This is how my ancestors lived. My grandfather was a little boy when this video was shot. Everyone had a very hard life back then. I always loved to hear him tell me stories about his life, and now he is almost 90. The world has modernized very fast, almost too fast. Thank you for your video.
Hope your Grandpa is still alive, tell him Jesus Christ is God and the only way to eternal life, Jesus is the savior and the 1 true God, Buddha cant save him.
@ralphzwang . Well, that Cantonese accent is due to the fact that no original sounds were recorded and I had to add one of a Cantonese source. As to Youku I have tried in vain to upload clips on Chinese clip sides, but they are all in Chinese which I do not understand.
MichaelRogge hi there thanks for the precious footage . Would you mind if I repost them on Chinese platform e.g youku and tiktok? I think netizen there would be fond of it ..
Even Yang you should, it’s not his video he just collects archives
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Thank you so much for your precious films. Life at that time was peaceful. I wish I had been there. China always stays deeply in my heart. I feel that I used to live there in my previous incarnation.
it were dark times for china , people suffered a lot from japan and other foreign countries . that didnt show in those documentairies . western media...always have been that way .
this is amazing. it's amazing how things change through time, when you realize most of the people in this have turned to dust and that they would never have imagined what the very place they have lived in would turn out 70 some years later, and for us watching this, we could also only resort to our imagination to fill in the rest of their world back then. we will never meet in time or in space, except through this footage, which lasts through time, albeit in an incomplete and cut-out manner. It makes me feel humbled and also encouraged because I know my time will have its end too and that generations after me will continue to live on in a whole new world that I can never experience nor imagine within the limitation of my time. Amazing stuff!
Max, Hopefully without a major war. A major war with modern weapons is indeed a genuine world war. If that happens, the destructions will be near-total and I wonder what % of the human race will survive to rejuvenate our great human civilization. The force of world destruction is in the hands of a few people and we continue hoping that they are sensible individuals.
Thank you so much for putting the video on youtube. Chengdu is my hometown. The video brings so many memories back and also shows me what Chengdu was alike many decades before I was born. The Cantonese dialect was not a good idea, it makes me doublt if all the clips were genuinely shot in Chengdu. Neverthless, great video and thank you for your effort.
Lol, I'm from Chengdu. I like this video! It gives me a feeling of home :D People in the film were speaking the same dialect we use today in Chengdu :D I think time doesn't change many things, it only build up more modern facilities, but people in Chengdu are living the same kind of laid-back lifestyle LoL :D
My pastor also left Chengdu with the KMT then to the US in the 50s and I immediately picked up on the tone shift of his Sichuan Hua. There's literature from Sichuan University on the topic.
Very meaningful clips were included in this video. Water mill, waterwheel, cow cultivating land, rickshaw, bamboo craftsman, making ceramic……all these are valueable scenes.
I love watching old clips like this, thanks for sharing. The changes really are profound, but that's to be expected in any country over such a time frame I guess. What's really interesting is to see the small things that are still the same. In Hainan they still use those hand held weighing scales in the fresh food markets, and the medicine shops, herbs are still stored in row after row of shoe box sized wooden drawers, that medicine shop could have been anywhere in Hainan today. It looks like they drove on the left hand side of the road back then?
Thanks for sharing. That’s amazing to seeI what my city looked liked 80 years ago. I can tell even my mom and dad have never seen this! But it looks like we still keep the same lifestyle as shown in this video, I mean chill, tea...and smoking. That’s awesome!
Thank You so much for This Historical Films Protection..!!!!! As a writer , Language Studies Student I really appreciate You..!!!!! Sandun Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
People talked in Cantonese in meal scenes, those should not be in Chengdu. Appreciate your uploading!! So meaningful, I read Dujiangyan in textbooks now here. It’s amazing! Bless you and take care
I appreciated it. It’s been six years since I left Chengdu. Never shall I leave the place that I love, never shall they go from my heart, even though my eyes are somewhere else. 父母在，不远游，远游必有方。
Good Video.Coulf see how Chengdu transform to what it is today.I was visited Chengdu in 2013.What a difference now.I was really amaze to see the Global Mall it was really2 huge.Took a fast train to DuyjianYang beautiful place.Suprise there was Mosque.
I can guarantee that this is Chengdu. I am growing here, the folk customs in the lens. I can feel the traces left in the time when I was a child, the cattle, the streams on the farmland, the wheelbarrow, the ground rice, the craftsmanship of the craftsmen, I also saw the Fu River. The ancient city wall (which has been demolished) is the iron bridge on Dujiangyan (still in existence). After an earth-shaking change in the 1980s, Chengdu is now a beautiful modern city with more culture and more people.
My Father-in-Law was in China during WWII, and he spend time stationed there...many of the video images are captured in images he has. I will show him this. He turned 97 this past October.
@hkpegasus01 I didn't know. Anyhow mine is edited, of better quality and with a different soundtrack. So I do hope that it still serves a purpose. In general I check first if a clip exists based on the same obsolete film.
When I went to Chengdu it was an amazing, varied and frightening how large it is. Stood at the top of a tower with similar towers stretching to the horizon in all directions. It was like Megacity One.
Thx a lot for this amazing film! The editing is really skilful! May I ask how did you get those footages? If it's possible, may I have the name of the original film or some other clips of Chengdu back to that time? Thx a lot mate!
GREAT FILM. I STILL RECOGNISE CERTAIN TOOLS MY FATHER AND MOTHER USES IN OUR OLD ATAP HOUSE IN MALAYSIA 60 YEARS AGO. CERTAINLY I SPEAKS CANTONESE. MY PARENTS FROM CANTON, GOUZHOUZ MY GRANDFATHER A WEALTHY LAND OWNER THERE.
@albertsamtam Thanks for your info. I'll await other viewers opinions. I'm not aware that 9.39 was taken in Hong Kong. In fact the footage was taken in 'Western China' Would that include Hong Kong?
I just watched something similar of china in the 20's. 2 decades, and they go from wearing completely traditional clothes to a shirt that I would literaly wear tomorrow.
@@michaelijsbrand the first mins look like the downtown place, may be Yanshikou around, and the city wall was defused a few decades ago, only a small part of the wall remains. But is really appreciate the photographer did
@MichaelRogge Michael, the family eating together at 4.33 are speaking Cantonese. I am from Hong Kong. And I have to thank you for your old films. They are very precious and let us know & see the old Hong Kong, (also other asian countries)
Oh my gosh, i can't believe this. This makes me feel weird because now we see China is something else with highly developed infrastructures and rich and wealthy country. So China was originally this normal at the beginning.
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This is how my ancestors lived. My grandfather was a little boy when this video was shot. Everyone had a very hard life back then. I always loved to hear him tell me stories about his life, and now he is almost 90. The world has modernized very fast, almost too fast. Thank you for your video.
Hope your Grandpa is still alive, tell him Jesus Christ is God and the only way to eternal life, Jesus is the savior and the 1 true God, Buddha cant save him.
@@repent.sinner you are making fear. Religions only do That.
Makes me feel akward.
@@Nn.65juk shows your being convicted, you feel uncomfortable your living not right.
@@repent.sinner you're illiterate about china's religious makeup
@@lihwak9181 how many born again Christians in china? Far less than 1%
作为土生土长的成都人第一次看到了成都在1940年的样子和当时的人的生活，非常感谢作者上传如此珍贵的视频资料
语音是现代的， 后期加进去的。
你爷爷 奶奶 应该见过吧
4:25 那段一家人吃饭的视频里的对话是粤语，哈哈
@@scotttao1782 nice catch
@@scotttao1782 这个家庭应该是住在成都的广东银。。
@ralphzwang . Well, that Cantonese accent is due to the fact that no original sounds were recorded and I had to add one of a Cantonese source. As to Youku I have tried in vain to upload clips on Chinese clip sides, but they are all in Chinese which I do not understand.
MichaelRogge hi there thanks for the precious footage . Would you mind if I repost them on Chinese platform e.g youku and tiktok? I think netizen there would be fond of it ..
Even Yang you should, it’s not his video he just collects archives
Thank you so much for your precious films. Life at that time was peaceful. I wish I had been there. China always stays deeply in my heart. I feel that I used to live there in my previous incarnation.
i dont think china would be too peaceful in 1940
it were dark times for china , people suffered a lot from japan and other foreign countries . that didnt show in those documentairies . western media...always have been that way .
Thank you for uploading those movies from China's past. They're brilliant and you are doing a brilliant job. Thanks.
Love this! I always harp back to the old days. A gentle pace by stream side and vegetation, on foot, is preferable for me. Thanks for sharing.
omg i never know my hometown was looks like this. This is amazing for me. Thank you post this video here.
Shows how ignorant todays chinese have become
this is amazing. it's amazing how things change through time, when you realize most of the people in this have turned to dust and that they would never have imagined what the very place they have lived in would turn out 70 some years later, and for us watching this, we could also only resort to our imagination to fill in the rest of their world back then. we will never meet in time or in space, except through this footage, which lasts through time, albeit in an incomplete and cut-out manner. It makes me feel humbled and also encouraged because I know my time will have its end too and that generations after me will continue to live on in a whole new world that I can never experience nor imagine within the limitation of my time. Amazing stuff!
Max,
Hopefully without a major war. A major war with modern weapons is indeed a genuine world war. If that happens, the destructions will be near-total and I wonder what % of the human race will survive to rejuvenate our great human civilization. The force of world destruction is in the hands of a few people and we continue hoping that they are sensible individuals.
Thank you so much for putting the video on youtube. Chengdu is my hometown. The video brings so many memories back and also shows me what Chengdu was alike many decades before I was born. The Cantonese dialect was not a good idea, it makes me doublt if all the clips were genuinely shot in Chengdu. Neverthless, great video and thank you for your effort.
what a wonderful and meaningful life you live documenting so many places! Love the video, thanks for sharing
Lol, I'm from Chengdu. I like this video! It gives me a feeling of home :D
People in the film were speaking the same dialect we use today in Chengdu :D
I think time doesn't change many things, it only build up more modern facilities, but people in Chengdu are living the same kind of laid-back lifestyle LoL :D
My pastor also left Chengdu with the KMT then to the US in the 50s and I immediately picked up on the tone shift of his Sichuan Hua. There's literature from Sichuan University on the topic.
那就好撒。成都话就是非常好听哟！
Chengdu= thành đô. It's a my favourite song
But they are speaking Cantonese... Chengdu doesn't speak Cantonese now.
视频里面说那两句究竟是什么意思？“优梨过”？
Thank you very much, these footages are priceless.
Thank you for uploading this golden video, it’s so precious for me as a Chinese people from Chengdu.
@greatguy52 I do not recall but have a look at my playlist Hong Kong: ua-cam.com/users/view_play_list?p=A08F26F648CE6143
Very meaningful clips were included in this video. Water mill, waterwheel, cow cultivating land, rickshaw, bamboo craftsman, making ceramic……all these are valueable scenes.
Great video, thanks for sharing. The lady at dinner is quite elegant and beautiful.
@CaeserTseng Indeed most of prewar documentaries were without live sound nor exact information on its precise location, so I added it
感谢作者提供如此让人感到温暖的历史画面
I love watching old clips like this, thanks for sharing. The changes really are profound, but that's to be expected in any country over such a time frame I guess. What's really interesting is to see the small things that are still the same. In Hainan they still use those hand held weighing scales in the fresh food markets, and the medicine shops, herbs are still stored in row after row of shoe box sized wooden drawers, that medicine shop could have been anywhere in Hainan today. It looks like they drove on the left hand side of the road back then?
Thanks for sharing. That’s amazing to seeI what my city looked liked 80 years ago. I can tell even my mom and dad have never seen this! But it looks like we still keep the same lifestyle as shown in this video, I mean chill, tea...and smoking. That’s awesome!
It's so special to see what my grandparents' life looks like,thank you for sharing this great video.
appreciating for your work, let us know more history than thousands of words.
Thank you Michael for sharing these clips. God bless you.
@tonykklam1 No, it is from prewar footage. I added sound and effects.
Thank You so much for This Historical Films Protection..!!!!!
As a writer , Language Studies Student I really appreciate You..!!!!!
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It's priceless. Thanks for posting!
I love this channel and visit it every day
OMG！！！
4:39--The Dujiangyan Irrigation Project..which still works to benefit people today..More than 2000 years history..
very precious clip,thx for.sharing
Thanks a million!
Interesting video of Chengdu. Amazing how far China has come in a mere two generations.
Yes, China become much worser, in terms of moral..
I’m from Chengdu, so excited to see this precious video 👍
My city, be proud of Chengdu, thank you so much for this video.
Thanks for sharing the nostalgia.
very precious video. thanks for sharing.
An era filled with hardships for the Chinese people, yet so beautiful in a special way.
People talked in Cantonese in meal scenes, those should not be in Chengdu. Appreciate your uploading!! So meaningful, I read Dujiangyan in textbooks now here. It’s amazing! Bless you and take care
of course it doesn’t matter which you shooted or not. Anyway i’m your fun and always appreciate you to share your treasure. Thanks a lot.
thanks，this is precious，i love watching this kind of films
No, it was taken from a German documentary film.
MichaelRogge thanks
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moon ryan wtf r u tryna say
Greetings and thanks to you all !
MichaelRogge 你好！这些是电影还是真实纪录片?
@From88China88Chengdu Thank you for your explanation.
This video is precious! Love it
Thank you MichaelRogge.chengdu is my hometown.I was born in here 1983.This is the I watch video about chengdu in 1940.
Seeing people working diligently and in such a clever manner really impresses.
Great capture of life at that time. Thanks very much. Dan Seto, Chinese Canadian Roots TV.
I appreciated it. It’s been six years since I left Chengdu. Never shall I leave the place that I love, never shall they go from my heart, even though my eyes are somewhere else. 父母在，不远游，远游必有方。
Good Video.Coulf see how Chengdu transform to what it is today.I was visited Chengdu in 2013.What a difference now.I was really amaze to see the Global Mall it was really2 huge.Took a fast train to DuyjianYang beautiful place.Suprise there was Mosque.
Thank you, Michael. As a fellow “Old China Hand” I love the Chinese people and their culture.
这里是我出生的地方！感动啊！谢谢上传！my homeland thanks for upload!
The daily lives of people. Nice video.
说实话，生活比我想象的要好，每个人面色都不错，不愧是天府之国
@C C 指精神状态
I can guarantee that this is Chengdu. I am growing here, the folk customs in the lens. I can feel the traces left in the time when I was a child, the cattle, the streams on the farmland, the wheelbarrow, the ground rice, the craftsmanship of the craftsmen, I also saw the Fu River. The ancient city wall (which has been demolished) is the iron bridge on Dujiangyan (still in existence). After an earth-shaking change in the 1980s, Chengdu is now a beautiful modern city with more culture and more people.
王比武 是的，我小的时候都看到这些事长大。我58年生于成都，90年来美国。这些都是我小时间看到的，好亲切！！！
@@fanli5440 哈哈，老乡你好。
Excellent video, Michael! Thank you very much.
Too precious. Life of people in different industries. Thank you. But why i heard a sentence of cantonese"你要呢個呀"？
Wonderful 👏 video...please about guillin
My Father-in-Law was in China during WWII, and he spend time stationed there...many of the video images are captured in images he has. I will show him this. He turned 97 this past October.
很珍贵的影像资料
really thanks for sharing this!
Hello, watch the olden days is very interesting, subscribe from Malaysia 🇲🇾,thank very much
Thanks for the upload.
Thank you very much for the precious video.
Let us know how our ancestors lived.
4:42 this bridge is still there in Dujiangyan. 这个都江堰的吊桥现在还在，去都江堰景区耍的朋友可以走一走。
Awesome, farmers, regular persons ...having huge fenced homes goats on the roof, smiles, hard work.
旧中国人的脸上写满了朴实，感谢大师上传！这个频道真有意义。
im from chengdu. glad to see the old chengdu. thank you
非常感谢作者！
厉害了，很罕见的记录！
@hkpegasus01 I didn't know. Anyhow mine is edited, of better quality and with a different soundtrack. So I do hope that it still serves a purpose. In general I check first if a clip exists based on the same obsolete film.
When I went to Chengdu it was an amazing, varied and frightening how large it is. Stood at the top of a tower with similar towers stretching to the horizon in all directions. It was like Megacity One.
Thx a lot for this amazing film! The editing is really skilful! May I ask how did you get those footages? If it's possible, may I have the name of the original film or some other clips of Chengdu back to that time? Thx a lot mate!
I find Dujiangyan, the brige above min river is stanstill,so interesting
GREAT FILM. I STILL RECOGNISE CERTAIN TOOLS MY FATHER AND MOTHER USES IN OUR OLD ATAP HOUSE IN MALAYSIA 60 YEARS AGO. CERTAINLY I SPEAKS CANTONESE. MY PARENTS FROM CANTON, GOUZHOUZ MY GRANDFATHER A WEALTHY LAND OWNER THERE.
I remember being in the countryside only 35 years ago. It wasn’t hugely different from this.
I am very local Chengdu people . My great-grademother was born at 1909 in Chengdu
よくこんな動画が残ってるなぁ、、、。
とんでもなく貴重。
@albertsamtam Thanks for your info. I'll await other viewers opinions. I'm not aware that 9.39 was taken in Hong Kong. In fact the footage was taken in 'Western China' Would that include Hong Kong?
Why the people in the film speaks Cantonese?
Thank you for uploading the video and make me know more about China in 1940s.
感谢！！！让我看到我们大四川的曾经的面貌。
I assume that all the sounds were added later as cameras at the time didn't record sound?
看到了都江堰
Very happy to watching this. even my grandmother never seeing this
Thank you, interesting.
2:24是都江堰的南桥吗？后面的吊桥我记得，变化不大。可惜南桥边那座老茶楼颓了，那是我心中天下第一的品茶之处！
I just watched something similar of china in the 20's. 2 decades, and they go from wearing completely traditional clothes to a shirt that I would literaly wear tomorrow.
中国·成都旧景，感谢国际友人的分享
我不是本地人，但是我在成都过了4年差不多。但是这对我还是很感动。
What a trip through the past!
amazing , This is my city
Do you recognize it?
@@michaelijsbrand the first mins look like the downtown place, may be Yanshikou around, and the city wall was defused a few decades ago, only a small part of the wall remains. But is really appreciate the photographer did
Hey bro, i want to buy your videos, for Education purpose
You can just download any video by google...
@MichaelRogge Michael, the family eating together at 4.33 are speaking Cantonese. I am from Hong Kong. And I have to thank you for your old films. They are very precious and let us know & see the old Hong Kong, (also other asian countries)
There's Hakka families in Sichuan. My grandparents spoke fluent Cantonese. Google Loudai.
挺～俺老長官在街上打油被抓上車當兵～到臺灣後也奮發向上當上軍官～1998年謝世～感念……
@Tin Yee Chiu 很多人就这样被无缘无故抓走，然后一辈子离开家人。这么儿戏的征兵不应该发生在20世纪。
很正常 ，抗日国军伤亡惨重，不抓壮丁就没有兵了
@@钓鱼岛村三组村民 被拉走的人都能抗上日也罢了，有不少没到前线就死在路上
@@thrash_and_beer7118 真的 福建台灣閩南人不懂國民黨軍抓壯丁的 這只有大陸人懂
@@moonryan3908 我外婆那一代就很多人被國民黨抓當壯丁！我福建的。
所有的憎恨都来自于臆想，所有的伤害都来自于偏见，所有的动乱都湮灭于生生不息的主流
Simply simply amazing
My hometown! However I can’t recognise the roads when I went back these days
Second ring road was barely filled sixty years ago, ten years after this video.
Now eight rings exist with a lot of density within the first five.
Little did the photographer know- there where thousands of time travelers viewing this from the inside of his lens :)
Oh my gosh, i can't believe this. This makes me feel weird because now we see China is something else with highly developed infrastructures and rich and wealthy country. So China was originally this normal at the beginning.
@༼ཆ༽ Yes it's only an avarage world income but in term of GDP China is very wealthy.
I have been living in Chengdu since summer of 2018, this footage is spectacular and really shows the soul of Chengdu
They always have been building so big constructions .
Manual farming was popular in that time :-)
I wouldn't say it's popular, just common.
@@magnetospin Wouldn't say common, just what it was possible at the time
@@kirianismaelsanchez9606 What do you possible at the time? It's always been possible.
@@magnetospin like, there wasn't a lot of alternatives, that's what i mean
This wows me if u didn’t say this was taken in the 40s I would think this was the 1800s