I rode the bus from Chongqing to Dazu back in 2010. A woman kept staring at me in terror. Then I realized she had never seen a foreigner before. It happens when you get out of the big cities. I met my wife in Chongqing where I worked for a few years. It's an amazing country and am always grateful to have had the experiences I did.
Alex, I live in Victoria, BC, and I am a member of Canada China Friendship Association. I have watched all your videos on UA-cam and am so proud of your work in China.
Dazu Grottoes was so remote. It escaped the pillage and destruction of the Mongol armies during the invasion in the Sung Dynasty. The Long men Grottoes was much bigger but most of the smaller stone carvings and buddha heads were stolen during the early 1900s and the Japanese invasion during WW2!
german chancellor currently in China with a business delegation to hold talks with chinese leaders. He landed in Chongqing lst. to visit some german factory. there. Maybe he would be given a tour of Chongqing n get to see Dazu as well before he heads to Beijing for his meetings with chinese leaders ?
There is a cave there, where all statuses are carved on site, instead of carving them then move in, which means one tiny mistake ruins the whole cave. Imagine that lol
@@Alex_k_Q Root carvings are also divided into two types, one is splicing and the other is overall carving. You may have never seen a large root carving that is 30 meters long. It took three years to carve and mobilized 12 to 16 sculptors to make it.
Love china..so clean so disciplined and dazzling..no caste creed violence protests even if the govt.is one party system..it knows only development and upliftment of its people but in India so much of racism..caste creed and religion problem so much of violence and protests people are not happy people are becoming poorer and poorer and rich are getting richer ..no clean city ..dirt everywhere..even if it is a democratic nation like that of the USA and the European nations😂
but its very good for entertainment for poor Indian folks. India will remain where and what it is. Endia makes itself relevant by CONSTANTLY Comparing itself Against China instead of IMPROVING Indians lives!!!!😂
I like everything here in china except the government. This is prejudice, the result of long-term brainwashing by Western regimes. In the 80s and 90s, you would say China was another Myanmar or Laos. All these changes came from the leadership of the Communist Party, right? Does China look like Japan in the 90s? Bullet trains, high-rise buildings in Tokyo, clean cities, convenient life, honest people.
No way China doesn't have more. Well, China likes to build on top of stuff and be forward looking. So maybe the lost stuff is just so much it does have fewer
Wow Alex China looks absolutely amazing, I hope to be able to go there one day and to maybe even live there it just looks like a fairytale land of magic but that will have to until my next life time it won't happen in my present life time I'm afraid. Thank you for bringing to us this one and there are many beautiful places to see in China.
Beautiful. A must-see for anyone visiting Chongqing. By the way, 'z' in Chinese is not the same as the 'z' in English. It's like the 'd' in the French word 'du', as spoken by the Quebecois (and not by people from France).
Thank you so much for this accidental promotional piece. 大足/DaZu in Chinese has two obvious meanings, the first can be literally translated to a famous English name, Bigfoot. Given its ancient origin (started from the Tang Dynasty) and rich legend, this may be an easy way to remember this place. However, the name (also from the Tang Dynasty) actually came from the second meaning, all around sufficiency. At 2:17, inscribed atop the gate on black background is the expression that means, all around sufficiency to the world.
Chongqing is a mega-city of 33 million people in China. The Yuzhong district in the center of the city has a cyberpunk urban style due to its very special topography, and there is an attraction called "Hongyadong", which is very similar to the scene portrayed in the Japanese Hayao Miyazaki's manga "A Thousand and One Hidden Searches", and there are also several other places in Chongqing that have been certified as World Natural Heritage Sites by UNESCO: Jinfo Mountain, Dazu Stone Carving, Three Gorges of Yangtze River, and so on. Chongqing has several other UNESCO World Natural Heritage sites: Golden Buddha Mountain, Dazu Rock Carvings, Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, etc. We welcome friends from all over the world to come and visit us
As Chinese from Hangzhou, thank you for your honest presentation of my country. The world has such hatred towards China and Chinese citizens these days… to the point I’m left heartbroken reading some of the comments on China. We’re definitely not perfect in anyways, but most of us are living honest lives and it’s just weird to think China and its people are evil 😢 just because we have different political system……
Such an eye opening vlog! So lucky Dazu is far away from YuanMingYuan圆明园, Beijing, or they had been destroyed by the Eight-Nation Alliance八国联军 in 1900.
I can imagine, the Dazu rock carvings are what the Dunhuang grottos would have looked like before conflicts and lootings took their tolls on the relics and artifacts in the caves. Btw, just curious, how did the town Dazu get its name? Dazu means big foot in Chinese.
Hi Alex, I have just watched You, Carl Zha interviewing with the one and only Scott Ritta; it's unbelievably enjoyable and informative and very fancinating from start to finish , the entire show. I've been living in Phoenix, Arizona for 40 years now and thinking about retiring in a year or two to Oslo, Norway . I think Chongqing is my second choice now or it might become the first . We'll see.
Luv your work. Journalists on CGTN The Point-Hub-Heat are amazing, documentaries Uyghure Autonomous Region-Tibet-Terracotta Warriors Spring Festival Gala WOW...Did you know Canada has a CP, nice flag
Went there two weeks ago finally, have experienced and seen some extraordinary scenes and amazing food, the night view by the river is incredible too 😊 1. People in Chong Qing must have strong legs 😁 2. Will never order medium level for hotpot there, has to be lighter one 🥵 3. Don’t tell the taxi driver ( yellow Ferrari ) you are in a hurry if you can’t handle speed 😅
Alex, your normal voice sounds much better than the fake promotional voice. The images speak by themselves to the beauty of the place and the great work you are doing.
Based on your logic, we should demolition the White House, all the historical sites, all the church, universities etc…..all these places were built on the blood of slaves
@@darvidkoh2707 Sorry that was a satirical comment. Whenever the western media reports about some positive chinese achievement they add the phrase "But at what cost" in the headline to smear it - if they report it at all in the first place. I even read an article a while ago, about chinas successes in the fight against cancer and even there they used this phrase. It is beyond ridicoulus...
Beautiful, mysterious, and magnificent ❤ That is China 🇨🇳
Just came back from China fully agree that the infrastructure are incredible. Thanks for showing us ancient architect and Dazu.
China is the most modernize n cultural heritage in the world today
The China government has built the best infrastructure for the people, and everyone can enjoy it.
And expert critics will say - no freedom to vote.
Excellent job. This is a must see place for me. China is super incredible!
I rode the bus from Chongqing to Dazu back in 2010. A woman kept staring at me in terror. Then I realized she had never seen a foreigner before. It happens when you get out of the big cities. I met my wife in Chongqing where I worked for a few years. It's an amazing country and am always grateful to have had the experiences I did.
This happens to me in 2005 in rural America. Some people just never seen a foreign in person. Lol
Alex, I live in Victoria, BC, and I am a member of Canada China Friendship Association. I have watched all your videos on UA-cam and am so proud of your work in China.
The Dazu Rock Carvings are amazing. Thanks so much Alex for sharing the visit there with us. Thanks also to iChongqing!
Alex, thank you for showing me Dazu. A beautiful legacy. Greetings from Serbia.
Thanks for showing this magical place .
Dazu Grottoes was so remote. It escaped the pillage and destruction of the Mongol armies during the invasion in the Sung Dynasty. The Long men Grottoes was much bigger but most of the smaller stone carvings and buddha heads were stolen during the early 1900s and the Japanese invasion during WW2!
Mongolians are Buddhists;
They will not destroy Buddhist buildings
german chancellor currently in China with a business delegation to hold talks with chinese leaders. He landed in Chongqing lst. to visit some german factory. there. Maybe he would be given a tour of Chongqing n get to see Dazu as well before he heads to Beijing for his meetings with chinese leaders ?
Wow, Truly Amazingly Breathtaking! ❤
Alex, you must feel pretty lucky everyday to be able to see so many incredible sights & places in China! 😊
Amazing architecture and ancient art. Never heard of DaZu before. Thanks for making this video Alex.
还有让你震撼的就是现代根雕工艺，千年古树的根来雕琢各种各样的人物
What will also shock you is the modern root carving technology, using the roots of thousand-year-old trees to carve various characters.
@@木鱼老汉半夜敲 I have seen Chinese fruit pit carvings and its mind boggling.
There is a cave there, where all statuses are carved on site, instead of carving them then move in, which means one tiny mistake ruins the whole cave. Imagine that lol
@@Alex_k_Q Root carvings are also divided into two types, one is splicing and the other is overall carving. You may have never seen a large root carving that is 30 meters long. It took three years to carve and mobilized 12 to 16 sculptors to make it.
The first time I heard about Dazu, you brought awareness to this place. Hope more people know about Dazu.
Such a privilege to watch a World Heritage Site.
TQ Alex 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Great video! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Love china..so clean so disciplined and dazzling..no caste creed violence protests even if the govt.is one party system..it knows only development and upliftment of its people but in India so much of racism..caste creed and religion problem so much of violence and protests people are not happy people are becoming poorer and poorer and rich are getting richer ..no clean city ..dirt everywhere..even if it is a democratic nation like that of the USA and the European nations😂
Not the type of government but the quality that produces results which matter
@@sleo3720you are right, the most important is the top-notch leaders that China has been selecting for many decades.
but its very good for entertainment for poor Indian folks. India will remain where and what it is. Endia makes itself relevant by CONSTANTLY Comparing itself Against China instead of IMPROVING Indians lives!!!!😂
I like everything here in china except the government. This is prejudice, the result of long-term brainwashing by Western regimes. In the 80s and 90s, you would say China was another Myanmar or Laos. All these changes came from the leadership of the Communist Party, right? Does China look like Japan in the 90s? Bullet trains, high-rise buildings in Tokyo, clean cities, convenient life, honest people.
Thank you Alex!
Many blessings for Julia & you!
According to _UNESCO,_ China ranks the world's 2nd in number of world heritage sites with 57 sites, just behind Italy at number one with 59 sites.
UN is useless, it's full of lies and political bias, it is just all talks, it doesn't send any peacekeepers to save the Gaza people.
57, lot more than this.
大足。
No way China doesn't have more. Well, China likes to build on top of stuff and be forward looking. So maybe the lost stuff is just so much it does have fewer
Magnificent place👍❤️
Wow Alex China looks absolutely amazing, I hope to be able to go there one day and to maybe even live there it just looks like a fairytale land of magic but that will have to until my next life time it won't happen in my present life time I'm afraid. Thank you for bringing to us this one and there are many beautiful places to see in China.
你的视频拍得真好 👍👍👍谢谢你的分享❤❤❤
Outstanding performance video! Breathtaking! Perfect drone video! Appreciate your video!
Love you show!!!
Magnificent!!!
Amazing China & Alex.. God bless
Great video 👏👍
Beautiful. A must-see for anyone visiting Chongqing.
By the way, 'z' in Chinese is not the same as the 'z' in English. It's like the 'd' in the French word 'du', as spoken by the Quebecois (and not by people from France).
Thank you so much for this accidental promotional piece. 大足/DaZu in Chinese has two obvious meanings, the first can be literally translated to a famous English name, Bigfoot. Given its ancient origin (started from the Tang Dynasty) and rich legend, this may be an easy way to remember this place. However, the name (also from the Tang Dynasty) actually came from the second meaning, all around sufficiency. At 2:17, inscribed atop the gate on black background is the expression that means, all around sufficiency to the world.
Splendid
Absolutely F'ing amazing!!!!!
Chongqing is a mega-city of 33 million people in China. The Yuzhong district in the center of the city has a cyberpunk urban style due to its very special topography, and there is an attraction called "Hongyadong", which is very similar to the scene portrayed in the Japanese Hayao Miyazaki's manga "A Thousand and One Hidden Searches", and there are also several other places in Chongqing that have been certified as World Natural Heritage Sites by UNESCO: Jinfo Mountain, Dazu Stone Carving, Three Gorges of Yangtze River, and so on. Chongqing has several other UNESCO World Natural Heritage sites: Golden Buddha Mountain, Dazu Rock Carvings, Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, etc. We welcome friends from all over the world to come and visit us
No BBC lens filter!
amazing
Amazing discovery 💡, thank you for sharing this video . Good Regards
Wow, amazing place. I have added it to my travel list.
well done Alex, long time no see, I will put Dazu on my list!
As Chinese from Hangzhou, thank you for your honest presentation of my country. The world has such hatred towards China and Chinese citizens these days… to the point I’m left heartbroken reading some of the comments on China.
We’re definitely not perfect in anyways, but most of us are living honest lives and it’s just weird to think China and its people are evil 😢 just because we have different political system……
Name countries that are perfect. What countries are they?
Spectacular video and elaborated scripts
This chanel is last of all news world wide un woke
Such an eye opening vlog! So lucky Dazu is far away from YuanMingYuan圆明园, Beijing, or they had been destroyed by the Eight-Nation Alliance八国联军 in 1900.
Ha. Weird. I'm driving to see dazu tomorrow morning and then I see this video...
I can imagine, the Dazu rock carvings are what the Dunhuang grottos would have looked like before conflicts and lootings took their tolls on the relics and artifacts in the caves. Btw, just curious, how did the town Dazu get its name? Dazu means big foot in Chinese.
Hi Alex, I have just watched You, Carl Zha interviewing with the one and only Scott Ritta; it's unbelievably enjoyable and informative and very fancinating from start to finish , the entire show. I've been living in Phoenix, Arizona for 40 years now and thinking about retiring in a year or two to Oslo, Norway . I think Chongqing is my second choice now or it might become the first . We'll see.
Thank you
Thanks
dazu！
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Luv your work. Journalists on CGTN The Point-Hub-Heat are amazing, documentaries Uyghure Autonomous Region-Tibet-Terracotta Warriors Spring Festival Gala WOW...Did you know Canada has a CP, nice flag
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5:30 Is this a 3D-Printed building?
The rough horizontal structure of the surface points to it.
I wish Alex had given us a bit history of Dazu and the rock carvings
Went there two weeks ago finally, have experienced and seen some extraordinary scenes and amazing food, the night view by the river is incredible too 😊
1. People in Chong Qing must have strong legs 😁
2. Will never order medium level for hotpot there, has to be lighter one 🥵
3. Don’t tell the taxi driver ( yellow Ferrari ) you are in a hurry if you can’t handle speed 😅
China suffered severe humiliation from the colonizers and imperialists. She can now relive its past glory again.
Alex, your normal voice sounds much better than the fake promotional voice. The images speak by themselves to the beauty of the place and the great work you are doing.
Welcome to broadcasting
🙂🙏👍👍🙏🙂
大足很好玩儿的地方👍
How can it be shocking and untold when its declared by UN as one of China's most treasured World Heritage Sites?
Dazu means Big Foot! 😂
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🌍☯️🕉️☸️🌍
Sinosphere
Okay, they once built this beautiful buildings and carved this amazing Sculptures - BUT AT WHAT COST???
Labour of love, if you want to know. What cost are you talking about? In China, it is considered a blessing to be associated with building holy sites.
@@darvidkoh2707same for Thai Buddhist temples.. devoted to skills artisans:
Based on your logic, we should demolition the White House, all the historical sites, all the church, universities etc…..all these places were built on the blood of slaves
@@darvidkoh2707 Sorry that was a satirical comment. Whenever the western media reports about some positive chinese achievement they add the phrase "But at what cost" in the headline to smear it - if they report it at all in the first place.
I even read an article a while ago, about chinas successes in the fight against cancer and even there they used this phrase. It is beyond ridicoulus...
This is New BEE!
According to an insider there are over 100 pyramids in china to explore.
Compare the Integrity of the Chinese infor structure with my countries. An early bronze age civilization to a space fearing civilization😂
What are they going to do with all there unsold cities and homes , what happened to Evergrande Developers ? we do have short memories dont we ?
Not short memory...fake news have short-circuited your little brain and you lack education to know what's real and what's fake.
where is curry beef
nice video
Loooooong time no see.
I M HAPPY, SO LOOKING FORWARD TO VISIT CHINA💞 THIS YEAR - THANK YOU ALEX HOPE YOU WELL, GREAT VIDEOS AS ALWAYS - MY REGARDS TO JULIA 😍👋👋CHINA DREAM💞
欢迎欢迎❤