วีดีโอ

Your voice intonation makes it sound like you're reading a hilarious story

22:00 "sparrow's nest". Perhaps you mean swift (or swiftlet) nest. Chinese style birds nest soup is made from the nests of cliff-dwelling swiftlets, which is gathered by agile and daredevil climbers in places like the Philippines, where I am from.

能把八大菜系及其他菜系(食療 藥膳)聚集在一起的地方 台灣

Excellent presentation, thank you very much

I gratefully practice Chen Taijiquan. But Taijiquan is not even close to being the oldest martial art in China. And the Taiji diagram traces back to Zhou Dunyi in the 11th century CE. There are written records attesting to the Kung Fu practiced at Song Shan as early as the eighth century CE. Your theory is fine but your history is very weak.

This is awful. I suppose they didn’t have opium poppies at that time. 😢

BALLS CUT OFF & GIVEN TO A WOMAN AS HER SLAVE.......DAMM.......JUST DAMM !!!!!!

My goodness, this was difficult to listen too.

This woman who is narrating apparently finds all this funny. Why is she allowed to narrate? What shame.

This is such a great introduction; thank you!

Beautiful! I am sure they have alot to share with us about true history.

“Reading a poem in translation is like looking at a beautiful woman through a veil, or a landscape through a mist, of varying degrees of thickness according to the translator’s skill and faithfulness to the original; and while I do not claim to possess the magic power of lifting the veil and dispersing the mist, I can at least point at the tantalizing features of the beauty and the faint contours of the mountains.” - James J.Y. Liu, The Art of Chinese Poetry

WOWEE! EXCELLENT culinary scholarship and cohesive presentation!! Thank you ❣️

Very interesting, thank you for making this video. I've been studying the Italian castrati (men castrated as boys to create soprano/contralto opera singers) from the 17th to 19th centuries the past 30 years or so and am intrigued by the starkly different methods of castration employed by the two cultures. In Italy the boys were usually given opium and then submerged in a very hot bath to "dull their senses". A small incision was then made in the scrotum and ducts leading to the testicles were severed. The loss of blood supply to the testicles caused them to shrivel up within a few weeks. The penis however remained intact, but because of a lack of testosterone produced by the testicles in puberty, it never grew to the size attained by men in adulthood. My question is: opium was a product imported from and produced in China, why wasn't it used by the Chinese to sedate their patients before full castration? Was opium not yet cultivated this far back in Chinese history?

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Who are you? Where are you teaching?❤❤❤❤

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Really interesting. Thanks!

Totally terrific video ... fantastic knowledge

The history of Wu Jianquan style is in error. Wu Gongyi was the head instructor of the 3rd generation, not Wu Yinghua. Wu Yinghua outlived her brothers, so she was the senior in family for about 12 years between 1983 and her passing in 1996. The senior position in the family then went to Wu Gongyi's daughter Wu Yanxia, then to Wu Gongzao's son Wu Daxin in 2000. In 2005, Wu Gongyi's grandson "Eddie" Wu Guangyu, the son of Wu Gongyi's oldest son Wu Dakui, inherited the senior position when Wu Daxin passed away.

Nothing beats the beauty of Chinese poetry, nothing!

Love the video here from Chinese born chinese

It's hard to find this information organized in the West, and thank you for this excellent overview of the regional cuisines!

And tai chi is far from being the oldest martial art of china, many have much long history

Ive been wanting to cook more authentic chinese dinners for a while now, this has been a big help in better understanding China's various cuisines! Thank you!

Fun fact, Fujianese aka Min Nan dialect sounds the closest to middle Classical Chinese. If you studied Korean, you will notice how close it sounds to the Min Nan dialect. Also a variety of Korean dishes has similar analogues in the region, the strong broth culture in Korea, the same marinated raw crab dish from the Teochew region. One has to wonder if this region is one of the primary exporters of Chinese culture in medieval East Asia.

The most vicious thing I've ever heard in this world...

I was born in China but wasn't raised there so this is really helpful for differentiating cuisines next time I'm back!

Thanks for uploading this! I really enjoyed this, back when I first listened to it! These webinars were definitely a silver lining to all the at-home stuff we were doing during and after the lockdown!

Das war großartig und so interessant! TH-cam kann wirklich eine Fundgrube sein! Vielen Dank!

China invented the noodle. And that cuisine isn’t even one of the great cuisines of China?”? Is it because xian isn’t important historically or it’s not pure Chinese ?

Sun yutang’s grandaughter still lives in Northampton, her husband Dave Martin, himself a Sun style teacher passed last year, my friend Carl Bateman who was a student of Dave still teaches and lives in Derby.

Don't bring religion into this

Absolutely the best summary of the history of Taiji on TH-cam. 🙏

Zhang Sanfeng did not invent Taijiquan. He created his own system which focused on Qi disruption methods using point strikes & other energy methods. It was developed (mainly) from his eariler Shaolin mastery of White Crane & Snake styles. The Chen Family also did not invent Taijiquan. Their style was derived from Shaolin Cannon Fist. Chen Chang Xin who was the teacher of Yang Luchan was the only Chen master to have been helped by Jiang Fa who was a descendant of Zhang Sanfeng to improve his skill, not change it, just improve it. Yang Luchan (after mastering Chen style) was introduced to Jiang Fa. Yang then learnt the full Zhang Sanfeng system. He then combined his Chen skill with his Zhang Sanfeng internal skill to develop his own style which also used the same point striking etc as the Sanfeng internal system. The use of the name Taiji Quan was not used until Yang Luchan demonstrated his skill at the Imperial Palace. At the Palace, The scholar Ong Tong He witnessed Yang's demonstration and wrote about it saying - 'Hands Holding Taiji shakes the whole world, a chest containing ultimate skill defeats a gathering of heros.' That's how it became known as Taijiquan. 🙂

💕 Promo_SM

Chinese folk religions are still huge in China and many of these deities have been worshipped for millenia. You can Google lots of accurate information about Chinese folk religions,the hundreds of active temple's,blending with Chinese Buddhism,etc

😳

Your voice is amazing

I can't believe that you're laughing!

Bring back the Eunuch....

Chiles are native to central/South America - so wouldn't have been available for this practice - Sichuan Pepper unrelated to chiles or black pepper does have a tingling numbing effect due - so maybe it could have been that? Humans are remarkably resilient and inventive - what a way to exist - but everything is relative and I can't judge.

An informative video. However I find it strange that the presenter's tone sounds sniggering and amused at times, when talking about these acts of horrific mutilation against, what was mostly boys. It would be considered outrageous if a male presenter was to talk of anything similar concerning females. And rightly so.

Why are you laughing at this it’s not funny

It's the same with female mutilation. Souch pain and suffering ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation

Other researchers have found that historically the definition of 'male' was essentially those that had lust for women, and eunuch was for anyone who was not interested in sex with women, whether castrated or gay (or asexual). There are several references to this alternative definition in the Bible. Are you SURE that all the eunuchs (by our current definition) in China back then were castrated and that none were just gay men who may have still been physically intact?

So the sudden and uncontrollable bouts of anger or sadness were caused by hormones, and nothing to do with the anger or sadness at the circumtances of their life that forced them into such a terrible choice then?

This is crazy! Its even more sad!