The 5 CULTURAL REGIONS of China Explained
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- China is a large country with a diverse landscape of cultures, economics, politics, and geographies, a true land empire. And while we might be familiar with Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, what defines each geographic and cultural region of the Peoples Republic of China? How many Chinese regions are there? This is every cultural region of china explained, exploring the geography, history, culture, and background of every region in china.
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Are you a communist?
I support the Brotherhood of Steel
dont joke about that ok,
Do brazil next! Its huuuuge and every region has vastly unique cultures
I agree that should be next!
Yeah that would be interesting. Right now he's done the 4 major military powers, but if he did Brazil, he'd only have to do South Africa in order to round out all the BRICS plus the US. I think Europe, Japan, Mexico, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa would also be pretty interesting, even though some of those are just general regions.
@ShimobeSama south africa isn't even a comparison to brazil 😊
Followed by some details about the rest of cultures in the contanint
Video begins at 0:00
Thank you.
When does the video end?
this is kinda basic cant lie
Very helpful, þank you!
Ah yes, the floor here is made out of floor 🤔
Its crazy how similar Chinas geography is too the united states. The eastern half of both countries is home to a temperate climate in the north and a sub-tropical to tropical in the south. While the western half of both countries predominantly features high mountains and deserts. The himayalas also serve the purpose to China as the pacific ocean does to America, providing defense while also limited contact with the culture on the other side
Both countries were destined to be superpowers just due to having good "spawn locations". Both can also be isolationist and still survive.
As a Chinese working and living in California I totally agree with you. The majority difference between China and the US is the I-5 belt. China doesn't have a west coast biome.
However China does have a much wider range of latitude than the lower 48, hosting a much wider range of temperature difference though with less variation in precipitation pattern.
Sadly this analysis missed quite a few key nuances of China.
1). The strong historical/overland trade influence of the Jiayu Pass connecting the core North China plain region to the trade routes of Central Asia and how that helped develop North China into an overland trading power during antiquity.
2). The relative importance of regional dialects and identity in modern China is vastly overstated. For people born pre-1970, maybe this held sway, but less young people care about that. After all, why speak a villager language when the national language is understood in far more places and everyone knows that anyway!
3). The recent emergence of a sizable ethnically Han, religiously Christian minority in China was completely ignored. In Henan Province (the 3rd largest by population and at the core of the North China plain, China’s population and civilizational core), nearly 1 in 8 people claim some form of Christianity.
About point 2, who did you talk to?
Henan is not the most populated province of China. And I don't see the relevance of christianity here. Christians have been present in Henan since the 7th century, they were and still are a minority.
Ok now do Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein has 99 subregions. It will never be done.
@@MonsieurDean such a complicated and diverse country.
Chinese cultures interest me, in that theyre so far removed from europe as to be baffling, but driven by militaristic states which reflect western history better than indian history does
It really is a wild parallel to European history in some ways
Philosophically very different. At scale it is roughly the equivalent to a Rome that never truly fell. Very fascinating overall
Ironically while China became the first nation state in history in order to field standing armies before Rome even existed, the Chinese people and culture are highly opposed to war due to Confucian thought and the Art of War which prefers diplomacy and strategy over actual battles. Being a soldier isn't seen as a 'patriotic duty' but a last resort if higher education didn't work out, an apt saying goes "good iron isn't used to make nails, good men aren't used to make soldiers".
@@deathdrone6988china used to be taoist thats why, china started its decline when it adopted confucianism, it made chinese into cucks who bent over to the west and stoped expanding there is a reason why the tang the taoist dynasty was so large compared to the rest
Chinese civilization is basically a premature version of European. They entered nation state and bureaucracy rule over a thousand years earlier than Europe
Every region of India Explained: ua-cam.com/video/1dNAUqgMqI8/v-deo.html
Taiwan and Singapore can be considered an extention of South China, exactly the same people inhabitants those places, Taiwan being 97% han chinese mostly fujianese and Singapore is 74% Chinese too, probably mostly cantonese and from other part of southern China.
In some sense Taiwan is more Chinese than china
I think Singapore is mostly Teochew (Chaozhou) people (who count as Southern Chinese though I think a long time ago they moved to the south from the north, similar to the Hakka). I think there are more Teochews outside of China than inside actually, with most of the diaspora in SEA and Oceania being Teochew. Even the prime minister of Cambodia is Teochew lol.
@@danshakuimoSame with Taishanese. They are considered southerners, but actually migrated to that area from the central parts a few hundreds years ago.
Guangdong/Canton doesn’t even get a mention? This is the historical hub of Chinese culture across the world, not to mention it has high influence throughout Chinese itself as well.
They have their own distinct language (Cantonese), and due to migration and the influence of HK, it is still the lingua franca for many overseas Chinese.
Have you considered making a cultural region video on Europe as a whole?
I concur. 👍
Might be a fun idea!
That sounds great
Taoism is actually pronounced daoism. The T in the first spelling led to a common error along with errors in western pronunciation of basically all Chinese place names because of the old difficult to learn Romanization system used until the 1960s.
Tibet has millions more people than Alaska or Western Australia.
Will you be doing the UK at some point?
Perhaps, it certainly has the diversity
@@MonsieurDean Excellent, you could even do the British isles as a whole as that would probably be more cohesive, albeit with the potential for some controversy
@@Sir_Humphrey_ApplebyVery droll.
It’s funny, despite many differences there are some similarities between regional cultures and perceptions in the United States and China. For starters, both are geographically large and large amount of citizens have never even travelled outside their country - when they take vacations they do it domestically. Most of China’s population is in the eastern part of the country (like the US). In eastern China there is northern/southern culture. Northern Chinese people speak mandarin with less of an accent while southern Chinese have the Chinese equivalent of a southern drawl in their accent. Northern Chinese people are seen as more educated while southern Chinese are seen as more backwards and hillbilly-like although they have some cities that are more educated and urban like Shenzhen (which you could compare to Atlanta in the United States). Northern China is home to the capital Beijing (whose name literally means “northern capital”) like Washington, DC being in the northern US and Shanghai is an international city in the north like NYC in the US. Then you have a Chinese Midwest, with Wuhan being compared to Chicago.
Can Tibetan Monks really throw hands like that?
Sometimes.
3:31 I paused at this moment to go do some stuff then I came back and was like “wait, he didn’t even get to any of the cultures yet” then he immediately started when I hit play. I’m new to the channel, I like that the Z is styled like Dragon Ball Z. I subscribed, I’ll be sure to watch the other videos!(Also the narrator *vaguely* sounds like MindSmash.)
Welcome!
Canada next
It would be pretty hilarious if you did "Every Cultural Region of Liechtenstein".
Can you do England next? Specifically England, it is extremely diverse, especially in accents and cultures. Practically every city has its own totally unique culture
Amazing Channel dude! Subscribed!! Thank you!
Recently i tryed to learn a bit about populations in China of ethnics and regions... Love having to predict outdated data....
Didn't go as far as you did and i focused on the west and some regions of India (because long story short this is all for altinitice history started 6 years ago...)
While Han is considered officially an ethnicity all on it's own, genetically han chinese are about as diverse as europeans are as a whole. Culturally they are closer (at least from media I have read and what I have seen even anti-chinese youtubers showcase), but I don't think this qualifies them to the low-scale term, that is "ethnicity". They even have several dozen sub-ethnicities. Which here in europe would just be called regional variants (ie bavarian/saxon vs german for example). Far east asian works much better imo, but I guess they might not want to share any space with koreans and japanese (and vice versa).
As a Shanghainese, I would say in our Wu region, we welcome Koreans and Japanese to live and work in my region. And we have non-official Japan town and Korea town in Shanghai.
@@cassiopesysg5423 Isn't Shanghai the most progressive Chinese city though? I know it was historically even before the Chinese Civil War.
I don't think most Chinese would take issue with being related to Koreans, even though most Koreans would probably want to distinguish themselves from the Chinese due to nationalism.
@@danshakuimo It is also the chinese nationalism, that causes animosity. I read chinese webnovels from time to time and the amount of time that "sakura country" and "kimchi country" get screentime as arrogant, duplicitous traitors of humanity is unreal. About as often as "eagle country".
@@lamename2010 It kind of is grounded in some reality at least for the arrogance part. China was very poor back then while Korea and Japan became economically affluent so the stereotype of poor Chinese peasants and poor China in general is prevalent.
As for the Koreans they had the Japanese try to erase their culture back when Korea was a colony of Japan. So they hold onto and take pride in their identity that comes off as excessive arrogance to their neighbors.
Overall I would say all three have some demeaning stereotypes of each other that feeds into their superiority complex.
Reason for excluding Formosa?
When that island was called Farmosa it didn't even speak Chinese.
Nice video, and good job using the correct map. 👍
What if every land was cool, wet, and lush green? ❄️🌧🌳
You missed out Taiwan. Technically still China per its own constitution.
And technically China never defeated the ROC, they only relocated to new fortification, so the question is who does China ACTUALLY belong to? It could technically be said an illegitimate government is in control of the mainland.
I’m pretty sure Taiwan claims to be the real China
@@CircuitReborn whoever has the more economic benefits according to foreigners
China doesn't control it so realistically it makes more sense Taiwan is unincluded
@@CircuitReborn Well the world decided that China belonged to the CCP after they replaced the ROC with the PRC on the UN security council. But if you ask the Chinese people, most people who consider themselves Chinese will undoubtedly say it's the PRC and they are the legitimate government.
so that's where the Manchu from Fu Manchu comes from
Correct.
very interesting t´keep up the good work
Battle for the silk road in modern times would be preety crazy
Do the UK, it's small but it has extensive cultural regions, from the highlands to london the differences are stark
Early! 5th comment and the video only came out 7 minutes ago! Love the channel, can you make a video about your predictions for the future?
Sure! Any specific suggestions or topics you'd want me to cover?
@@MonsieurDean I think a video on the future of Africa would be the most informative. How some nations could rise up, how others could fall, etc. the continent is in a very unique position with its diversity and post-colonial politics
@@notakiwi7151 Sweet, I'll make a note of it!
Video begins at 3:30
Actually, it begins at 0:00
@@MonsieurDean Agree to disagree.
Little trouble in big China.
We need Indonesia next
Indonesia could be interesting
Brazil next please!
You missed taiping
China has always been one of the top five powers in the world in history. Even at its weakest time in modern times, it confronted the 17-nation alliance on the Korean Peninsula. American scholar Kissinger once said that China is a country that cannot be ignored in world history. It has the most diversified national landforms, one of the largest populations and vast resources in the world. Its people are more hardworking than any other country. Under the blessing of these natural conditions, China will always be a big country as long as it is not divided. In the era of industrialization, China's development potential is very great
They confronted the 17-nation alliance by accepting over 2x the number of casualties (or even 5x the casualties in some battles!!) despite having over 2x the number of troops. Still impressive on the bravery front, admittedly.
Mongols had huge influence over Tibetans and vice versa. The greater Tibet ruled over the Indians
Please do the British isles
The sad thing is, there are so many western people keep stereotyping in Chinese people, thinking that the majority Han Chinese people are insufficient in cultural diversity. It is obvious that Han Chinese people who lived in different places...like Harbin, Haikou, Chengdu, Beijing and Shanghai, etc... can't be the same, even they are classified as the same ethnic, because of their geography, dialect and history.
Do Brazil next 🇨🇽
Sinkiang 💀💥
Mongolia and Taiwan really should be a part of China ngl.
Never!!!
I couldn't make it show up on Google Images the last time I searched for it, but I know Outer Mongolia as part of its campaign of public monuments to indicate its mutual independence from both China and Russia erected not only statues of Genghis Khan, their most prominent national hero and most genetically successful human being of all time, but also of Milton Friedman, since China and Russia had statues of Karl Marx.
Taiwan maybe. Mongolia? Never. China was Mongolia
@@badpiggies4926And Mongolia was a part of China.
@@badpiggies4926 Mongolia was China as well
Tian Shan, Tian is just one syllable Tyan not Tee, en.
Do Brazil!
where's our Min Chinese friend Taiwan?
👀
Next do regions of the Arab world
Do Indonesia
And Taiwan ???
Not like what political demography map said, in reality Majority in India actually are Dravidian, Austroloid, Mediteranian African. Only Little Minorities in Jammu Kashmir that contain Aryan.
Why didn't you talk about uygurs. You just said kazak in east turkestan.
I did mention the Uyghurs, they have a whole subregion
there is no such thing as east Turkestan in china
Inside you there are 2 wolves
One explains cultures in 10 minutes
The other in 1 hour
WhatifAltlhist should do collab with MonsieurZ
feels skibidi to be this sigma
I’m weirdly fascinated about China. Like how some people are interested about North Korea.
That is a very very very deep rabbit hole to go down lol
@@danshakuimoyup and I’ve gone down the N.Korean rabbit hole
There is only ONE China and the Han Chinese are ONE Race🐉! … China … An ancient Primary civilization along with its sisters Egypt, Sumer and Harrapan. Isolated by deserts to the North, mountains to the West, jungles to the South and ocean to the East … an utterly unique and original culture and uncontaminated civilization, …. with clean genetics, pure linage and Chosen by Heaven as holders of the Mandate of Heaven!
So stop this nonsense about ‘regions’ in China!
Found the Chinese bot.
Of course modern China has different regions. What do you make of East Turkestan or Tibet? Are they Han Chinese as well?
Lmao
Based
@@crusader2112is being a civilizational patriot being a bot now? What an Orwellian world we live in.
The Tibetans are members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, the closest people to the Han Chinese. The Turks worship Tengri, the same god Tian of the Han Chinese and have interacted with Chinese civilization for millennia until expelled West by the Tang dynasty. Both Tibetans and Turks are descendants of the Yellow Emperor like the Han Chinese.
You’re welcome for the free education.
@@Nom_AnorVSJedi I just find it hard to believe that there aren't any other identities in China. The Han can't be the only only one.
not evetyr, you omit the Taiwan province! please review your Geography, History and Geopolitics courses!
I think the video is only covering the PRC.
Tibet has never been part of China
It is currently part of China, look at a map unless the map is stained so heavily with masala.
part of Qing dynasty.
I can never keep straight if it was the Yellow Hat Monks or the Black Hat Monks who invited in the Manchus to sort out their dispute with the other faction.
India has never been a country.
Actually it's on and off, throughout its history. Usually not. But at present, yes.
Free Tibet
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all indians are genitically same aryans means whole indians dravida means rivers that flows in the south there is no difference
wrong map
Use the right map pls
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@@MonsieurDean😂😂😂
The man just claimed China has different cultural regions, in what world does that add social credit?
@@kfiraltberger552Promoting Chinese cultural diversity
Which country will you do next? Brazil, perhaps?
Brazil might be due. Maybe Indonesia?
@@MonsieurDean Good choice. Man, there are a lot of massive countries with fascinating internal subdivisions in the world.
@@nord_anon4406 South Africa might be another choice, and then there's Argentina and Mexico.
@@MonsieurDean Whatever you choose I'll look forward to it.
@@MonsieurDeanIf you'd ever do Indonesia, I say good luck! Even as someone who lives here, finding sources could get a little difficult most of the times
Sichuan sounds like Tennessee
Tennessee is ass
Neat. Will you be doing one on Brazil?
I might just
Ooooo shit here for the start of Brazil mentioned thread.😊
Say what you want about the CCP but China is a beautiful country
Agree. Chinese people, language, culture and Chinese civilization are totally different from the CCP. The communist party, just like other rulers and government types throughout china’s 5,000 history, will come and go but the Chinese culture, people and civilization will endure and remain.
Absolutely agree on this
Every cultural region of Nauru when?
February 31st
hi Z. Could you try to do a video like this with smaller nations? like Denmark, Holland or Serbia?
I love your videos. I cannot wait for summer break so I can watch even more of your videos!
I have been waiting for this one ! Very interesting 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Glad you enjoyed it, pal!
YES! Been requestingn this one! Thanks! 😊😊😊😊
Wow! You spent a lot of time talking about all other regions and other ethnic minorities in the north and west, but very short time on south China, actually south and east China, and not even mentioning the Zhuang and Miao in Guangxi and Guizhou.
Yeah boy, in that 25-minute gang right here🎉😂❤ let's go
Love your content! Thanks For this ❤❤❤❤
You're welcome, pal!
@@MonsieurDean 🫡
Do one of theese with Spain, although smaller than the countries covered so far, the cultural mekup is similar to them.
Yeah, Spain has enough distinctiveness that it would be worth a shot.
@@MonsieurDeanI would love a video like thst
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Hi just wanted to say: you missed guangdong, Hong Kong, and macau. I immediately noticed because I’m a hongkonger
距离广东省香港市成立还有23年。
He globbed up the whole Min, Hakka, Canton region as a whole😂
@@cassiopesysg5423 wait he mentioned it at all? I thought he didn’t even talk about it….
@@marcuslo4836 He didn't, just saying about his graph
@@cassiopesysg5423 that’s crazy….
That pronunciation has me dying 🤣
Bakersfield is worth looking into, one of the worst cities in the US.
Can u do one of Vietnam
How diverse is Vietnam really?
@@MonsieurDean well i don't know that much
@@MonsieurDean well brazil or afghanistan maybe kazakhstan even iran are cultural different
China in Chinese we say Zhong guo which means Center Country
Can you make a video on what if india converted to christianity under st thomas in the 1st century.
where is Taiwan
1. China proper (Original Chinese)
2. Manchuria (Manchus)
3. Mongolia (Mongols)
4. Tiber (Tibetans)
5. Uyghurstan (Uyghurs)
How did you never mention Hong Kong, Shanghai, or Beijing in the video?
I tried to understand his pronunciations of South China dialects, but didn't detect Cantonese/Guandonghua, which I believe is the 2nd largest linguistic group, behind Mandarin/Putonghua. It is the language of Guangdong (formerly known as Canton) and Hong Kong, and in the past was the most widely heard language in films, many which came from HK. I understand Z is trying to be brief, but to show the Zhujiang/Pearl River with it's Canton tower, in Guangzhou, and not even mention the province???
Xong xina sad
Could you do romania next ? I know its not that big but stil
shenism just means buddhist. it's not called "shenism"
wtf is shenism, I've never heard of that before as a religion
Missed Taiwan province on the map
This video division is nonsense
Ok, now do Africa
Do Iran!
epic
UFOOPER
@@MonsieurDean I wonder who that could be 🤔
Now do every cultural region of the British Isles, there’s a lot more than you’d think.
make the videos 2x as long i beg, would love more info on each region
10:00 just wanted to point out that shanghainese is a branch of the Wu dialect, its actually relatively young compared to Suzhou's dialect, which would be considered to be a more typical Wu dialect. Shanghainese is a mix of local, suzhou, and ningbo Wu chinese. It was formed into its current shape by immigrants from those 2 regions mostly.
And most fascinating is the Hangzhou dialect, which is the least Wu like dialect of the wu dialect. Which us because of having received many northern chinese who settled there to escape war ruring the song Dynasty. And it also refeclted in the cuisine, as wu region cooking tend to be on the sweeter side with a lot of seafood and gravy, except for Hangzhou, which is not sweet at all.
The map of different provinces shown are wrong. And Beijing people don't practice folk religion "神道" (Shinto), it's a Japanese folk religion.