"China Today 1990" - part 3 "Chengdu and Leshan".
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Third in a series of videos captured in China in 1990, wonderful Chengdu and Leshan brought fascinating history to life amidst superb vistas of Chinese rural lifestyle and culture. Pandas, painting and many other amazing handicrafts by very skilled and intensely industrious people continued to provide a much deeper understanding of this amazingly ancient civilization.and it's gradual emergence to rejoin the rest of the world. Twenty two year old video - shaky though it be - provides a marvellous picture of this ancient land! Enjoy!!
我的天啊，是我小时候记忆中的样子，我一直都在寻找这样的影像，实在太珍贵了！中国现在的城市建设的都很新，都是一个样子。
OMG, this is such a rare historic footage of chengdu, I'm from chengdu and it's amazing to compare the past and realize how dramatic chengdu has changed. Thanks for sharing!
Hu Frank So pleased you enjoyed old Chengdu contrasted with the vast changes there today. My wife and I will never forget our wonderful experience of just being there to sense the amazing commitment of Chengdu's people to your magnificent city and to the growth of your country. Enjoy lots more to come!!
Thanks and if possible, find a chance to visit Chengdu again )) actually i was born in 1989, thus it`s really wonderful to know how my city looked like at that time from your video.
Hu Frank I'm now aged a very creaky ninety and my slightly younger wife is now in full time care in an old peoples home - so, very sadly, our wonderful travels in your magnificent China will forever remain only in our memories of our astonishing travels twenty five years ago!Lucky you to be in such a fast growing city in such a vital part of your amazing country - where the future opportunities of the world now lie with decisions being made in China! The wisdom of a very old civilisation to guide this complex world into the future is now utterly essential!!
Understood sir, next time when I`m back to Chengdu, I will take some videos and you`re more than welcome to check how Chengdu looks like now ) sincerely my the best wish to you and your wife )
Hu Frank We send you our heartfelt thanks for your kind thoughts and we will look forward to seeing your planned video of modern Chengdu - undoubtedly you are very proud of your wonderful city which is now such a vital power house of your thriving China.
I am so sorry that I do not have an understanding of your wonderful language - but I do hope that your message says that you enjoyed my video of Chengdu and Leshan as much as I enjoyed seeing those amazing sights and encountering the proud residents of that extraordinarily beautiful and creative part of your truly magnificent China way back in 1990. Long may it be so, as China awakes to take it's rightful place in this complex world of today!!
you are right！respect！
sir in 2023 are you alive now?
Was born in 1984 and spent most of my life in Chengdu. My previous house was not far from the hotel at the beginning. Thanks for uploading.
sir in 2024 are you alive now?
Thank you Mr. Leeder, such precious videos. At that time 10 more years before smart phone was born, make a video was not easy to people in China. Those videos recalled my memories.
this Video shock me! It’s my six year old view in my memory about this road, that age I always take a bus from chengdu to leshan for whole day! Now we just need one hour for this journey by hi-speed train, it’s a fantastic change in our life! Thanks again to this video carrier!
Have watched this clip a few times and cried every time when I was watching. The video reminds me what I have seen when I was a child, the Hotel, the buses, the markets at the side of the streets. I still can remember everything vividly. I miss my childhood and the old city much. The current city, I went back a few times over the past 10 years, has experienced too many changes. Old buildings have been demolished. Mud alleys are replace by boarded streets. May be changes are good. But to me, the city is no longer the one I recognize.
+zhongrui wang. It is so sad that you so much miss the irreplaceable magic of that superb city of your childhood. Yes...change is unstoppable everywhere ....my much loved old home town of Sydney is nowhere near as nice as the one I loved so much as a child....but that was ninety years ago!!! I guess that we can both rejoice that we knew the very best of our much loved home towns when they WERE at their best and when we were both wide-eyed and always saw them at their peak, in our view at least! Wonderful memories like this will always remain with us, whatever happens, and always bring a warm smile of true pleasure to our faces!!! Long may it be so!!!!
I feel your pain regarding all of that
a shame
I was born in chengdu that year that month
等等 你不是杨老师组的大神吗。。。。
Born in early 1980s, I have a sharp memory about 1990s when I was a child. I love the old days when most of us were poor, but we didn't feel it .
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I am from Chengdu and I was born in the early 90s, this brings back the memories of my childhood
I was born in Chengdu that year, it's so emotional for me to see this video and to to know what it looks like when I was born. Thanks a lot.
Hi zhoutingtit. Your so powerful message says it all! My wife and I were left with a VERY strong feeling about the great depth of affection the residents of Chengdu felt for their wonderful home town. Of course, it has changed so much since we enjoyed it in 1990 but, somehow, we sense that special feeling of belonging of those born there will never diminish - as your message so clearly says!! My wife and I hope you enjoy every moment back in your so-much-loved home town!! Noel Leeder.
dont know why but everytime I eat egg rolls I watch random chinese youtube videos..sets the mood...i guess..
Thank you so much for bringing back the time!
漂亮，谢谢你的记录，让我想起了童年时期的中国。
Thank you for your video! I left Chengdu about the time when you made the video. It was the exactly Chengdu in my memory! Yesterday once more!
Wow it's so different now.
My first trip to China was in 1996 with my high school geography class from Canada. This was the China that I remember! Bicycles everywhere, dusty streets, smoky little Shijiazhuang vans, horns honking day and night, street vendors on hand-drawn carts. Far cry from what China is today.
Dear Mr.Leeder , I'm totally moved by this video and your wonder trip, I read all of the comments and your reply, you are a very respectable man ! to me you are an old gentleman like the nostalgic era which was charming and fascinating! !
I am a twenty-year-old from china, wish you are okay and look forward your latest videos! I really appreciate
wonderful video, remind me my childhood. Still remember Jinjiang Hotel and Minshan Hotel which I passed by every day going to school.
Thank u for uploading！！
Today I've been live in Cheng du. This video makes me remember my childhood. At that time, Chinese people are so simple, and cities are so original. I want to say very thank you for us about that video. Now, Cheng du has already become more beautiful, people more friendly, and welcome to you back there again.
lots of old memory, thank you .at that time,nearly no family have carema to keep dailylife. we only have bikes,can't image today my family can have 3 cars and travel abroad everyyear. it's totally different now. when i went to nepal,2016,it triggered my memory. welcome to chengdu again,it's another world now
Hi MiddleburyShopFNG. Lucky you, with 18 months to enjoy wonderful Chengdu - but, like me now, I suspect that any return visit would be nowhere near as magic as it was then! Anyhow - I'm now 88 and immobile, so it is great that I can still revisit Chengdu in my memories AND on YT!! So pleased that you enjoyed it! Noel Leeder.
I was born at Chengdu in 1987. I like those time in my city. beautiful, clean, and less people.
It's born *in* Chengdu, not *at* Chengdu. When you are talking about place, then use "in". When you are talking about a particular building or area within a city, then use "at". For example, I was born at a hospital in Chengdu in 1987.
Thank you so much for sharing this video, I born in the late 1980s in Chengdu, this is the memory of my childhood, it's all still in my memory but never thought I can see it again, and suddenly a lot of faces and things popup in my mind. Through 30 years' change, from nothing to everything, Oh I want cry...
How are you now
作者的视频很珍贵！
Hi Licher1988. Having been unbelievably fortunate to experience magnificent Chengdu in fast-moving 1990 and seen subsequent video and heard of the amazing changes since then, I am even more grateful to have known it way back then. Your message - "miss my hometown", says it all! I fervently hope that you soon return - because the basics will not have changed over the years! Home is always home!!
Thank you for your recording!!!
Thanks for posting this. I taught English in Chengdu for one year from 1993-94. This really brings back some great memories. I've checked out other UA-cam videos on Chengdu and it looks so different. I'm going back next month but unfortunately won't be able to make it to Chengdu....
感谢记录的时光。
Thank you sosoososossos much! I'm from chengdu, my homwtown is Leshan!
My wife was a 4 year old probably sitting on the back of her parents bicycle in Chengdu at that time. It's changed quite a bit there but some of the same feeling remains.
Now it's China in the past. It was like the town I lived in when I was a kid. Thanks for sharing!
很珍贵的影像、可以帮助很多成都人找回三十年前的记忆、、
The large statue of Chairman Mao at 1:13:23 still over looks there today! As fresh as ever!
wonderful video,miss my hometown
我是乐山人；看见老乐山视频 感慨万千
Come and see the same place these year , it will refresh ur mind.
Love this. I was in China 1990 and in Sichuan all the way to Kashgar. Wonderful video. I only have some poor photos as a student. 😂
It's so strange living in modern day Chengdu and seeing this footage. There are so many close similarities where I'm like "This footage could have been shot today"and such large differences where im like "This looks like century's ago!"...idk its hard to explain. This really hits close to home
I was one year old then 😊
这里也有你😂😂
Hi DI519. I'm so pleased that you liked my 1990 video of Chengdu - yes, a fascinating glimpse of a more simple (and, maybe, more cohesive) lifestyle than it seems to be now in the more "open" China of today. I worked briefly as a coal carbonisation specialist advising the Chinese government in Shaoguan in upper Guangdong province in 1982 and found the lifestyle then even more fascinating but obviously headed for change to compete internationally. You will find much more change next month!!
22:22 amazing
My home town, thank you so much
It is amazing to see how much the city has changed in just two decades. Only very few places, like Renminnanlu and the Mao statue remained the same. Traffic is so different from today's traffic as well. Would've loved to be there back then, but then again it wouldn't have been a lot of fun as an infant.... Really great footage!
非常懷念90年代中國面貌，現在太現代化
thank you so much，谢谢
Awesome historical footage! Too bad moving objects show ghosting. Would you mind re-uploading it deinterlaced into 50p?
A very beautiful video
Do you have footage of Hangzhou in the 1990s? I’m curious on what it looks like, I saw pictures before it became super modernised, it used to be an equivalent to Venice cuz there were a lotta canals
incredible video, looks like time freezed
La evolución de China es de sorprenderme. ❤
omg, that silk factory is where my father in law used to work!
太亲切了.我的家乡四川成都
简直是成都 的历史啊，，好珍贵啊，，，，
Denischao333 So sorry that I am unable to read your comment - an understanding of Mandarin is far beyond me - but I do hope that you enjoyed my video of Chengdu and Leshan as much as I enjoyed capturing those wonderful memories of my travels in your amazing country. China's future holds huge promise for all it's people and I feel sure that you will make the most of every opportunity which lies ahead of you. May good fortune accompany you!!
Noel Leeder i mean it is the history of chengdu , i live in chengdu ,resident . the video is very precious, thanks for your uploading，
Denischao333 Thank you most sincerely for helping me understand your so much appreciated comments which I sadly could not read in your language. Yes, I also feel that my video of Chengdu in 1990 is a glimpse of that wonderful city at a very special time in your history. I am so happy that you find it to be so precious to you! May it always be a happy memory for you and yours for many years to come.
那个时候我才1岁啊。。。。。
Chengdu is a super modern city now
In this way, chengdu has indeed changed a lot.
Salute the working people！！
Nice
I like your speaking voice and narration
many thanks mate!
Hi, I’m trying to find an old video of China like this for an academic project. It will be uploaded to UA-cam but it is totally non commercial. Can I use this video as parts of my project? Thanks you very much in advance.
Sir, you have no idea how precious this video is mean to me, just wondering is it possible for me to obtain some of the footage and compare against what it look like now?
Welcome back again
And now in 2021 our frend country china is sooper power love from pakistan
Que bonito, me encanta todo Asia
I was born in this year.
小时候的记忆
Increíble todo lo que han crecido, me sorprende es fenomenal este país!!! mis respetos para esta nación imperial 👏
Hi don22jan. So pleased to have your response. Yes, it was truly wonderful to be in magnificent Chengdu in 1990 and to see so many amazing sights and to know that my video is now historic footage of that so-very-important city in the history of ancient China. I would dearly love to go again but, realistically, at 87, it is now too late for me in my presently declining health to again visit those superb sights we were so fortunate to experience in both Chengdu and Leshan. Lucky you to be there!
thank you
1:13:30秒后是 从玉带桥左转 一直到一环路梁家巷攀钢大厦 路上可以看见 和平电影院口子 好又多街对门黄色房子（还没坼）和华西集团大门 这3个过了20年来看 还有印象的画面
那会儿还在上四年级，一出一环路就是田坝，放学就切挖黄鳝
哈哈哈哈 对叻！北门大桥 草市街 过桥了还有个大安茶坊，我家就住那附近
The nature, the fields, the sea, the mountains...are very beautiful!
三十多年前的成都~那个时候我才刚出生
This is a wonderful video; thank you for posting it.
I was wondering, do you know about what month you were in Chengdu and Leshan, when there was such heavy rain? Was it in the middle of summer?
Taylor Monroe My wife and I will never forget the wonders of China we saw in 1990 and the amazing pace of change we sensed then! Today, China is once more the source of amazing achievements to regain its position as powerhouse of the world! Yes, it was summer when we were there, but the flood rain in Leshan was heavier than usual according to the locals - in many ways, this gave us an even better appreciation of your wonderful country and how it works so very well, whatever the obstacles might be.
When I saw this dialogue, I was deeply shocked. I sincerely thank you and hope that you are kind and healthy
priceless
Interesting to see people in traditional garb. You don't see that anymore.
❤️ from india
i will satisfy if video quality 720p
I'm Chinese and China has such a big changing in just few decades, in those old times China was dirty and uneducatied, but now tall buildings and cars everywhere.
4:27 Gol Quadrado Vermelho 😍
这是重庆吗
，
珍贵的老成都和老乐山
怀念
Also the person commenting in Chinese was talking about the streets and sights seen after an hour and thirteen minutes and what has and has not changed since back then....
《流金岁月 · 银色经典回忆录》 之 美国中老年旅行团来华之旅
胡扯，人家是澳大利亚人
I am from Hong Kong .This is a raw footage and history of china ,such a beautiful place. It is hard to find another video like this .China won't let you see the truth. The only film what they want you to see.
My birth year lol
China changed so much In The last 30 years
Like india ,but china changed fast
1990年 哥上一年级的时候啊
我刚出生
1:17:48 此处画外音（地道成都话）：张姐！ 开饭咯！
1:17:48 voice-over（Chengdu language）：zhang jie！kai fan lo！（Ms. Zhang, Time for dinner~~~~！）
说的是：张姐，吃饭没有啊？
look different then it was in the 1950's
Old china is more aesthetic
Even in 1990 Chinese cities were much cleaner than Indian cities.
Dude if you are a pakistani or kangldeshi you shouldn't talk about cleanliness 🐖😂
这是好东西啊，90年的真实中国
Back then Chengdu still had electric trolleybuses
Jere Cullen Yes. I recall them and the amazing dexterity the drivers showed in manoeuvring around other traffic without their long and far-reaching poles losing contact with the overhead wires - although, one time, I saw an awful traffic jam caused by the pole coming off the wire and then tearing it down!! Ah!! Started lots of fond memories!!!!Enjoy your wonderful Chengdu!!!!!!!!!!!!
老成乐线是这样
The old China is si similar to thailand .
九十年代成都的机动车就全国第二多!堵车也严重!
1990年我3岁
1岁
0 岁
If you complain about bad traffic at chengdu these days, have a look at these old video, it is not whole lot difference😂
90年我才在成都刚出生 lol
90年是属马
@@shunzhiluo6745 是的
Me too