes

    • @Lightsoutandawaywego44
      @Lightsoutandawaywego44 4 роки тому +35

      Me

    • @littleshit4847
      @littleshit4847 4 роки тому +407

      @Paula Johnson it's not like the original is gone, if you want to watch the monochrome go ahead. This video is not meant to be accurate, it is meant to give a realistic feeling of being in that era. So what if the color is kinda off? The color of sky, tree, and ground wouldn't be wrong and the editor can look up for references to color the clothes and furnitures, it shouldn't be too far off

    • @littleshit4847
      @littleshit4847 4 роки тому +237

      @Paula Johnson hyperbole much? It's still the same people and same environment

    • @meiko431
      @meiko431 4 роки тому +7

      Same)

  • @applezen104
    @applezen104 4 роки тому +1682

    And those people looking straight at you in the camera will never know someone in the future met their gaze through the screens

    • @SimpleGrow420
      @SimpleGrow420 4 роки тому +38

      That's crazy!

    • @MrYougotcaught
      @MrYougotcaught 4 роки тому +61

      That’s deep...very deep

    • @bugder
      @bugder 4 роки тому +22

      Life is a travel frame in time, when captured it provides the future with the insight of the past.
      I watched with excitement and a wish into the possibility of the time travel.

    • @emmanuelquerol
      @emmanuelquerol 4 роки тому +13

      They didn't have any idea about a thing around the world in the future called UA-cam and that the distant future generations would see their faces.

    • @kikiw1401
      @kikiw1401 4 роки тому +1

      Thinking the same exact thing!

  • @primalforlorn
    @primalforlorn Рік тому +330

    Fun fact: 100 years ago Chinese folks believed cameras to be soul capturing device due to how realistic the photos are. In most photos taken during late Qing dynasty, people can be seen avoiding eye contacts with the lens. This gentleman at 7:43 probably wanted to learn more about the camera without staring into the lens, a true adventurer indeed!

    • @AbuHajarAlBugatti
      @AbuHajarAlBugatti Рік тому +108

      Fun fact: looking at all the soulless social media narcissts this created, these guys were fully right

    • @hanaisnoya
      @hanaisnoya Рік тому +25

      stealth so good i didn't even notice him hiding behind the tree

    • @JL-yt5hy
      @JL-yt5hy Рік тому +10

      they also thought trains were evil. China in 1900s was Europe a thousand years ago.

    • @liquidsnake6879
      @liquidsnake6879 Рік тому +9

      Well in theory, if you believe the ghost in the machine theory that your soul is what gives you life, and you've captured it in a picture, one could argue two things, one, that as long as the picture is around you'd never die, and two, that if the picture is destroyed you should die immediately, so it would've been pretty easy to test that theory out lol

    • @liquidsnake6879
      @liquidsnake6879 Рік тому

      @@JL-yt5hy And Europe progressed so quickly that it's already going back in time lol protesting all forms of modernity, clamouring for a rapid deindustrialization, with it's atomized desperate people trying to cling on to esoteric spiritualism in an attempt to find some kind of purpose to life itself

  • @kawffeee
    @kawffeee Рік тому +141

    there is something extremely peaceful and fascinating about these old cities

    • @babyjiren9676
      @babyjiren9676 Рік тому +17

      life before communism

    • @arthuralcahest
      @arthuralcahest Рік тому

      ​@@babyjiren9676yep, its incredible how China self destroyed its past tradition and culture, in order to maintain the todays comunist dictature and turn its people in to nothing more then assets and cattle. 😢

    • @bigbrotherdsad6535
      @bigbrotherdsad6535 Рік тому +6

      Now do life before democracy in Middle East and Africa.

    • @Accuaro
      @Accuaro Рік тому +8

      @@babyjiren9676 Yep, before the great leap forward and the destruction of many relics and art

    • @jackkennedy2615
      @jackkennedy2615 Рік тому +7

      Mao Zedong is still only 10 yrs old in this footage, has not destroyed the nation yet 😂😂

  • @bdbgh
    @bdbgh 4 роки тому +9399

    it's crazy how much of a difference a 100 years can be

    • @roye6961
      @roye6961 4 роки тому +524

      1800s upwards differences are drastic

    • @BardioTheGoat
      @BardioTheGoat 4 роки тому +22

      Ro Ye true

    • @vinisuichi1243
      @vinisuichi1243 4 роки тому +85

      But it was yesterday

    • @KitKatToeBeans
      @KitKatToeBeans 4 роки тому +164

      It’s also crazy how little difference there is.

    • @soulfulkat
      @soulfulkat 4 роки тому +87

      And yet it goes by so fast. Knowing some of these guys live so long, there's probably a baby or 2 or kid here still alive.

  • @RenaG
    @RenaG 4 роки тому +2217

    The way everyones looking at the camera makes me feel like a time traveler

    • @ivanovskism
      @ivanovskism 4 роки тому +64

      People in China will often still do that. I live in China

    • @cchuxue4943
      @cchuxue4943 4 роки тому +53

      @@ivanovskism If I record you in the street without asking you, what will you do?

    • @ivanovskism
      @ivanovskism 4 роки тому +25

      @@cchuxue4943 Fair point. As I'm a foreigner people will sometimes sneak a shot of me whether in their pic or video. So I politely ask in Chinese to delete the content.

    • @charliewhiskey8440
      @charliewhiskey8440 4 роки тому +12

      About 30 years ago I toured inner China with a camcorder, the reaction was the same.

    • @MACTEP_CHOB
      @MACTEP_CHOB 4 роки тому +25

      They stare at the laowai, not camera

  • @keanuapproved
    @keanuapproved Рік тому +505

    Almost feels as if I was time travelling. What I can't wrap my head around is the fact people actually used to live and dress like this in this kind of society. You read it in books but actually seeing it in film makes it so unreal. Makes me feel closer to a time 100 years ago.

    • @roberts3423
      @roberts3423 Рік тому +18

      all these people and animals are dead, kinda spooky to watch things from a century ago

    • @QWERTY-gp8fd
      @QWERTY-gp8fd Рік тому +16

      @@roberts3423 wdym by spooky. nothing scary about this footage

    • @StopFlaggingVideos
      @StopFlaggingVideos Рік тому

      @@QWERTY-gp8fd spooky in that pretty much everything in the footage, except maybe the trees, are dead and gone. they exist now only in this video that we're watching. its spooky because it reminds you how much you're just like the people in this footage. even all of us commenting right now. 100 years from now, our comments may be saved still, and people will be reading and judging us, like we are right now. we'll be nothing, and even the people who remember us will be nothing. still, life goes on

    • @QWERTY-gp8fd
      @QWERTY-gp8fd Рік тому

      @@StopFlaggingVideos why its spooky? there is no ghost or devils haunting here. just normal people living their lives are recorded by camera.

    • @idread3523
      @idread3523 Рік тому

      Kung Fu movie if you asked me

  • @fiddleronthecube7835
    @fiddleronthecube7835 Рік тому +54

    I don't know how sharp the original video was, but this AI restoration is better than most CCTV footage of today. Thank you for this. I subscribed. Please make more videos of this kind.

    • @jamesottman6559
      @jamesottman6559 Рік тому

      The resolution depends on how you scan the film.

  • @WCris99
    @WCris99 4 роки тому +3284

    When you realize this is the closest thing we have to time travel...

    • @gamgster5257
      @gamgster5257 4 роки тому +44

      Chihusky 419 it somehow sounds romantic. Love through the time

    • @comingoutofhibernation2122
      @comingoutofhibernation2122 4 роки тому +108

      @Chihusky 419 "What would've happened if I had went back in time, brought a Chinese girl from 100 years ago to 2020, and married her?"
      As you arrived in 2020, you'd discover that she was, in fact, your great-great-grandmother, and that you had prevented your own birth. You would be trapped forever in Limbo, pursued by the angry ghosts of the people who ended up not being born because of what you did. Meanwhile, the girl you brought forward would wander the streets in a strange future, weeping and alone, having just seen you melt away into a mist and vanish.

    • @comingoutofhibernation2122
      @comingoutofhibernation2122 4 роки тому +52

      @Chihusky 419 "But I'm Hispanic and this hypothetical girl is Chinese. How can she be my great grandmother?"
      Because unknown to you, you've been 1/16 Chinese the whole time. One of your grandparents was adopted and never knew it.
      I know this will come as a shock to you, but race mixing has been known to happen in Latin America, before. Sounds wild, I know, but there is evidence of this. 🙃

    • @comingoutofhibernation2122
      @comingoutofhibernation2122 4 роки тому +34

      @Chihusky 419 Exactly. You can't know one way or another. So, just to be safe, don't board any time machines. 🙂
      There are plenty of pretty girls in the present.

    • @vishvajeetrao7876
      @vishvajeetrao7876 4 роки тому +20

      @@comingoutofhibernation2122 stfu

  • @kemurinine4272
    @kemurinine4272 3 роки тому +3168

    7:44 he has no idea that someone from 100 years in the future is staring back at him judging his tree-hiding abilities

  • @pmhwong
    @pmhwong Рік тому +195

    This footage is amazing. 100 years old yet picture quality is quite good.
    I'm impressed by the added sound & music, which made me believe was really captured.
    The most memorable thing is the different ways people greeted each other.
    5:18, 5:34, 5:49(goodbye), 6:03. Quite bizarre.

    • @likeakittie
      @likeakittie Рік тому +13

      Yep!! I was noticing that too and it is just so fascinating! How precious!

    • @neuroticsheep377
      @neuroticsheep377 Рік тому +1

      哇,你观察很仔细诶!

    • @xk7447
      @xk7447 Рік тому +5

      bizarre?no it wasn't bizarre at all.

    • @AmbrosiusEpiscopus
      @AmbrosiusEpiscopus Рік тому +12

      Very respectful, worthy of a more elevated society. Not bizarre at all.

    • @Khan-hd5vn
      @Khan-hd5vn Рік тому

      你了解下背景就会明白自己的荒诞错情 那是满蒙体制下公子哥的玩乐
      基本就是蒙古仪式 现在还能在一些蒙古族文化游区能看到
      影片背景说不定已清末民初了
      这些人在京城还玩着快活 被消遣对象 汉人 ..

  • @gentoffire
    @gentoffire Рік тому +11

    Such a fantastic video covering many aspects from Qing. You see retail, entertainment, religion was practiced, street vendors, the way people greets each other, the social hierachy, travel, the way they dress, funerals...

  • @thelostone1522
    @thelostone1522 4 роки тому +1909

    It has dawned on me that humans are curious creatures. Those who were starring at the camera were looking into the future. As I watch them in the past thru my smart phone connected to the wifi on a platform called UA-cam. It gave me chills...

    • @Capta1nFaz
      @Capta1nFaz 4 роки тому +121

      In some cultures being captured on film was considered trapping ones soul inside the camera. Your comment made that concept spook me too! Well said!

    • @humanbean1424
      @humanbean1424 4 роки тому +20

      I commented pretty much the exact thing you did on another old clip from 1901 just some hours ago. It is quite a trip. Unsettling really.

    • @twistsnkicks
      @twistsnkicks 4 роки тому +38

      It's not that deep. They were just looking at a camera. Nothing more.

    • @ukdrill1241
      @ukdrill1241 4 роки тому +12

      This was deep 🙏

    • @lkszand
      @lkszand 4 роки тому +38

      Watching in a Xiaomi made by people who are descendents from the ones who we see into this video. Just amazing lol

  • @xicheng2023
    @xicheng2023 3 роки тому +3804

    I am from Beijing. The demolitions of the old city walls and gates during 60s ordered by government were such a tremendous lost.

    • @jessicag630
      @jessicag630 3 роки тому +197

      Why were they demolished? Was it because of city planning or cultural revolution perhaps?

    • @kimorc2232
      @kimorc2232 3 роки тому +34

      I can't believe that Hanbok is their culture even after watching this video.

    • @yifu100
      @yifu100 3 роки тому +483

      @@kimorc2232 well, Qing china was under manchu rule. manchu at beginning forced everyone to dress changshan which is what's in the video and cut their hair into pigtails. Hanfu referred to the clothes wore 300 years ago, the Ming dynasty, which is the last han Chinese empire. Today chinese culture blended han and manchu culture, but some chinese youth does not like it, and they want han tradition back.

    • @newcatvideos3306
      @newcatvideos3306 3 роки тому +28

      Why no bicycle at all? Where are they

    • @spacecat3198
      @spacecat3198 3 роки тому +43

      I was wondering if some of these places were still standing. How sad.

  • @apoiujdba0-9u
    @apoiujdba0-9u Рік тому +11

    amazing! my great grandma lived in southern china in the early 1880s and moved to malaysia in the 1900s with her family

  • @marie-theresefernandezdesa2540

    GÉNIAL, simplement génial, aucun autre mot ne me vient à l'esprit ! Merci beaucoup à l'auteur de ce magnifique vidéo. BRAVO !!!

  • @shenruivah6617
    @shenruivah6617 4 роки тому +1715

    You realise just how different and real things are here when it's in colour. It almost feels like a movie.

    • @condorX2
      @condorX2 4 роки тому +24

      Yep.
      All I could think of is Wong Fei Hong.

    • @dev9077
      @dev9077 4 роки тому +48

      Yeah everything old was destroyed in cultural revolution

    • @TheExtraterrestrial99
      @TheExtraterrestrial99 4 роки тому +12

      @@dev9077 world war destroy it.

    • @SuperMikado282
      @SuperMikado282 4 роки тому

      @@TheExtraterrestrial99 Exactly

    • @darius3566
      @darius3566 4 роки тому +30

      For me it's not just the color, but the fluid and realistic movements reflecting almost what you would see with your own eyes.

  • @johntung789
    @johntung789 3 роки тому +2091

    This is very meaningful to me since my father was born in Beijing in 1925. I can now imagine the world he grew up in. Thank you for this colorized footage.

    • @pranjalverma3501
      @pranjalverma3501 3 роки тому +93

      Its scary to think what would have happened here 17 years later..

    • @yamiart6149
      @yamiart6149 3 роки тому +130

      Sorry to say, but 1925 looks much different than what's being shown in here. This is footage from Qing dinasty, which collapsed in 1911. After that, pretty much anything related to ancient China was badly seen, so the clothing drastically changed.

    • @ruripapi
      @ruripapi 3 роки тому +13

      You must be very old right

    • @aii_penguin9096
      @aii_penguin9096 3 роки тому +87

      @@yamiart6149 No this is after the Qing collapsed, Beijing just didn't abandon many imperial customs only the south was fiercly revolutionary against the Qing while the north... especially Beijingers who pride themselves being the great capital wouldn't abandon many imperial customs until decades later

    • @willhooke
      @willhooke 3 роки тому +4

      I feel the same way as the ones of London when my Dad and Granddads were young ❤️
      My mum was born during WW2, so I've already seen a lot of footage of that time

  • @guyklc
    @guyklc Рік тому +17

    5:35 that whole greeting scene... It's so interesting to see that's how Chinese traditionally greeted each other, yet today, nobody does that anymore.

  • @user-ur8ng4tv3s
    @user-ur8ng4tv3s Рік тому +1

    很感谢你让我重新认识了历史、
    更进一步的了解他们

  • @weizhang2834
    @weizhang2834 4 роки тому +670

    This is the end of the Qing dynasty in 1909, not 1920 (republic of China,now this government is in Taiwan)

    • @boshvasara1868
      @boshvasara1868 4 роки тому +30

      Wow... just wow!!

    • @TheViviany17
      @TheViviany17 4 роки тому +183

      Exactly! and as a proof we can see the people are wearing the traditional braid, which was a sign of the Qing's power, that Chinese then cut when the dynasty fell in 1911

    • @TheSunshineRequiem
      @TheSunshineRequiem 4 роки тому +96

      TheViviany17 Han Chinese was forced to have Qing hair cut...it’s not really traditional in a sense, Manchu people is more of minority, unfortunately it’s the last dynasty, people tend to think it as traditional

    • @9grand
      @9grand 4 роки тому +4

      And by a french

    • @thearchitect1601
      @thearchitect1601 4 роки тому +10

      I thought it ends in 1911-1912. I think empress dowager CIXI died around 1908-1909 and that meant the kid puyi was emperor for about 3-4years till the revolutions started happening.

  • @jeffchong1432
    @jeffchong1432 4 роки тому +639

    My mother’s family originally came from Peking and left (early 1900s) to settle in Central America. Part of me wonders if my ancestors are in this video and that I could be seeing them. And that fact brings me some joy and comfort.

    • @hudasalam245
      @hudasalam245 4 роки тому +2

      Wanna satay in settle too

    • @Jake4595
      @Jake4595 4 роки тому +26

      Would be cool if one of the guys in this video was a good friend of your ancestors.

    • @Maggiemoooooo
      @Maggiemoooooo 4 роки тому +21

      jeff chong it’s a good choice they made. Don’t got back to China as long as the communist government is there.. evil AF

    • @koraptd6085
      @koraptd6085 4 роки тому +30

      @@Maggiemoooooo XD
      China is becoming more powerful than US and it's just in a couple of decades. It's even more impressive than Meiji Restoration after Japanese sakoku or industrial revolution in western world.

    • @lolailo2199
      @lolailo2199 4 роки тому +10

      @@koraptd6085 the US is withdrawing from the globalist world it created and that allowed China to become so powerful. When that process is complete China will begin to decline because their economy depends on exports not to mention their terminal population will cause a demographic catastrophe. At the end of the day all the Americans have to do to is go home. So yeah China will not become as powerful as the US. China doesn't have the capacity to police the oceans like the Americans do.

  • @likeakittie
    @likeakittie Рік тому +84

    This is very precious! Thank you for taking us back to Ancient China from 100 years ago! It is crazy to know that most if not all of these people in the video are no longer alive anymore. Such precious footage, life has changed so much in 100 years!

    • @snowjohn2154
      @snowjohn2154 Рік тому

      its amazing😮

    • @mythrin
      @mythrin 7 місяців тому +7

      100 years is not ancient, you’d have to go back up to a thousand years for that

    • @WillowLackett
      @WillowLackett 7 місяців тому +8

      This isn't "Ancient" China. This is only 100 years.

    • @dr.woozie7500
      @dr.woozie7500 6 місяців тому +4

      This is not ancient China, or real dynastic Han China to be honest. The ruling class were the Manchus.The last true "Chinese" dynasty was the Ming dynasty in 1644.

    • @andrewyuyoungearn2799
      @andrewyuyoungearn2799 6 місяців тому +1

      @@dr.woozie7500 The last true Chinese(Han Chinese) dynasty was the Ming.

  • @user-fz3to8sf4l
    @user-fz3to8sf4l Рік тому +1

    這種歷史畫面真的很重要啊,感謝你的付出

  • @a.d.3606
    @a.d.3606 4 роки тому +2132

    Wow. So many feelings and thoughts watching this... This footage I'm guessing was shot prior to 1911, before the revolution against the Imperial Dynasty. And its eerie to watch in ways for me... because I'm guessing none of these people in the footage, especially the young, would have had any sense at this time as to how much upheaval. was on the way in their lifetimes. Any child you see in the video who may have lived a full life, will have lived through the 1911 revolution, the Warlords period, the Japanese invasion, the Chinese Civil war and the establishment of communist China...
    And I'm not going to lie... living through the Covid-19 outbreak and the unrest in North America these days has me wondering if we're just as much unaware of where the next decades here are going to go... and in a hundred years, a new generation will be watching our footage in 3D and feeling the same things about us...
    Thank you for sharing this video.

    • @thomaswenker
      @thomaswenker 4 роки тому +62

      I was feeling exactly the same way yesterday when I was thinking about WWII.
      I believe it will be a very interesting decade to come!

    • @Kaparzo
      @Kaparzo 4 роки тому +47

      I was exactly thinking the same thing about people in the future looking back at today's footage with their new AI technology that allows them to see our world in 3D through VR or stuff like that and thinking how 'ancient' we look.

    • @malv4935
      @malv4935 4 роки тому +28

      Certainly! Even I feel this coming decade is going to change the course of history in many ways, the way the 1940s decade did in the previous century... and one day our future generations will look back on us!

    • @FengTheSlayer
      @FengTheSlayer 4 роки тому +12

      Let’s not forget that China eventually opened their economy

    • @tombundgaard
      @tombundgaard 4 роки тому +25

      And a 100 years from now, the historican will look at the comment that this “A.D” fellow (Anno Domino?) wrote and marvel that even back in 2020 they had a sense of time, not just back in time but also forward - and marvel at our ignorance that we thought in that time was linear. So much has happened since 2020. A.D is still alive a hundred years from now, looking back at his own comment :-)

  • @viteydarniy7
    @viteydarniy7 3 роки тому +1263

    People lived overall the same lifestyle as their predecessors for like thousand years... But everything changed, when 20th century attacked.

    • @corners3755
      @corners3755 3 роки тому +99

      ww1 and ww2 lurcherd the world forward. Unfortunately war drove innovation and technologies. We wouldn't have had the space shuttle program or missiles in the 60's without the nazis starting the work. All the horrible tortures and tests the nazis and japanese military did was confiscated by the russians and usa and gleaned over for useful information. Yup, so even though we charged them with war crimes and executed them, we went and did not want to "waste" the information they had collected and used it for ourselves.

    • @officialzange494
      @officialzange494 3 роки тому +28

      @@corners3755 clearly the joke went right over your head lmfao

    • @paraslash
      @paraslash 3 роки тому +55

      When Mao attacked

    • @stoneyj1a1
      @stoneyj1a1 3 роки тому +11

      alien technology ruined us

    • @blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602
      @blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602 3 роки тому +65

      @@ykdz3115 look up what happened in mao's great leap forward and cultural revolution. he tried to destroy Chinese culture and his agricultural policies led to famine killing 18-45 million

  • @Tapemee
    @Tapemee Рік тому +6

    感謝您花時間和心機和我們分享, 令我這一個對舊時代的生活有興趣和迷戀的人更容易進那時代的感覺

  • @AmigoSocialMedia
    @AmigoSocialMedia Рік тому

    Thanks for sharing this. It is amazing to see history with improved visuals. Keep it going... JiaYou!

  • @bona183
    @bona183 3 роки тому +844

    Just imagine if cams did exist 2000 years ago.

    • @danielcarvalho2946
      @danielcarvalho2946 3 роки тому +42

      It'd be awesome

    • @ninja1676
      @ninja1676 3 роки тому +62

      Cameras will be hella advance by now

    • @callumanderson2835
      @callumanderson2835 3 роки тому +5

      iPhone 11 would have been nice

    • @tenkuken7168
      @tenkuken7168 3 роки тому +13

      we would have teleporting cars now

    • @CastleKnight7
      @CastleKnight7 3 роки тому +1

      Willy BoFaN Two thousand years ago is merely a thought away. All exists now.

  • @waeeeezeeeee
    @waeeeezeeeee 4 роки тому +168

    wow this is amazing my grandpa was born in 1907 in China, Guangzhou. He lived there until hes 40 and moved to Malaysia Sarawak and got married to my grandma (Iban).

    • @wisdom32
      @wisdom32 4 роки тому +3

      iban chinese mix here too, from swak. LOL maternal great grandparents moved here from china.

    • @lyhthegreat
      @lyhthegreat 4 роки тому +3

      it's strange how only southern chinese migrates to south asia..the northern chinese never do that..

    • @ilaias_
      @ilaias_ 4 роки тому +24

      @@lyhthegreat it's a matter of proximity i guess

    • @alisterfabian9991
      @alisterfabian9991 4 роки тому +2

      @@ilaias_ Probably trying to get a better life

    • @johnsinclair4621
      @johnsinclair4621 4 роки тому +5

      Washington Clinton Is this shit supposed to be related to anything said in this thread?

  • @mw9053
    @mw9053 Рік тому

    Thank you for uploading, that's a true treasure. ❤️👍

  • @ilhammalang7381
    @ilhammalang7381 Рік тому +6

    Saya Jawa tapi entah kenapa kalo melihat kehidupan masarakat China baik yg saya lihat di video ini entah itu cerita dulu atau modern hingga sekarang ini hati ini ko rasanya bergetar dan bertambah semangat dlm hidup ini.... serasa alam menyatu...!!!

  • @HNCS2006
    @HNCS2006 3 роки тому +1606

    the whole greeting scene in front of the door was so fascinating!

    • @LEP7cv
      @LEP7cv 3 роки тому +66

      yes, nice exercise! I like it, we should bring it back ....

    • @miguelbayonrivera2467
      @miguelbayonrivera2467 3 роки тому +106

      I thought the same. To me, this was the most interesting part of this fascinating video.

    • @jackhammerthrottle2039
      @jackhammerthrottle2039 3 роки тому +49

      @Event Horizons We still got culture. Youre blinded by propaganda

    • @Mikasaxx0
      @Mikasaxx0 3 роки тому +86

      @Event Horizons You're brainwashed by western media. It's 21st century ofcours most of the traditon aren't followed but just letting you know that China is one of the country who's still keeping their tradition alive in thei technologies world. Please keep your anti Chinese to yourself. It's also frustrating to always see foreigners talking shit about China when there countries are in bad shape.

    • @stanbimi
      @stanbimi 3 роки тому +43

      Almost forgotten reading about this custom from old novels like 老殘遊記 "Old Chan's Travelogue." That's how Manchurian people of a certain social class in the Qing dynasty greet each other. Thought it was called 打千 "Da Chien". Fascinating to see the actual thing on film.

  • @rekhasardar388
    @rekhasardar388 4 роки тому +195

    7:38 great camouflage, you are absolutely invisible. :3

    • @yankoelgueta1116
      @yankoelgueta1116 3 роки тому +17

      He knows he's gonna be in a UA-cam comment in about 100 years

  • @lili-dp1hj
    @lili-dp1hj Рік тому +1

    你做得太棒了!感謝大感謝!!!😊😊😊👏👏👏👏👏

  • @bee2377
    @bee2377 Рік тому

    This is awesome! Keep up the good work!

  • @Nina-fc8ey
    @Nina-fc8ey 3 роки тому +581

    the way they bow to each other...I have NEVER seen that depicted in documentaries, dramas, etc. O.O

    • @nootnootpengui8015
      @nootnootpengui8015 3 роки тому +30

      Yeah that was a very strange sort of bow.

    • @gabikoni921
      @gabikoni921 3 роки тому +32

      Looks like social distancing to me

    • @mliu547
      @mliu547 3 роки тому +136

      That's Manchu bow, a lower social status bow to a higher one. if two are equal met then bow to each other as in this clip.

    • @Nina-fc8ey
      @Nina-fc8ey 3 роки тому +11

      @@mliu547 Oh thanks for the info! I didn't know

    • @AAZAZELHAZEL
      @AAZAZELHAZEL 3 роки тому +7

      m liu thank you for the information!

  • @perfectstudents8361
    @perfectstudents8361 4 роки тому +216

    5:20 and 6:04 In 1920 the Chinese practiced no-touch greetings (no handshakes). 100 years later (2020), this practice has become popular again.

    • @chilliam00
      @chilliam00 4 роки тому +17

      Nowadays they've been turned into Tik Tok dances. 😂🤣 (funnily enough Tik Tok comes from China).

    • @AFatalPapercut
      @AFatalPapercut 4 роки тому +2

      ........and then they touch each other's hands 2 seconds later.

    • @luowang5251
      @luowang5251 4 роки тому +17

      harry krishton nah, it was Spanish flu came from the States back then.

    • @SuperMikado282
      @SuperMikado282 4 роки тому +1

      @@luowang5251 That was 1918-1919

    • @SuperMikado282
      @SuperMikado282 4 роки тому +15

      @harry krishton post something sensible.... when ever the word China is mentioned we get the same Pavlovian reaction from everyone...Pavlov would have been astonished.

  • @mattmathematics3591
    @mattmathematics3591 Рік тому

    Thank you for sharing this!!

  • @rioze5068
    @rioze5068 6 місяців тому +1

    Everytime i watch a monochrome footage from the past, i always like to re-imagine the video in my head like when i was living in my childhood village (i'm 2004 tho). The smell of the air, the warmth of the morning sun, the sound of birds chirping, and the color, it shouldn't too far off. This video makes it easier for me to imagine it and feel it more real.

  • @karlluigi1987
    @karlluigi1987 3 роки тому +1035

    The guy that's taking the video must have been thinking,, "hey I'm gonna post this on youtube 100 years from now"

  • @tamagomaniac
    @tamagomaniac 3 роки тому +751

    You literally don't see girls, only servants or women with lower status, because girls are taught to stay at home at the time. They seldom leave the house unless there are festivals.

    • @joydeepghosh1781
      @joydeepghosh1781 3 роки тому +3

      ROC was much better, it's the real China

    • @monekamishiraishi1698
      @monekamishiraishi1698 3 роки тому +2

      @@joydeepghosh1781 Agreed.

    • @101meinu101
      @101meinu101 3 роки тому +23

      @@joydeepghosh1781 what you say makes zero sense

    • @eccentricpigeon5639
      @eccentricpigeon5639 3 роки тому +28

      holy moly i didnt notice that

    • @Joooo89
      @Joooo89 3 роки тому +58

      @@joydeepghosh1781 As an Overseas Chinese from South East Asia, I don't agree, because both Taiwan & China have their own advantages & disadvantages, why are you guys keep fighting? Or trying to make the Chinese fight each others?

  • @elaineborthwick989
    @elaineborthwick989 Рік тому

    beautiful work, well done!

  • @amypagekaviani5661
    @amypagekaviani5661 10 місяців тому

    Thank you for the wonderful video.

  • @laobok
    @laobok 4 роки тому +312

    Crazy to think there was a time when the camera was so new, you can see people looking at it so curiously. They literally have never seen a camera before.

    • @sjnmhn
      @sjnmhn 4 роки тому +14

      And almost all of them in this video are already died or in their late 100s!!

    • @yangerjamir0906
      @yangerjamir0906 4 роки тому +7

      @sujan maharjan, late 100s? So they're almost 200 years old? Damn, how about that for longevity?

    • @sjnmhn
      @sjnmhn 4 роки тому +8

      Imti Jamir late 100 means 105 to 109 years old

    • @hasanbassari7364
      @hasanbassari7364 4 роки тому +3

      @@imperia8923 i see no infant here, most of them are probably in their mid 30s so it would make them around 130s

    • @mehreenmalik1869
      @mehreenmalik1869 4 роки тому +2

      This still happens in rural areas in 3rd world countries, not that they don’t know what a camera is, but haven’t had the chance to interact with it

  • @Sigma2323
    @Sigma2323 4 роки тому +331

    It's high quality restoration films like this that make you realize that the past, no matter how far back you go, is just the same as the world today. People haven't changed since the beginning of time except today we have baseball caps and automatic weapons. They may have had different beliefs and technology, but other than that, they act the same way as we do now.

    • @ACKtube-of3qf
      @ACKtube-of3qf 4 роки тому +40

      same psychology and behaviors, the main difference i notes is how more immersed in their surroundings they were and how wholly present they were, they also blended very nicely with their environment seeing that all items were from naturally found materials

    • @aspekt8130
      @aspekt8130 4 роки тому

      Ya

    • @JM-fo1te
      @JM-fo1te 4 роки тому +3

      Except, we live in a much safer world.

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 4 роки тому +12

      @@JM-fo1te Depends on where you live. Africa certainly isn't more peaceful. Nor is the Middle-East. In fact it's worse now with conflict areas than it was pre-WW1.

    • @blakeeaton7206
      @blakeeaton7206 4 роки тому +4

      couldn't disagree more Brandon. Being connected to one's community, being spiritually content, having time with one's family is worlds different than the rise-and-grind monoculture of the 21st century -- not that I'm suggesting that this time period was perfect.

  • @daniellew.292
    @daniellew.292 6 місяців тому

    感谢素材收集和技术处理!👍🏼

  • @AIRelaxMusic
    @AIRelaxMusic Рік тому

    Fascinating, loved watching this!

  • @mozambique9113
    @mozambique9113 3 роки тому +137

    "Lost in time, like tears in the rain"

  • @anawkwardsweetpotato4728
    @anawkwardsweetpotato4728 4 роки тому +256

    So fascinating how many different greetings they had for one another, each being so unique. Also I hella vibe with grandpa hiding behind that tree at 7:38 😂

    • @sacch6579
      @sacch6579 4 роки тому +29

      An Awkward Sweet Potato their greetings obeys social distancing. 🤣

    • @victortenma5512
      @victortenma5512 4 роки тому +27

      Yeah he is so well hiden I can barely see him.

    • @JohnSmith-nj4zq
      @JohnSmith-nj4zq 4 роки тому +2

      Looks like Peyton Manning doing his Snap check in his QB position.

    • @sjnmhn
      @sjnmhn 4 роки тому +3

      Weird to see even men and boys have long hairs!!

    • @mishmohd
      @mishmohd 4 роки тому

      @Roy Vice oh yeah, so you want to have long hair like sissies?

  • @amanitvam
    @amanitvam 4 місяці тому

    Teleportation succeeded 👍🏻 Fantastic snippets, enjoyed every angle and view! How silly, they had no clue future us would be able to see them living! Thank you to the photographer and for these archives to be publicly posted, such treasure!!!

  • @nicoletan1361
    @nicoletan1361 Рік тому

    相互作揖那段真有意思~ 感谢你的作品😊

  • @valenesco45
    @valenesco45 3 роки тому +833

    Can't imagine how life is gonna be in 2120

    • @frederic6727
      @frederic6727 3 роки тому +64

      always can't imagine the future

    • @lightsforsan6517
      @lightsforsan6517 3 роки тому +121

      I think its gonna be full of buildings, visual polution like cyberpunk (but less things), and other fashion clothes. And they are gonna watch our old videos and think "why are they dressed like that?" Idk

    • @valenesco45
      @valenesco45 3 роки тому +67

      @@lightsforsan6517 I rather think the wealth gap of countries is gonna be much higher than ever. We'll probably see super futuristic 0% emissions smart cities and at the same time super 3rd world cities full of pollution

    • @welike4278
      @welike4278 3 роки тому +17

      Wild life everywhere on Earth, and there money will disappear.

    • @welike4278
      @welike4278 3 роки тому

      ​@@lightsforsan6517 Good thought

  • @cosmeticscameo8277
    @cosmeticscameo8277 4 роки тому +304

    this has to be before 1920 because many of the men still have their manchurain braid
    Queue.

    • @westfieldartworks8188
      @westfieldartworks8188 4 роки тому +16

      I also see no cars at ALL....not even ONE. I was going to say like 1912 or something. But Canadian suggests 1909 which is fascinating to me.

    • @lNovalandl
      @lNovalandl 4 роки тому +19

      @@westfieldartworks8188 in china even in 1920 cars were really rare compared to america or europe

    • @markhenley3097
      @markhenley3097 4 роки тому +23

      @@westfieldartworks8188 China was in chaos after the Qing collapsed, so I doubt they would have time to buy cars.

    • @darkuser9992
      @darkuser9992 4 роки тому +7

      i was going to say 1920 seemed more recent than i expected...the manchu queue being a big hint....when the Qing dynasty fell, everyone cut off their queues....this would have been just before that...Crazy to think what these then went through in the turmoils that followed.

    • @Benedictus899
      @Benedictus899 4 роки тому +7

      @@westfieldartworks8188 There were ~10 times more cars in the U.S during the 1920s than there were in China during the 1980s, so cars were quite rare in China for the entirety of the 20th century.

  • @zeveron862
    @zeveron862 Рік тому +2

    I was literally smiling as i watched this, how beautiful the past can be. Truly mind blowing.

  • @bigbooduh
    @bigbooduh Рік тому +2

    The reactions of the people seeing a camera is just amazing 1:57 and 2:45

  • @nkdeng
    @nkdeng 2 роки тому +103

    5:19 The way people great each other was so humble. 5:50 They bowed again even when they said goodbye.

    • @sakurakou2009
      @sakurakou2009 2 роки тому +17

      they seem will mannered people , so weird how modern main land chinese are not like that , they not known for having good manners

    • @tallycat
      @tallycat Рік тому +4

      Yes the greetings and polite behavior. No public spitting or overtly rude and mean demeanor. Not once in the whole video. The intricate metal or wood detailings above the doors and the illustrative panels on them. Details like that weren’t preserved into modern Beijing.
      I think there should’ve been a revolution to further realize values that were clearly already there but I wish Mao was never the one who came to power. This explains to me why my grandparents behaved so differently from my own parents.
      This footage was eye opening for me

    • @pettypractice7872
      @pettypractice7872 Рік тому +1

      @@sakurakou2009 these are upper class of that era, of course they are well-mannered, just like every nation’s upper class across history

    • @sakurakou2009
      @sakurakou2009 Рік тому +11

      @@pettypractice7872 chinese tourists have earned reputation around world of lacking manners, and if they go to tourism in other countries then they have money but still lack manners, also I remember seeing news and documentaries about crazy rich asians who abuse their workers and some of them so crazy they make fun of poor online, I dont know about the nobles of anceint china time but at least back then they had honor and shame, at least that what the cdrama show about that period of time.

    • @robihamdani5203
      @robihamdani5203 Рік тому +3

      @@user-yx1ci5qs3s man, use english we don't understand what you say even the translator have problem with the broken grammar

  • @Ninobrown1022
    @Ninobrown1022 4 роки тому +193

    Truly fascinating. Imagine telling these people that the strange device they are looking at
    (the camera) will let people watch them from the palms of their hands 100 years in the future.

    • @3631162
      @3631162 3 роки тому +14

      while taking a dump

    • @tnganthavee100
      @tnganthavee100 3 роки тому +7

      These people would tell you that you are utterly crazy or you have some really good imagination that is too wild for them to comprehend.

    • @hwang4424
      @hwang4424 3 роки тому +3

      Cringehere im literally on the toiler rn haha

    • @raghu8909
      @raghu8909 3 роки тому +1

      They would have already made a duplicate camera of same type at that time 😂

  • @namkaengpancharat9031
    @namkaengpancharat9031 Рік тому

    Exquisite. It's really nice to see video of people in Beijing 80-100 years ago❤️ ❤️ ❤️

  • @bjai2607
    @bjai2607 Рік тому

    Amazing clip of old BeiJing. Thanks for sharing.

  • @johndoe5432
    @johndoe5432 4 роки тому +284

    Just imagine what it's going to be like in another century when people look back on our footage, massive amounts of high quality video and audio data, historian's are going to be completely overloaded.

    • @zealos600
      @zealos600 4 роки тому +37

      with the development of technology, the recording can only be more and more infomative. Therefore in the future much more detail will be recorded and people will be adapted to it, and when looking back, today's best standard "FHD, 4K" recording will still be "awful" in detail by then.

    • @catmanyo
      @catmanyo 3 роки тому +25

      @@zealos600 True...We're currently limited to mostly 2d recordings, and even that at barely 4k. So, in the future, once we're able to capture reality in full 3d in sufficient resolution, our current video archives will no doubt seem dated

    • @superbuneary8819
      @superbuneary8819 3 роки тому +21

      Not just videos, but comments like yours as well, will probably be seen and they'll see that we are already having these thoughts and discussions about them looking back at us.

    • @doomdude3034
      @doomdude3034 3 роки тому

      Reminds me of the route America's going now, considering how grand Beijing looks in this footage, and the struggle that is to come.

    • @Chinaman-gw6ts
      @Chinaman-gw6ts 3 роки тому

      @@catmanyo vr duhh

  • @TheFirstGroover
    @TheFirstGroover 4 роки тому +460

    7:44 Ninja mode activate: "ha-ha foolish foreigner, now you can't see me"

    • @heyfelicia8051
      @heyfelicia8051 4 роки тому +7

      hahaha

    • @victorrdz7312
      @victorrdz7312 4 роки тому +1

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @Gilvids
      @Gilvids 4 роки тому +12

      Im pretty sure he used gengetsu on him hence the changed of scenery

    • @tmptmp6836
      @tmptmp6836 4 роки тому +7

      Hahah
      I didn't saw him until your comment.

    • @luxielle
      @luxielle 4 роки тому +6

      Plot twist, it's a kage bunshin.

  • @Deepbluecat
    @Deepbluecat Рік тому

    So cool! Great job!

  • @HistoriaAntiquae
    @HistoriaAntiquae 4 місяці тому

    Bellissimo video! Mi sono iscritto al vostro canale! Saluti dall'Italia!

  • @vainklutz3179
    @vainklutz3179 4 роки тому +64

    it honestly felt like i was watching an ancient drama

  • @taiyipan3138
    @taiyipan3138 3 роки тому +669

    The way they greeted each other in 1909 is so fascinating! It's like 2 quick curtsies. I've never seen this practice depicted in fiction.

    • @gzz20071115
      @gzz20071115 3 роки тому +19

      thought the same! amazing

    • @sephythelark
      @sephythelark 3 роки тому +31

      There’s another greeting where they bow then it looks like they bring their hands to their mouth? Wonder what the difference is.

    • @lizexi7115
      @lizexi7115 3 роки тому +56

      They are manchu, han greeting

    • @Youngcl77
      @Youngcl77 3 роки тому +10

      You should watch “tea house” 茶馆 the movie

    • @James_Bowie
      @James_Bowie 3 роки тому +5

      @Event Horizons Probably reflects relative status.

  • @luc.dupont
    @luc.dupont Рік тому +3

    Magnifique, et très émouvant. Merci pour ce très beau travail. Je suis très heureux de voir des images de l'ancien Pékin, ancienne ville magnifique que j'ai parcourue en 2004 et 2007.

    • @1june204
      @1june204 Рік тому

      beijing is one of the longest history in the world i‘m from beijing and i love my home❤

    • @luc.dupont
      @luc.dupont Рік тому

      @@1june204 You are lucky to live in Beijing. I would like to live into à siheyuan !

    • @1june204
      @1june204 Рік тому

      @@luc.dupont thanks a lot❤️ welcome to beijing👍

    • @luc.dupont
      @luc.dupont Рік тому

      @@1june204 Are there still some siheyuan to buy ? How much does it costs ? And do you think that a foreigner like me is allowed to buy ?

    • @luc.dupont
      @luc.dupont Рік тому

      @@1june204 I made a movie in 2007 of a marvellous siheyuan, very old... ua-cam.com/video/So25xp81bm4/v-deo.html

  • @namidakoh1027
    @namidakoh1027 Рік тому +4

    I find the old ways of greeting between people so fascinating! What a different world we live in now!

  • @shiroumxm2052
    @shiroumxm2052 3 роки тому +349

    100 yrs and it looks like a diff world.. just imagine how the world will look in 100yrs considering that changes are faster

    • @washizukanorico
      @washizukanorico 3 роки тому +22

      Footage of nyc, London or paris from 100 years ago would feel weird but finally not that different from today, buildings and habits would mostly be similar only fashion and cars would make a difference.
      The biggest change was from traditional to modern/ industrialized.
      So I am not that sure in 100 footage from the streets of Beijing will be very different from 2020 appart from fashion and cars ...

    • @erikengheim1106
      @erikengheim1106 3 роки тому +19

      Actually development is slowing down. The pace of development is actually declining despite massive growth in research and development. I believe i read somewhere that an important discovery that would require just 1-2 scientists in the 30s or 40s would require something like 18 000 scientists today. There simply are not many low hanging fruits left anymore. We spend enormous resources on very small improvements today.
      Unless we succeed big time with space exploration and/or AI I think we will begin to see some major stagnation in development.
      www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminishing-returns-science/575665/

    • @richard35791
      @richard35791 3 роки тому

      @@erikengheim1106 you simply forget smartphone development

    • @FlyingMonkies325
      @FlyingMonkies325 3 роки тому +1

      I'll give it another 200 years since we dunno what else is gonna happen at this rate but i don't see things changing SO drastically in 100 years, we'll have satellite internet everywhere we already will in a couple years time and then Flying Taxis in 2025 which will help city to city or to airport transport but it may take another 5 years for it to be cheap enough for everyone, then maybe Drones that will deliver things for us but they're hoping Batteries can be improved too to improve mileage however Drones look like to only be able to deliver small things and they'll have to make different ones for different purposes, for food though they'll need a variety sizes of boxes to put small orders in or bigger ones for pizza, munchie boxes and a large quantity of food.
      What will have changed mostly about our world is choose FAR more sustainable ways of building, transport and using energy we're already on the verge of banning transport that uses fossil fuels and we'll be pretty much doing everything electronically including paying for buses and taxis, computers will get more and more powerful for sure but it won't be a huge drastic change like what happened when we moved from the 20th century to the start of The Industrial Age from the 1920s, it creates bigger challenges now too on creating better and better technology.

    • @leftright6054
      @leftright6054 3 роки тому

      I heard an artist from China say 10 years makes a different world in China

  • @liambrook7156
    @liambrook7156 3 роки тому +305

    The scene in the temple, I don't know why but I can watch it again and again and again. It's just fascinating.
    It's like watching a video from 1500 years ago. I wish more and more old videos like this would published out in good quality. This is literally gold and can teach us so much about each other culture.

    • @BlackLotusVisualArchive
      @BlackLotusVisualArchive 2 роки тому +12

      I wouldn't say 1500 years ago. That's a very big stretch since the 500s AD is a very different China than 1900s China. Like literally the religion, food, clothing, language and everything else was very different.

    • @niubi3923
      @niubi3923 2 роки тому +11

      Qing dynasty china is very different from even 300-400 years ago Ming dynasty.

    • @BlackLotusVisualArchive
      @BlackLotusVisualArchive 2 роки тому +12

      @@niubi3923 Even the Ming itself was very different from dynasties like the Tang.
      In fact, I'd say the view of China here is much closer to today than any "ancient" period. While people may not wear the same clothes, the scenery of the Beijing Hutongs still survive today

    • @niubi3923
      @niubi3923 2 роки тому +2

      @@BlackLotusVisualArchive The difference between Tang and Ming is not nearly as drastic as the one between Ming and Qing

    • @BlackLotusVisualArchive
      @BlackLotusVisualArchive 2 роки тому +4

      @@niubi3923 I'm not so sure about that. The clothing of the Tang Dynasty is still a far cry from the Ming, and Chinese society at the time had a lot more Indian, Persian and Central Asian influences due to the increased silk road trade. Buddhism was at it's height and even Manichaeism was found in Chinese society during the Tang. The Ming meanwhile was much more hardline Confucian, and is built from the Song era, which was more isolationist than the Tang and wasn't as kind to Buddhism or Manichaeism.
      While the clothing of the Ming drastically changed in the Qing, the music, architecture and religious trends were continued on from the Ming.

  • @noahgenatossio7166
    @noahgenatossio7166 Рік тому

    This is so dope. Thank you

  • @7x.Indian777
    @7x.Indian777 Рік тому +31

    *_It was very nice to see old China, China has been my favorite since childhood, if I ever get a chance, I will definitely come to China once. : Lot's Of Love From India_* 🇮🇳

    • @Shslxi
      @Shslxi Рік тому

      welcome to China😂

    • @alessiii58
      @alessiii58 Рік тому

      开放了,欢迎到来

    • @ql8601
      @ql8601 Рік тому +3

      this is only for Qing dynasty, real ancient China is Han Chinese leaded Ages

    • @neuroticsheep377
      @neuroticsheep377 Рік тому

      欢迎你来中国🇨🇳love from China.

    • @Edward4Plantagenet
      @Edward4Plantagenet Рік тому

      @@neuroticsheep377 , Love to Chinese People.

  • @jonnyOysters
    @jonnyOysters 4 роки тому +45

    Recently watched the Last Emperor again and man it's crazy how similar that movie is to this. They really got the end of the Qing dynasty down.

  • @funtimes8296
    @funtimes8296 3 роки тому +163

    This just reminds me how many wildly different lives billions of people have lived over the past century alone.

    • @SStupendous
      @SStupendous 3 роки тому +4

      Under half the amount of people in the world back then, too

    • @Kaybossboi
      @Kaybossboi 3 роки тому

      @@SStupendous ua-cam.com/video/gusL7x9Y1W8/v-deo.html

  • @gnationn
    @gnationn Рік тому +1

    Truly stunning video.

  • @australiagreg3179
    @australiagreg3179 Рік тому

    Absolutely fascinating !!

  • @yungson303
    @yungson303 3 роки тому +261

    just imagine in another 100 years people will be watching a video of us now. lol. 2020 year of the coronavirus outbreak

    • @Jimmy-er2mc
      @Jimmy-er2mc 3 роки тому +11

      I don’t think their will be a future.. I’m hoping we can live in inside Ai virtual reality instead. A digital life sounds better anyway.

    • @angelusvastator1297
      @angelusvastator1297 3 роки тому +2

      @@Jimmy-er2mc Elon can gladly help.

    • @tylerwaxman7512
      @tylerwaxman7512 3 роки тому +1

      they will say something about Trump

    • @CountingStars333
      @CountingStars333 3 роки тому +2

      @Anna K definitely will be. You could have said the same in 1914 or 1939 or any time in human history.

    • @CountingStars333
      @CountingStars333 3 роки тому +1

      @@Jimmy-er2mc That's a fake life. Ultimately you go Insane with boredom or become sadistic hedonist. Anything real over anything fake.
      At least you can better yourself in real life.

  • @jsnthehe8168
    @jsnthehe8168 3 роки тому +74

    不容易,难得这么有心去把这么有历史和文化意义的东西用影像的方式传递给我们!非常感谢!!

    • @mayweatherfloyd9763
      @mayweatherfloyd9763 Рік тому

      髒臭没教育的年代 算了吧 多丢脸!文化意乂? 你去死吧 可怜虫!看到挑粪的快递老头出了大门吧?惨不忍睹 !

  • @evetei
    @evetei Рік тому

    非常好,謝謝分享!🙏👍🏼

  • @shaemarie2128
    @shaemarie2128 Рік тому +28

    Experiences like this make me realize how fortunate I am to have been born exactly when I was
    Old enough to appreciate the past, young enough to look forward to the future
    Thank you for keeping this here ❤

    • @chisomahamba379
      @chisomahamba379 Рік тому +1

      100yrs from now future people will look at you in the videos,pictures and say; wow look at how they dressed,so it’s real like in the movies they will be watching and go to museums and watch your latest phones now and cars like things from the past and laugh at something you’re doing now as trend as ancient things,lifestyles and people. I believe people on this video looked back in time of people before them and said what we are saying now 🤷‍♂️. One amicable facts about today is that tomorrow it’ll become yesterday.

  • @zadebasil3033
    @zadebasil3033 3 роки тому +82

    This is fascinating. The difference that colour correction and fixing the frame rate makes, they feel so much more real, and that low-quality mist of time just dissolves away. Great work!

  • @Aquafinity
    @Aquafinity 3 роки тому +159

    It’s fascinating how my ancestors could be one of these people.

  • @jamescc2010
    @jamescc2010 7 місяців тому

    Amazing video. Thx

  • @sindobrandnew
    @sindobrandnew Рік тому

    2:38 It's like watch a movie. Nicely done and thanks for the unknown canadian who filmed it a century ago.

  • @country383
    @country383 3 роки тому +273

    I've always wondered ,what it would feel like to time travel and just observe how a particular time truly was. Now thanks to you a part of me is satisfied . Thank you , I feel honored to have seen this.

    • @idread3523
      @idread3523 Рік тому +2

      Looks like a kung Fu movie

    • @salj.5459
      @salj.5459 7 місяців тому +2

      If I could time travel, I would go to Ancient Egypt. What a dream...

  • @noonenothing422
    @noonenothing422 4 роки тому +42

    This is just... Absolutely beautiful. Words can only begin to comprehend the emotion that this restoration provides.

  • @davidrotela1866
    @davidrotela1866 Рік тому +1

    Cuando veo tus vídeos siento que soy un Viajero del tiempo espiando a través de una ventana lo que hacían en aquella época.

  • @kunding823
    @kunding823 Рік тому

    终于看到完整版了,很棒👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @TheThesassysisters
    @TheThesassysisters 3 роки тому +219

    It’s crazy having been to Beijing many times, I always try to imagine and picture what it must’ve been like 100 years ago in the city. So much looks the same (buildings and architecture) yet all so different. Seeing the hutongs not in the shadow of a skyscraper give a whole different image of the city. Would love to see more historic footage from other cities in China

    • @darthbroda
      @darthbroda 3 роки тому +1

      do these old parts still exist?

    • @colinmclarty8082
      @colinmclarty8082 2 роки тому +3

      @@darthbroda Sort of. Many of the buildings do.

    • @ruiqizhao8879
      @ruiqizhao8879 Рік тому

      Would love to see video from Ming China, that would be the most precious

    • @LUIS-ox1bv
      @LUIS-ox1bv 4 місяці тому

      ​@@colinmclarty8082 Not really. Outside of the Imperial Palace, some parks, a few temples, and remaining, deteriorating Hutongs, most of Beijing retains little of the appearance shown in this footage. So much was destroyed, which is a great shame since Beijing contained elements not matched by any other city in the world at that time. The drive to modernize the city at all costs, came at the price of a loss of much of its beauty, character and uniqueness. Imagine Paris destroying much of its historical essence. Much was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, where even the Imperial Palace was in danger of
      destruction by the Red Guards. Had not Chou En Lai send troops to defend this important landmark, the Red Guards would have burned it to the ground.

    • @pt6792
      @pt6792 Місяць тому

      @@LUIS-ox1bv Beijing still has around 2000 hutongs

  • @FaizKhan-fm6kg
    @FaizKhan-fm6kg 3 роки тому +85

    Totally disconnected people. Somehow it's comforting. To not know about every small problem in the world.

    • @elenaherwagen3529
      @elenaherwagen3529 2 роки тому +1

      You're kidding? In a year the Communist Party of China was born. It is still in power and plays "International" celebrating 100 anniversary.

    • @BasedApricot
      @BasedApricot 2 роки тому

      The country was at a brink of revolution (1910-1911) and post-revolution internal power struggle (1911-1949).

    • @booaks2980
      @booaks2980 2 роки тому

      Dude 1900 china wasn't even ruled by mao yet, infact it was still a dynasty.

  • @prabinpadhan2601
    @prabinpadhan2601 Рік тому +1

    Those simplicity lifestyle nature Architecture ...Love those

  • @DressedRunner
    @DressedRunner Рік тому +3

    That threshold into the 21st Century really made a stark difference, just like how many sci-fi movies predicted.

  • @johnmcnaught7453
    @johnmcnaught7453 4 роки тому +161

    100 yrs. Isn't ancient, especially in China. Nice clips, good job.

    • @DoubleBGreen
      @DoubleBGreen 4 роки тому +32

      For China, it still was. Look up how New York looked in the 1920s compared to this video. Huuuuuge culture difference. China was still living like they were thousands years prior.

    • @mingzhezhang2992
      @mingzhezhang2992 4 роки тому +2

      @Danóg 🤦‍♂️Looks like you've personally lived in China and had history class there?

    • @mingzhezhang2992
      @mingzhezhang2992 4 роки тому +7

      Anything before Republic of China is considered ancient China in China.

    • @mingzhezhang2992
      @mingzhezhang2992 4 роки тому +5

      Chihusky 419 That’s true in theory, but when Chinese people talk, ancient China means anything before Republic of China cause that’s when China started adopting western clothing, and modernizing its society.

    • @mingzhezhang2992
      @mingzhezhang2992 4 роки тому +17

      Chihusky 419 You called it “help” I guess it’s because your history textbook said so. European countries, especially the U.K., brought wars to China and made Chinese people suffer. How would that be called “help”? The Qing dynasty was on the edge of collapse even without the U.K., so maybe if the English people didn’t invade China, China would have found a new order in its society and modernized in its own way. But history is history, we can’t rewrite it and it’s useless to imagine what would have happened if it’s written in another way.

  • @unifieddynasty
    @unifieddynasty 4 роки тому +362

    >Ancient China
    >1910-1920
    More like near-modern China, considering China's entire history. 😀

    • @germanikolaas
      @germanikolaas 4 роки тому +18

      True, I agree poor choice of words maybe its just click bait or just because its a glimpse at ancient customs in its last years , Fun fact is that China didn't even have a railway system in the 1910-1920.

    • @MinazukiShiun
      @MinazukiShiun 4 роки тому +18

      @@germanikolaas It might be the author not knowing how to properly express 'pre-modern' in English. Can't really blame that since he did include the actual year.

    • @germanikolaas
      @germanikolaas 4 роки тому +6

      @@MinazukiShiun Well to be fair I am sure Ancient China didn't look much different. There is not really one thing here out of place except a couple of modern coats and telephone lines. None the less its still a window into the end of a past time before its massive transformation into modernization.

    • @stardustpink
      @stardustpink 3 роки тому +12

      Germanikolaas Absolute The Ancient China has many Dynasties and this is just one of the smallest glimpse of China you could look at of at the end of Qing Dynasty~Republic of China in Mainland China Era. Even every decade the Dynasties has different culture clothing/ dressing/ language/ style, you cannot just call this Ancient China. This is just China in 1910~1920 on the street. There are even different face of China in 1910s~1920s in the Urban area with Shanghai developed ahead of any other China area, women wearing qipao and men wearing tuxedos. It’s just a very very small glimpse of Beijing, China, it doesn’t even represent the whole China itself as every class of China has different dressing/ culture/ and depends on the area/ ethnicity groups.

    • @york7201
      @york7201 3 роки тому

      yeah they are bout to lose the emperor around now.

  • @MatchaCocoaDog
    @MatchaCocoaDog Рік тому

    This is really cool!!!

  • @andrehoffmeister89
    @andrehoffmeister89 3 роки тому +885

    It's crazy to think that everyone on this video is already dead.

    • @daoistsaintmasterofthenasc6220
      @daoistsaintmasterofthenasc6220 3 роки тому +7

      . . .yeh . .

    • @8964Louis
      @8964Louis 3 роки тому +19

      no shit

    • @RubyMVmistress
      @RubyMVmistress 3 роки тому +93

      Yup yup, unless there is that one little kid that was 4-5 and their 114-115 now.

    • @Neyobe
      @Neyobe 3 роки тому +27

      Yeah it’s actually really sad

    • @andrehoffmeister89
      @andrehoffmeister89 3 роки тому +36

      @@RubyMVmistress I doubt it, and except for these rare exception individuals, everyone on Earth that lived in that time is dead. The whole planet was renewed of human individuals.

  • @msm8936
    @msm8936 3 роки тому +107

    These people are somebody's great great grandfather and great great grandmother.

    • @-hiro-5995
      @-hiro-5995 3 роки тому +7

      actually not.. some of them died in ww2 and in other conflicts

    • @booaks2980
      @booaks2980 2 роки тому +2

      Yep I'm a Chinese living in Malaysia, and my ancestors are from China, could be anyone in this video

    • @elias7748
      @elias7748 2 роки тому

      More like great grandfather. Mine was born in 1903 when we were traveling in steam trains and horse carriages

  • @justketh4298
    @justketh4298 Рік тому

    incredible man!

  • @aagayudwiratnawati246
    @aagayudwiratnawati246 Рік тому

    Thanks for sharing this.....just like a dream

  • @TheSunIsMyDestroyer
    @TheSunIsMyDestroyer 4 роки тому +189

    Somewhere, Ip Man was training to become a master.