4:28 that old beggar looks about 80 years old. That means he was born in 1850s, saw the Second Opium war, Taiping Rebellion, Boxer Rebellion, the fall of Qing, the warlord era, and just two years later the Japanese invasion.
Thelondonbadger hahaha I’m glad that I am indeed talking to a human, although an idiot and ignorant one who sees its ego as the almighty and thinks of himself as wise, when in fact he is just a surface level sheep. You still have failed to answer or rebuts my point, instead you go on to do the unnecessary task of tryin to label those who oppose your views. Sad indeed. Don’t look down on others, as you can be in their position one day. So go fuck yourself !
He is someone great great grandfather.. But his great great grandson didn't know how lucky he was...he doesn't realize the footage of his great great grandfather..maybe his great great grandson also didn't have the picture of him
Crazy to imagine my grandma grew up in Shanghai during that time! She was born in 1920s and she is almost 100 years old now. Now she uses smartphone and does video calls with me from time to time.
@Marks KL1 China is also one of the victims of the virus. Please do not blame the Chinese for the spread of the virus. The virus was neither made in China nor intentionally released by China. Instead of blaming China, you should blame your own government for its lack of control.
Xx, they hid the outbreak and they arrested the Dr who tried to warn about it, so yeah maybe they didn't release it on purpose but their actions point to guilt and they also destroyed all the samples the lab had, so there's that too.😒
I've noticed lots of Asian people live long lifespans. Imagine some 90 - 100 year old Chinese person just browsing UA-cam. "Hey look it's me as a young person in the good ol days of 35"
@@carlosesparzavazquez4753 people who lives in 100 age just 1% or 2% in this world.they are so lucky to live untill now., i hope she stay healthy and goodluck in her life❤️😩.
Yep ,those were the times of hardwork and upgrade. They are the reason why we live a life of luxury . None of us could ever survive in those conditions.
@@user-nu3sd7zb2j we would have to adapt to harder conditions, doesn't mean we couldn't, also people still live shitty lives in other parts of the world
I was also funny enough thinking not much has changed....and you told me why...because many poor contries look pretty much like that today even...also North korea...rural Iraq, Afghanistan and so on...
Those places are still there, if you know where to look you can find them. Most of the roof is gone but the walls remain and if you can see them from above they are far more obvious as they look like catacombs, certainly nothing that we think as habitable today.
There was a city transform project in 50s which transform this lake into an artificial sightseeing pond. This tea house is still open today, near the city god(an Taoism notion) temple and is infamous among local population for providing inauthentic local food with inflated price to rip off the tourists.
I just watched a video where "high tech" flying trains were running in German in 1902. And those are my ancestors living in China in 1935, struggling for life. I am impressed by changes have been made for the past 85+ years in that beautiful land. Thanks for sharing!
@The Professional 我可以用中文骂你但是我不会像你表现出缺少家教的样子, meanwhild u may not be able to understand what did i curse at you. : ) go ahead use google translate, lets see whos loser.
Anybody Noname China does have UA-cam in the old days. Mr. Hu Jintao does not like watching videos since around 2000 and his son blocked UA-cam for him. His son did a good job; his firewall has been working all the way to now. I hope Mr. Xi Jinping’s daughter can break down his firewall some day and make UA-cam available again.
OMG! I am from Canton... the Haizhu Bridge shown at the back at 10.32min still stands on the Pearl River in Canton today... can't believe I have the chance to see what it was like and the Pearl River as well back then... the Bridge is still the same but not its surroundings any more...
As Chinese, I didn't feel humiliated watching a video like so. It is good to know a country from the point of the life of the have not's, rather than that of the have's. Thanks for sharing the video.
I understand your point. There is no reason to feel humiliated though even in the theoritical case that this was still happening today. spirits up! many nations had such hard times... Well... most of them if not all at some point in their history
Kevin Durant Simple & peaceful & struggling to live… There's millions of people die in hunger every year during this period and no country cares about China's sovereignty or civil rights.
I love the fact that they would never have thought that years later , me ,chilling on my pc in France in 2021 with my join was watching them doing their life
Mikhail Kataev colours back then were very earthy . They only used natural colouring. The paint and clothing dyes were all earthy browns and dark greens and greys and dirty yellows and vibrant reds. Even some grey blue. It wouldn’t be much different.
Contrary to the popular myth of friendly Sikh people, they obtained somewhat scary image back then, as they were unfortunately also parts of the brutal oppressive force used by British against other colonized people.
@@hantingliu882 right! Sikhs were labeled as a martial race by the British and because of the overwhelming number of tall men, it was easy for the Empire to employ them in the Far East as security forces.
The history of Shanghai spans over a thousand years and closely parallels the development of modern China. Originally a small agricultural village, Shanghai developed during the late Qing dynasty (1644-1912) as one of China's principal trading ports. Although nominally part of China, in practice foreign diplomats controlled the city under the policy of extraterritoriality. Since the economic reforms of the early 1990s the city has burgeoned to become one of Asia's major financial centers and the world's busiest container port.
@A S Teer you're silly... And where RSS come from in this topic?? 1st get some correct information. Why so anti-Indian? 23% people going to bed without food & 5% people don't have toilets.. You're totally brainwashed person
@@parshajyotisarma7485 You seem to be incredibly blind if you think India is perfect the way its... I'm sure you'd rather live in America than that crowded loud hell hole
I love to see all the videos Micheal puts on here of the Chinese prople..I worked for 2 Chinese families, in 1988 and 1989. For 12 years altogether. One family had me spend 2 days 3 nights with them in San Francisco Calif. Thanks Micheal.
I heard a story about Soviet soldiers entering Germany during their counterinvasion in 1944 encountering flushing toilets and modern plumbing for the first time. Apparently, those from the countryside, not knowing what they were, assumed they were for washing clothes or vegetables using running water.
@@knochengier : The chances of people from Shanghai, living in Shanghai today is very low... Cos they moved in, when it has been rebuilt, many times over again. I remember reading a magazine, written by an Italian company, Color, I think it was called. About the demolition of Beijing, and some of the old hutongs... (Cos you see, some people wants high rises, as a sign of progression.) They forget that, the younger generation has never seen or lived in non-modern buildings. I would love to live in an old buildings, and vice versa. I was quite upset that they demolished those kind of buildings... It is your legacy and heritage... Some people do not realise the sense of time. Even if this video was around the 1900s.. they cannot comprehend. Like, I did not comprehend, or accept that my hometown in HK was less established.. until everybody uploaded their own versions.. to make a collage... It then made sense... Sigh. My heart aches... Cos it is a bit of a hell hole now.. And those who won't appreciate it, would never do so either.
I found this fascinating. The Huxingting (Willow) tea house still stands, as does the lake. Its surrounded by shops and cafes in an area that has been extensively and sensitively redeveloped. There is a Qing Dynasty house opposite it that is well worth a visit.
Better than ''THE'' Pentagon camera on 911 2001. Only by this fact! Whole world should simultaneously, facepalm! Forget travel to space! Get the sh!t done first on earth!
I find it funny that this was filmed when Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom takes place. The fact that the opening scene in the film takes place in Shanghai is even funnier.
@@fofivefella2254 - There we have it, it always goes to race, doesn't it? I stand firm upon my statement, in fact. Those were, indeed, SOME of the toughest, hardest working people in the world. You know, hard work, is hard work; it's unrelated to one's status. So, trying to dismiss or otherwise take away from what I said, simply because you have this axe to grind, is truly futile, and the good, right-thinking, sensible folks reading your comment, be they black, white or Chinese, will surely see your comment for what it is.
1:25 The brand name on the flag is "Wang De Fa Hao". 'Wang De Fa' actually is the transliteration of "Wonderful". 'Hao' means "Brand" under this circumstance.
At that time, Shanghai was ruled by the Eight-Power Coalition of the West. They are just labors or slaves.Our country has been developing since 1980, less than 40 years.
Incorrect, the Eight Power coalition in reality has collapse by this 1908 and by the time the Qing dynasty fell, by this time China was ruled mainly by the KMT and a few collection of warlords, and the KMT and CCP had started a civil war, while Japan had occupied Manchuria. A full scale occupation by Japan was about to be launch 2 years later, this footage was taken in Hong Kong, so this area was relatively spared from the second world war.
Very precious. Thank you. I always heard my father said 踩水車 (riding water bicycle ~water pump) in his childhood in mainland china, but i did not know how does it look like until i saw it here.
@@anshultyagi3344 if we really have kungfu stuff or wuxia stuff, why dont they came out and save the world in the war! so thats why chinese dont believe in god, god are useless. the only one we can believe in is ourself
Im not Chinese, but now I understand why my grandma used to say something like, braking my back like a donkey, I'm pretty sure that's how people used to work back in the day. Play the video at .75 speed
These people lived without electricity and air conditioning. Some people still live without electricity and air conditioning or even running water in Africa. They have to walk hundreds of meters to a water source to get water. When the electricity goes down, Western countries will be panicking and attacking each other, while those Africans will just keep living life as usual.
@@momentary_ Lol no, Africans will be the first on eat each other since they are the most divided, conflicted and dependant continent in the world. The west is united and organized. Asia would be a true carnage since, well, China has already a history of killing of famine their own citizens for some specific reason. Now that's even more militarized, they would genocide the korean península, including other surroundings, and enact a cannibal system. They are already eating dogs so, wouldn't be much of a problem for them to eat some indians
That's probably a political statement. There was a Chinese warlord named Zhang Xun who commanded an entire army of traditionalist soldiers who kept the Qing ponytail. In 1917 he occupied Beijing and restored the Manchu monarchy for one week.
people where probably thinking about the Chinese just as you are thinking now, in the times of The Antonine Plague or The Justinian Plague or The Black Death or The Spanish Flu....SARS, MERS,etc...OMG!
People in the 1930s will say the same thing while making comparisons to even earlier times. Progress is relativistic. People should have a consciousness that they are living in the progress people before them had obtained for them, while making their own contributions to better societies for their descendants.
My grandma was born in 1925, Hong Kong. It’s hard to believe she’s been alive through so much of our history, and now on a daily basis face times her friends back in China.
Wrong, Mao Zedong’s plan was to rapidly industrialize China and the reason why many people starved was because he was going to give great benefits to farmers who had a lot of crops to ship out to other countries, but they lied about what they had and there was a deficit. (Ex. Telling they had 100 tons when they only had 80) Then there was a massive drought which is common to happen in China’s history. This causes the farms to be less and less and many people starved. This is not Mao Zedong deciding to deliberately kill millions, this is a catastrophic event that occurred during his leadership and he should have investigated the claims further. Also Mao Zedong comes from a farmer family. After this, with the work of the Chinese people and overcoming the wars, it is prosperous and develops relations with other countries.
@@ineszhang868 it takes time to rebuild after a revolution in that scale. Of course you need a system in order to rebuild with steps and plans, China starved for many years before it was complete. But the outcome was great. They did uplift many from poverty, far more than any other time.
My mom told me of her grandmother when she was 3yrs old she would run away and hide at her uncle's house across the street whenever her parents would try to bind her feet. They kept trying to force her to bind her feet for years until they finally gave up lamenting, "No one will marry you now because your feet are too big! They will think that you are a village girl and not from a good family! No respectable man will marry you!" Thinking about it, my great grandmother would make a pretty good model for a character in a story!
But back then, there was no medicines... so... people have to keep their immune system kept on form, right ? Each time a part of your body hurts.. it is the white anti-bodies that actually keeps you alive... Some of the vaccine concept is based on similar concepts... Sometimes when you think about things, being chinese, wasn't as brutal as it implies. Otherwise, how did people survived for so long ? The yellow river people were kept alive, for a lot longer...
My mom was about the same time frame as your grandma. Her mom was also trying to bind her feet at 3 years old. She cried loudly, and her father could not stand it. He said to my grandma, “It is the republic now. People don’t believing in binding girls’ feet. Maybe we don’t bind her feet.” My grandma answered angrily, “If she could not marry well, it would all be your fault!” It was fortunate that they had not broken my mom’s bones in her feet. She was able to climb trees and swim in the river as a young girl. Of course, her family thought her a disgrace to the family. She ran away from an unwanted marriage at 14, 3 days before her wedding. She joined the Chinese army and worked as an army nurse in WWIi.
@@Moving_Target65 Thanks. She also learned to drive on freeways and read write and speak English after 50 years old. Therefore, I always say, it is not too old for people to learn things.
The Chinese are amazing: they work and work...that’s why they’re so successful. Others whine and complain .. the Chinese were horribly treated by the Brits; and now they are laughing all the way to the bank...
@Socially Acceptable UA-cam Handle I'm saying acting like Chinese were hard working during this time is stupid maybe more relevant to modern day back then everyone was working gruelling jobs in factories with poor health and safety laws except the owners of those factories
Such a precious clipping. Thanks for uploading. Although I am a Chinese myself, this is still very helpful for me to learn What China looked like back then.
You're wrong, it's not 100 years, I remember 1985 to the same extent as in this video, except that people were no longer starving and life was freer, the material deprivation was not much better than in the video, at least it was still within an order of magnitude
Probably two-thirds rather than three-quarters; original silent film probably taken at 16 frames/second, but here probably played back at the sound-film speed of 24 frames/second
@@hexyko4850 Tbh, the KMT wouldn't have been much better until the '80s. Of course, the Great Famine and Cultural Revolution may not of happened but knowing Chiang Kai Shek, he would probably do a White Terror again before he died.
Breaks my heart to see such hardship. China had fallen and been down and out for so long, just when it can finally stand on its own feet, and look after its people, can’t people just be happy for it, instead of incessantly attacking it, with lies? I don’t get it!
The Communist Party, being Communist, is a parasitic entity on the world and the Chinese people. If you don't believe me, then you don't understand how they operate. They steal our investment, steal our technology, and when their own people start getting too much influence, they disappear. Being a billionaire in China is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world since they all tend to go missing. The Party can not accept anyone being independent because they view it as a direct threat to their total monopoly on power. China might have the appearance of prosperity, but it is all ill-gotten gains. China is not free, and neither will we be if we keep letting them steal from us. The world started waking up to what the CCP was doing. They are a mafia that have captured a nation. Edit to see if this was censored since you aren't allowed to criticize the CCP anymore. That's how they influence the world. It's all bad.
How improve? You are blinded to no see the thousends of "massage centers" exploiting young Chinese women? No you are no blinded, you are a serve of west
Yeah, I'd say China's greatness was hindered by communism while places like hongkong and Taiwan are prosperous and free compared to the genocidal communist party.
@sick turrett They had no cars back then, and it's slower if they traversed the countryside while dragging the logs. And they couldn't have built a large boat
@sick turrett Wouldn't the makeshift raft sink then, with many logs on top of it? Anyways, that's how they used to do it back then. And it worked for them, too
My tears burst out ...these were our great-grandparents who lived hard lives . Remembering many of them will die when Japanese troops attacked Shanghai in 1937 , I can't hold my tears any more ... From ashes to prosper , we scarficed the whole three generation's personal happiness . We worked night after day , swear to make a strong and prosperity country standing in the east of the world . Falling behind means being bullied , "bully" is a simple word , but it means 20 millions of lives' disappearing ... Sorry , I can't get out from the full of blood and tears' past ! I will work hard for myself , my home , my country .
This is human nature. people do what it takes to survive. My great grand parents had worse(see Minor Asia destruction by Turks 1922) lets all be positive and go for a more human earth!
Everything should be put in perspective. The Japanese are no longer a threat, whereas Islamic extremism is alive and well. Please understand and know your history before posting ridiculous comments
![Amazing China in 1917 in color [AI enhanced and colorized]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_GWa4b7g9qs/mqdefault.jpg)
![Amazing China in 1917 in color [AI enhanced and colorized]](/img/tr.png)
My parents born in 1917 and 1918, both still live today 2018. It is miracle.
Jim Yu how old are you？
My great grandmother was born that same year. You are very lucky to still have them. I hope they live even more time and health
a Chinese older born in 1926, he still alive today and will alive longer time, we hope that!
赖宝宁 😭🔫🐸
Talamoana Exile 他父母可以四五十岁才生他，他可以不出生在中国
4:28 that old beggar looks about 80 years old. That means he was born in 1850s, saw the Second Opium war, Taiping Rebellion, Boxer Rebellion, the fall of Qing, the warlord era, and just two years later the Japanese invasion.
Thelondonbadger hahaha I’m glad that I am indeed talking to a human, although an idiot and ignorant one who sees its ego as the almighty and thinks of himself as wise, when in fact he is just a surface level sheep. You still have failed to answer or rebuts my point, instead you go on to do the unnecessary task of tryin to label those who oppose your views. Sad indeed. Don’t look down on others, as you can be in their position one day. So go fuck yourself !
My favorite person.
He is someone great great grandfather.. But his great great grandson didn't know how lucky he was...he doesn't realize the footage of his great great grandfather..maybe his great great grandson also didn't have the picture of him
Yes, his life has been accompanied by turbulent times
Some of them escape malaya,make new live and now they fight to sultan as "rights"
Crazy to imagine my grandma grew up in Shanghai during that time! She was born in 1920s and she is almost 100 years old now.
Now she uses smartphone and does video calls with me from time to time.
Correction. In the 20s
@@zhe_li I wish your grandma will continue to be healthy and long-lived! She must be your family's precious!
@Marks KL1 China is also one of the victims of the virus. Please do not blame the Chinese for the spread of the virus. The virus was neither made in China nor intentionally released by China. Instead of blaming China, you should blame your own government for its lack of control.
Xx, they hid the outbreak and they arrested the Dr who tried to warn about it, so yeah maybe they didn't release it on purpose but their actions point to guilt and they also destroyed all the samples the lab had, so there's that too.😒
@Marks KL1 Hey bro I am pretty sure you just got the coronavirus. Go to the hospital now!
This is still more clear than the last week UFO video.
Yeah
Ufo is western ideologies
yes！
lol
lmfao
You're a legend for making this comment.
9:32 so this is what our parents mean when they explain how they traveled to school
For some reason, i am imagining traveling like that with Pirates Caribbean theme song in the background.
@Angelina Fang haha me too.
spilled my coffee laughing.
@@nofanfelani6924 This is the best pirate I ever seen.
lmfao that's how my grandparents explained it haha they were born in the 40s
I've noticed lots of Asian people live long lifespans. Imagine some 90 - 100 year old Chinese person just browsing UA-cam. "Hey look it's me as a young person in the good ol days of 35"
Lol trueee
@shaka mata _ African pride Yeah it would be. I think a bit depressing because you'd basically see many people die in your long lifespan
Fermented Food
Nah, that would never happen. UA-cam is forbidden in China and blocked by the government.
@@roberteischen4170 Maybe since 1935 they've moved away from China and their care home has wifi and one of them happens to be good at UA-cam??
My grandmother was born on 1924 and she still alive today❤️
I hope she lives another 100 years man!
@@syrussmith6757 yea but who will lives untill 100 years.
Abil km my grand mom I think born in 1915 and she is 104 . Straight from Mexico 🇲🇽 never forget your roots 📝
@@carlosesparzavazquez4753 people who lives in 100 age just 1% or 2% in this world.they are so lucky to live untill now., i hope she stay healthy and goodluck in her life❤️😩.
dont worry
These people couldn't even imagine how China will look today. Amazing...
ye, before they are poor, now every foreigner that goes to China will be amazed by the infrastructures.
@@rica7577 ?
@@rica7577 I smell some jealousy
@@kyupified2440 it may seem utopian but china has a lot of problems
country side still looks the same
must have sucked living in that time, everything was always yellow before humans invented color and now we see different colors
I Giorno Giovanna lol
Good one.
Lel
Well they are in China after all...
Atleast it was yellow.. other parts of the world were in black and white
After seeing how our great grandparents lived, I cherish every single day of my life now.
Luxi how r u luxi, ur beautiful
Yep ,those were the times of hardwork and upgrade. They are the reason why we live a life of luxury . None of us could ever survive in those conditions.
@@user-nu3sd7zb2j yes,we could
@@user-nu3sd7zb2j we would have to adapt to harder conditions, doesn't mean we couldn't, also people still live shitty lives in other parts of the world
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1935 slums in Shanghai looks like 2019 slums in the Philippines.
I was also funny enough thinking not much has changed....and you told me why...because many poor contries look pretty much like that today even...also North korea...rural Iraq, Afghanistan and so on...
Welcome to capitalism
Shanghai is not part of China
@@jaylove9208 And Texas is not part of US.
Those places are still there, if you know where to look you can find them. Most of the roof is gone but the walls remain and if you can see them from above they are far more obvious as they look like catacombs, certainly nothing that we think as habitable today.
3:33 there is something extremely poetic about an old tea house sitting on a stagnant, diseased lake.
There was a city transform project in 50s which transform this lake into an artificial sightseeing pond. This tea house is still open today, near the city god(an Taoism notion) temple and is infamous among local population for providing inauthentic local food with inflated price to rip off the tourists.
they had no idea that People in the future will watch them in this Video, all around the world.
It can happen to you too
Probably we will be watched after 100 years too!
@@xiaoyuzhu8456 we're being watched right now
its not like we know their names.
... On the internet.
I really like it when youtube recommends me these types of videos
Same
All I can think is... 90% of these people are dead. Food for thought with Covid-19. Life is both fleeting and precious! Stay safe everyone.
i am the recommendation engines soul and ;) i love you
This is when I love the Internet. Quality UA-cam right here.
If you enjoy these types of videos, you should check out Guy Jones' channel. You will love it.
I just watched a video where "high tech" flying trains were running in German in 1902. And those are my ancestors living in China in 1935, struggling for life. I am impressed by changes have been made for the past 85+ years in that beautiful land. Thanks for sharing!
@The Professional 我可以用中文骂你但是我不会像你表现出缺少家教的样子, meanwhild u may not be able to understand what did i curse at you. : ) go ahead use google translate, lets see whos loser.
Very beautiful land!
But everything changed when the anime nation attacked
Actually it happens when Hardbass nation attack
U watch anime?
😂😂😂anime nation ! Why not say av nation...😂😂
@@fredcoffee8141 I have no clue what that means
@zenthrillium I shit on your face.
Love watching old footage like this. A great glimpse of life before.
Thank you so much for uploading this amazing video.
张文彬 /
Do Chinese have youtube?
NO， but we have VPN ！
Anybody Noname China does have UA-cam in the old days. Mr. Hu Jintao does not like watching videos since around 2000 and his son blocked UA-cam for him. His son did a good job; his firewall has been working all the way to now. I hope Mr. Xi Jinping’s daughter can break down his firewall some day and make UA-cam available again.
dream on
I''m afraid that it is too late now to ask these questions. The producers have died long ago by now.
Thx for sharing
Thank U
lol
MichaelRogge 很珍贵！这一切苦难还在继续……
Thank you western friend keep the real history for us. We are still suffering, most of us still don’t wake up.
Also 1935: I hope we have good life.
1937: OH NO ITS JAPAN.
You mean oh no its Europe plus Britain
oh no civil war in china!
@@ishoui_6519 Europe thing was in 1835 not 1935. In 1935 Europe was busy dealing with Hitler...
@@fredcoffee8141 you're right .
Sorry from me misleading people
@alikh alt But Hitler was in power in 1934
OMG! I am from Canton... the Haizhu Bridge shown at the back at 10.32min still stands on the Pearl River in Canton today... can't believe I have the chance to see what it was like and the Pearl River as well back then... the Bridge is still the same but not its surroundings any more...
Welcome to my site. I do not have many visitors from China interior. Thanks for the info. It is thirty years ago that I visited Guangzhou.
As Chinese, I didn't feel humiliated watching a video like so. It is good to know a country from the point of the life of the have not's, rather than that of the have's. Thanks for sharing the video.
Why on Earth would you it was in 1935 who the fuck cares.
I understand your point. There is no reason to feel humiliated though even in the theoritical case that this was still happening today. spirits up! many nations had such hard times... Well... most of them if not all at some point in their history
The modern communist china sucks this is the best version of china simple and peaceful.
Kevin Durant Simple & peaceful & struggling to live… There's millions of people die in hunger every year during this period and no country cares about China's sovereignty or civil rights.
Kevin Durant And now any ordinary person like me can have a normal life, and can even pass across GFW to tell you the truth of China
I love the fact that they would never have thought that years later , me ,chilling on my pc in France in 2021 with my join was watching them doing their life
yh its crazy
bing chilling
ME GUSTA EL HECHO DE QUE VOS
NO TE IMAGINARIAS QUE YO LEERÍA TU COMENTARIO USANDO UN CELULAR DESDE ARGENTINA.
@@joelaguirre5571 I like the fact that you
Do not imagine that I will read your comment by using a translater from mars
imagine how it will be in 2100!
It’s weird to imagine this in colour when you’ve only seen it in black and white
Mikhail Kataev colours back then were very earthy . They only used natural colouring. The paint and clothing dyes were all earthy browns and dark greens and greys and dirty yellows and vibrant reds. Even some grey blue. It wouldn’t be much different.
Blacks Whites . . . Yellows..
no one can imagine such a "prosperous and free" country becomes what it is like today, a nightmare for humanity.
Seems like a movie, if you imagine that way
2:25 omg its a Sikh soldier from the Punjab region of northern India. This is so cool to see my own people in distant lands :0.
Probably working for the British...
@@phantasmagora6542 oh yes most definitely.
I hadnt noticed thats so cool!!
Contrary to the popular myth of friendly Sikh people, they obtained somewhat scary image back then, as they were unfortunately also parts of the brutal oppressive force used by British against other colonized people.
@@hantingliu882 right! Sikhs were labeled as a martial race by the British and because of the overwhelming number of tall men, it was easy for the Empire to employ them in the Far East as security forces.
1% of them are still alive
@Multorum Unum Well with 0,5%?Are u satisfied?
@Multorum Unum had*
Chinese people are very healthy so this might be true
Maybe 0,99%
More like 90%
The history of Shanghai spans over a thousand years and closely parallels the development of modern China. Originally a small agricultural village, Shanghai developed during the late Qing dynasty (1644-1912) as one of China's principal trading ports. Although nominally part of China, in practice foreign diplomats controlled the city under the policy of extraterritoriality. Since the economic reforms of the early 1990s the city has burgeoned to become one of Asia's major financial centers and the world's busiest container port.
Now we watch their lives on our smart phones...
Which were made in China xD
lol
@@vladsonli8492 loool
And Huawei technologies is the largest Telco in the world now.
@UA-cam Is-A-Witch jealous 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
1935 china looks like 2019 india
1935 China looks like 2019 *America*
@A S Teer you're silly...
And where RSS come from in this topic??
1st get some correct information.
Why so anti-Indian?
23% people going to bed without food & 5% people don't have toilets..
You're totally brainwashed person
And still cleaner than 2019 india 😂
@@parshajyotisarma7485 You seem to be incredibly blind if you think India is perfect the way its... I'm sure you'd rather live in America than that crowded loud hell hole
Parshajyoti Sarma agree
人生一晃如白驹过隙
断断几十年寿命 谁又不是这世界上的一粒灰尘呢
200年之后 后人也许正像我们这样 看着我们
技术可行的话 200年后你会原地复活
注意智商，后代看的到呢 (开个玩笑哈)
看著被中共洗腦唱著紅歌與影片中的人如出一轍的你
無影劍-艾雷諾 嘴巴这么臭吗，无知的孤儿
scライン 他爸妈刚刚车祸身亡 还吃了很多屎 还请你谅解下
I love to see all the videos Micheal puts on here of the Chinese prople..I worked for 2 Chinese families, in 1988 and 1989. For 12 years altogether. One family had me spend 2 days 3 nights with them in San Francisco Calif. Thanks Micheal.
Your Chinese must be very good.
preople 😂 saw that
4:20 "beggar life is deplorable"- shows happiest man in video, makes him thumbnail
My fav Chinese folk I meet were the beggars or blind guys playing er hu
His smile is so unforgettable... :(
@ how do you know that? Oh, you met him? In your dream?
@ lol
@@leungside go girl go ! Aloha from Hawaii.
Keep in mind, rural eastern europe wasn't that different at that time. My grandpa still traveled by ox-waggon between villages
bruh they still do that in easter europe lmao
I heard a story about Soviet soldiers entering Germany during their counterinvasion in 1944 encountering flushing toilets and modern plumbing for the first time. Apparently, those from the countryside, not knowing what they were, assumed they were for washing clothes or vegetables using running water.
My grandpa still did that until the late 60's
@@TheKalihiMan that's not a true story.
bull shit !Its about Spain or Greece!
Thank you, I am an native of Shanghai. I can not help tearing when I see our ancient people in the VCR
No fn ancient, this is modern time.
@@knochengier : The chances of people from Shanghai, living in Shanghai today is very low... Cos they moved in, when it has been rebuilt, many times over again. I remember reading a magazine, written by an Italian company, Color, I think it was called. About the demolition of Beijing, and some of the old hutongs... (Cos you see, some people wants high rises, as a sign of progression.) They forget that, the younger generation has never seen or lived in non-modern buildings. I would love to live in an old buildings, and vice versa. I was quite upset that they demolished those kind of buildings... It is your legacy and heritage... Some people do not realise the sense of time. Even if this video was around the 1900s.. they cannot comprehend. Like, I did not comprehend, or accept that my hometown in HK was less established.. until everybody uploaded their own versions.. to make a collage... It then made sense... Sigh. My heart aches... Cos it is a bit of a hell hole now.. And those who won't appreciate it, would never do so either.
@@MeiinUK Thank you for responding, May. Really sad. No chance.
@@MeiinUK Too much words, I'm not a pope of rome, Ok.
So beautiful!
Viewing the past always brings some strange feelings
I'm not a Chinese but I have that feelings towards this glimpse of their past.💕
I like egg rolls.
Judging by your Grammar, you are Filipino
@@TrevorIsCommenting and?
my mother was 18 or ,19 in Salem, Oregon when this was filmed. I like to see other people of the world I am nearing ,,73 May 13. thanks
Charlotte Schreffler
Salem is a nice city
Charlotte Schreffler my great gramdma was born about 1885. I remember talking to her as a young kid and i'm only in my 40s.
Americans always wanting to talk about themselves. How ignorant again to post it on a Chinese video.
God bless you
Eh ... You were lucky to be born in the USA ... I was born in Russia ...
VERY nice 👌 oldies ,,, Chinese people are so hard working people
yes
thank you
thank you,bro
@@frankwang5332 😁🙏 wellcome
@@godwingundimi you are a very wise man, thank you very much for looking at people without colored glasses🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️
I found this fascinating. The Huxingting (Willow) tea house still stands, as does the lake. Its surrounded by shops and cafes in an area that has been extensively and sensitively redeveloped. There is a Qing Dynasty house opposite it that is well worth a visit.
Still better quality than security cameras tbh ...
Better than ''THE'' Pentagon camera on 911 2001.
Only by this fact!
Whole world should simultaneously, facepalm!
Forget travel to space! Get the sh!t done first on earth!
No Doubt..this guy was the best travel vlogger those days with the best camera available that time.
I find it funny that this was filmed when Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom takes place. The fact that the opening scene in the film takes place in Shanghai is even funnier.
Some of the toughest, hardest working people in the world right there.
There are more hardworking people then them in world but difference is of good leadership
All of them are dead long ago
You mean by all foreigners and westerners
Slaves in 1827 Virginia would like to counter your statement
@@fofivefella2254 - There we have it, it always goes to race, doesn't it? I stand firm upon my statement, in fact. Those were, indeed, SOME of the toughest, hardest working people in the world. You know, hard work, is hard work; it's unrelated to one's status. So, trying to dismiss or otherwise take away from what I said, simply because you have this axe to grind, is truly futile, and the good, right-thinking, sensible folks reading your comment, be they black, white or Chinese, will surely see your comment for what it is.
1:25 The brand name on the flag is "Wang De Fa Hao". 'Wang De Fa' actually is the transliteration of "Wonderful". 'Hao' means "Brand" under this circumstance.
I think it's 王得胜号,a common Chinese name.
The toughest day for Chinese people, those people might not know a horrible war was approaching a couple of years later...
yes and your beard hair are not real
At that time, Shanghai was ruled by the Eight-Power Coalition of the West. They are just labors or slaves.Our country has been developing since 1980, less than 40 years.
Incorrect, the Eight Power coalition in reality has collapse by this 1908 and by the time the Qing dynasty fell, by this time China was ruled mainly by the KMT and a few collection of warlords, and the KMT and CCP had started a civil war, while Japan had occupied Manchuria. A full scale occupation by Japan was about to be launch 2 years later, this footage was taken in Hong Kong, so this area was relatively spared from the second world war.
Pain and suffering was the Chinese reality from the Opium Wars until the deaths of Mao and Chiang.
Jib Wangler Now the Chinese are absolutely loving and embracing another con scheme, the cryptocurrency, perfectly voluntarily.
And in two more years, Japan would be attacking.
My grandpa was 6 at the time, he was able to evacuate into Canada when he was adopted..
Bruh, japan was surrendered to China after all.
@@vivianl.2077 Bruh japan literally slaughtered its way through their conquest
@@arminiuscherusci4410 Until Ip Man yeeted Japan back to its place then U.S dropped 2 bombs on them.
@@nocturnal7345 I missed that part of the movie
Very precious. Thank you. I always heard my father said 踩水車 (riding water bicycle ~water pump) in his childhood in mainland china, but i did not know how does it look like until i saw it here.
我出生在80年的中國南方農村，直到我讀小學前，還能見到田邊有這種水車，後來才逐漸被電力水泵代替
@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers 我不明白你的意思？是说历史上占据的地方？还是什么其他的，如果是那么世界上不应该有美国这个国家，因为那些土地是印第安人的。
@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers and what are you going to do about it🤣🤣
@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers Europeans had much more places that did not belong to them.
I think the concept "Chinese have yellow skin" came from documentaries like this.
Fr, even their more white than yellow
It’s interesting how they don’t use mules or donkeys instead they use humans to push their carts
Tell this to PETA 😂😂
Yes true. I see lot of animals being used in ancient India ..
That's because they eat all the animals.
@@Lovelyuntamed and Indian worships all the animals
@@johnJohn-it7vh that's cool. But I referring to the Chinese.
Interesting to see that the big cities with skyscrapers and huge population in China were once a humble rural town with only a few people residing.
That's true, look how cities changed during 100 years. Autonomic cars, smartphones etc. What will be in 2050:)
It's my pleasure to watch a 480p clip from almost 100 years ago.
Was 85 years ago
😂😂😂😂
@@illusory9579 thats what he said tho
It's absolutely unreal how a country like this would transform into an alien like world in less than a century
what?
that's socialism for you
@@Owen-hd3oq stop being dumb
@@Owen-hd3oq china isnt socialist
@@root-beer What is China then?
Plot Twist:
4:25 this old man is an immortal kungfu master who is living as beggar to disguise himself from normal humans 🤔
Lol
Beggar So
master of the dog beating staff and the 18 dragon subduing palm techniques
@@DannyChen712 you are reading too much wuxia novels
@@anshultyagi3344 if we really have kungfu stuff or wuxia stuff, why dont they came out and save the world in the war!
so thats why chinese dont believe in god, god are useless. the only one we can believe in is ourself
Im not Chinese, but now I understand why my grandma used to say something like, braking my back like a donkey, I'm pretty sure that's how people used to work back in the day.
Play the video at .75 speed
Y .75?
Thanks about the video speed 👏☺️
@@robertoorrego4374 might be the normal speed?
@@RocketmanRockyMatrix i guess
Much better! Thx!
工业化之前的中国，这一幕幕景象只有在各种文字中见过
Danku voor deze beeldheid videofilm🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Thank you for your video. As a Chinese, I cherish what I have now.
Do you live in China?
@@farzanamughal5933 yeah he/she said "As a Chinese"
@@Cuktisntfunny If a chinese lived in china he wouldn't be on youtube. He is overseas
do you know vpn?
@@farzanamughal5933 Yes it is. I am in Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Once the electricity goes off you wish you had some low tech stuff like this
These people lived without electricity and air conditioning. Some people still live without electricity and air conditioning or even running water in Africa. They have to walk hundreds of meters to a water source to get water. When the electricity goes down, Western countries will be panicking and attacking each other, while those Africans will just keep living life as usual.
this is high tech in its own sense
Bro I am from shanghai... u don’t wanna live in the thirties
@@zacksima8333 Is trump making your life miserable?
@@momentary_ Lol no, Africans will be the first on eat each other since they are the most divided, conflicted and dependant continent in the world. The west is united and organized. Asia would be a true carnage since, well, China has already a history of killing of famine their own citizens for some specific reason. Now that's even more militarized, they would genocide the korean península, including other surroundings, and enact a cannibal system. They are already eating dogs so, wouldn't be much of a problem for them to eat some indians
2:48 that guy would be a UA-cam backpacker today.
Some UA-cam backpackers are pretty hardcore. Bald and Bankrupt is a good example.
@@isaiahdaniels5643love that channel.
Ah u mean Bald and Bankrupt! He's still alive
3:02 interesting to see that the shoe cobbler and the person walking past him still have their 'queues' or ponytails from the Qing dynasty
It's a goddamn feudal society
That's probably a political statement. There was a Chinese warlord named Zhang Xun who commanded an entire army of traditionalist soldiers who kept the Qing ponytail. In 1917 he occupied Beijing and restored the Manchu monarchy for one week.
China was like this when my father was born.He has experienced everything from an agricultural society to today.
Fantastic, thank you for this video.
"Years ago I was, Chinese..."
3:26 "Many contagious diseases come from here"
Well, they weren't wrong about that.
Video was posted in 2012 but yeah, that's very accurate when you see it in 2021.
Got recommended after coronovirus outbreak
😂 haha me too. But this was a much happier video to watch.
👌
RACISTS
people where probably thinking about the Chinese just as you are thinking now, in the times of The Antonine Plague or The Justinian Plague or The Black Death or The Spanish Flu....SARS, MERS,etc...OMG!
Same. Even here they mention many contaigious diseases come from the lake....
Looks like 1835 rather than 1935. See those poor wretched hauliers trying to drag that cart at 2.09 position.
You can blame the Ming dynasty and religion for halting China's progress.
People alive today crying about little things don't know how good they have it.
@samurai42086 but not today
@samurai42086 wow omg so cool, pathetic.
@samurai42086 well, your sarcasm wasn't noticeable.
People in the 1930s will say the same thing while making comparisons to even earlier times. Progress is relativistic. People should have a consciousness that they are living in the progress people before them had obtained for them, while making their own contributions to better societies for their descendants.
@@yousufabdelrahman2538 WOOOSH
My grandma was born in 1925, Hong Kong. It’s hard to believe she’s been alive through so much of our history, and now on a daily basis face times her friends back in China.
and being lock-downed
我的雇主也是925年出生在中国，现在还很健康。可以使用智能手机和人聊天。
Feels so happy after seeing that grandpa 🥰4:26
Beggar and all, he looks so happy :D
Other countries at 1935: uses horses to transport things
China at 1935: *hhhggggrrr* m a n p o w e r
no lol. The west used maritime vessels to transport things back then .
It is imaging that China has uplifted millions out of Poverty in Short time.
you know what?
Thelondonbadger Yep. People always fail to realize this.
Wrong, Mao Zedong’s plan was to rapidly industrialize China and the reason why many people starved was because he was going to give great benefits to farmers who had a lot of crops to ship out to other countries, but they lied about what they had and there was a deficit. (Ex. Telling they had 100 tons when they only had 80) Then there was a massive drought which is common to happen in China’s history. This causes the farms to be less and less and many people starved. This is not Mao Zedong deciding to deliberately kill millions, this is a catastrophic event that occurred during his leadership and he should have investigated the claims further. Also Mao Zedong comes from a farmer family. After this, with the work of the Chinese people and overcoming the wars, it is prosperous and develops relations with other countries.
@Thelondonbadger Bruh planned economy from the state party did that
@@ineszhang868 it takes time to rebuild after a revolution in that scale. Of course you need a system in order to rebuild with steps and plans, China starved for many years before it was complete. But the outcome was great. They did uplift many from poverty, far more than any other time.
My grandfather was born in 1935. He is still alive and well to this day. He witnessed many things in the course of history.
So did I, 91 years young, born in 1929 !
@@michaelijsbrand Wow I didn't know you were that old! I'm guessing you've travelled alot!
It's like a time travel, a big emotion
My mom told me of her grandmother when she was 3yrs old she would run away and hide at her uncle's house across the street whenever her parents would try to bind her feet.
They kept trying to force her to bind her feet for years until they finally gave up lamenting, "No one will marry you now because your feet are too big! They will think that you are a village girl and not from a good family! No respectable man will marry you!"
Thinking about it, my great grandmother would make a pretty good model for a character in a story!
amazing how independently thinking and self-aware she was at 3, indeed a legend!
But back then, there was no medicines... so... people have to keep their immune system kept on form, right ? Each time a part of your body hurts.. it is the white anti-bodies that actually keeps you alive... Some of the vaccine concept is based on similar concepts... Sometimes when you think about things, being chinese, wasn't as brutal as it implies. Otherwise, how did people survived for so long ? The yellow river people were kept alive, for a lot longer...
My mom was about the same time frame as your grandma. Her mom was also trying to bind her feet at 3 years old. She cried loudly, and her father could not stand it. He said to my grandma, “It is the republic now. People don’t believing in binding girls’ feet. Maybe we don’t bind her feet.” My grandma answered angrily, “If she could not marry well, it would all be your fault!” It was fortunate that they had not broken my mom’s bones in her feet. She was able to climb trees and swim in the river as a young girl. Of course, her family thought her a disgrace to the family. She ran away from an unwanted marriage at 14, 3 days before her wedding. She joined the Chinese army and worked as an army nurse in WWIi.
@@wfireC WOW! That is impressive!
@@Moving_Target65 Thanks. She also learned to drive on freeways and read write and speak English after 50 years old. Therefore, I always say, it is not too old for people to learn things.
Imagine that little kid screaming is your 90 or 100+ grandparent right now
Beautiful documentary. Thanks for the respect of our culture.
The Chinese are amazing: they work and work...that’s why they’re so successful. Others whine and complain .. the Chinese were horribly treated by the Brits; and now they are laughing all the way to the bank...
Socially Acceptable UA-cam Handle just had to bring that in, didn’t you
Yes because people in Europe and the USA were lazy in the 19th and Early 20th century stupid anti child labour laws!
@Socially Acceptable UA-cam Handle I'm saying acting like Chinese were hard working during this time is stupid maybe more relevant to modern day back then everyone was working gruelling jobs in factories with poor health and safety laws except the owners of those factories
Socially Acceptable UA-cam Handle yea the contrast makes it a bit depressing
Socially Acceptable UA-cam Handle you killed killed and massacre...... the Chinese are far more sane than what the westerners did ...!
I saw some Sikhs there!!!
They are in Military
I admit indians migrate to every country whenever there s a slight chance
@@jessjess3369 just like us germans
Kev Cthulu I live in Malaysia,i have many Indian neighbors.But never have Deutsche neighborhood tho..
@@jessjess3369 and still they call immigrants who have been living in India for years "Termites" and build detention centers for them
Love or hate china, it’s definitely gotten better for the people
Feels like I'm watching a Chinese drama seeing how they're dressed. So weird
Uncle tat😂
别闹
达叔黎好!
Such a precious clipping. Thanks for uploading. Although I am a Chinese myself, this is still very helpful for me to learn What China looked like back then.
Looked bad.
国内也有很多1935年前就没法看了！晚清确实一塌糊涂！
@@datutu 民國24年清朝早就滅亡了，共產黨還沒崛起呢😂。
@@datutu 不是晚清，是民国，是台湾省的国民党在大陆执政时期的景象，要不是这样，他们怎么能败亡到台湾呢？
You're wrong, it's not 100 years, I remember 1985 to the same extent as in this video, except that people were no longer starving and life was freer, the material deprivation was not much better than in the video, at least it was still within an order of magnitude
eighty years, I suppose a life time is long enough to see some changes after all.
Athena Zhou i wish i were born in 2100
Athena Zhou did you know Chinese back then were literally black in color?
二屄 吃屎 牛屄 no really google it
二屄 吃屎 牛屄 tru dat
we will make sure the world ends before we die :D soon people is gona boom each other
During the Republic of China, China was very poor, and now the new China is very rich. One world and one place. A completely different China.
Amazing, I love such videos. Its like time travel.
Wow I'm from Hong Kong, this is amazing archive! It took so much sweat and tears to build an amazing city like Hong Kong today!
and it only takes few months to destroy it.
@@georgew4287 by the "protesters" 😂
@@treeinc8897 LOL, by the peaceful protesters.
From 1935 to 2020, what an impressive achievement!
now imagine people from 2100s laughing at today's shanghai footage saying "look at those cute lil buildings"
想到了小时候看的一篇文章.叫骆驼祥子.
Interesting , bends my mind and breaks my heart.
Put 0.75x speed for realistic quality.
I love how this take in 1935's at the same time 10 years ago in UA-cam algorithm
Tip: Set the speed to 0.75 for a more normal pace.
Works much better. Thank you💗😁
nice
nice work is 👌😁
Probably two-thirds rather than three-quarters; original silent film probably taken at 16 frames/second, but here probably played back at the sound-film speed of 24 frames/second
上海畫面一開始出現的是江北船民 窮的就是船上搭個窩棚就住了 還有一種叫滾地龍 竹子和茅草堆的 上海很繁榮。但是和大部分普通人無關
Усисяу хамасися аселямаси хамасяма!!!
I am so high that I didn't even queastion why I'm watching this.
Now i see why they are called "yellow"
And despite poverty, wars, and revolutions in the past 100 years, look where they are today.
Its sad
@@kpi4162 is your brain OK?
@@an_38kitkashyap Without the west, the CCP would crumble apart.
CCP is evil
@@hexyko4850 Tbh, the KMT wouldn't have been much better until the '80s. Of course, the Great Famine and Cultural Revolution may not of happened but knowing Chiang Kai Shek, he would probably do a White Terror again before he died.
Breaks my heart to see such hardship. China had fallen and been down and out for so long, just when it can finally stand on its own feet, and look after its people, can’t people just be happy for it, instead of incessantly attacking it, with lies? I don’t get it!
The Communist Party, being Communist, is a parasitic entity on the world and the Chinese people. If you don't believe me, then you don't understand how they operate.
They steal our investment, steal our technology, and when their own people start getting too much influence, they disappear. Being a billionaire in China is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world since they all tend to go missing. The Party can not accept anyone being independent because they view it as a direct threat to their total monopoly on power. China might have the appearance of prosperity, but it is all ill-gotten gains. China is not free, and neither will we be if we keep letting them steal from us. The world started waking up to what the CCP was doing. They are a mafia that have captured a nation.
Edit to see if this was censored since you aren't allowed to criticize the CCP anymore. That's how they influence the world. It's all bad.
Someone should make a movie set in this time period
We Chinese thank you for uploading this to show our lives improved so much in the past 80 years , even now it continues being better
How improve? You are blinded to no see the thousends of "massage centers" exploiting young Chinese women? No you are no blinded, you are a serve of west
Yeah, I'd say China's greatness was hindered by communism while places like hongkong and Taiwan are prosperous and free compared to the genocidal communist party.
@@gt5228z Haha, the so-called liberal democracy is just an excuse for you to invade us. We live a good life and don't need you to worry.
@@gt5228z You should visit China first and then comment on my country.
@@henglong4555 you argument uses an authorization logical falacy. Wait..
Isn't UA-cam banned in china?
9:30 looks so amazing! Dangerous, but amazing!
Looks funny
@sick turrett They had no cars back then, and it's slower if they traversed the countryside while dragging the logs. And they couldn't have built a large boat
Me: What kind of work do you do?
Man: Survive
@sick turrett But then wouldn't the raft be too heavy with about 3 people and a good 50 logs? Plus back then China wasn't too advanced.
@sick turrett Wouldn't the makeshift raft sink then, with many logs on top of it? Anyways, that's how they used to do it back then. And it worked for them, too
My tears burst out ...these were our great-grandparents who lived hard lives . Remembering many of them will die when Japanese troops attacked Shanghai in 1937 , I can't hold my tears any more ...
From ashes to prosper , we scarficed the whole three generation's personal happiness . We worked night after day , swear to make a strong and prosperity country standing in the east of the world .
Falling behind means being bullied , "bully" is a simple word , but it means 20 millions of lives' disappearing ...
Sorry , I can't get out from the full of blood and tears' past ! I will work hard for myself , my home , my country .
那时候看来中国确实没有美女。现在美女很多，白白的，长长的腿。那时候中国人看起来又恶心又丑。现在情况不一样，比比皆是都是美女
This is human nature. people do what it takes to survive. My great grand parents had worse(see Minor Asia destruction by Turks 1922)
lets all be positive and go for a more human earth!
Get over it... it was 80 years ago!
Get over 9/11, it was 17 years ago....
Everything should be put in perspective. The Japanese are no longer a threat, whereas Islamic extremism is alive and well. Please understand and know your history before posting ridiculous comments