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?
@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
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.
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!
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
@@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
@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.
@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. 🙃
@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.
@@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.
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...
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...!!!
@@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.
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.
@@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
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.
@@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
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.
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.
@@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
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
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.
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.
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!
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 :-)
@@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. 😢
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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 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?
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.
@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.
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.
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).
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.
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
@@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
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
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
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.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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 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.
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 😂
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 ...
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/
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!
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
@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.
Respect to the Chinese culture. Everything is different, and they invented their own dishes, music, instruments, clothes, language and writing plus inversions that were introduced to the rest of the world. Fascinating. Greetings from Romania.
People in this video weren't technically wearing "chinese clothing" Qing dynasty was a dynasty Han chinese ruled by foreign invader. The reason they had a pigtail was becaues the invader force chinese to adopt their clothing and hairstyle or be beheaded The whole uprising to overthrow the Qing dynasty united behind driving out the foreign rulling aristocracy Their slogan "驅逐韃虜 恢復中華", roughly translated into "kick out the savages, restore china"
Yea, this is actually different than what Chinese (Han Chinese) would look like. Qing Dynasty, since it conquered China they forced their dressing style and hair styles onto the whole population. Before that, it was totally different and more elegant. I doubt the sound and music were actually recorded at the time.
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
@@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.
@@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.
*_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_* 🇮🇳
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
It’s crazy how many people are still wearing queues here, even after the end of Qing rule. I see some people saying this is actually from 1909, that seems a little more plausible.
Good evening from the U.K and I just come across your post and it's a interesting viewing, how things have changed, this will be not forgotten in many people's hearts, before and now, I have always been interested in Chinese History. When I was taught at school, sadly it's was only the basic, but for me it's opened up Mind and Heart, thanks for sharing please keep putting up more S ❤❤❤❤❤
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.
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 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 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.
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!
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 ❤
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.
2:48 I didn't know John Lennon was a time traveller! But seriously, I really enjoy watching these colorisations because it's the closest to a time machine we're gonna get.
I'm Asian. They all look so tan and dark. I know they didn't have sunscreen back then and people worked outside. This is why asian cultures value lighter skin, it means you were rich and didn't need to work and therefore higher in the caste system.
The same was true in Europe where for centuries people with tanned complexions were regarded as inferior as they clearly worked outside. It wasn't until Coco Chanel that the idea of pale skinned people having a suntan became associated with wealth and leisure - because now the majority of poor people worked indoors in factories and offices and looked pasty.
@@QuinczAgrawal lol I think you don't know any about Chinese culture, to live in China at least a year then you may qualify to comment how Chinese culture going on.
Thank you for the look back into history alone. The fact that it can be colorized is amazing. I suspect the actual colors might have been brighter. I pondered if the prosperous homeowner's door might have been red. I know very little about China.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow so crazy to think this was only 100 years ago. Guys had long braids people wear robes the street without buildings and street light. Wow just looking at the atmosphere gives you a different feeling
Now imagine in 1500's when the Ming Dynasty was around, they definitely have much better attires and sense of fashion if I have to be honest. Also the Zheng He Fleet but that's centuries earlier
Globalism is to thank for that. The erosion of borders and with it the disappearance of unique cultures, in favour of this globally standardised, and utterly boring way of being..
@@matthewbowen517 I agree. Unique cultures, traditions, and beliefs are all replaced by the pull of the dollar. Soulless consumerist globalism. Companies and governments alike love it.
@@JjEvaluation-ke6rh how am I acting like countries or nations aren't responsible? I view the USA so much responsible (where I am) that I dislike the country. I despise government in nearly every country as well and don't think they represent anything proper.
@@JjEvaluation-ke6rh I am using the usa as an example, and Korea is a bad example. Korea is a husk, its entire society is modeled on the US. Japan is better, but not great.
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!!!
The guy at 3:05 was literally so fascinated, it’s so cool I literally had a staring contest with someone from a different time period and felt like I was there in a way?? It’s just so cool
Beijing did a great job combining modern roads with traditional buildings. The last time I was there I stayed in an alley home that looks like the one in this film.
@@frederic6727 A lot of times if traditional buildings are torn down it's because the infrastructure is unsafe and replacements get built for the people using them. I know they'll sometimes do replicas but that's not the norm of course
What never cease to impress me is how much more different were people around the world just 100 years ago. The individual cultures were distinctly different and travelling the world was definitely more interesting. Now no matter where you go you are going to see all about the same things and the whatever cultural differences survive up to this day are there only as tourist attractions.
We speak about the same world events but our values and cultures will still be different. For example, Will Smith was canceled in the US because of what happened but he was actually praised in Korea. Our culture evolves and lives within us.
Kinda but not really i am mexican and the only country that was similar to mine was Chile but not quite at all, the rest Canada and some east and south east asian were really different to me
I don't think this is 1920. It's 1909 according to another source. Part of the footage was published by BBC in 2010 and attributed to Albert Kahn (who is French, not Canadian) who did visit China in 1909.
it looks like pre 1912 revolution, as there are no one wearing Nationalist era clothing and it looks like there was a royal/noble outing with a jiaozi and the guards all wore Qing era clothing.
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.
![Moscow 1908 (New Version) in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/y7ftOWjwFoU/mqdefault.jpg)
it's crazy how much of a difference a 100 years can be
1800s upwards differences are drastic
Ro Ye true
But it was yesterday
It’s also crazy how little difference there is.
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.
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?
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@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
@Paula Johnson hyperbole much? It's still the same people and same environment
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And those people looking straight at you in the camera will never know someone in the future met their gaze through the screens
That's crazy!
That’s deep...very deep
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.
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.
Thinking the same exact thing!
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!
Fun fact: looking at all the soulless social media narcissts this created, these guys were fully right
stealth so good i didn't even notice him hiding behind the tree
they also thought trains were evil. China in 1900s was Europe a thousand years ago.
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
@@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
When you realize this is the closest thing we have to time travel...
Chihusky 419 it somehow sounds romantic. Love through the time
@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.
@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. 🙃
@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.
@@comingoutofhibernation2122 stfu
The way everyones looking at the camera makes me feel like a time traveler
People in China will often still do that. I live in China
@@ivanovskism If I record you in the street without asking you, what will you do?
@@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.
About 30 years ago I toured inner China with a camcorder, the reaction was the same.
They stare at the laowai, not camera
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...
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!
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.
It's not that deep. They were just looking at a camera. Nothing more.
This was deep 🙏
Watching in a Xiaomi made by people who are descendents from the ones who we see into this video. Just amazing lol
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...!!!
7:44 he has no idea that someone from 100 years in the future is staring back at him judging his tree-hiding abilities
lmaoooo
XdXd
😂😂😂 yup
lag 😂
He's the best tree hider
I am from Beijing. The demolitions of the old city walls and gates during 60s ordered by government were such a tremendous lost.
Why were they demolished? Was it because of city planning or cultural revolution perhaps?
I can't believe that Hanbok is their culture even after watching this video.
@@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.
Why no bicycle at all? Where are they
I was wondering if some of these places were still standing. How sad.
People lived overall the same lifestyle as their predecessors for like thousand years... But everything changed, when 20th century attacked.
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.
@@corners3755 clearly the joke went right over your head lmfao
When Mao attacked
alien technology ruined us
@@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
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.
all these people and animals are dead, kinda spooky to watch things from a century ago
@@roberts3423 wdym by spooky. nothing scary about this footage
@@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
@@StopFlaggingVideos why its spooky? there is no ghost or devils haunting here. just normal people living their lives are recorded by camera.
Kung Fu movie if you asked me
You realise just how different and real things are here when it's in colour. It almost feels like a movie.
Yep.
All I could think of is Wong Fei Hong.
Yeah everything old was destroyed in cultural revolution
@@dev9077 world war destroy it.
@@TheExtraterrestrial99 Exactly
For me it's not just the color, but the fluid and realistic movements reflecting almost what you would see with your own eyes.
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.
Its scary to think what would have happened here 17 years later..
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.
You must be very old right
@@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
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
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.
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!
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.
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!
Let’s not forget that China eventually opened their economy
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 :-)
there is something extremely peaceful and fascinating about these old cities
life before communism
@@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. 😢
Now do life before democracy in Middle East and Africa.
@@babyjiren9676 Yep, before the great leap forward and the destruction of many relics and art
Mao Zedong is still only 10 yrs old in this footage, has not destroyed the nation yet 😂😂
Just imagine if cams did exist 2000 years ago.
It'd be awesome
Cameras will be hella advance by now
iPhone 11 would have been nice
we would have teleporting cars now
Willy BoFaN Two thousand years ago is merely a thought away. All exists now.
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.
Wanna satay in settle too
Would be cool if one of the guys in this video was a good friend of your ancestors.
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
@@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.
@@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.
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.
ROC was much better, it's the real China
@@joydeepghosh1781 Agreed.
@@joydeepghosh1781 what you say makes zero sense
holy moly i didnt notice that
@@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?
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.
The resolution depends on how you scan the film.
the whole greeting scene in front of the door was so fascinating!
yes, nice exercise! I like it, we should bring it back ....
I thought the same. To me, this was the most interesting part of this fascinating video.
@Event Horizons We still got culture. Youre blinded by propaganda
@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.
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.
"Lost in time, like tears in the rain"
😓
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).
iban chinese mix here too, from swak. LOL maternal great grandparents moved here from china.
it's strange how only southern chinese migrates to south asia..the northern chinese never do that..
@@lyhthegreat it's a matter of proximity i guess
@@ilaias_ Probably trying to get a better life
Washington Clinton Is this shit supposed to be related to anything said in this thread?
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.
Yep!! I was noticing that too and it is just so fascinating! How precious!
哇，你观察很仔细诶！
bizarre?no it wasn't bizarre at all.
Very respectful, worthy of a more elevated society. Not bizarre at all.
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 ..
Can't imagine how life is gonna be in 2120
always can't imagine the future
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
@@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
Wild life everywhere on Earth, and there money will disappear.
@@lightsforsan6517 Good thought
This is the end of the Qing dynasty in 1909, not 1920 (republic of China，now this government is in Taiwan)
Wow... just wow!!
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
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
And by a french
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.
the way they bow to each other...I have NEVER seen that depicted in documentaries, dramas, etc. O.O
Yeah that was a very strange sort of bow.
Looks like social distancing to me
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.
@@mliu547 Oh thanks for the info! I didn't know
m liu thank you for the information!
amazing! my great grandma lived in southern china in the early 1880s and moved to malaysia in the 1900s with her family
Fujian Province right
7:38 great camouflage, you are absolutely invisible. :3
He knows he's gonna be in a UA-cam comment in about 100 years
The guy that's taking the video must have been thinking,, "hey I'm gonna post this on youtube 100 years from now"
That's definitely crazy!
Its his vlog
Lol
ㅎㅎㅎ ^^
And they thought wed have flying cars, space colonies and time travel by now
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.
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
Ya
Except, we live in a much safer world.
@@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.
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.
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...
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.
while taking a dump
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.
Cringehere im literally on the toiler rn haha
They would have already made a duplicate camera of same type at that time 😂
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.
And almost all of them in this video are already died or in their late 100s!!
@sujan maharjan, late 100s? So they're almost 200 years old? Damn, how about that for longevity?
Imti Jamir late 100 means 105 to 109 years old
@@imperia8923 i see no infant here, most of them are probably in their mid 30s so it would make them around 130s
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
this has to be before 1920 because many of the men still have their manchurain braid
Queue.
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.
@@westfieldartworks8188 in china even in 1920 cars were really rare compared to america or europe
@@westfieldartworks8188 China was in chaos after the Qing collapsed, so I doubt they would have time to buy cars.
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.
@@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.
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
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5:19 The way people great each other was so humble. 5:50 They bowed again even when they said goodbye.
they seem will mannered people , so weird how modern main land chinese are not like that , they not known for having good manners
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
@@sakurakou2009 these are upper class of that era, of course they are well-mannered, just like every nation’s upper class across history
@@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.
@@小さな森-w6o man, use english we don't understand what you say even the translator have problem with the broken grammar
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 😂
An Awkward Sweet Potato their greetings obeys social distancing. 🤣
Yeah he is so well hiden I can barely see him.
Looks like Peyton Manning doing his Snap check in his QB position.
Weird to see even men and boys have long hairs!!
@Roy Vice oh yeah, so you want to have long hair like sissies?
100 yrs and it looks like a diff world.. just imagine how the world will look in 100yrs considering that changes are faster
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 ...
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/
@@erikengheim1106 you simply forget smartphone development
I heard an artist from China say 10 years makes a different world in China
*Footage of the world during the Coronavirus pandemic*
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!
its amazing😮
100 years is not ancient, you’d have to go back up to a thousand years for that
This isn't "Ancient" China. This is only 100 years.
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.
This is not ancient China. Don't be absurd.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
Reminds me of the route America's going now, considering how grand Beijing looks in this footage, and the struggle that is to come.
@@catmanyo vr duhh
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.
Nowadays they've been turned into Tik Tok dances. 😂🤣 (funnily enough Tik Tok comes from China).
........and then they touch each other's hands 2 seconds later.
harry krishton nah, it was Spanish flu came from the States back then.
@@luowang5251 That was 1918-1919
@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.
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.
Yoooo same I love that film
Respect to the Chinese culture. Everything is different, and they invented their own dishes, music, instruments, clothes, language and writing plus inversions that were introduced to the rest of the world. Fascinating.
Greetings from Romania.
People in this video weren't technically wearing "chinese clothing"
Qing dynasty was a dynasty Han chinese ruled by foreign invader.
The reason they had a pigtail was becaues the invader force chinese to adopt their clothing and hairstyle or be beheaded
The whole uprising to overthrow the Qing dynasty united behind driving out the foreign rulling aristocracy
Their slogan "驅逐韃虜 恢復中華", roughly translated into "kick out the savages, restore china"
Yea, this is actually different than what Chinese (Han Chinese) would look like. Qing Dynasty, since it conquered China they forced their dressing style and hair styles onto the whole population. Before that, it was totally different and more elegant. I doubt the sound and music were actually recorded at the time.
Until culture revolution
It’s fascinating how my ancestors could be one of these people.
This just reminds me how many wildly different lives billions of people have lived over the past century alone.
Under half the amount of people in the world back then, too
@@SStupendous ua-cam.com/video/gusL7x9Y1W8/v-deo.html
I love how that guy at the beginning is like
Guy: Hey kid, get off my porch and eat somewhere else.
Kid:...(sigh) oooh, ok...
He's like, "Scram kid! You're loitering!"
That was the best part of this video, because you could see how people interacted back then. O would have loved to peek inside the house!
The reactions of the people seeing a camera is just amazing 1:57 and 2:45
Totally disconnected people. Somehow it's comforting. To not know about every small problem in the world.
You're kidding? In a year the Communist Party of China was born. It is still in power and plays "International" celebrating 100 anniversary.
The country was at a brink of revolution (1910-1911) and post-revolution internal power struggle (1911-1949).
Dude 1900 china wasn't even ruled by mao yet, infact it was still a dynasty.
7:44 Ninja mode activate: "ha-ha foolish foreigner, now you can't see me"
hahaha
🤣🤣🤣
Im pretty sure he used gengetsu on him hence the changed of scenery
Hahah
I didn't saw him until your comment.
Plot twist, it's a kage bunshin.
it honestly felt like i was watching an ancient drama
Fantastic!
Music Is Absolutely Heavenly!
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
do these old parts still exist?
@@darthbroda Sort of. Many of the buildings do.
Would love to see video from Ming China, that would be the most precious
@@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.
@@LUIS-ox1bv Beijing still has around 2000 hutongs
These people are somebody's great great grandfather and great great grandmother.
actually not.. some of them died in ww2 and in other conflicts
Yep I'm a Chinese living in Malaysia, and my ancestors are from China, could be anyone in this video
More like great grandfather. Mine was born in 1903 when we were traveling in steam trains and horse carriages
just imagine in another 100 years people will be watching a video of us now. lol. 2020 year of the coronavirus outbreak
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.
@@Jimmy-er2mc Elon can gladly help.
they will say something about Trump
@Anna K definitely will be. You could have said the same in 1914 or 1939 or any time in human history.
@@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.
*_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_* 🇮🇳
welcome to China😂
开放了，欢迎到来
this is only for Qing dynasty， real ancient China is Han Chinese leaded Ages
欢迎你来中国🇨🇳love from China.
@@neuroticsheep377 , Love to Chinese People.
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.
thought the same! amazing
There’s another greeting where they bow then it looks like they bring their hands to their mouth? Wonder what the difference is.
They are manchu, han greeting
You should watch “tea house” 茶馆 the movie
@Event Horizons Probably reflects relative status.
>Ancient China
>1910-1920
More like near-modern China, considering China's entire history. 😀
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
yeah they are bout to lose the emperor around now.
I have always found chinese traditional music fascinating. There is something about it that is special.
It's the pentatonic scales!
Those are for dead people.
Traditional music should be incorporated into modern music like what the JP did
Those are literally funeral music 💀
Traditional Chinese music isn't for funerals wth
I find the old ways of greeting between people so fascinating! What a different world we live in now!
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！！
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 ！
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.
Looks like a kung Fu movie
If I could time travel, I would go to Ancient Egypt. What a dream...
It’s crazy how many people are still wearing queues here, even after the end of Qing rule. I see some people saying this is actually from 1909, that seems a little more plausible.
@Kohima1944 should change the title then...they year is actually important
Good evening from the U.K and I just come across your post and it's a interesting viewing, how things have changed, this will be not forgotten in many people's hearts, before and now, I have always been interested in Chinese History.
When I was taught at school, sadly it's was only the basic, but for me it's opened up Mind and Heart, thanks for sharing please keep putting up more S ❤❤❤❤❤
This is just... Absolutely beautiful. Words can only begin to comprehend the emotion that this restoration provides.
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.
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.
Qing dynasty china is very different from even 300-400 years ago Ming dynasty.
@@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
@@BlackLotusVisualArchive The difference between Tang and Ming is not nearly as drastic as the one between Ming and Qing
@@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.
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!
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 ❤
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.
2:48 I didn't know John Lennon was a time traveller!
But seriously, I really enjoy watching these colorisations because it's the closest to a time machine we're gonna get.
No futuro voce podera entrar dentro da filmagem.Pena que nao estaremos vivos.
He also looks like Jackie Chan
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Lmao. I had to rewind to double check what you commented… 😝
Thank you, i knew i saw someone familiar across the sea of faces, i just couldnt remember who.
I'm Asian. They all look so tan and dark. I know they didn't have sunscreen back then and people worked outside. This is why asian cultures value lighter skin, it means you were rich and didn't need to work and therefore higher in the caste system.
The same was true in Europe where for centuries people with tanned complexions were regarded as inferior as they clearly worked outside. It wasn't until Coco Chanel that the idea of pale skinned people having a suntan became associated with wealth and leisure - because now the majority of poor people worked indoors in factories and offices and looked pasty.
@@thedativecase9733 Early Europeans had dark skin too, crog magnon also had dark skin, Britons had dark skin,
sorry there are no caste system in Chinese culture not a bit, Indian culture≠Asian culture, thank you.
@@maxxieyuan Chinese culture is facing an all time low.People are not recognising their own culture anymore in China while enjoying economic boom.
@@QuinczAgrawal lol I think you don't know any about Chinese culture, to live in China at least a year then you may qualify to comment how Chinese culture going on.
Thank you for the look back into history alone. The fact that it can be colorized is amazing. I suspect the actual colors might have been brighter. I pondered if the prosperous homeowner's door might have been red. I know very little about China.
這種歷史畫面真的很重要啊，感謝你的付出
It's crazy to think that everyone on this video is already dead.
. . .yeh . .
no shit
Yup yup, unless there is that one little kid that was 4-5 and their 114-115 now.
Yeah it’s actually really sad
@@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.
100 yrs. Isn't ancient, especially in China. Nice clips, good job.
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.
@Danóg 🤦♂️Looks like you've personally lived in China and had history class there?
Anything before Republic of China is considered ancient China in China.
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.
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.
i live in china. its amazing to watch this. its a totally different world. none if us could hang back then
Thank you for uploading, that's a true treasure. ❤️👍
在一户人家门口的场景很有意思，主人出来买东西，让坐在门口的小孩离开，跟街坊四邻作揖问好，非常有生活气息。
我看的时候感觉俩人都要捡石头摔对方。XD
他凉的，看到真正古人留长辫子的样子了，才短短100年变化真是巨大。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
@@democracyfreedomaredecepti7255 按整个世界的人类进步文明，国内只不过是太慢了而已，没有跟上步伐，所以才感觉变化如此巨大，就好像突然间从古时候直接到了现代社会。这都是拜独裁统治者的极权统治，大清如果没有灭亡，我们现在应该还是留着辫子大多数人过着奴隶般的日子
当我们认为华盛顿是现代人，而乾隆是古人的时候，然后发现他俩是同年死的.....
中国文化特色：人情社会，对熟人谦让友善，对生人冷漠仇视
這部片實際時間可能更早期,1920-1929清朝已經結束好幾年了,但影片人物全都留辮子;
在另一部北京民俗樂隊街邊地攤推測時間為1927-1929裡面人物全沒辮子,較符合年代.
但兩部片子都非常珍貴,感謝修復.
很多人没习惯吧可能
还是清朝末年的时候，因为大城市去辫子比较早的，应该是清末1912年之前
移风易俗哪有那么容易？几百年的习惯不可能几年就改过来，除非像清开国之初，直接砍脑袋
剪辫子应该是很快的，所以20年代不太可能。我觉得是10年代，或更早。
他凉的，看到真正古人留长辫子的样子了，才短短100年变化真是巨大。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
Wow so crazy to think this was only 100 years ago. Guys had long braids people wear robes the street without buildings and street light. Wow just looking at the atmosphere gives you a different feeling
100 years is a long time. 100 years ago, we had horse and carriages and old autos in the streets. And now, pretty much every family has a car.
Now imagine in 1500's when the Ming Dynasty was around, they definitely have much better attires and sense of fashion if I have to be honest. Also the Zheng He Fleet but that's centuries earlier
The braids are actually manchu hairstyles the qing forced the han chinese to wear, thats why its so common
你做得太棒了！感謝大感謝！！！😊😊😊👏👏👏👏👏
Its so precious to listen the monks chanting 100 years back
Beautiful traditional architecture, dress and culture. Something that seems to consistently be going away in the modern world.
Globalism is to thank for that. The erosion of borders and with it the disappearance of unique cultures, in favour of this globally standardised, and utterly boring way of being..
@@matthewbowen517 I agree. Unique cultures, traditions, and beliefs are all replaced by the pull of the dollar. Soulless consumerist globalism. Companies and governments alike love it.
Glad it disappeared. Even more that way of greeting each other. 😅 My back couldn't take it.
@@JjEvaluation-ke6rh how am I acting like countries or nations aren't responsible? I view the USA so much responsible (where I am) that I dislike the country. I despise government in nearly every country as well and don't think they represent anything proper.
@@JjEvaluation-ke6rh I am using the usa as an example, and Korea is a bad example. Korea is a husk, its entire society is modeled on the US. Japan is better, but not great.
To think all of them already RIP. These people are forever immortalize here. Imagine their families today saw their grandparents here.
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!!!
2:00 The man in white to the left just scrolling through Instagram on his Huawei 0.1 Beta
The guy at 3:05 was literally so fascinated, it’s so cool I literally had a staring contest with someone from a different time period and felt like I was there in a way?? It’s just so cool
IKR
Beijing did a great job combining modern roads with traditional buildings. The last time I was there I stayed in an alley home that looks like the one in this film.
yeh but still unfortunately many old and cultural building had to be taken down but thats the sacrifice that there is gonna be.
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@@frederic6727 A lot of times if traditional buildings are torn down it's because the infrastructure is unsafe and replacements get built for the people using them. I know they'll sometimes do replicas but that's not the norm of course
I was literally smiling as i watched this, how beautiful the past can be. Truly mind blowing.
What never cease to impress me is how much more different were people around the world just 100 years ago.
The individual cultures were distinctly different and travelling the world was definitely more interesting. Now no matter where you go you are going to see all about the same things and the whatever cultural differences survive up to this day are there only as tourist attractions.
@@victormarie525 Συμφωνώ!
Facts
That's not true at all.
We speak about the same world events but our values and cultures will still be different. For example, Will Smith was canceled in the US because of what happened but he was actually praised in Korea. Our culture evolves and lives within us.
Kinda but not really i am mexican and the only country that was similar to mine was Chile but not quite at all, the rest Canada and some east and south east asian were really different to me
This was 36.500 days ago. Crazy when you think about it
LastStand Drum and Bass if you convert that to second it wouldn’t seem that bad...
I don't think this is 1920. It's 1909 according to another source. Part of the footage was published by BBC in 2010 and attributed to Albert Kahn (who is French, not Canadian) who did visit China in 1909.
That's what I thought, too.
That would make sense. All the men have queues. The queue was outlawed after the 1912 Xinhai revolution.
I think have seem a french program on this subject.
it looks like pre 1912 revolution, as there are no one wearing Nationalist era clothing and it looks like there was a royal/noble outing with a jiaozi and the guards all wore Qing era clothing.
@@robert3302 i'm sorry queue is outlawed?
Even almost 100 years before, everything is clean and organized.
This guy at 7:38 : *"Shit, I think he saw me. Better hide behind this tree."*
6:03 aint never seen a way to greet like that. didnt know the chinese greeted like that.
They don’t anymore
T-bagging, just like videogames
It’s actually Manchurian culture, which is a kind of minority ethnic in China
Manchurian's greeting, they were the colonizer/ruler!
Right!? That whole greeting process is just fascinating.
That greeting bow at 6:05 ! You can see the smiles and genuine joy at seeing each other out and about!
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.
beautiful, what a treasure
sad to think that this was just before the Japanese invaded and killed a lot of the Chinese
Damn the outfits are cool
5:02 the guy was like gtfo u cant sit there
Lol I wonder why he was mad at that kid sitting in front of his house. Must be a rich asshole guy.
@@rumuelnathanael8043 shut up snowflake
vinny is stupid what
@@faizalkhanisstupid1818 stfu
Got to love the long hair
That’s a wonderful piece of work.