If you are not Chinese, you will never know what it means to us that you made 5 seconds of silence when you put the picture about the Nanjing Massacre. SALUTE!
I still found it funny that a dynasty was founded cause a prison guard is going to get death sentences because one of the prisoner escape, so he said "fuck it" and release all of the prisoners and start a rebellion lmao
Liu Bang is more like a county sheriff in that time. Him have a very very good charisma, generous, and forbearing Befriend a lot ppls including a dogs butcher , administrative officer , funeral music performer , administrative office driver (all end up became him top generals & ministers). Edit (My bad , just notice I just mistyped the name liu bang into lei bang )
There are lots of funny stories about that guy😂 But I don't like him because of this story: when the soldiers of his greatest enemy were hunting him, he tried to run away in a cart driven by a loyal guard, while his daughter and son sit with him. He literally kicked both of his children out of the cart, so that the cart would run faster with less weight. Yet the guard kept bringing those kids back to the cart, so he kicked them out again, he repeated doing this three times before he finally gave up trying.
You seem to have misremembered that the story you are talking about is the story of Liu Bei (刘备，Emperor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period).@@Katzeleben6028
The version I heard is that the trip was delayed due to extreme weather, and of course some prisoners took advantage of this and escaped. It’s a death penalty for everyone back then. On the top of that, there were already some rebellions elsewhere, so the guard simply decided to give it a try. He was in his 40s or 50s at the time.
@@Michael-uc2pn "oops I lost the mandate of heaven, well it's not like anything bad will- HOLY SHEET" "And so, the emperor was sent straight into the shadow realm"
I sincerely thank you to mention the Nanjing Massacre and all the important facts about it. I really hope it gains more attention as its not any less (or even more) brutal than the genocide in the Europe front.
Sadly, officials in the Japanese government, including the Prime Minister, visit the memorial hall dedicated to Japanese war criminals EVERY year without any remorse. Imagine what Europeans would think if Scholz/Merkel visit memorials to Hitler, Heinrich and Himmler every year.
our chinese ancestor always mention : long divided,must unite,long united,must divide,it a description for chinese history,but also a rule for every thing（分久必合，合久必分）
@@seaTp736 I meant the history after 10th Oct. 1949.In China main land,we call the history which is before the British attacked China in 1840 as "ancient Chinese history" and the history which is after 1840 and before 10th Oct. 1949 as "the history between the ancient history and the modern history".The War Lord Era(1912-1949) you said is the second part from the history between the ancient history and the modern history.
@@2233forlolz not to sound rude, just want to inform you, even though you probably already know. Empress Dowager basically means mother of the emperor. I forgot which emperor was it, I think Xuantong (or Puyi), but since the emperor was too young, Cixi took over as regent. Seeing as your comment says she controls everything, you probably already know what happened lol. Again, sorry if i'm rude.
@@wilamthewilliamActually, it’s not Puyi during the Boxer Rebellion, it was his older cousin, the Guangxu Emperor, who was ruling at that time, but because he was deemed too liberal by the nobles and the Empress Dowager, so she put him in house arrest and took over as regent. And worse, as Cixi was about to die, she ordered the Guangxu Emperor to be poisoned, so that when she goes, he will go with her, then decreed that her grandson Puyi to be the next heir of the empire.
My child finished watching the history of the entire world and was OBSESSED with China constantly breaking apart and coming back together. Thank you for this gem. My kindergartener with real weird interests appreciates your hard work.
“Here begins our tale. The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.”--Beginning of 《Romance of three Kindoms》, most famous history novel in China.
It would be if he talked like a normal person instead of hyperarticulating like a first year broadcasting student and put in the 2 minutes required to learn how to read pinyin properly.
Bruh they made the typical cliche misrepresentation of the great leap forward supposedly being a total failure rather than the huge improvement in literacy and life expectancy that it was
@@icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335 Gimme whatever drugs you've been taking man, the leap made people gave up their cooking tool and many other obsessions to forge bad quality steel ingots that ended up not usable and the cultural revolution burns down countless books of history and culture including my own family's family tree book and so much more. My bloody primary school is literally built upon mass grave because supposedly the bright energy of the young can cancel out the omen from the dead😅
@@onionrangerduck7024 my drugs are literal statistics lol. the great leap forward was harsh and i'd definitely join in on criticizing the cultural revolution, but some consideration for the millions of people lifted out of miserable poverty and saved from oppressive warlords and nationalists might give you some clarification on why not everyone shares your hatred of mao
"If you're a bad ruler, then heaven gets angry at you and it's bad for everyone. So they're allowed to overthrow you." So basically, an early form of consent of the governed, 4,000 years ago.
@@therocketsciencekid And what human rights did European peasants have? In the feudal system, you were owned by the king and aristocrats; ever see the Medieval devices used for insubordination? For 2,500 years, Confucianism was the state religion and instructed rulers to take care of the peasants AS FAMILY: "Heaven does not create the people for the sake of the sovereign; Heaven creates the sovereign for the sake of the people."-Mencius, 300 B.C. Thus the Chinese government for over 2,000 years has been expressly oriented toward service of the people, including policies and infrastructure to promote food production: there are huge grain storage bins built thousands of years ago by the government, 30, 40 feet deep to store surpluses for times of need. In fact, there was a 1911 Columbia PhD thesis that described food management policies like price controls, used by ancient Chinese governments in times of droughts and floods. When policies fell short, Chinese emperors often issued apologies directly to the people. In Europe, the kings rarely did so, and only ever did to the Pope, not the people.
As a native Chinese, I would say this video is more or less accurate, at least without significant errors. The beauty is that it's easy for foreigners to get a sense of Chinese history. Good job!
Great job! Especially when you mentioned "mandate of heaven", it's not only funny, but also so accurate about some core of Chinese culture - everyone in the Chinese society believes if a dynasty make people live in bad time, it's a duty&right for Chinese people to rebel and create a better one by themselves.
@@ArcticBearII The Lefties/Liberals/Democrats in-power are kneeling & licking CCP's boots. They can censor or nuke any of my comments and throw away my freedom of speech any time they want.
@@moisesezequielgutierrez yeah bro totally china is the baddest villain I'm sure other world powers is too pacifist and don't doing wars or massacres lil bro is too fragile
@@TheMentorOfMomosgonna tell the story about Liu Bang, but skipped the epic downfall of his dinasty 400 years later, naaah, I ain't letting that one pass
8:10 I love how you describe history in a hilariously short but concise and comprehensive manner. However, I really appreciate your 10 seconds of solemnity. As a Chinese whose grandparents lived through those times, I would've probably gone nuts if you had brushed off that event in a short sentence.
a bit nitpick: that cultural revolution is more of "not new order" instead of "too capitalist", that people are doing "things" to show they're "revolutionary enough", hence the specific name of "cultural revolution"
@@skeletoncrew3110 No, you two are wrong. CR is more like a secularization movement other than history destruction. You could compare Taiwan and Mainland China today, then you will find Taiwanese officials visiting temples before taking office，which is unthinkable on mainland.
@@skeletoncrew3110 Because of the Qing Dynasty, there are a lot of old and wrong things left behind, but some people because of lack of education aren't very good at recognizing what is bad
To be honest, modern Chinese Mainland is more unified than any previous dynasty, and more inclined to be unified than the people of any other country, because we are really fed up with division, and we just want to have a good life.This is why the Chinese people chose to follow the communist road when we established our country. The core of common prosperity in communism is similar to the great common world proposed by our Chinese ancestors.
If you have lived in China or received Chinese education, you will know that no one in China believes in God, Heaven, Christianity now. Due to the failure of the Qing Dynasty and the invasion of Japanese imperialism, Chinese now rely more on the power of their own hands rather than the so-called heavens and gods and other countries help, and are more united than any previous dynasty.Because we will never forget that life today was forged by the flesh and blood of the Communist Party's predecessors during World War II.
As somebody who's going to China in 2 months and an American, this is amazing😄 I'm also reading classic Chinese literature before I go, I've read the Ta Te Ching, Chuang Tzu and the analects of Confucius~ Also read the Lotus Sutra, Heart Sutra, Platform Sutra and Diamond Sutra😎☝️
Ngl this is my first time seeing an American study so deep into Chinese literature damn I'm a Chinese myself and you sound more knowledgeable than me in these areas😅Good luck with ur trip to China lel
You need to understand that ancient Buddhist monks were not required to pay taxes and corvee, and because of their beliefs, many people would donate large amounts of property to the monks, which would be turned into land. As a result, Buddhist monks in ancient China generally owned land that did not need to pay taxes, and this situation would largely become the direct cause of the collapse of ancient dynasties. In order to rule, the Lord would generally loot the temple when the land acquisition was serious. This is actually a practical reason, on the other hand, many temples sometimes even set up their own armed forces, which can lead to some rebellions and wars
actually, Vietman's independence was forced by french, vietman has been a part of china for thousand years, even till Qing dynasty, it was still it's tributary country.
@@浅笑怡伤 I mean the Huichang Buddhist Persecutions and other Buddhist Persecution in China. also good for telling more facts about Buddhism in Ancient China
@@wkq6664Vietnamese has been independent since the Tang, tributary states just means we pay tribute in order to be able to trade with China. Siam was another tributary state, but no one consider Siam as part of China.
the reason why its underrated is because its lit a copy of a video called history of japan made like 8 years ago with over 80 million views. Also this one is just a copycat
As a Chinese guy, I have to say the video expresses the history of China the way I learned in schools. So, I guess this is a good video to learn about China （like Chinese do lol). However, I have to mention that some modern historic events like the Cultural Revolution are quite controversial in China. And people's perspective on these events changes all the time depending on the situation (because they are not so "history" for us). Still, I have to say thanks for making this video to get everyone know more about China.❤
8:12 Wanna know what happened? Japan killed from 200k-300k innocent Chinese citizens, killed innocent people as a sport and raped up to 80k women as well as executed around 40k POWs. In 1990, the Japanese government denied all the atrocities committed calling it a lie. Even Hitler was baffled
It's stupid because they were so shameless about ut at the time that they punlished newspapers describing and showing what they were doing. The denialist position is psychotic.
As a Chinese I have to say this is the best History lesson in 10mins, accurate info and maps, funny, non biased, and mentioned opium war + rape of Nanjing(The world needs to know). Appreciated! Respect!
So, your 10-minute video has covered almost everything I learned for 6 years at school.😂 (In China, we have a subject called "Chinese history" which is a separate subject from History)
To be fair, he is insignificant compared to the conflict that happened in China the whole at that time. He is thought to be significant because he sided with the winner of the warlord war.
@@FourLionsClips That's actually pretty much how that part of history should be treated. It wasn't really much special than other part of that. After all, nothing changes, China broke again after a temporary unification.
@@Mustache_SamTrue, but mentioning that part a lil bit more would be helpful just to give a reference point. "Are you wondering where those RoTK stuffs came from? Here"
(Almost) Every Chinese dynasties explained by one word: 1. Xia - Legendary 2. Shang - Oracle 3. Zhou - Feudal 4. Qin - Unification 5. Han - Golden 6. Six Dynasties - Division 7. Sui - Reunification 8. Tang - Prosperity 9. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms - Fragmentation 10. Song - Innovation 11. Yuan - Mongol 12. Ming - Restoration 13. Qing - Manchu 14. Republic - Revolution 15. People’s Republic - Communist (I add the ROC and PRC Just for fun)
@@anniemeridian270different times and different circumstances. Back then the british wanted profits that they supported selling drugs to china despite knowing it is harmful. It is plain capitalist evil. Today, we are learning that making drugs illegal doesnt really work. It is learning from centuries of mistakes from the war on drugs.
0:53, 3:52, 5:07, 5:42, "Sounds like you lost the Mamdate Of Heaven." is basically a cleric taunting people in Dungeons & Dragons. Or maybe someone taunting a cleric when their powers aren't helpful.
I'm Chinese. This OOOOOOVERLY simplified Chinese history is 1000x more educational than the vast majority of content on UA-cam talking about China. And my heartfelt gratitude for the silence. Subscribed!
@@ZhinaziIn the early days, the CCP even appointed an old farmer as its general secretary because they believed that this could ensure the "purity" of the party.
I rewatched bill wurtz's "history of japan" right after this and honestly, this one is clearer in how it conveys information and has more educational value. Cool video!
For a fun oversimplification of China's history, this is surprisingly accurate. As a native Chinese, I approve of this message. As for a bill wurtz parody, I think you nailed 80% of his editing style, but his was more fast-paced and more singsongy. It's a great video nonetheless. I do hope you find your own style someday. Best of luck!
The original meaning of this idiom is to chop down a tree trunk as a weapon, raise a bamboo pole as a flag, and rebel, referring to a people's uprising.
@@Onionaniamtions The tyranny of the Qin Dynasty. Emperor Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Qin II implemented heavy corv é e, heavy taxation, and cruel criminal law, resulting in people's living difficulties and sharp social contradictions. Delayed due to rain. In the first year of Qin II's reign, the court conscripted the poor people of Luzuo to garrison Yuyang. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang served as guards, but due to heavy rain, they were unable to reach their destination on time. According to Qin's laws, they were executed on time. twenty-three Being forced into helplessness. In this context, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang led the garrison to launch an uprising, proposing the slogan "Wang Hou Jiang Xiang Ning You Zhong Hu" and calling on the people to rise up and resist the rule of the Qin Dynasty.
“王侯将相宁有种乎”The meaning of the sentence "Do kings, marquis, generals, and ministers have seeds?" is that kings, marquis, generals, and ministers are not naturally noble, but can be achieved through personal efforts and struggles, reflecting people's resistance to the feudal hierarchical system and pursuit of the concept of equality at that time. In Chen Sheng's era, society was strictly divided into different levels, and Chen Sheng's statement challenged this concept, indicating that people should not accept the unequal arrangement of fate.
The only inaccuracy I'm aware of is the use of Simplified Chinese (invented in the 1950s) to depict ancient texts, which were written in Traditional Chinese.
Also Qing dynasty didn't force civilians to wear their hairs in a queue, only government and military personnel. Eventually civilians adopted the same hair style on their own
Chinese simplification has been happening for thousands of years. Don't be fooled by those 'traditional Chinese users'. The CCP simply took over what ROC has left behind. And ROC banned the simplification of Chinese because of political reasons. Which is dumb.
Quite funny how your profile picture is the soviets and your username is russian. Did you know that soldiers would probably have died on the recent warfare if China didn’t supply them with armor?@@СоветскийСоюз-щ1щ
The so-called "天命" is a cycle of argiculture-based chinese dynasties. Some dynasties like the Song dynasty actually got more tax from business and trading. Science and technology change the destiny. The current government has big data and information to control stuff including the food supply. Food supply is so important that some dynasties collapsed due to lack of farmlands and food supply. Also, In chinese history you can see how ignorance the ruler to his territory, adjacent states and international affairs.
As a Chinese , I really appreciate you including the Nanjing Massacre which Japan denied… and they even built shrine / memorials to pray / in memorials of the brave heroes bring glories to Japan😅And Japan did the same in Korea they also denied… In Japan History book they deleted how they treat Korean Ppl and Chinese people during the World War II they heroic their invasion ….i really hate them doing that
in average it takes 300ish yrs to start a new dynasty in China based on these dozens of dynasties. The mainstream medias are lying to audiences about china at age of 70. It has up and downs but not likely to have a new dynasty in near future, otherwise the U.S. won't be so anxious about holding the world No.1 place
Pretty accurate and is as fast paced as I expected it to be. Cause in chinese history you can get side tracked on alot of stuff especially the 3 kingdoms era and the awesome fighting that happened during that time.
TL;DR: china had a revolution and had a revolution and is broke and is whole and is broke again and is whole again and is broke again and is whole again and is broke again and is whole again and revolted again and is broke again and is whole again and was taken over and revolted again and was taken over again and was bullied by literally everyone and revolted again and revolted again
@@lesscringeymapperdude Those are actually the names of professions, ancestors, kingdoms, duchy, march, county/earldom viscounty and barony during the decentralized feudalism kingdoms before the centralized Qin empire. During that period of time, people get clan names from these nobles' domains, in ancient Chine before Qin, people have 姓 and 氏 which is family name and clan name, they also have 名 and 字 which is name and courtesy name. Some noble people have 谥号 posthumous name (actually means deeds title). Most of people are all included in the 8 ancient families, which causes problem when there are millions of people from the same family that was named thousands of years ago, so 氏 clan name was invented, only one major branch can inherit the 姓 family name, while millions of people in the minor cadet branches will get a 氏 clan name based on people's domain or profession or courtesy name of ancestor or posthumous name of ancestor. For example people with named 唐Tang have 2 different origins of 姓 family names, but they have the same 氏 clan name because they lived at the same place called 唐Tang. And then the 唐Tang dynasty got established thousands of years later by a guy with 氏family(clan) name 李Li/Lee, and his 1 out of 8 ancient family name is unknown. He is the duke of 唐Tang during the 7th century early medieval ages, but his name is not Tang. 氏Family(clan) name 李 is also a super complicated special thing, because it have origins from all families, 李Li/Lee like Bruce Lee(plum), 吏Li(official), 史Shi(historian in a vague way, basically all recorders), 使Shi(use or ambassador) all came from the clan name 事Shi(thing, job, affair), it is a clan name used by basically anyone who worked in the government as officials, so these clan names have origins from all family names. And then there are clan names with same pronounciation but different meanings, 唐 and 汤 Tang are totally different, 汤 comes from the posthumous name of a king. 夏Xia is the name of the first kingdom dynasty. But there is also different 夏Xia that comes from an ancestor's courtesy name. 明Ming is the clan name of an ancestor's courtesy name, it is unrelated to 明Ming dynasty, because Ming means bright and illuminated, the dynasty was actually related to the Ming cult which is actually Manichaeism.
The interesting thing is that the vast majority of Chinese have only about 100 or so last names, which is where the phrase "Lao Baixing" describing the common people comes from, literally "old 100 last names". That's why a lot of people both in history and today have a set of common last names, like Wang, Zhang, Liu, Zhu, Tang, Li, etc.,. However, the names of dynasties often came from the land of which family/person who established it hailed from. There are a couple of old timey names for various areas in China like Shu for Sichuan, Liang for the area around the Yellow River, Wu for the Yangtze Basin/Shanghai, Yan for the Beijing area, etc., and that's usually how they came to be.
the vid is really well done and the graphics and narration is great! I think the jingles are way off and i realize thats actually what sets bill wurtz apart. ur sound effects and stuff is great though, great vid
3:47 this is describing a very special event in Chinese history. During the civil war in the end stage of Tang Dynasty, one city was enclosed by the rebellion army, and it was the very crucial point of the war, basically if the rebellion army won here, it would most likely destroy the Tang Dynasty and win the whole civil war. So they sent 100k to 200k army to try to take the city. The city only had about 7000 soldiers to fight and very quickly they ran out of food. Then the commander ordered to eat people, starting with his own wife (secondary wives, not the primary one), then his family servants, then the old civilians, then the weak and wounded ones, then women, then children (basically the ones have minimal help to defend the city), and the lastly, men. By gradually eating up the whole city (people, animal, insect, plant, even cloth), the government army actually was able to hold the city for months and killed tens thousands of enemies. More importantly it bought significant amount of time for the other government army to assemble and fight rebellion everywhere else and win eventually. By the time the rebellion took the city, the whole situation of the war was already turned against them, then soon after it, the whole rebellion failed. However, by the time the city was lost, only 400 people out of 40000 civilians and 7000 soldiers survived. Thousands even tens thousands got eaten, and the rest starved to death. The commander did not survive either. In Chinese history, for a very long time long time, this event was generally considered as an extraordinary success, and the commander made the tough but necessary decision. For hundreds of year after it, this story was passed down as an example of a great military miracle and loyalty to the nation. Many poetries were created to praise the commander, the soldiers, even the “sacrifice” of the people. Still criticism of this event existed since the beginning but never widely accepted throughout the history until the modern China.
Actually, one of the reasons behind this was that the Chinese government refused to release a name list with those who were killed in the Nanking Massacre. It got people wondering if the Nanking Massacre actually happened.
@@antonwogame5602 interesting but silly comment. in case you dont know, let me tell you that more than 300k victims died in that suffering in nanking where's the capital at that time of china, japanese army massacred whole city after they occupied for revenge cuz the chinese army fought against them too hard in shanghai, where's the japanese army landed. nealy all of them are just the civilian, do you think is that possible to make a complete name list? btw, althought the most survivors passed because of old age, they still left tons of details by many ways, and even japan's ally in ww2, nazi germany, their ambassador in china left enough informations and descriptions of that massacre. so, dont make it stupid when you know nothing. pls learn and respect the history, especially when it was a tragedy.
@@weeii_u Thank you for correcting my mistake. However, the Chinese government actually released a name list on their website on 4 Dec, 2007. Also, please do not insult others on the Internet. We are all trying to learn history and sharing what we know about the matter. If someone was wrong, please correct them politely. If we know everything, we would not be watching this video and discussing.
@@antonwogame5602 to point out some mistake 1. The Nanjing Massacre occurred from December 1937 to January 1938. During this time, the Japanese imposed a strict blockade on information, preventing external access and limiting journalists' ability to report on the event. It was only after about a month that the Republic of China became aware of the massacre. 2. because Nanjing is the capital of the Republic of China so there are Numerous foreigners in Nanjing, including diplomats and missionaries, who witnessed the atrocities of the massacre firsthand. For example "John Magee" an American priest took actual footage of the event. 3. both Chiang Kai-shek(the president of the Republic of China at that time) and Soong Mei-ling made public statements after the massacre in America, revealing the atrocities and calling for international action against Japanese aggression. at that time America's society was outraged by the Japanese 4. you said China's government released a name list in 2007, umm... you know that Nanjing Massacre happened in the Republic of China not The People's Republic of China, right? This means many things like people's id need to be re-recognize because of the government change 5. even if you ask why The People's Republic of China did not release earlier, you do know that The early years of the People's Republic of China were dealing with civil conflict, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, etc. It wasn't until China in the 90s to 00s that finally had more peace and stabilized, so the list open in the 07s isn't even that strange
Fun fact: the history of the expansion of ancient Chinese culture, especially to Japan and Korea is yet not mentioned but very interesting to be learnt.
If you are not Chinese, you will never know what it means to us that you made 5 seconds of silence when you put the picture about the Nanjing Massacre. SALUTE!
作为南京人，非常感谢
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the history 18+ history books cant even describe what happened there. There is a reason they refuse to admit
真的挺震惊
He forgot tibet and Ughyurs
I still found it funny that a dynasty was founded cause a prison guard is going to get death sentences because one of the prisoner escape, so he said "fuck it" and release all of the prisoners and start a rebellion lmao
Liu Bang is more like a county sheriff in that time.
Him have a very very good charisma, generous, and forbearing
Befriend a lot ppls including a dogs butcher , administrative officer , funeral music performer , administrative office driver (all end up became him top generals & ministers).
Edit (My bad , just notice I just mistyped the name liu bang into lei bang )
There are lots of funny stories about that guy😂 But I don't like him because of this story: when the soldiers of his greatest enemy were hunting him, he tried to run away in a cart driven by a loyal guard, while his daughter and son sit with him. He literally kicked both of his children out of the cart, so that the cart would run faster with less weight. Yet the guard kept bringing those kids back to the cart, so he kicked them out again, he repeated doing this three times before he finally gave up trying.
You seem to have misremembered that the story you are talking about is the story of Liu Bei (刘备，Emperor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period).@@Katzeleben6028
The version I heard is that the trip was delayed due to extreme weather, and of course some prisoners took advantage of this and escaped. It’s a death penalty for everyone back then. On the top of that, there were already some rebellions elsewhere, so the guard simply decided to give it a try. He was in his 40s or 50s at the time.
Yea It's ture
TL,DR: China's whole again, then it broke again.
Losing the mandate of heaven speedrun
Guess they lost their mandate of heaven...
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was right, of course
@@Michael-uc2pn "oops I lost the mandate of heaven, well it's not like anything bad will- HOLY SHEET"
"And so, the emperor was sent straight into the shadow realm"
Fun fact, every time it happens, the population got cut in half😢
I sincerely thank you to mention the Nanjing Massacre and all the important facts about it. I really hope it gains more attention as its not any less (or even more) brutal than the genocide in the Europe front.
“人的悲喜并不相通，我只觉得他们吵闹”
Sadly, officials in the Japanese government, including the Prime Minister, visit the memorial hall dedicated to Japanese war criminals EVERY year without any remorse. Imagine what Europeans would think if Scholz/Merkel visit memorials to Hitler, Heinrich and Himmler every year.
@@bowenfan4489 迅哥
@@陆焰之瞳 这其中所蕴含的哲理我直到近几年才有所体会和领悟
It was the Holocaust, but for Asians. And the Japanese still refused to acknowledge it
our chinese ancestor always mention : long divided,must unite,long united,must divide,it a description for chinese history,but also a rule for every thing（分久必合，合久必分）
nothing is eternal,the things always goes the other side
"Sounds like you lost the mandate of heaven 🎶"
The entire ancient Chinese history in a nutshell
@@seaTp736 inclues some of the modern Chinese history to,but the Chinese map is wrong
@@Eason2010 You mean the Warlord Era?
@@seaTp736meaning almost every photo actually and ancient belief parts are entirely wrong
@@seaTp736 I meant the history after 10th Oct. 1949.In China main land,we call the history which is before the British attacked China in 1840 as "ancient Chinese history" and the history which is after 1840 and before 10th Oct. 1949 as "the history between the ancient history and the modern history".The War Lord Era(1912-1949) you said is the second part from the history between the ancient history and the modern history.
Watching Empress Dowager Cixi weighing her options crack me up
she is not the emperess tho, but she controls everything.
@@2233forlolz not to sound rude, just want to inform you, even though you probably already know. Empress Dowager basically means mother of the emperor. I forgot which emperor was it, I think Xuantong (or Puyi), but since the emperor was too young, Cixi took over as regent. Seeing as your comment says she controls everything, you probably already know what happened lol. Again, sorry if i'm rude.
@@wilamthewilliam you are one of the nicest person I've ever met online bro
@@wilamthewilliamActually, it’s not Puyi during the Boxer Rebellion, it was his older cousin, the Guangxu Emperor, who was ruling at that time, but because he was deemed too liberal by the nobles and the Empress Dowager, so she put him in house arrest and took over as regent. And worse, as Cixi was about to die, she ordered the Guangxu Emperor to be poisoned, so that when she goes, he will go with her, then decreed that her grandson Puyi to be the next heir of the empire.
@@redoktober8164 Thank you for informing me! I was a bit confused lol
My child finished watching the history of the entire world and was OBSESSED with China constantly breaking apart and coming back together. Thank you for this gem. My kindergartener with real weird interests appreciates your hard work.
“Here begins our tale. The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.”--Beginning of 《Romance of three Kindoms》, most famous history novel in China.
@@frankyi1967 it's a masterpiece, almost every children in CN have read it
Aww, that’s really sweet!
@@ezcomputerz5551 是的几乎所以中国人都知道，里面的几个人物
@@frankyi1967 For some reason Japanese are really obsessed with Romance of three Kingdom.
though not 100% accurate but still great enough to overmatch most of "history of China" videos on youtube. Respect for the part about Nanjing Massacre
Fun fact: Technically China isn't unified yet
Not so fun on Taiwan side tho
As a Chinese, you are right
Fun fact: China is the only one of the five permanent members of the United Nations not yet united
Funnier fact: Technically the Chinese Civil War never ended since 1946
@@种花家天下行走Fun fact: China and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council have fought wars in the last century.
Most bill wurtz parodies aren't engaging, but from the first 10 seconds I can tell this is great
It's actually incredible
The tone is off, but I'm more revolted by the shameless unoriginality of it
@@SuperPizzaman55 K.
@@SuperPizzaman55 Same. Why do people have to cop others style?
It would be if he talked like a normal person instead of hyperarticulating like a first year broadcasting student and put in the 2 minutes required to learn how to read pinyin properly.
As a Chinese, this is ngl really great. Mostly accurate throughout the video and rather humorous too
Most accurate i've ever seen yes. 目前刷到过最好最客观的了
Bruh they made the typical cliche misrepresentation of the great leap forward supposedly being a total failure rather than the huge improvement in literacy and life expectancy that it was
as a Chinese, this is the history in my view
@@icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335 Gimme whatever drugs you've been taking man, the leap made people gave up their cooking tool and many other obsessions to forge bad quality steel ingots that ended up not usable and the cultural revolution burns down countless books of history and culture including my own family's family tree book and so much more. My bloody primary school is literally built upon mass grave because supposedly the bright energy of the young can cancel out the omen from the dead😅
@@onionrangerduck7024 my drugs are literal statistics lol. the great leap forward was harsh and i'd definitely join in on criticizing the cultural revolution, but some consideration for the millions of people lifted out of miserable poverty and saved from oppressive warlords and nationalists might give you some clarification on why not everyone shares your hatred of mao
“Sounds like you lost the mandate of heaven.” -gilgamesh, 2024
"If you're a bad ruler, then heaven gets angry at you and it's bad for everyone. So they're allowed to overthrow you." So basically, an early form of consent of the governed, 4,000 years ago.
Basically yes. Social contract, chinese ver, intuited many many years ago and still basically underlying society to this day.
Clever understanding!
except the peasants never had any human rights and they only rebelled when they were literally starving to death
@@therocketsciencekid And what human rights did European peasants have? In the feudal system, you were owned by the king and aristocrats; ever see the Medieval devices used for insubordination? For 2,500 years, Confucianism was the state religion and instructed rulers to take care of the peasants AS FAMILY: "Heaven does not create the people for the sake of the sovereign; Heaven creates the sovereign for the sake of the people."-Mencius, 300 B.C. Thus the Chinese government for over 2,000 years has been expressly oriented toward service of the people, including policies and infrastructure to promote food production: there are huge grain storage bins built thousands of years ago by the government, 30, 40 feet deep to store surpluses for times of need. In fact, there was a 1911 Columbia PhD thesis that described food management policies like price controls, used by ancient Chinese governments in times of droughts and floods. When policies fell short, Chinese emperors often issued apologies directly to the people. In Europe, the kings rarely did so, and only ever did to the Pope, not the people.
As a native Chinese, I would say this video is more or less accurate, at least without significant errors. The beauty is that it's easy for foreigners to get a sense of Chinese history. Good job!
Well its pretty much impossible to explain any country history in 10 minutes so yeah
@@Sunnyy_ehYes, as a native Chinese, i would like to say that vedio is definitely amazing🎉
But he seems confused Chen Sheng and Liu Bang in the part between Qin and Han dynasty...
wrong china flag!!
replace it with the ROC flag NOW or else no micro chips for you!
我就相当不喜欢这个视频，这里面时不时的这种唱歌的腔调真的让人很难受。。。尬死我了，油管的历史视频都是这样吗？“Sounds like you lost the mandate of heaven~”，哕了，看到元朝就不想看了。。。😅
This is bill wurtz quality
Not even close
More like new mini - bill Wurtz Channel
@RS50O still closer than most videos take what you can get
@RS50O Or China brand bill wurtz
Agreed
“ legalize drugs stop having drugs be illegal “ 😂😂😂😂
“ seems like you lost the Mandate of Heaven “😂😂😂
Are you 5?
@@New_frisk i am 3
Portland
Guess what other states also lost the Mandate of Heaven?
@@New_friskBro commented that many different times he’s a kid Forsure 😂
Is the Bill Wurtz format a genre now?
The father of it, gonna be in history books of the future
No isn’t, this is just a lazy copy
@@dayviduh lol it takes a lot of effort to almost perfectly replicate the bill wurtz style. Try doing it yourself
@@dayviduhlast time I checked, Bill wurtz didn’t make a video on the entire history of China
yes!
Great job! Especially when you mentioned "mandate of heaven", it's not only funny, but also so accurate about some core of Chinese culture - everyone in the Chinese society believes if a dynasty make people live in bad time, it's a duty&right for Chinese people to rebel and create a better one by themselves.
Chinese History in a Nutshell
Japan:We have fought China the most.
Mongols:No, we have.
China:Amateurs
As a Chinese, I approve of this history, most accurate thing ever
Except for the _"Great Leap"_ and _"Ti*namen Square 1989"_
Otherwise you'll lose your social credits points
@@moisesezequielgutierrez Well, I'm pretty sure the government won't take over UA-cam
@@ArcticBearII
The Lefties/Liberals/Democrats in-power are kneeling & licking CCP's boots. They can censor or nuke any of my comments and throw away my freedom of speech any time they want.
@@moisesezequielgutierrez why don't you talk about guantanamo, 9/11, iraq war, afghan war then? Or else you'll lose your CIA points
@@moisesezequielgutierrez yeah bro totally china is the baddest villain I'm sure other world powers is too pacifist and don't doing wars or massacres
lil bro is too fragile
“It’s going to be a great wall. So great that we don’t need a second wall”
"After it crumbles, they blame Germany"
The lack of Sun Yat-Sen (Sun Zhongshan) is disappointing
and three kingdoms, it got like 1 second of screen time wth
@@FourLionsClips Bros, you can't have everything that happened in over 4 thousand years of history in a 9 minute video
@@TheMentorOfMomosaj jeba uryda
Kuomintang bros... is it over?
@@TheMentorOfMomosgonna tell the story about Liu Bang, but skipped the epic downfall of his dinasty 400 years later, naaah, I ain't letting that one pass
I need to say you state all the important things for China history.
Kinda funny, kinda informative.
Very good😂
8:10 I love how you describe history in a hilariously short but concise and comprehensive manner. However, I really appreciate your 10 seconds of solemnity. As a Chinese whose grandparents lived through those times, I would've probably gone nuts if you had brushed off that event in a short sentence.
I was very happy to see that you quoted Li Qingzhao at 4:15 .
She's one of my favorite poets of all time! 😃
Same❤
Never forget of the nanjing massacre
🇷🇺👨🏻🦯🇨🇳🐒🦠🦮
yep truely awful
"unit 731" google it.
I searched it up to be a massacre and i was literally traumatized from what i saw on wikipedia (The stats)
dude u r right
a bit nitpick: that cultural revolution is more of "not new order" instead of "too capitalist", that people are doing "things" to show they're "revolutionary enough", hence the specific name of "cultural revolution"
okay that makes a lot more sense why they would destroy their ancient history to show how "revolutionary" they are...
@@skeletoncrew3110 No, you two are wrong. CR is more like a secularization movement other than history destruction.
You could compare Taiwan and Mainland China today, then you will find Taiwanese officials visiting temples before taking office，which is unthinkable on mainland.
客观的，它导致了文化大革命过程中出现了极端的批斗。但主要是四人帮的错。
@@marxBuddy 你这是大错特错。f4的错误可比把f4整下来的人少多了，这个可以看整人家自己拍的《铁证如山》。
至于整人家提出的“十个如果”更是狠狠打自己耳光。
@@skeletoncrew3110 Because of the Qing Dynasty, there are a lot of old and wrong things left behind, but some people because of lack of education aren't very good at recognizing what is bad
2:53 missed opportunity to say “then it broke again” authentic bill wurtz line
well, i hope xi jinping doesnt lose the mandate of heaven again
edit: i just turned my comment section into a propaganda page lol
To be honest, modern Chinese Mainland is more unified than any previous dynasty, and more inclined to be unified than the people of any other country, because we are really fed up with division, and we just want to have a good life.This is why the Chinese people chose to follow the communist road when we established our country. The core of common prosperity in communism is similar to the great common world proposed by our Chinese ancestors.
If you have lived in China or received Chinese education, you will know that no one in China believes in God, Heaven, Christianity now. Due to the failure of the Qing Dynasty and the invasion of Japanese imperialism, Chinese now rely more on the power of their own hands rather than the so-called heavens and gods and other countries help, and are more united than any previous dynasty.Because we will never forget that life today was forged by the flesh and blood of the Communist Party's predecessors during World War II.
But now it looks like it's going to happen
@@ugh9479 Please provide examples, do not imagine
@@ugh9479bro, try to obtain information from multiple sources, do not be bound by the information cocoon.
As somebody who's going to China in 2 months and an American, this is amazing😄
I'm also reading classic Chinese literature before I go, I've read the Ta Te Ching, Chuang Tzu and the analects of Confucius~
Also read the Lotus Sutra, Heart Sutra, Platform Sutra and Diamond Sutra😎☝️
First it is Dao De Jing. Second, wow picking up the philosophical sect of taoism? That’s amazing
Ngl this is my first time seeing an American study so deep into Chinese literature damn
I'm a Chinese myself and you sound more knowledgeable than me in these areas😅Good luck with ur trip to China lel
Taoism/Daoism is actually very similar to Stoicism and they share a lot of overlapping ideas.
Have fun
American interested in something Chinese?? Impossible!😳
"Need Money? Steel from the Buddhists"
Vietnam: That's why we declared Independence
You need to understand that ancient Buddhist monks were not required to pay taxes and corvee, and because of their beliefs, many people would donate large amounts of property to the monks, which would be turned into land. As a result, Buddhist monks in ancient China generally owned land that did not need to pay taxes, and this situation would largely become the direct cause of the collapse of ancient dynasties. In order to rule, the Lord would generally loot the temple when the land acquisition was serious. This is actually a practical reason, on the other hand, many temples sometimes even set up their own armed forces, which can lead to some rebellions and wars
actually, Vietman's independence was forced by french, vietman has been a part of china for thousand years, even till Qing dynasty, it was still it's tributary country.
@@浅笑怡伤 I mean the Huichang Buddhist Persecutions and other Buddhist Persecution in China. also good for telling more facts about Buddhism in Ancient China
@@wkq6664 I mean the Huichang Buddhist Persecution and Vietnam was a Buddhist Country till 4th Chinese Domination of Vietnam
@@wkq6664Vietnamese has been independent since the Tang, tributary states just means we pay tribute in order to be able to trade with China. Siam was another tributary state, but no one consider Siam as part of China.
This video is actually genuinely underated and damm.
Probably because China is under rated so no one cares about the topic of the video
how could something that had only been released for 3 days be underrated?
@@seadkolasinac7220 It's a like farming comment
@@seadkolasinac7220 I’m pretty sure the point is for people to be like “yeah this is pretty underrated”
And then like the comment.
the reason why its underrated is because its lit a copy of a video called history of japan made like 8 years ago with over 80 million views. Also this one is just a copycat
This Video is Great and underrated, thanks for making this!
As a Chinese guy, I have to say the video expresses the history of China the way I learned in schools. So, I guess this is a good video to learn about China （like Chinese do lol). However, I have to mention that some modern historic events like the Cultural Revolution are quite controversial in China. And people's perspective on these events changes all the time depending on the situation (because they are not so "history" for us). Still, I have to say thanks for making this video to get everyone know more about China.❤
8:12 Wanna know what happened? Japan killed from 200k-300k innocent Chinese citizens, killed innocent people as a sport and raped up to 80k women as well as executed around 40k POWs. In 1990, the Japanese government denied all the atrocities committed calling it a lie. Even Hitler was baffled
Asian be really wacky when it's war crime time
The Japanese even killed thousands of Chinese outside China, i.e. 1942 Sook Ching massacre in Singapore.
I was looking that up and I most of the pictures I saw are dead children corpses
U know shit is bad when the Nazi is disgust by it
It's stupid because they were so shameless about ut at the time that they punlished newspapers describing and showing what they were doing. The denialist position is psychotic.
As a Chinese,I'm glad you admitted the Nanjing Massacre in the video
But he didn't admit Tiananmen Square.
@@noseboop4354He literally did lmao "Wanna protest? don't"
@@noseboop4354 Just a failed color revolution, nothing fancy.
@@kentlu4781 begone, larouchian
@@noseboop4354 the nanjing massacre was one of the worst moments in human history
Take a shot every time a new dynasty is made
you would pass out 💀
@@snesmocha Why Eclipse Potato Mine costume pfp?
i tridehhge do it now i dyIIIING djjrjerigothf
Take a shot every time someone loses the Mandate of Heaven
As a Chinese I have to say this is the best History lesson in 10mins, accurate info and maps, funny, non biased, and mentioned opium war + rape of Nanjing(The world needs to know). Appreciated! Respect!
So, your 10-minute video has covered almost everything I learned for 6 years at school.😂 (In China, we have a subject called "Chinese history" which is a separate subject from History)
Not even a single mention of Sun Yat Sen
not even a single mention of three kingdoms just 1 second screen time
To be fair, he is insignificant compared to the conflict that happened in China the whole at that time. He is thought to be significant because he sided with the winner of the warlord war.
@@FourLionsClips That's actually pretty much how that part of history should be treated. It wasn't really much special than other part of that. After all, nothing changes, China broke again after a temporary unification.
@@Mustache_SamTrue, but mentioning that part a lil bit more would be helpful just to give a reference point. "Are you wondering where those RoTK stuffs came from? Here"
I talk about him at least 3 times a week. Not sure why you'd think I don't. Yesterday it was 4 times. Stop accusing me of doing things I don't.
This deserves way more views, you must've put so much effort into this.
(Almost) Every Chinese dynasties explained by one word:
1. Xia - Legendary
2. Shang - Oracle
3. Zhou - Feudal
4. Qin - Unification
5. Han - Golden
6. Six Dynasties - Division
7. Sui - Reunification
8. Tang - Prosperity
9. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms - Fragmentation
10. Song - Innovation
11. Yuan - Mongol
12. Ming - Restoration
13. Qing - Manchu
14. Republic - Revolution
15. People’s Republic - Communist
(I add the ROC and PRC Just for fun)
Hey this is pretty good ngl
Jin dynasty?
90% of those words are variations of "Divided" and "Reunited"
Are you a magical horse named Fred?
well that's what happens when you give ancient nations millions of people to pull up from the woodworks@@noseboop4354
8:13 Respect for you acknowledging this, Japan still hasn't apologised
They apologised 40+ times
这是我在外网看到的最好的中国历史视频
估计是因为你的单线程脑袋hh
@@张a-b6w 估计你没见识到侮辱我们的人被压榨的样子
很客观的视频，可惜没法转到墙内
@@Charon2050 我记得视频是可以下载的
@@Charon2050 b站转了，本来貌似100多万播放但是趋势了，转载的up主最后还是删减了一些才能重新上传。
bro really did the history of china well, showing all of the actual chaos in the country
“ seems like you lost the mandate of heven “ 😂😂😂
“ legalize drugs stop having drugs be illegal “😂😂😂
And then a few decades later the UK makes those drugs illegal.
The bad thing is legalize drugs is becoming a thing nowadays in Europe
@@anniemeridian270different times and different circumstances. Back then the british wanted profits that they supported selling drugs to china despite knowing it is harmful. It is plain capitalist evil. Today, we are learning that making drugs illegal doesnt really work. It is learning from centuries of mistakes from the war on drugs.
8:36
"🎶Sounds like you lost the mandate of- 🎶
SHUT UP."
I think Mao got the mandate of heaven. Wouldn't be surprised, since Guan Yu is the current Jade Emperor.
I was ready to get offended, but instead I got entertained and educated lmao
0:53, 3:52, 5:07, 5:42, "Sounds like you lost the Mamdate Of Heaven." is basically a cleric taunting people in Dungeons & Dragons.
Or maybe someone taunting a cleric when their powers aren't helpful.
hope you earn the mandate of the algorithm with this one
bro cut it off at modern day so he doesnt go missing
he also doesn't have precognition
shush he meant the collapse of chinese economy and population@@claytoncallaway6412
哈哈哈 你说的对
because modern day is not history?
Drinks immortality potion = dies
Mercury
yeah that's the new game+ potion
that emperor even filled his tomb with mercury lol
And people after him drinks basically the same potion and die. They just kept doing that for hundreds of years.
If I'm an ancient man and see a cup of mercury I would think that's alien juice, better drink it.
I'm Chinese. This OOOOOOVERLY simplified Chinese history is 1000x more educational than the vast majority of content on UA-cam talking about China. And my heartfelt gratitude for the silence. Subscribed!
Let me tell you a joke. The constitutional capital of the Republic of China is still Nanjing, not Taipei.
I’ll do you one better: the constitution of PRoC was revised by a primary school graduate
@@ZhinaziIn the early days, the CCP even appointed an old farmer as its general secretary because they believed that this could ensure the "purity" of the party.
@@Zhinazi Cuz all the fancy profs were defeated by some primary grads and strategically stayed in an island XD
taiwanese wanna change it but china got the great powerrrr
😅毛的学历就是师专了，更别说一票留学生了。
how do you have less then 1000 subscribers? This is high quality content
I can agree, I've seen many channels who have more then ten time more subscribers with ten time worse quality.
It’s good but it just a shameless copy of the guy who made
“The history of the earth”
@@ChernobogSigma its based on it, thats the whole point
@@ChernobogSigma Even the style of the video being a copy, it still takes work to study the history and compress it in 9 minutes.
I rewatched bill wurtz's "history of japan" right after this and honestly, this one is clearer in how it conveys information and has more educational value. Cool video!
china was around when the last sumerian dynasty was ending. let that sink in.
For a fun oversimplification of China's history, this is surprisingly accurate. As a native Chinese, I approve of this message.
As for a bill wurtz parody, I think you nailed 80% of his editing style, but his was more fast-paced and more singsongy.
It's a great video nonetheless. I do hope you find your own style someday. Best of luck!
Fun fact,there's a idiom called 揭竿而起in china,which references to the prison guard starting the rebellion only wielding bamboo sticks
The original meaning of this idiom is to chop down a tree trunk as a weapon, raise a bamboo pole as a flag, and rebel, referring to a people's uprising.
@@PeekXantres which originated from 陳勝and吳廣revolution mentioned in the vid
@@Onionaniamtions The tyranny of the Qin Dynasty. Emperor Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Qin II implemented heavy corv é e, heavy taxation, and cruel criminal law, resulting in people's living difficulties and sharp social contradictions.
Delayed due to rain. In the first year of Qin II's reign, the court conscripted the poor people of Luzuo to garrison Yuyang. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang served as guards, but due to heavy rain, they were unable to reach their destination on time. According to Qin's laws, they were executed on time. twenty-three
Being forced into helplessness. In this context, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang led the garrison to launch an uprising, proposing the slogan "Wang Hou Jiang Xiang Ning You Zhong Hu" and calling on the people to rise up and resist the rule of the Qin Dynasty.
“王侯将相宁有种乎”The meaning of the sentence "Do kings, marquis, generals, and ministers have seeds?" is that kings, marquis, generals, and ministers are not naturally noble, but can be achieved through personal efforts and struggles, reflecting people's resistance to the feudal hierarchical system and pursuit of the concept of equality at that time. In Chen Sheng's era, society was strictly divided into different levels, and Chen Sheng's statement challenged this concept, indicating that people should not accept the unequal arrangement of fate.
The only inaccuracy I'm aware of is the use of Simplified Chinese (invented in the 1950s) to depict ancient texts, which were written in Traditional Chinese.
Also Qing dynasty didn't force civilians to wear their hairs in a queue, only government and military personnel. Eventually civilians adopted the same hair style on their own
@@Windward535ppl got massacred for refusing the savage hair style
not really. they used seal scripts or even more older scripts before that
Chinese simplification has been happening for thousands of years. Don't be fooled by those 'traditional Chinese users'. The CCP simply took over what ROC has left behind.
And ROC banned the simplification of Chinese because of political reasons. Which is dumb.
@@Windward535this is not true. male civilians were forced to adopt the queue.
As a Chinese I approve of this history.
Alright, so you want to be racist?@@СоветскийСоюз-щ1щ
So you want to be racist?@@СоветскийСоюз-щ1щ
Quite funny how your profile picture is the soviets and your username is russian. Did you know that soldiers would probably have died on the recent warfare if China didn’t supply them with armor?@@СоветскийСоюз-щ1щ
@@СоветскийСоюз-щ1щ
"Racism has no vaccine"
_ a random discord gif
Hey are you Batman? 🦇🦇🦇
this is probably the highest effort bill wurtz parody i've ever seen. bravo sir, take my subscription
This channel is underrated, looking forward to see it grow fast
The so-called "天命" is a cycle of argiculture-based chinese dynasties. Some dynasties like the Song dynasty actually got more tax from business and trading.
Science and technology change the destiny. The current government has big data and information to control stuff including the food supply. Food supply is so important that some dynasties collapsed due to lack of farmlands and food supply.
Also, In chinese history you can see how ignorance the ruler to his territory, adjacent states and international affairs.
笑死我了这个视频的表达历史的形式，上课都没听你讲的的那么认真😂
同感哈哈哈
ah yes, the english. the intercontinental drug dealers.
To be honest, if not because of your voice I would literally thought this is made by Bill Wurzt!!!
this reminded me of how rough china had it during history 😭 good video yo!
also you nailed the bill wurtz style. it’s gr8.
As a Chinese , I really appreciate you including the Nanjing Massacre which Japan denied… and they even built shrine / memorials to pray / in memorials of the brave heroes bring glories to Japan😅And Japan did the same in Korea they also denied… In Japan History book they deleted how they treat Korean Ppl and Chinese people during the World War II they heroic their invasion ….i really hate them doing that
That ending is the absolute perfect summary of China's current situation lmao
in average it takes 300ish yrs to start a new dynasty in China based on these dozens of dynasties. The mainstream medias are lying to audiences about china at age of 70. It has up and downs but not likely to have a new dynasty in near future, otherwise the U.S. won't be so anxious about holding the world No.1 place
1:53 "drank the immortality potion and dies" I died as well.
lmao I can't stop laughing
excellent video that nutshelling the whole of our history text book
love from China
The over simplification of history is strangely hilarious
"sounds like you lost the mandate of heaven" is the worse thing someone can hear
9:06 I spat my drink at this Lmao
that fact it just ends there 😂😂
Looks like you lost the mandate of heaven.
Pretty accurate and is as fast paced as I expected it to be. Cause in chinese history you can get side tracked on alot of stuff especially the 3 kingdoms era and the awesome fighting that happened during that time.
NO
@@angelstar2538 What? (Pfp checks out)
Need more "China is whole again" and "China is broken again"
not funny
興 百姓苦 亾 百姓苦
Technically, China is still broken now...
现在中国就是分裂的，按照规律应该不久之后就会统一了。
As an european i didnt learn a lot about chinese history in school thats pretty sad cause its very interesting and goes back so much time its insane
As a CHINESE, you know much more deeper chinese histroy than me, thanks for doing this episode ,and literally really funny. I MEAN, thanks, XXX.
TL;DR: china had a revolution and had a revolution and is broke and is whole and is broke again and is whole again and is broke again and is whole again and is broke again and is whole again and revolted again and is broke again and is whole again and was taken over and revolted again and was taken over again and was bullied by literally everyone and revolted again and revolted again
it is called historical cycle
中国的革命就是在不断的被背叛和出卖，每革命当快要成功，接近于乌托邦的时候，总会被现实砸个粉碎
虽然有些地方详细的会出点问题，但十分感谢gil对于南京的事情沉默5秒。然而作为中国人，我在UA-cam上是不能说出来的，因为我给出不同的答案时，多数人会认为我被共产党洗了脑😢
同志加油
这里面太多1450😂
光提南京大屠杀当然不是被洗脑，如果，知道南京大屠杀但是不知道导致几千万人死亡的三年大饥荒和文化大革命出自毛泽东和共产党，那确实是被洗脑了一部分
@wusiyi541 每次提到南京大屠杀都会有一群搅混水的扯西北西南的事情。
不需要在乎他们的话，解释的再多也没有，就有一群纯纯的煞笔以为自己翻了个墙就了不起完了，不用理他们这些脑袋里面塞了跳蛋的东西😅
很棒的中国历史介绍，感谢作者专门提到了南京大屠杀，这在西方视角里常常被忽视
As a Chinese, I am pretty surprised that this video managed to mention all important historical events with in 9 mins. Pretty awesome
WOW, Thank you, sincerely, just for taking a moment of silence for what happened in Nanjing! RESPECT from a Chinese!
Chinese history shows you that a lot of Chinese people’s last names are the names of Dynasties
The names also usually mean other things. Ming is fire, Qing is water fir example. My personal favourite is Shun which means Levelling
@@stateofflorida5082 that’s cool
@@JoshQ9 I meant people from china have tang, Xia, ming as their last name
@@lesscringeymapperdude Those are actually the names of professions, ancestors, kingdoms, duchy, march, county/earldom viscounty and barony during the decentralized feudalism kingdoms before the centralized Qin empire. During that period of time, people get clan names from these nobles' domains, in ancient Chine before Qin, people have
姓 and 氏 which is family name and clan name, they also have 名 and 字 which is name and courtesy name. Some noble people have 谥号 posthumous name (actually means deeds title).
Most of people are all included in the 8 ancient families, which causes problem when there are millions of people from the same family that was named thousands of years ago, so 氏 clan name was invented, only one major branch can inherit the 姓 family name, while millions of people in the minor cadet branches will get a 氏 clan name based on people's domain or profession or courtesy name of ancestor or posthumous name of ancestor.
For example people with named 唐Tang have 2 different origins of 姓 family names, but they have the same 氏 clan name because they lived at the same place called 唐Tang. And then the 唐Tang dynasty got established thousands of years later by a guy with 氏family(clan) name 李Li/Lee, and his 1 out of 8 ancient family name is unknown. He is the duke of 唐Tang during the 7th century early medieval ages, but his name is not Tang.
氏Family(clan) name 李 is also a super complicated special thing, because it have origins from all families, 李Li/Lee like Bruce Lee(plum), 吏Li(official), 史Shi(historian in a vague way, basically all recorders), 使Shi(use or ambassador) all came from the clan name 事Shi(thing, job, affair), it is a clan name used by basically anyone who worked in the government as officials, so these clan names have origins from all family names.
And then there are clan names with same pronounciation but different meanings, 唐 and 汤 Tang are totally different, 汤 comes from the posthumous name of a king.
夏Xia is the name of the first kingdom dynasty. But there is also different 夏Xia that comes from an ancestor's courtesy name.
明Ming is the clan name of an ancestor's courtesy name, it is unrelated to 明Ming dynasty, because Ming means bright and illuminated, the dynasty was actually related to the Ming cult which is actually Manichaeism.
The interesting thing is that the vast majority of Chinese have only about 100 or so last names, which is where the phrase "Lao Baixing" describing the common people comes from, literally "old 100 last names". That's why a lot of people both in history and today have a set of common last names, like Wang, Zhang, Liu, Zhu, Tang, Li, etc.,.
However, the names of dynasties often came from the land of which family/person who established it hailed from. There are a couple of old timey names for various areas in China like Shu for Sichuan, Liang for the area around the Yellow River, Wu for the Yangtze Basin/Shanghai, Yan for the Beijing area, etc., and that's usually how they came to be.
4:53 GREAT REFERENCE TO BILL WURTZ’S HISTORY OF JAPAN!
As a Chinese I'm so proud of this video.
the vid is really well done and the graphics and narration is great! I think the jingles are way off and i realize thats actually what sets bill wurtz apart. ur sound effects and stuff is great though, great vid
As a Chinese, I'am gald to see this video which has a short but correct description to the history of China.
Ok ,a good video but seems you don't explain the time when the tang dynasty had been it's prime
damn you made this look easy
The cut is perfect lmao
I can't believe this came out this year, only 3 weeks ago. This is so perfect to how Bill Wurtz does his things it seemed so much older.
3:47 this is describing a very special event in Chinese history. During the civil war in the end stage of Tang Dynasty, one city was enclosed by the rebellion army, and it was the very crucial point of the war, basically if the rebellion army won here, it would most likely destroy the Tang Dynasty and win the whole civil war. So they sent 100k to 200k army to try to take the city. The city only had about 7000 soldiers to fight and very quickly they ran out of food. Then the commander ordered to eat people, starting with his own wife (secondary wives, not the primary one), then his family servants, then the old civilians, then the weak and wounded ones, then women, then children (basically the ones have minimal help to defend the city), and the lastly, men. By gradually eating up the whole city (people, animal, insect, plant, even cloth), the government army actually was able to hold the city for months and killed tens thousands of enemies. More importantly it bought significant amount of time for the other government army to assemble and fight rebellion everywhere else and win eventually. By the time the rebellion took the city, the whole situation of the war was already turned against them, then soon after it, the whole rebellion failed. However, by the time the city was lost, only 400 people out of 40000 civilians and 7000 soldiers survived. Thousands even tens thousands got eaten, and the rest starved to death. The commander did not survive either. In Chinese history, for a very long time long time, this event was generally considered as an extraordinary success, and the commander made the tough but necessary decision. For hundreds of year after it, this story was passed down as an example of a great military miracle and loyalty to the nation. Many poetries were created to praise the commander, the soldiers, even the “sacrifice” of the people. Still criticism of this event existed since the beginning but never widely accepted throughout the history until the modern China.
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that is a very nice story
this is surprisingly underated content
5:27 "... and the make the wall great again. "
as an American, this combination of words made me a little depressed D:
You know what's mad until today? Japan has never apologised nor acknowledged its war crime in Nanking.
Actually, one of the reasons behind this was that the Chinese government refused to release a name list with those who were killed in the Nanking Massacre. It got people wondering if the Nanking Massacre actually happened.
@@antonwogame5602 interesting but silly comment. in case you dont know, let me tell you that more than 300k victims died in that suffering in nanking where's the capital at that time of china, japanese army massacred whole city after they occupied for revenge cuz the chinese army fought against them too hard in shanghai, where's the japanese army landed. nealy all of them are just the civilian, do you think is that possible to make a complete name list? btw, althought the most survivors passed because of old age, they still left tons of details by many ways, and even japan's ally in ww2, nazi germany, their ambassador in china left enough informations and descriptions of that massacre. so, dont make it stupid when you know nothing. pls learn and respect the history, especially when it was a tragedy.
@@weeii_u Thank you for correcting my mistake. However, the Chinese government actually released a name list on their website on 4 Dec, 2007. Also, please do not insult others on the Internet. We are all trying to learn history and sharing what we know about the matter. If someone was wrong, please correct them politely. If we know everything, we would not be watching this video and discussing.
@@antonwogame5602 to point out some mistake
1. The Nanjing Massacre occurred from December 1937 to January 1938. During this time, the Japanese imposed a strict blockade on information, preventing external access and limiting journalists' ability to report on the event. It was only after about a month that the Republic of China became aware of the massacre.
2. because Nanjing is the capital of the Republic of China so there are Numerous foreigners in Nanjing, including diplomats and missionaries, who witnessed the atrocities of the massacre firsthand. For example "John Magee" an American priest took actual footage of the event.
3. both Chiang Kai-shek(the president of the Republic of China at that time) and Soong Mei-ling made public statements after the massacre in America, revealing the atrocities and calling for international action against Japanese aggression. at that time America's society was outraged by the Japanese
4. you said China's government released a name list in 2007, umm... you know that Nanjing Massacre happened in the Republic of China not The People's Republic of China, right? This means many things like people's id need to be re-recognize because of the government change
5. even if you ask why The People's Republic of China did not release earlier, you do know that The early years of the People's Republic of China were dealing with civil conflict, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, etc. It wasn't until China in the 90s to 00s that finally had more peace and stabilized, so the list open in the 07s isn't even that strange
“China is whole again, than it broke again” could’ve been the only dialogue in the video and it just ends and it would still be accurate
Fun fact: the history of the expansion of ancient Chinese culture, especially to Japan and Korea is yet not mentioned but very interesting to be learnt.