The old China before WW2: From Mongolia to Beijing.
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Traveling from the steppes of Mongolia down to Peking (Beijing) Visiting the Mongolians in their tents. In Peking temples and pagodas. Finally the New Year dragon boat race festival.
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It's been a week now .. I put this clip on repeat and turn the speakers on ..I sleep so peacefully listening to it .. none of these people are present now but even after 100 years we are seeing what their lives used to be .. I wish I could more of such old videos..these are gems and must be preserved
could they even imagine that 100 years later people are watching them on youtube.. haha
..and can you imagine people 100 years later seeing through your mind ?
goognam goognws are you high?
Well..not *their* people.
I'd bet most of them are probably dead
All of them are
I‘m Chinese . Thank you so much for uploading this precious video, this is really awesome.
In 2016, I visited Beijing to see Forbidden City and the Great Wall. They were awesome !
From Tokyo.
Hootaro Setagaya I went to Kyoto in 2018. Absolutely stunning, hope to come again
From Macau
@@hootarosetagaya5570 i visit nanking massacre museum in nanking…
Cool to see the humility and thoughtfulness in the average person. The modern world needs those things.
It's was a bloody murderous time with zero humans rights and or realiable laws
Today, we're lucky to see these old clips filmed by western foreigners in China, in this case a German, as well as Chinese photographers. Old films like these are very fragile and who knows how many have been improperly stored and have since disintegrated?
or destroyed during the culutral revolution
agreed. history lives this way.
@@jasonlind3065 cultural devolution as it were
Well... It would be a great start
Just realizing how fragile tangent memories to the past makes me appreciate all cultures more. Made me a more open minded person, understanding the fragility of it all.
My girlfriend is a Chinese citizen of Mongolian descent. I went with her to inner Mongolia. It's really beautiful and amazing. It's like time has stood still. Very little, if anything has changed.
Dan Zena r u white ?
@@NmberOneNetsFan I'm American, of Puerto Rican descent (Latino). I can pass for white but I wouldn't be classified as such.
"under new management"
@@NmberOneNetsFan Why would that matter?
Mongolians are almost as oppressed as Uyghurs and Tibetans , only ethnic Chinese thrive in ccp land .
Greetings from Mongolia. Thanks for the rare video..
I absolutely LOVE the old clips. Thank you for sharing!! Ah.. I wish there is a time machine and I could go back to hundreds or even thousands of years and travel around the world! :) Was my college major in history?! No, I so wish though.
You can't understand what they say when you go back :D
I'm very a nostalgic person too but logistics would be a nightmare: the language, clothing, money, places to sleep, etc... you'd probably stick out like a sore thumb and if not careful esp. around medieval or early America, you may be accused of witchery...anyway it'd be the most amazing adventure...a ghost-like or ethereal form would be the ideal way to float through time..
We won't have the chance to do so. Maybe our great grand children generation they might have such inventions. Don't be surprised when someone comes to you and tell you that you are his ancestor.
Yes the history but also, something about analog film recording surpasses digital by far, pixel resolution is a pointless pursuit (pun intended). There's life and soul in film recording that digital is unable to capture despite gazillions pixels and recreated colors it's not alive the way film footage is alive. Think that in a film footage every speck of color or light is made by chemical reaction and every frame has its own sensitive chemical receptors whereas in digital the same transistors are repeatedly used over and over for every frame, so there is a previous data dependancy correlation between frames due to latency in the operation of the CMOS photo transistor. So despite all the hype around low-noise and superhigh resolution, digital has untold weaknesses.
love the chinese people and their culture... with respect from france.
Great gift for humanity. Thank you and your family for keeping all these records about human kind.
it is a memory recalling those younger days. May God bless you always to be in your best health MichaelRogge
Well dressed, clean, nice haircuts, huge farms, markets and festivals! Obviously they weren't poor.
My grandpa was born in 1921 in Beijing. He told me that he always had 60 dumplings in Qianmen( the front gate of Beijing).
What is dumplings ?
@@Friend-z-Mania a kind of Chinese food， made of a variety of fillings wrapped in small pieces of dough, either meat or vegetable, cooked in water. About 15-20 grams each
That's impossible，No matter how small the dumplings are in the restaurant, there are 10 grams at least, and 600 grams is more than one chinese Jin（市斤）. I have rarely seen a woman who eats up to one Jin. Unless it's a 200 pounds tall and strong female warrior like Mulan
@@slavish_superiority thanks for the explanation
@@Friend-z-Mania you're welcome ...All Chinese grocery stores in western countries sell raw frozen dumplings. You can buy them and cook them by yourself. delicious. Sanxian stuffing（三鲜馅） is recommended. but Russians also eat dumplings, don't buy the wrong kind
The round shape huts made of felt are still in use in Mongolia and known as GHUR. meaning home/
Ghar means home in Hindi too.
@@shivampurohit1331 Ya Same as in Nepal Ghaar means home
it called Ger(gher)
It's Ger.
Ger is correct spell
old Beijing looks so peaceful
Peiking
Right?
@S. Young Great burn, S. Young!!! ;) But actually, the sound in Mandarin is "B"?
@@noco7243
Peking
Carlos Danger No.
Absolutely amazing and priceless footage!! Thank you so much!!
That time Mongol and China both were under Manchu rule. Manchu and China is 2 different. So, you know.
If I see the ladies head jewelers, they are Uzemchin Mongol tribe. Seems like mostly filmed in inner Mongol. That time both Mongols were together.
@jerry tom : See ?? Destroying classic academia and scholars, so much so that, the history is even lost... This lend powers to allow others to take advantage. Imagine this..."CCP" was just a "group of farmers' army"... Really ?!!?!? .... And then they "won" the country ?!!? When you say it like this. Do you know how ridiculous it sounds ?? Sometimes.. I do not even know who to believe.
@@MeiinUKI don’t care, what your CCP is for you. They are all fully blooded Chinese. It is not apply to Mongols. What do you mean?
Soft contrast , fully grayscale tone , clear detail , excellent film quality.
videos like these are a precious heritage for human kind
WOW! This means a lot to a beijinger, watching what life was like in Beijing near a century ago really brings a new perspective. To think how short my existence will be compared to the history really puts me in awe..
It is so immersive watching these videos with traditional Chinese music.
How precious these are!
我喜欢这老视频！还有声音，我听到我能听懂的语言。这是一个我没有出生的时代。这很珍贵，这是一代人真实的记忆，和他们生活过的城市。我认为这是有意义的。我喜欢中国。以前的中国，现在的中国，我都喜欢。
请停止使用google翻译
Thank you. Very valuable footage. Interesting to see how the horse was tied to replace new shoes.
oh oh,,thans for shareing ,Mr MichaelRogge
These days we accumulate things and want everything we don’t need. But are stress to the core and not healthy.... simplicity is always to me is the best thing for mankind. I hope we will come to realize that one day🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
I like the music and like the way this is presented, no commentary, just a few words for reach scene. This let's the viewers more easily form their own views.
The first footage shows us a wild wild east.
Inner Mongolia looked exactly the same summer 2019
Wow!
But not Tibet. They was a an autonome state, also Turkestan. China occupied it.
@@MonsieurSquidward And there was evil cult practices and serf system for you as well
It could also outer mongolia. I think more outer mongolia
Tulgaa Gankhuyag Dude it sounds like Mongolia’s a part of China instead independent
Great footages. Thanks for your uploads 👍👍
Thank you for preserving the history. A great work
This is very valuable,thanks for uploading!
Those bicycles from the film reminds me of a fun fact.
Many older generations of local Beijing people, just like my grandma who is 87 years old this year, are still calling bicycles “洋车”, which means “western vehicles”.
Dang, miss the old days.
Interesting! Xie xie.
90年代也叫洋车
My favorite channel on UA-cam right now.
It has changed so much , since the time I was there in the 1990's !
Thank you for saving these beautiful priceless memorry
Many thanks Michael Rogge for the video !
I wish you all the best.
The Mongolian steppe people live such a beautiful and pure nomadic life enriched with custom and tradition. Horses and falconry...need I say more?
but the Chinese call them Barbarians or Ancient Dark 蒙古
This like Time travel👍👍👍
谢谢你保留了这么多 以前的中国的影像，真是很好的素材，让我们知道中国发展的不容易，多灾多难的中国，让我们更加珍惜现在的发展环境，中国一定会富强起来的。
这影片太珍贵了，没有被拆的老北京城
不知道是否可以转载？博主老爷爷真棒 感谢您分享这么多历史影像 太珍贵了！祝您长寿健康！
It's an amazing journey to the past of Inner Mongolia and Beijing nearly a hundred years ago.
omg looked so beautiful back then
Huge thanks for sharing these amazing videos with us!!!God bless you!!!💓👍🙏❤
Thank you for putting this video on youtube
How good music you catch!
Thank you very much for sharing this video, very precious and invaluable
Days in the world. Each era has its on glory, nostalgic time, disaster and downturn. Question is how can we make the present be a good memory to be remember. By ourself and others
Thanks for showing us this.
真有趣。老北京真漂亮。原来大家那时候真划龙舟，也说加油
你看古代小说，三言二拍，里面描写的那些事情跟现在没啥区别，婆媳矛盾，婚外情，街头泼皮
以前的录像都是没有录音的，这些音频都是拿其他音频拼接的。
。。现在也真划龙舟啊。。。
I live in Beijing now, it looks different but people act pretty much the same as in this video
When I watched the film I got very shocked. Qing dynasty (Manchu) had turned the old china into a real deep shit. The original old china was Han and the china most glorious day was described by Marco Polo during 1266.
Tai wee goo Marco Polo describe the yuan dynasty of Kublai Khan of the mongol empire and the Chinese was just one of their subjects or citizens.
感谢分享，太珍贵了
I am very sorry that Eastern societies, which could have been a center for a strong spirituality, have preferred to "evolve" by rejecting and destroying what they have been. Of naturalism, of mysticism, very little remains, perhaps only Mongolia. China and Japan could drive the spiritual rebirth of modern man, instead they wanted to create urban agglomerations and very small tourist routes that are only attractions for the inexperienced. This magnificent civilization, of asia, has a lot to teach, and with this video I also feel the scent of what pre-industrialized society meant. Magnificent. I would give every part of me to be able to live this reality. The houses, the landscapes, the rural life, still, motionless, the wayfarers, those who stopped in the houses to ask for rest and hot dishes, how wonderful, I have goosebumps.
Indeed Eastern countries have taken the lead at one time to point at the possible spiritual rebirth of man
@@michaelijsbrand that's right, thanks for the reply, it's a pleasure to watch his videos
We went through a lot that's why we are so great!
and so humble!
What? You've destroyed all this history to make room for concrete and greed for money
當年青年小夥子的髮型真帥！
When the world was still magical..
В тумане прошлого пытаюсь разглядеть,
свои былые лица.
Извилист и запутан путь веков,
и времени песок над ним пылится.
love the chinese people and their deep history... with respect from france.
Thank you so much for these wonderful films !!
Thank you so much ! From a peking girl
the background music is perfect
past history of China can be summarised as bitter circles of involution after Sui dynasty, I read like more than 1000 first hand historical materials in Chinese since my primary-school inspiration on traditional art,history and culture, the more I get in touch with the old Middle Kingdom the more amazement and frustration I got, maybe I am still way too young to be able appreciate the distant past of my country with true calmness and wisdom.
You must be a question beacon by now !
Thank you for the sharing! Love these documentary films!
Nice! Good that you have saved this video. I like that it's peaceful with clean air.
谢谢，非常宝贵的视频
Old China had some of the most Beautiful Buildings. They've all been knocked down and destroyed Forever. I find it very sad.
Very rare historical film. Thank you!
古代的人文學造詣是真的非常高！
小部分人。那个时候识字的也就10%。
@@jrbb1837 不到，清末识字的7%，以前肯定更少
Спасибо за видео,
The hair style of young man in the end of film is popular now in China. The fashion appears repeatedly.
感谢！！！
Thank you for your series of marvelous clips - I would also recommend Jeff Quitney's channel in case you have note sen it, it has some good movies on old China
Beautiful customs and costume from a lost time. The Chinese people have much to admire, rich history and a lavish culture. I wish the still enjoyed the freedom they once had.
Thank you Mr. Rogge.
I think the dragon festival where at the end of this film must be filmed in GuangDong.
I love that in Mongolia they live for the most part in the same way,
Couldn’t find the 9 dash line (over south China sea) on that map!!!
Thank you so much for share this video.
In the course of your travels, did you ever by chance run into John de Francis? He was a scholar traveling in the same places at the same time that you were there. Later he wrote Chinese language texts. He was the director of the Chinese language program at the University of Hawaii in the 1960s.
No TV no traffic no mall no phone no processed food..etc We are now a completely new species
You should say from Mongolia to China officially.
3.35 just bought the same lampshades off Amazon 19.99 a pair. They saw the future alright.
At this time, my mother's grandfather was selling tea in Beijing. Business was good, and there was a courtyard (the best house at that time).
Amazing footage
Man, I wish they kept the old Beijing walls, there's just no forts as gigantic as them
太珍贵了，感谢您
Awesome video
Letter writer... interesting... thank you for sharing this...
harry liu The letter writer you can see also in the Netherlands and Morocco in the old days.
Good old video Thanks
La Chine une très grande civilisation. Nous avons un profond respect en France pour la Chine. J adore ce film c est l âme de la Chine. Comme quand je regarde les anciens films sur la France. . La différence entre les deux deux pays c est que la Chine sera toujours là, Mais la France disparaîtra car nous sommes envahi par une immigration folle. Mais c est exclusivement la faute de nos dirigeants contrôlés par les instances Européennes sous influence américaine. J ai le regret de vous faire savoir que le peuple de France va disparaître peu à peu dans 5 à 6 générations remplacer par des gens venu du continent Africain. Donc la civilisation Française va disparaître. J espère que la Chine se souviendra un peu de la France. Chinois vous avez raison ne céder jamais à la pression des Américains. Et gardez bien vos frontières ne tolérez jamais une immigration sauf des personnes de passage. VIVE LA CHINE comme disait notre général de Gaulle.
Fascinating film about the Mongolian Steppes from the early 20th century. I noticed there was a scene called the Rice Sacrifice. The Mongolians in the film are on horseback. They live in tents. They are clearly a highly mobile people. They are nomads. Nomads do not have agriculture. Rice is a staple crop for many Far-East Asian cultures. It needs a lot of water to grow. So how does a nomadic people who herd animals for a living get rice? The Mongolian Steppes are notorious for their arid climate. Not enough water to do agriculture. Agriculture is required for humans to build civilization. The Mongolian people do not have agriculture and cannot build civilization. The Mongolian Steppes are hot during the day but freezing at night. How do they get rice for a Rice Sacrifice? In the early 13th century AD the Mongols became a significant force on the Mongolian Steppes after Chinghis Khan unified the 10 or more independent Mongol tribes. They had been raiding their agriculturalist, sedentary neighbors for food and other goods for many years. That would be the sedentary, rice growers known as the Chinese. Is that how Mongolians in this film got their rice for their Rice Sacrifice? The conflict between highly mobile warrior-like nomads and sedentary agriculturists have been going on since the dawn of civilization all over the world.
actually, Mongolia used to be part of China until 1921, and was only recognised in 1945. So it wasn't really dependent at the time of this film.
Mongolia has never been part of China. Mongolia and China both have been part of Manchurian empire.
I want to rectify your view of history. The Qing Dynasty was a dynasty in China. The Qing Dynasty was China, and China was the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Mongolia did belong to China. In August 14, 1945, the national government signed the Sino Soviet Treaty of friendship alliance with the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia was independent from the result of the referendum. The following year, independence was recognized.
@@feix4765 Oh yeah ? What is reason for taiping rebellion ? Who was Sengge Rinchen ?
@@feix4765 china was part of Imperial Japanese !
@@purevjargalpuujee4845 日本什么时候征服全中国了？傻嗨
Before WW2, the city was called Peiping(北平) and was not Beijing!
There wasn't an audio effect at all in video during the time or before WWII. So the sounds we heard today is fixed or rigged by the later uploader.
Life in Mongolia was self-sufficient. And now I understand why Arabia horse is the best... LOLOL..Mongolia horse is just OKEY... LOLOL... from the video.
Nice film. By the way, its title should be "The old Mongolia and China before WW II". These two countries were and are independent.
at that monment, mongolia is not a country
Through the video, I realized that Beijing had long been threatened by the dust storm. Glad that it has been significantly improved due to the three North project. With the manufacturing power China has today, the government can find ways to build canals to the desert areas in the future and improve.
Thanks for sharing.
Sehr wertvolle historische Aufnahmen
Thanks for sharing the video, Michael. It's amazing. Unfortunately, most buildings and Budas were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.
thanks to Mao Zedong!
Buddha.
very rare video!