What an interesting community with such open and friendly people! Guma was especially helpful with her explanation of the history of communal marriage...I hadn't considered the population control aspect, which would be important in an area of limited agriculture. It's also quite surprising that social media would be so prevalent and lucrative in such a remote area, but Guma has found a way to make a living for herself as well as build up the village economy...what a smart, wonderful woman!
It's not surprising at all that it would be so lucrative in a remote area. People don't see that aspect of life very often, so it makes sense that the content appeals to human curiosity and is therefore highly sought after.
You handled a delicate subject with consideration and understanding. I had read about this situation several years ago and have thought about many times. Thank you for sharing. ❤❤😊😊
Unique culture indeed! I notice too that they are not reserved or uncomfortable with their lives. Guess living in harmony is top priority. Understandability this is a closed knit community! We must be open minded! Thanks again.
Great video as always. China's telecommunication infrastructure is just amazing. Remote village between mountains and yet they are all on mobile phones doing live streaming.
Just been to there about 2 months ago , took me 6 hours from Lugu lake to Eya Village (150KM) , during rainy season , driving there is really difficult .
People like Guma who have brought attention to their villages and helped support the business there are heroes. My professor did research a few years ago on the importance of social media and e-commerce in saving rural communities and lower tiered cities. Modern China is incredible
@@jamesgjurovich7893 For tech in general, this is often true. However, in this case, live-streamed e-commerce is a Chinese invention - so far, we don't really like it here in the US. Now, whether or not this would have existed in a world without QVC is a great question
Gama represents a new change in this village, she’s able to make changes to the livelihood of the villagers, selling their produce to the outside world through her social media. That’s a good initiative, her own lifestyle is a testament of positive change towards the 21st century. She’s bringing a new paradigm shift of lifestyle to this primitive village 👍
Young lady you have such an ability to connect with people and places, it's amazing. As usual the vistas of places you broadcast from are also amazing. Your skills really bring your broadcasts to life in a deeply personal level for viewers like myself. Thanks for your efforts.
@@squirrelattackspidy Yes why not. It's done with all involved parties' consents. Pretty common all around the world prior to the modern nuclear family
I just found out that my parents love your channel and watch every video of yours, but they don't understand English, so they read your Chinese subtitles. Thank you! 🇨🇳
I hope people outside China and Chinese culture will learn to take a page or two from your work and the way Chinese people cope with life in general. Your efforts are definitely revealing what being Chinese is really like and I would like to commend you wholeheartedly for that. I am ethnically a Chinese from migrant parentage, but I have found much eye opening facts from your channel. Great Job!
@@AnotherExtraFist Well nowadays everyone with enough funding and a camera can go and record these. Back then it was not so easy. Heavy equipment paperwork and no internet things took forever.
Please, Little Chinese (but Great Human Been), don’t stop your story/travels, because I can not travel to China( not enough money) and you’re fulfilling my desire to know this wonderful country! Cheers from Florianópolis ( Brazil ).
So beautiful! And how impressive that in such a remote place, you can just live stream. Many other places in the world don't have such good connection.
The government and people of China firmly believe that: (1) Good infrastructure can bring economic prosperity. (2) Infrastructure may not bring short-term benefits, but it will certainly bring long-term benefits.
Such a blend of ancient, enduring (so far) culture & connection to the wider world. When living simply, one doesn't need much money. The varied dishes of the dinner offered to you may or may not have been typical of daily fare, but all was local except maybe the noodles? Seems as though being on line as a creator is fun for many of the young people. Guma is being professional & focused & making a name for the village, ad are you, Yan. Thanks.
You have no idea how much of a blessing you are to the Chinese people, nation and civilization. You are doing what a lot of entities try to do with a lot of resources but they fail to show the real china, you achieve it naturally by being yourself. Keep at it.
If you know a little bit about how these US owned and back social media platform work, then you know it is not quite all their faults to not being able to show China. Let me tell you an example, once there was a Chinese media uploaded a video about a Chinese festival on Facebook few years ago, hours later it got banned, because an Indian media copied and uploaded that video themselves and claimed it was Indian, not Chinese. And Facebook stood firmly with the Indians, which was not surprising at all. :) So~
@@cheungchingtongfacts. People online are so stupid thinking they are smart. Sitting at home making the dumbest comments and never step a foot in any of the countries they speak about 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Nihao Yan...Hello from Texas USA. You are China's wonderful Ambassador of Tourism. Your videos are an eye opener for many of us who would never be able to go to far away places (me because I am older). You are our eyes your voice is knowledge and we keep on learning along the way fascinating. Enya village is very interesting, while I am not for communal marriage, I respect their tradition. Sister said she rather marry one man ended marrying two because it was arranged, I felt sorry for her. Having to put up with one man she had two 🙄 girl got used to it. Interesting they are primitive in some ways and so modern to have mobile phones every where to do live-stream, that is just incredible. They live of the farm land grow their own veggies have cows, pigs, chickens....I was fascinated to see how Naxi people manage to sustain themselves thorough centuries. Thank you Yan and I am sorry you had to walk to get some form of transportation out of Enya on to Daocheng. I hope you succeeded without a problem friend.
This is the case in some remote areas of the world. Because the remote areas do not have the input of modern thinking, bad habits cannot be broken. The southern part of Sichuan Province in China is such a place. Although Sichuan has big cities like Chengdu and is home to pandas, there are many backward and poor areas in the southern mountainous areas due to inconvenient transportation. For example, the Yi people in Daliang Mountain are still a semi-primitive society. Although the local government spends huge sums of money to send young people to study in developed areas, which has gradually changed the customs of this area, many old people still continue the bad habits of primitive tribes. There are also polygamy and polyandry areas in Sichuan, and it will take time to slowly change. At least the local government first allows young people to receive education so that the bad habits can be eliminated as much as possible. There is also the Cliff Village reported by the BBC, also in southern Sichuan.
Guma is a professor of EYa University ... Guma provides "lectures" about Eya people with its' culture, history and economy that flows smoothly like the river in front of her house ... very beautiful ... Love Guma and glad to have someone like her in such community
Guma's point about having two moms so having more parental love is a really good point. Raising kids is hard work, more people to help seems ideal honestly
You're really taking this kind of video to the next level, sister. Making people you meet talk, make them think and you make us think with them. Bring us into the world you visit. (my name is Yann by the way, from Switzerland.)
It is an eye opening that this episode lifts the mystic façade of poverty eradication in rural villages under the dire economic challenges through your camera lens ...
Such an eye opening video, Yan. Even at my age you still manage to expand my world view! I would imagine if Guma lived in a large modern city she would be a formidable business woman. Safe travels sister 😁
Amazing video done! I love to learn more about China this way and it’s hard to find people making these! Thank you so much for putting everything together for us to see!
I admire how they adapted to survive. It actually makes far more sense financially to live in this type of arrangement. Many communities would benefit far more if they could do the same. Thank you for this enlightening video.
Hi Yan! Your video is an eye opener for me because I would have never known that one of the reasons for polygamous societies could be the driving or forced economy! That is a shocker! Generally the cause was always attributed to paternalism and maternalism which can be roughly interpreted into male dominated and female dominated societies. Which is why could be the reason that usually evolved monogamous societies take high moral stance on polygamy. But when we keep aside morality aspect and try to understand from their perspective which I feel is very important than just being righteous and say this is right and that is wrong. Only then, I feel, there could be an understanding where there could be an unbiased learning and could make a living worthwhile. 😊
Wah... So deep .... Inside the country. So advanced until can do live streaming...👏👏👏👏👏👍👏👏👏👏👏👍🇨🇳👏👏👏🎉if you come to south east asia, deep inside those countries, you can't even get phone line... 😂🤣😂 you are lucky to be born in China.👏👏👏👏👍🇨🇳👍🧠👏👏👏👏 what's your government have done, is for the people advancement and goods too. 👏👏👏👏👍. This is what we call great managers. Of course there are some corruption or discourse or mismanagement but China is Huge. I wish i have the body's and money one day to visit China. Thank you, Yan.💐🥰🥳🎉👏👏😁
Just the day before yesterday, I met a grandfather from China on the train in Berlin who was travelling from the airport and knew neither English nor German. And he was wondering all the way through ‘Why is there no internet on the train?’. And here I am watching people in a remote village in China, in the mountains, hundreds of kilometres away from big cities, doing live streams and TikTok videos. So that is progressive ‘Europe’ ))
If you think a little bit deeper, you might start wondering whether we should rethink Western styles Capitalism where at it core everything should be determined by market! If there's no profit there's no incentive to build out! Here in America, remote area you don't get internet signal for phone! For home you can get something like Starlink at great cost! In China, Capitalism merge with Socialism, where building of infrastructure is seen as for social good, apart from internet infrastructure, there are physical aspect, where government build high speed train in challenging geography like region Yan was in now with hundreds of tunnel bored through mountain to reach remote area that take days to reach cutting traveling time to hours! Costly but improve economic livelihood of remote region! That kind of policy is highly demonize i n USA as redistribution of wealth from rich (city) to poor (rural) population!
Agreed. We got a cabin about 30km from a small town, literally over a small mountain about 200 m high. None of the cell phone service provider would want to plant a tower on top. People here are forced to pay $200/month for starlink. This is Canada.
In Nepal mainly in Himalayan region this used to be common many back years ago now it’s very rare to found this type of family and only very few rarely we can found this family.
Basically wherever there is an insane shortage of land in an agricultural society. People still need to survive, so the only way is through population control.
@@MixedRogueKhorri Yeah, for one family of blood brother to produce fewer children with limited resources. The tradeoff for polyandry is less agricultural innovation and development, as you can maintain the land without overusing it since you produce fewer children. The tradeoff for polygyny is having more children, but they can also create scarcity which interestingly causes innovation; each family and situation varies. If in polyandry a girl marries brothers from different families, this defeats the purpose of it, and one family has to wait months or years just to have one son. So, polyandry makes more sense better with blood-brothers and/or uncles joining together.
Here (in France) I’m so happy that you share these adventures and lessons. Thankyou also for your choice of camera gear and the stunning images and sound. It all feels, well . . .exemplary. Thankyou also for the detail of how you travel, how families do ordinary things and also, boooommm, the festivals of dance. I hope I’ve found every episode. Hi to your dad! I hope he watches too!
Very much agreed... it sounds very pejorative :( It's just another form of conviviality adapted to the circumstances and local environment. Calling this primitive makes it sound like it's outdated and that our urban lifestyles are superior - which is by far not the case thinking of all the social, environmental and psychological problems we have...
@@weinsniklas Indeed. Some forward thinkers have suggested polygamy as a possible solution for the rapidly declining (sub par population replacement) birthrate in advance economies.
@@mechannel7046 it can be two moms married each other, or her/his dad has two wives, or the two moms are good friends, they are happy to parent the kids together if the dads are not qualified enough.
Your videos are amazing. Your photography/videography, editing, production is superb. Your contagious smile, bravery/courage and warmth is genuine. And you show us (Toronto) about a world we have very little knowledge off (I have been to China 22 times but always for business), expanding our horizons & giving us tremendous Insights. THANK YOU!
I've never been to Daocheng yet despite my numerous travels to China over more than a decade. But I heard Daocheng is a picturesque place with beautiful lakes, meadows and valleys that rival or even surpass Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan which I've been to. But like Jiuzhaigou, it's become very touristy and noisy teeming with domestic tourism now. So Yan, I'm looking foward to what you can show me in Daocheng and whether it's worth a visit.
Thank You for this very interesting viewing. The reasoning behind polygamy makes sense in harsh environments with scarce resources. The situation was similar amongst many Aboriginal tribes before the brutal invasion by British colonial-settlers & convicts. In addition, many Aboriginal tribes were matrilineal, matriarchal ... especially in Australian Central Deserts' countries.
Dear Yan, thanks for sharing your interesting interview with Guma the mainstream influencer in Eya who also promotes local products in improving the village business. You visited her big communal family with two mums and one dad. Guma is fortunate for having one husband, her sister has two husbands. Have a good rest after getting a lift to Daocheng. God bless your great work ❤🌺🌻🌞❣️🙏
In such modern days, and when China is now so much more modern than many countries in the world, one can still find such ancient cultures and living styles from a forgotten culture long lost in time. Yet, the modern now encompass the young in this lost culture with mobile phones, 5G connections, solar water and satellite services. Our world is amazing!!! Yet there are those who want to destroy it for selfish gains which one cannot bring to the afterlife.
It's amazing how China developed so much that started only in late 70s or early 80s I think. Their technology is advance, lots of infrastructures, etc. Even just by watching the selling or trading in wet markets, you can see the abundance of food.. vegetables, fruits, meats, etc. And their culture is still intact. It's really nice to see and know the life in their villages. Chinese people are industrious. (Just now I subscribed to this channel).
About eggplant with tomato we in Gujarat India in this month of September start making Similar Curry with Millet toast on similar fire in rural areas but in city on gas stove called "Odo" the curry and "Rotlo" the pancake type thick toast but a bit soft too, now it's all year around with greenhouse but many families prefer winter season. Even in India there are customs of polyandric households. I just ate the curry one of my favourites and looking at Naxi people peeling charred part of grilled brinjal and making tomato paste ❤ definitely have to visit China. Many city here in Gujarat have commercialised this recipes for winter to cater families living in urban municipality which have never seen farms and rural households preparation of such curries of different vegetable and non veg which is aligned on caste class religion region and occupation of families and different sub-cultural background like pig meat is usually cheap and has a stigma and many families are forced to eat because of a restriction in social ladder to climb and earn more than they deserve as that is a about of social millue and you might get harrased and rarely killed for both eating and not eating a certain food item even in one autonomous state region so that the extreme but in elite families to there is a weird aversion to non veg nothing related to food or it's content of philosophy or religious thing but again derived from caste and class ideals majority of the times for a certain minority, which is very fascinating for living in and experiencing it daily. 14:26 Is she emotional the older sister couldn't grasp the feeling without syntax and literal subtitles. 15:04 It's fascinating how Local Chinese Influencers Work and Contribute as a major part here We have budding influencers too with unique content markets but the structure has it's own unique social dynamics though from surface they look reel-ified with live streaming the fascinating part with infiltration of internet connectivity and access and How it builds concept of consent, digital rights, privacy and stigma topics again very very fascinating. Thanks ❤.
thank you, your gentle, respectful and non judgmental approach , help people open up and speak honestly, giving us a better vision of the reality in China. I sincerely wish that our western media follows your example.
Yan, this is really an eye opener! Only you can do this! Seen so much and learned so much in few minutes of your video. And - whether polygamous (polyandrous) or monogamous communities I keep seeing one pattern: women (and children) are working, working, and working while men are siting, smoking, and talking, talking ,and talking. "Shooting the crap", or "shooting the bull", as they used to call these incessant, repetitive, empty, and largely useless "manly" conversations. And - Guma is quite a gal, kudos to her!
@@MikeLiangsz Seems like you may have missed the part where the parents answer the question of "where are your daughters right now" with "they're off doing farm work"...
I just found your channel. Realized it's a real gem. Will find out more about what you shared. Thanks for exploring and showing us places-real situations of those places
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for helping share this unique perspective on polygamy, borne out of communal necessity, in this remote setting in China.
Sri Lanka had such a polygamous marriage culture in the Kandy region. This was the last independent kingdom to survive after colonization so to cope with resources scarcity such as land it was introduced.
Another great video. I love learning about the ordinary Chinese people, where they live, what they eat, their relationships, religions and ordinary daily living. I’ve ready many books about the rulers of China, and many of the books by Lisa See talk about the ancient daily life of the Chinese people. I find it all fascinating. You are a great video streamers and I love your drone footage. I’m from Los Angeles, California, USA.
I can't thank you enough for covering this story. I think you handled the subject very well, and were very sensitively. That said, it breaks my heart to hear that women have been forced into these marriages just like elsewhere women are more commonly forced into marriage with multiple wives. Somehow I thought they'd have more agency in this situation 😔
This is definitely an eye-opening video for me. I thought I knew a lot about people living in China. Thank you Yan for letting me know that there is more to discover!
What beautiful village!!... If we look into cultural behiver thru civilization; we may be able to understand comportment of people without of judgment. Just looking around the things we do in our only group.
Incredibly interesting, wish the best for everyone in that village. It seems like technology combined with access to network, has and can provide many new opportunities. I find it interesting the personality of the first, quite popular live steamer who is also selling local products. She seems quite eccentric, not in a bad way necessarily but I will elaborate. She is obviously intelligent, driven and self focused. For someone who is on camera multiple times daily seemed like you were running to catch up with her and she was very aloof during stationary discussions. I wonder if it's personality, inexperience with collaboration, or just the nature of live streaming. Live streaming seems to potentially disincentive networking due to fact an active viewer is at any given time a finite resource distributed between the pool of active streamers. Feel like there is a lot of potential for content collaboration with her vast fan base, hope she can help others going down same path in the same way she has provided for her community monetarily.
What made unseen China getting popular , is showcasing remote areas lifestyle and living , which most of us living in past faced corporate highly technology cities yearns for. City living is draining , stressful and nearing to the beginning of robotic life. Remote areas values of living reminds us to step backward , pick significant humanely beliefs and character building , and step forward to city living , refuelled avoiding being drained.
Great job Yan. Truly fascinating and extremely interesting culture in deep China. Last but not the least, you are the one and only amazing girl sharing unseen China with us. Thank you so much. I love your videos.
I know right. From what I've seen it always seems like socialist countries tend to be very tolerant. Even the USSR made sure to respect other peoples' ways of life. But the media tries to show the opposite, in an attempt to portray the East negatively.
I can see how it would work for some, when life is hard and there is much physical work to be done. A beautiful place an beautiful people. The food looked fantastic, too!
Thank you! The architecture of the village fascinates me, the way the houses are stacked on on top of the other, as the villages goes up the slope. The would, where exposed to the weather is so grey, almost gloomy, yet, where the wood is protected, by porch roof or inside, it has a beautiful color. And I love the large covered porches; I have a mild obsession about sitting on a covered porch during a rainstorm, which I can not do where I live now as the landing for my apartment has no roof. I admire how the younger people are using the internet to expand and improve their lives.
Pi looked into this place on Google Earth today. It's an amazing place. Not a lot of pics. The area is very rugged and somewhat remote. You would think no one would live there but many do throughout the region.
china is old world, in the past, these are the kind of secluded places that protects you from invasion / war, but in the modern world, it's an inconvenience for ppl who want to do more than farming and want to access the outside world
This parent-arranged polyandrous marriage is still also common in some Tibetan communities, specially among nomadic groups. I know of it happening as recently as 15 years ago, and girls in poorer families dreaded the prospect. The good thing was that it caused many girls to work extra hard at school so they could win scholarships to study in larger cities after middle school. Among them were some of my students.
Another amazing episode. It's interesting they refer to the first wife as "big wife". In my culture that originated from China (Hmong), we also refer to the first wife as big wife or older wife. Second wife is young wife. Keep up the great work!
Hi Yan brilliant video with a lot of hate and intolerance in the world today yet these people can share each others wives and husbands is astounding ,but i feel it must be hard for a women as they seem to be doing a lot of the work as well as bringing up kids as well. All the best from the U K . Alec
It’s really nice to see not just communal marriage but rather the harmonious atmosphere even in big household. A lot of sharing of both joy and work and a lot of support too. Also very impressed with the hospitality and humility of people here ❤
What an interesting community with such open and friendly people! Guma was especially helpful with her explanation of the history of communal marriage...I hadn't considered the population control aspect, which would be important in an area of limited agriculture. It's also quite surprising that social media would be so prevalent and lucrative in such a remote area, but Guma has found a way to make a living for herself as well as build up the village economy...what a smart, wonderful woman!
Thank you!!
It's not surprising at all that it would be so lucrative in a remote area. People don't see that aspect of life very often, so it makes sense that the content appeals to human curiosity and is therefore highly sought after.
She was a hotel manager and so she has ability. She just needs to be introduced to how to videolog.
It's amazing that high speed Internet is available in such remote mountainous area.
why you dont ask more important questions. like whether they do 3som
You handled a delicate subject with consideration and understanding. I had read about this situation several years ago and have thought about many times. Thank you for sharing. ❤❤😊😊
Unique culture indeed! I notice too that they are not reserved or uncomfortable with their lives. Guess living in harmony is top priority. Understandability this is a closed knit community! We must be open minded! Thanks again.
守旧的是上一代人，不守旧的是受过教育的年轻人。
Great video as always. China's telecommunication infrastructure is just amazing. Remote village between mountains and yet they are all on mobile phones doing live streaming.
5G Broadband coverage nationwide in China up to the border
No matter a village is so remote in China，there is the road，electricity and network singal.
Just been to there about 2 months ago , took me 6 hours from Lugu lake to Eya Village (150KM) , during rainy season , driving there is really difficult .
They are Tibetans, not little Chinese 😂
Kucky girls, got more men
People like Guma who have brought attention to their villages and helped support the business there are heroes. My professor did research a few years ago on the importance of social media and e-commerce in saving rural communities and lower tiered cities. Modern China is incredible
中国的许多偏远地区的农村也在复制这个模式，因为政府大力发展基础设施，电力和网络几乎覆盖全部村落。
@@冇眼睇-m2o 古马她在古村逛上仍直播，真棒，比起西方城市内还不错
That's because of the West
@@jamesgjurovich7893 For tech in general, this is often true. However, in this case, live-streamed e-commerce is a Chinese invention - so far, we don't really like it here in the US. Now, whether or not this would have existed in a world without QVC is a great question
@@冇眼睇-m2o this is what I admire the most about china. can't see it happening in my country😞
Gama represents a new change in this village, she’s able to make changes to the livelihood of the villagers, selling their produce to the outside world through her social media. That’s a good initiative, her own lifestyle is a testament of positive change towards the 21st century. She’s bringing a new paradigm shift of lifestyle to this primitive village 👍
Young lady you have such an ability to connect with people and places, it's amazing. As usual the vistas of places you broadcast from are also amazing. Your skills really bring your broadcasts to life in a deeply personal level for viewers like myself. Thanks for your efforts.
It’s hard to find respectful informative content these days. Good job. Very interesting.
Like polygamy. That's respectful stuff.
@@squirrelattackspidy Yes why not. It's done with all involved parties' consents. Pretty common all around the world prior to the modern nuclear family
I just found out that my parents love your channel and watch every video of yours, but they don't understand English, so they read your Chinese subtitles. Thank you! 🇨🇳
I hope people outside China and Chinese culture will learn to take a page or two from your work and the way Chinese people cope with life in general.
Your efforts are definitely revealing what being Chinese is really like and I would like to commend you wholeheartedly for that.
I am ethnically a Chinese from migrant parentage, but I have found much eye opening facts from your channel.
Great Job!
Beats the best works in ethnography+anthropology.
纳西人是藏族的分支的分支。人数少得可怜，几十年前一直与世隔绝，汉语都不会说，算生番，就是山里的野人，原始人。 算什么“中国人的真实面貌”😅😅😅
@@AnotherExtraFist Well nowadays everyone with enough funding and a camera can go and record these. Back then it was not so easy. Heavy equipment paperwork and no internet things took forever.
Please, Little Chinese (but Great Human Been), don’t stop your story/travels, because I can not travel to China( not enough money) and you’re fulfilling my desire to know this wonderful country! Cheers from Florianópolis ( Brazil ).
So beautiful! And how impressive that in such a remote place, you can just live stream. Many other places in the world don't have such good connection.
The government and people of China firmly believe that:
(1) Good infrastructure can bring economic prosperity.
(2) Infrastructure may not bring short-term benefits, but it will certainly bring long-term benefits.
Such a blend of ancient, enduring (so far) culture & connection to the wider world. When living simply, one doesn't need much money. The varied dishes of the dinner offered to you may or may not have been typical of daily fare, but all was local except maybe the noodles? Seems as though being on line as a creator is fun for many of the young people. Guma is being professional & focused & making a name for the village, ad are you, Yan. Thanks.
You have no idea how much of a blessing you are to the Chinese people, nation and civilization. You are doing what a lot of entities try to do with a lot of resources but they fail to show the real china, you achieve it naturally by being yourself. Keep at it.
If you know a little bit about how these US owned and back social media platform work, then you know it is not quite all their faults to not being able to show China.
Let me tell you an example, once there was a Chinese media uploaded a video about a Chinese festival on Facebook few years ago, hours later it got banned, because an Indian media copied and uploaded that video themselves and claimed it was Indian, not Chinese. And Facebook stood firmly with the Indians, which was not surprising at all. :)
So~
@@cheungchingtongfacts. People online are so stupid thinking they are smart. Sitting at home making the dumbest comments and never step a foot in any of the countries they speak about 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Nihao Yan...Hello from Texas USA. You are China's wonderful Ambassador of Tourism. Your videos are an eye opener for many of us who would never be able to go to far away places (me because I am older). You are our eyes your voice is knowledge and we keep on learning along the way fascinating. Enya village is very interesting, while I am not for communal marriage, I respect their tradition. Sister said she rather marry one man ended marrying two because it was arranged, I felt sorry for her. Having to put up with one man she had two 🙄 girl got used to it. Interesting they are primitive in some ways and so modern to have mobile phones every where to do live-stream, that is just incredible. They live of the farm land grow their own veggies have cows, pigs, chickens....I was fascinated to see how Naxi people manage to sustain themselves thorough centuries. Thank you Yan and I am sorry you had to walk to get some form of transportation out of Enya on to Daocheng. I hope you succeeded without a problem friend.
This is the case in some remote areas of the world. Because the remote areas do not have the input of modern thinking, bad habits cannot be broken. The southern part of Sichuan Province in China is such a place. Although Sichuan has big cities like Chengdu and is home to pandas, there are many backward and poor areas in the southern mountainous areas due to inconvenient transportation. For example, the Yi people in Daliang Mountain are still a semi-primitive society. Although the local government spends huge sums of money to send young people to study in developed areas, which has gradually changed the customs of this area, many old people still continue the bad habits of primitive tribes. There are also polygamy and polyandry areas in Sichuan, and it will take time to slowly change. At least the local government first allows young people to receive education so that the bad habits can be eliminated as much as possible. There is also the Cliff Village reported by the BBC, also in southern Sichuan.
Guma is a professor of EYa University ... Guma provides "lectures" about Eya people with its' culture, history and economy that flows smoothly like the river in front of her house ... very beautiful ... Love Guma and glad to have someone like her in such community
So kind of her to open up like that. Thanks as always for sharing, beautiful 🤩
Guma's point about having two moms so having more parental love is a really good point. Raising kids is hard work, more people to help seems ideal honestly
You're really taking this kind of video to the next level, sister.
Making people you meet talk, make them think and you make us think with them. Bring us into the world you visit.
(my name is Yann by the way, from Switzerland.)
It is an eye opening that this episode lifts the mystic façade of poverty eradication in rural villages under the dire economic challenges through your camera lens ...
Such an eye opening video, Yan. Even at my age you still manage to expand my world view! I would imagine if Guma lived in a large modern city she would be a formidable business woman. Safe travels sister 😁
Thank you 🥰
Amazing video done! I love to learn more about China this way and it’s hard to find people making these! Thank you so much for putting everything together for us to see!
I admire how they adapted to survive. It actually makes far more sense financially to live in this type of arrangement. Many communities would benefit far more if they could do the same. Thank you for this enlightening video.
from Florida U.S truly appreciate your hard work by bringing the other side of the world closer
Fascinating. Thank you for showing this facet of rural life. Cheers from Edmonton Alberta Canada.
I can’t get over how eloquent and modern Guma is, while living in such an isolated village. She’s a formidable force!
她可能是这个村第一批被普及义务教育的人。如今中国不会有人因贫困而失学，即使再偏远，也会通水通电通互联网，偏远的村子里的孩子从小学到大学都不需要花钱。这些措施开阔了当地人的眼界，使当地人与社会接轨、与文明接轨、与现代化接轨，感谢时代。
Hi Yan! Your video is an eye opener for me because I would have never known that one of the reasons for polygamous societies could be the driving or forced economy! That is a shocker! Generally the cause was always attributed to paternalism and maternalism which can be roughly interpreted into male dominated and female dominated societies. Which is why could be the reason that usually evolved monogamous societies take high moral stance on polygamy. But when we keep aside morality aspect and try to understand from their perspective which I feel is very important than just being righteous and say this is right and that is wrong. Only then, I feel, there could be an understanding where there could be an unbiased learning and could make a living worthwhile. 😊
Such an interesting way of life. Thank you for sharing!! ❤
Thank you internet because of you we have met real people from real areas. 👍
I love learning about China through Yan's videos.
Yeah. She's interesting and cute.
Wah... So deep .... Inside the country. So advanced until can do live streaming...👏👏👏👏👏👍👏👏👏👏👏👍🇨🇳👏👏👏🎉if you come to south east asia, deep inside those countries, you can't even get phone line... 😂🤣😂 you are lucky to be born in China.👏👏👏👏👍🇨🇳👍🧠👏👏👏👏 what's your government have done, is for the people advancement and goods too. 👏👏👏👏👍. This is what we call great managers. Of course there are some corruption or discourse or mismanagement but China is Huge. I wish i have the body's and money one day to visit China. Thank you, Yan.💐🥰🥳🎉👏👏😁
你是马来西亚人吗
@@daydaystudydaydayup 你又来了，又要说什么胡话吗
欢迎你来中国😀
Even in the United States we still have whole communities that only have dial up internet!
@@moxiebombshell isnt dial up internet used back in 2010, In my memory
Just the day before yesterday, I met a grandfather from China on the train in Berlin who was travelling from the airport and knew neither English nor German. And he was wondering all the way through ‘Why is there no internet on the train?’. And here I am watching people in a remote village in China, in the mountains, hundreds of kilometres away from big cities, doing live streams and TikTok videos. So that is progressive ‘Europe’ ))
If you think a little bit deeper, you might start wondering whether we should rethink Western styles Capitalism where at it core everything should be determined by market! If there's no profit there's no incentive to build out! Here in America, remote area you don't get internet signal for phone! For home you can get something like Starlink at great cost!
In China, Capitalism merge with Socialism, where building of infrastructure is seen as for social good, apart from internet infrastructure, there are physical aspect, where government build high speed train in challenging geography like region Yan was in now with hundreds of tunnel bored through mountain to reach remote area that take days to reach cutting traveling time to hours! Costly but improve economic livelihood of remote region!
That kind of policy is highly demonize i
n USA as redistribution of wealth from rich (city) to poor (rural) population!
Western countries seem to spend a lot on proper gander and wore-fare. I think that's another reason they don't focus much on public well-being.
Agreed. We got a cabin about 30km from a small town, literally over a small mountain about 200 m high. None of the cell phone service provider would want to plant a tower on top. People here are forced to pay $200/month for starlink. This is Canada.
因为我们是社会主义国家，国家不会放弃我们。
@@idofdm7625谢谢你赞美中国。我想说的是，我们的政府在基建上确实很给力。但是这样的大规模建设也对国家财政造成了很大的压力。现在我们国家也在为财政的问题考虑对策。但基建确实让中国人的生活在近三十年里发生了质的飞跃。
In Nepal mainly in Himalayan region this used to be common many back years ago now it’s very rare to found this type of family and only very few rarely we can found this family.
Yes it used to be quite common in India also, specially Himalayan regions of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. But now decreasing
There is a very good documentary on UA-cam about this type of marriage among the people of the Himalayas. It was heartbreaking...
Basically wherever there is an insane shortage of land in an agricultural society. People still need to survive, so the only way is through population control.
Nakhi people are Tibeto-Burman tribe, not surprising to find some similarity with Himalayan region.
I wasn't expecting to hear a very practical reason for why polygamy is practiced in their culture. Their ancestors had a lot of foresight.
Polygamy and Polyandry
Polyandry is practical in many cultures
@@MixedRogueKhorri Yeah, for one family of blood brother to produce fewer children with limited resources. The tradeoff for polyandry is less agricultural innovation and development, as you can maintain the land without overusing it since you produce fewer children. The tradeoff for polygyny is having more children, but they can also create scarcity which interestingly causes innovation; each family and situation varies. If in polyandry a girl marries brothers from different families, this defeats the purpose of it, and one family has to wait months or years just to have one son. So, polyandry makes more sense better with blood-brothers and/or uncles joining together.
Here (in France) I’m so happy that you share these adventures and lessons. Thankyou also for your choice of camera gear and the stunning images and sound. It all feels, well . . .exemplary. Thankyou also for the detail of how you travel, how families do ordinary things and also, boooommm, the festivals of dance. I hope I’ve found every episode. Hi to your dad! I hope he watches too!
Greetings from Chicago area, Midwest USA. Interesting video. I hope you found your ride 😮
I think it should not be called primitive, that has negative connotations. Is simple a different way of organization
Yup. I'd say it's an adaptive worldview, to adapt to the resources and natural surroundings. To survive.
Very much agreed... it sounds very pejorative :( It's just another form of conviviality adapted to the circumstances and local environment. Calling this primitive makes it sound like it's outdated and that our urban lifestyles are superior - which is by far not the case thinking of all the social, environmental and psychological problems we have...
@@weinsniklas
Indeed. Some forward thinkers have suggested polygamy as a possible solution for the rapidly declining (sub par population replacement) birthrate in advance economies.
Traditional not primitive.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I think Chinese-speakers probably don't realize how this sounds to us native English-speakers.
Very interesting video. Kept me glued to the screen. 😅 Keep up the good work ❤
China is a unique world on its own, its fascinating.
Interesting. I grew up with 2 moms under the same roof all my life. I always tell people I get double the love. 😊
What's your cultural background?
are you a US Army soldier？
@@mechannel7046 it can be two moms married each other, or her/his dad has two wives, or the two moms are good friends, they are happy to parent the kids together if the dads are not qualified enough.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
看了那么久，没想到到我家乡了😂欢迎到木里
Your videos are amazing. Your photography/videography, editing, production is superb. Your contagious smile, bravery/courage and warmth is genuine. And you show us (Toronto) about a world we have very little knowledge off (I have been to China 22 times but always for business), expanding our horizons & giving us tremendous Insights. THANK YOU!
Thanks for showing such a remote area and their unique culture. You are doing great work. Keep it up
such a unique culture i didn't know it exists in China. Thanks to Guma for the insight.
China is huge country.
Great video, cheers from Australia 👍🇦🇺
I've never been to Daocheng yet despite my numerous travels to China over more than a decade. But I heard Daocheng is a picturesque place with beautiful lakes, meadows and valleys that rival or even surpass Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan which I've been to. But like Jiuzhaigou, it's become very touristy and noisy teeming with domestic tourism now. So Yan, I'm looking foward to what you can show me in Daocheng and whether it's worth a visit.
Thank You for this very interesting viewing.
The reasoning behind polygamy makes sense in harsh environments with scarce resources. The situation was similar amongst many Aboriginal tribes before the brutal invasion by British colonial-settlers & convicts.
In addition, many Aboriginal tribes were matrilineal, matriarchal ... especially in Australian Central Deserts' countries.
Congratulations for filming another great video! Your subscribers grow very quickly. 加油！❤❤❤❤
Dear Yan, thanks for sharing your interesting interview with Guma the mainstream influencer in Eya who also promotes local products in improving the village business. You visited her big communal family with two mums and one dad. Guma is fortunate for having one husband, her sister has two husbands. Have a good rest after getting a lift to Daocheng. God bless your great work ❤🌺🌻🌞❣️🙏
In such modern days, and when China is now so much more modern than many countries in the world, one can still find such ancient cultures and living styles from a forgotten culture long lost in time.
Yet, the modern now encompass the young in this lost culture with mobile phones, 5G connections, solar water and satellite services.
Our world is amazing!!! Yet there are those who want to destroy it for selfish gains which one cannot bring to the afterlife.
Wow, so happy I found your channel. Just amazing content. Thank you.
Thanks❤😮your eye 👁️ opening video👍love to see nowadays the women there have other choices🎶. PS. TikTok should pay 💰 you 😉😆
Thank you 🥰
Üdvözöllek Budapestről. Nagyon szép és érdekes helyen "voltam" veled. 😊❤
It's amazing how China developed so much that started only in late 70s or early 80s I think. Their technology is advance, lots of infrastructures, etc. Even just by watching the selling or trading in wet markets, you can see the abundance of food.. vegetables, fruits, meats, etc. And their culture is still intact. It's really nice to see and know the life in their villages. Chinese people are industrious. (Just now I subscribed to this channel).
Good Evening Yan . It is good to hear from you again . I love travelling around with you and look forward to Fridays .
Your videos are amazing, I love your country and one day I will travel to China.
I'm Chinese,welcome to China,if you need,I can share with you about my country.
Always engaging. You are a gem. Love your channel. Very interesting.
About eggplant with tomato we in Gujarat India in this month of September start making Similar Curry with Millet toast on similar fire in rural areas but in city on gas stove called "Odo" the curry and "Rotlo" the pancake type thick toast but a bit soft too, now it's all year around with greenhouse but many families prefer winter season. Even in India there are customs of polyandric households. I just ate the curry one of my favourites and looking at Naxi people peeling charred part of grilled brinjal and making tomato paste ❤ definitely have to visit China. Many city here in Gujarat have commercialised this recipes for winter to cater families living in urban municipality which have never seen farms and rural households preparation of such curries of different vegetable and non veg which is aligned on caste class religion region and occupation of families and different sub-cultural background like pig meat is usually cheap and has a stigma and many families are forced to eat because of a restriction in social ladder to climb and earn more than they deserve as that is a about of social millue and you might get harrased and rarely killed for both eating and not eating a certain food item even in one autonomous state region so that the extreme but in elite families to there is a weird aversion to non veg nothing related to food or it's content of philosophy or religious thing but again derived from caste and class ideals majority of the times for a certain minority, which is very fascinating for living in and experiencing it daily. 14:26 Is she emotional the older sister couldn't grasp the feeling without syntax and literal subtitles. 15:04 It's fascinating how Local Chinese Influencers Work and Contribute as a major part here We have budding influencers too with unique content markets but the structure has it's own unique social dynamics though from surface they look reel-ified with live streaming the fascinating part with infiltration of internet connectivity and access and How it builds concept of consent, digital rights, privacy and stigma topics again very very fascinating. Thanks ❤.
It's not only the Naxi people but also Tibetan Yunnanese in some areas have polygamy.
Also the Kham in SE Qinghai
Tibet
Human beings are so beautiful, the stories they have to tell here are very moving and emotional.
Very interesting and very well presented, Yan - thank you very much
What a life..the word she used..沒辦法。。要妥協。。wow!
thank you, your gentle, respectful and non judgmental approach , help people open up and speak honestly, giving us a better vision of the reality in China. I sincerely wish that our western media follows your example.
Thank you for the wonderful video thanks for opening the world to us !❤️🌹
Stunning landscape and beautiful people…And of course a beautiful narration….Love and support from India 🇮🇳
The communal living is actually very intelligent! Thank you for sharing and being curious! See you again soon!
Guma is like a hero in his village,Thank you for your video is amazing
Yan, this is really an eye opener! Only you can do this! Seen so much and learned so much in few minutes of your video. And - whether polygamous (polyandrous) or monogamous communities I keep seeing one pattern: women (and children) are working, working, and working while men are siting, smoking, and talking, talking ,and talking. "Shooting the crap", or "shooting the bull", as they used to call these incessant, repetitive, empty, and largely useless "manly" conversations. And - Guma is quite a gal, kudos to her!
在古代男人需要应对最危险的狩猎或者与其他部落的争斗，当不需要做这些的时候男人就看起来像个废物😅
地里最辛苦的农活是男人在干 男女只是分工不同 不然一家人一年吃什么
it's just one side of the life, men's energy is reserved for more hard work in the agriculture area, while women do homework. that's it.
Because she didn't film how men were working in the field, ploughing, carrying goods etc. Such work can be harder!
@@MikeLiangsz Seems like you may have missed the part where the parents answer the question of "where are your daughters right now" with "they're off doing farm work"...
I just found your channel. Realized it's a real gem. Will find out more about what you shared. Thanks for exploring and showing us places-real situations of those places
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for helping share this unique perspective on polygamy, borne out of communal necessity, in this remote setting in China.
Do you mean polygamy or polyandry?
Sri Lanka had such a polygamous marriage culture in the Kandy region. This was the last independent kingdom to survive after colonization so to cope with resources scarcity such as land it was introduced.
Always interesting your video, thanks for original information about the diferent culture in China and amazing images. Salutations from Spain
Thank you 🥰
Another great video. I love learning about the ordinary Chinese people, where they live, what they eat, their relationships, religions and ordinary daily living. I’ve ready many books about the rulers of China, and many of the books by Lisa See talk about the ancient daily life of the Chinese people. I find it all fascinating. You are a great video streamers and I love your drone footage. I’m from Los Angeles, California, USA.
Watching your videos is like attending an anthropology class!
视频博主本身就是人文地理博士啊
I can't thank you enough for covering this story. I think you handled the subject very well, and were very sensitively. That said, it breaks my heart to hear that women have been forced into these marriages just like elsewhere women are more commonly forced into marriage with multiple wives. Somehow I thought they'd have more agency in this situation 😔
这种伙婚主要是为了兄弟不分家，不分割财产，和母系社会的走婚不同。
是生产力极度落后的情况下一种婚姻制度，结果就是像你说的，为了维持大家庭。分了家房子都修不起，请人砍树、修房、买材料都是一大笔钱，不如在原来的家庭里一起住，生下来的后代也不分是哪个的，都是这个家的。不过人都是自私的，只要生产力发展下来，这种婚姻制度就会被取代。
This is definitely an eye-opening video for me.
I thought I knew a lot about people living in China. Thank you Yan for letting me know that there is more to discover!
What beautiful village!!... If we look into cultural behiver thru civilization; we may be able to understand comportment of people without of judgment. Just looking around the things we do in our only group.
Makes perfect sense to me. Fascinating video. Valuable cost of living examples growing everything consumed and only spending on clothes.
Always an enlightening broadcast.
Thank you for making and sharing this video with us. Safe travels
Incredibly interesting, wish the best for everyone in that village. It seems like technology combined with access to network, has and can provide many new opportunities. I find it interesting the personality of the first, quite popular live steamer who is also selling local products. She seems quite eccentric, not in a bad way necessarily but I will elaborate. She is obviously intelligent, driven and self focused. For someone who is on camera multiple times daily seemed like you were running to catch up with her and she was very aloof during stationary discussions. I wonder if it's personality, inexperience with collaboration, or just the nature of live streaming. Live streaming seems to potentially disincentive networking due to fact an active viewer is at any given time a finite resource distributed between the pool of active streamers. Feel like there is a lot of potential for content collaboration with her vast fan base, hope she can help others going down same path in the same way she has provided for her community monetarily.
Wow...this was a very interesting vid...thanks for sharing!
What made unseen China getting popular , is showcasing remote areas lifestyle and living , which most of us living in past faced corporate highly technology cities yearns for. City living is draining , stressful and nearing to the beginning of robotic life. Remote areas values of living reminds us to step backward , pick significant humanely beliefs and character building , and step forward to city living , refuelled avoiding being drained.
Great job Yan. Truly fascinating and extremely interesting culture in deep China. Last but not the least, you are the one and only amazing girl sharing unseen China with us. Thank you so much. I love your videos.
Interestingly, the gov doesn't interfere the way they live at all, and unlike how some countries portray China on media.
因地制宜，对于少数民族。中国的政策都是自治，而且中国的少数民族在自由度和政策福利上要比汉族更宽容。
This is the definition of real democracy
I know right. From what I've seen it always seems like socialist countries tend to be very tolerant. Even the USSR made sure to respect other peoples' ways of life. But the media tries to show the opposite, in an attempt to portray the East negatively.
China is more concerned about your body but not your soul, you life now and not the one after!
@@bingliu-chinaas long as this minorities are not threat to the government,CCP will just let them live their lives and do what they want to do
Great footage. The strategy makes sense for the elders, but I'm guessing the the youth will have other plans. Thank you so much for this video.
I always learn so much from your channel! So authentic thank you
What a great episode. So interesting and informative. Really enjoyed. Thankyou.
哈哈，我以前听的是因为穷没办法才两个兄弟找一个媳妇，原来还能计划生育控制人口，说的也很在理。
I can see how it would work for some, when life is hard and there is much physical work to be done. A beautiful place an beautiful people. The food looked fantastic, too!
As a youtuber you justify your work with full dedication...
I appreciate your hard work...
Keep ur great work always up!
Thank you for showing this corner of China and how TikTok / Duoyin has made good impact to the people of this remote village
Intelligent,erudite ,community leader,who can explain everything!
Thank you! The architecture of the village fascinates me, the way the houses are stacked on on top of the other, as the villages goes up the slope. The would, where exposed to the weather is so grey, almost gloomy, yet, where the wood is protected, by porch roof or inside, it has a beautiful color. And I love the large covered porches; I have a mild obsession about sitting on a covered porch during a rainstorm, which I can not do where I live now as the landing for my apartment has no roof. I admire how the younger people are using the internet to expand and improve their lives.
Pi looked into this place on Google Earth today. It's an amazing place. Not a lot of pics. The area is very rugged and somewhat remote. You would think no one would live there but many do throughout the region.
其实在全球应该有很多地方，有的很多都不愿意离开自己出生的地方，在中国像这种贫穷的地方，国家给他们房子安排工作让他们异地搬迁都需要做很多工作。有的老人的观念是宁肯穷死也不愿意离开出生的地方。
china is old world, in the past, these are the kind of secluded places that protects you from invasion / war, but in the modern world, it's an inconvenience for ppl who want to do more than farming and want to access the outside world
I looove every time you go to a small village in the middle of nowhere, it all feels so magical and the people are so nice, incredible video!!
This parent-arranged polyandrous marriage is still also common in some Tibetan communities, specially among nomadic groups. I know of it happening as recently as 15 years ago, and girls in poorer families dreaded the prospect. The good thing was that it caused many girls to work extra hard at school so they could win scholarships to study in larger cities after middle school. Among them were some of my students.
Another amazing episode. It's interesting they refer to the first wife as "big wife". In my culture that originated from China (Hmong), we also refer to the first wife as big wife or older wife. Second wife is young wife. Keep up the great work!
Hi Yan brilliant video with a lot of hate and intolerance in the world today yet these people can share each others wives and husbands is astounding ,but i feel it must be hard for a women as they seem to be doing a lot of the work as well as bringing up kids as well. All the best from the U K . Alec
It’s really nice to see not just communal marriage but rather the harmonious atmosphere even in big household. A lot of sharing of both joy and work and a lot of support too. Also very impressed with the hospitality and humility of people here ❤