Two or three years ago I read the book "The Chinese Empire", by Herbert Franke and Rolf Trauzetel. I am a Lawyer and I have been studying the History of Law since 1990. What caught my attention most in the aforementioned book were the ideas of Han Fei-tzu (213 BC) about legal legalism, which advocates the Law as an abstract general norm applicable without distinction to all people regardless of any personal distinction. In Western antiquity this was never discussed. For example in Greek city-states, foreigners did not have the same treatment as citizens and in some only the rich could hold public office. In Rome the social distinction between patricians and plebeians was reflected in legislation, not to mention the difference between "ius civile" (applicable to Roman citizens) and "ius gentium" (applicable to conquered peoples). In the West, equality before the law would only slowly begin to be implemented after the French Revolution. But even today, probably due to neoliberalism, it is possible to see the Judiciary of democratic and developed countries applying the Law in a different way according to the status and economic condition of the people or as a result of the position they occupy in the State.
i.e. trump not in prison rn for the stealing top secret docs... anyone else being investigated for his crimes would be in jail rn. look at how the j6 traitors are being sent to yrs in prison while the man who 100% encouraged it is running for the freaking presidency. trump is a perfect example of a 2 tiered justice system youre speaking of. it is pretty amazing though that chinese thinkers in 200 bc were contemplating justice regardless one's of position in life... such a simplistic idea that has never truly came to fruition due to someone always held to a different standard in every society throughout mankind.
_'But even today, probably due to neoliberalism…'_ You will spend the rest of your life, dedicated to explaining (excusing) the inherent flaws of your ideology: _Socialism really will create paradise on Earth, as soon as it is implemented correctly._ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Well, that may be good & well, but the modern Chinese don't practice "Legal Legalism" nor was that applied over the centuries within their culture, ever. The rich always had personal distinction, just like CCP members get personal distinction. A very modern example of this is Peng Shuai. Google The Guardian article 'Tennis Peng Shuai WTA China U Turn and tell me that the laws are applied without distinction and that money doesn't play a part of the power. Let's be clear, Peng Shuai publicly accused former Chinese vice-premier, Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. Not only was Zhang Gaoli never investigated for the crime, the victim, Peng Shuai, was removed from public and silenced by the CCP. She hasn't attended a WTA event since that time and when WTA officials asked for clarification, she was only allowed to be interviewed by FOREIGNERS with CCP officials in the room and speaking CHINESE when she is fluent in English. WTA was boycotting their contract to play the WTA championship games going forward in China, FOR MONEY, until they were clear Peng Shuai was safe. Fast forward 2 years, and there is still no response by the CCP nor Shuai, and now that COVID RESTRICTIONS are over, the WTA's state boycott is broken because they don't truly care about the "PERSONAL DISTINCTION" of the legal legalism of having someone be investigated and prosecuted under the laws of the land, and someone's rights and freedoms being violated as long as they get CHINESE MONEY.
@@BornToKillNY Not much is known about ancient civilizations in the Americas. It can readily be assumed that where abundant farmland and water existed that developed civilizations flourished. The point is there are very few stone buildings or records to tell us of these past peoples.
@@muzikizfun you know this is 100% false so much has been found in america lands its more, bigger ANCIENT civilization here actually if you wanna be technical eveything was found here down to animal bones nothing but a pyramid a few dead temples in giza haha 😂 ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ON MEXICO PYRAMIDS THAT NATIVE INDIANS DID BLACK NATIVE INDIAN TO BE exact they know all there history and destroyed most of it but they we still have it thanks to India 💜 WE AMERIKA WERE THE ANNUNAKI WE CREATED LIFE ON EARTH Actually the reason they ignore aztek cuz aztek says this is argtha inner earth 🤦♂️ they guarded the other realms see slot hidden specially the real Gods Lyrans have you not notice growing up lyrans were all over giza now its Reptilians how ?
Agriculture between the Yellow and Pearl rivers produced a unique culture. Rice farming required a community effort spread over generations to build and maintain canals, dikes and rice paddies for flood irrigation of a swamp grain that was not equaled elsewhere. Confucius later codified that ancient culture.
Without Qin Shi Huang, there would be no current China. He unified the language, writing system, weight to measurement. Without him, China would have been divided into many kingdoms which may eventually became smaller countries now like present Europe. He was the creator, the maker of China As someone who was obssesed with immortality, I think he has successfully achieved it. He's still "alive" now, feared, amazed, talked, admired. Although it is not in the manner as he wished, he is immortal. What a man!
China is still un unified if the differing nations with in had a choice they would leave. Oppression keeps China one nation. That's not unified thats a slave nation
He was a complex figure. Brutal and paranoid, and yet with a big vision for China, and he was probably a huge narcissist, since his vision of One China meant One China under his absolute rule. Nevertheless, he was a brilliant military commander of his times. He also started drinking mercury later in his life, believing that mercury was an elixir of immortality. His last years are the story of a once great man who was completely losing his mind as his nervous system deteriorated from the constant mercury intake. While I would be careful about deifying or over-glorifying him, the fact is as you state, without him it is not certain at all that what we now call China would ever have been unified.
The same is true for North America, because of the Mississippi. Watch this video on the subject on the Real Life Lore TH-cam channel: How Geography Made The US Ridiculously OP th-cam.com/video/BubAF7KSs64/w-d-xo.html
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The music was getting me so uncomfortable. We Han Chinese don’t use this style when explaining “ancient” Chinese culture. Cuz the instrument was not Han originated, and the style was closer to later time in the history. I guess Westerners would like to use this to represent Chinese culture just because of the influence from Hollywood Chinese movies.
It took me 2 minutes to fall asleep watching this. The soft music helped and I was glad afterward for it’s peaceful effect. I was very tired. But I was sorry I missed the story, so when someone asked me a question and brought me back to the video, I got another chance to watch it. Thank you.
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That historian after 5:00 was so wrong almst every words... Zhou didn't break up very soon, if you consider several hundred of years are "soon". and also, Qin never was a small state, it was the 2nd largest in land, biggest in agriculture aand manpower. in short, the history of China sounds like tales and magic in his words, but actually it was science and logic. Qin became dominance not from a small country, but because it's already the largest and strongest almost in every dimension.
Agree with you. From the very beginning, a lof of misinformation. The Zhou dynasty was not a different people that took over the Shang. The first King of the Zhou was a high official in the Shang dynasty. The Zhou dynasty did not do centralized ruling but gave land to their offsprings and relatives as well as people who had won wars etc. to rule their own land. So the Zhou dynasty was sort of like what was in Europe. But the nobilities after a few hundred years started to fight between themselves. The Zhou dynasty lasted 800 years, the longest dynasty in Chinese history. The first emperor was a si ma, official in charge of horses, of the Zhou dynasty. When Zhou dynasty moved to the East, the Zhou king gave his old place to his si ma, who later united China, and started the centralized ruling, and became the first emperor of China.
This was very enjoyable to watch, always been fascinated with China. A relative of mine visited a section of the great wall and saw the terracotta army back in the 90s.
Too much about Qinshihuang. Very shallow look at Confucius and Confucianism. Almost nothing about Chinese literature. (The Tang poems? The Ming and Qing novels?) Almost nothing about China's achievements in science and technology. (Joseph Needham?) I think this documentary could use some improvement...
I think this documentary (despite its misinterpretations and mistakes) is a well intentioned attempt at helping non-Chinese begin to understand one of the longest lasting, continuous but adaptive cultures that created the modern nation-state of China. Be Well!! 😃
Not enough on the Game of Thrones-y Feudal Period, what with all the hostages and enfeoffment conflicts and political stabbings, ladies seducing lords and dukes starting wars due to beautiful women. Not enough on the others from the 100 Schools of Thought. Not enough on Chinese engineering. Basically, this is a very cursory look that barely scratches the surface, and the Pangu myth is a late addition to the Chinese cosmology, and actually likely was a foreign adoption. Indigenous myths were around Shangdi and Nuwa and all that.
An excellent, early (1990s) documentary on China….Most interesting to me was realizing how little the Chinese people have changed over time : as the interviewed historian says, “The Chinese have always had the desire to seal themselves off from the outside world” (as we’re seeing happening again)…. Also, I’ve always been somewhat amused by my (very educated) Chinese friends’ strong beliefs in omens & superstitions (especially, the belief that drastic or unusual weather & other phenomena are harbingers of momentous events)-beliefs hardly changed from their ancestors….Leaves me wondering if there aren’t, nestled deep within our DNA, the ghosts of our ancestors….
i 100% think our ancestors experiences are imprinted in our dna. it becomes unlearned wisdom we just know... like how to spot a snake in foliage or a lion in the grass. we have somewhat lost it since our lives no longer require it but if you meet enough people you can see that some people naturally have those survival traits and some are compleely void of any sort of survival skills. imo the person we are, our natural abilities, our survival skills all comes from who our ancestors were and the things they went through. im shrooming my arse off right now so i dunno if what i wrote was grammatically correct let alone makes sense to a sober & sane person, lol.
The Chinese people have unfortunately changed greatly and much of their own history is obfuscated and covered up if it doesn’t really align with the current politburos goals
The Han are not the indigenous people of China. Indigenous means Black people, since they are the only human beings on the planet according to science.
In my country legends only young beautiful women are buried under bridges and churches. Preferably freshly married and with young child. However, I don't know if it actually happened or it's just legends.
It is not petsonal. It is a difference in transportation. Central is a word relating to identifying spaces, like saying you in are the center of the room or the hands of an analog clock are attached in the center of a face. The word middle is to designate place, as if you have 3 siblings and are the second born, you are the middle child. This production was probably made in the early 2000s, with a limited budget, and for the casual viewer, not a historian.
yeah that historian is giving a lot of inaccuracies, for one: though they are aware of and understand its morbid origins, chinese are incredibly proud of the great wall and what it symbolizes
depends on who you ask. Stop pretending that almost one and a half billion people all share the same perspective on their history. They don't even speak a single language for crying out loud or practice the same religion. There are many who look at the Wall and see it as purely a symbol of tyranny. Chinese stand up comedians make fun of it.
@@Fear_the_Nog you're totally right. my comment was meant to just advise others to not take what this historian is claiming for 100% truth, because just as you say, there's so much more to China than the broad claims he makes at times. I watch documentaries to learn, but sometimes you gotta take them with a grain of salt. So if something in them is not correct or there's another major perspective not being provided, I would want to be made aware of it.
@@Fear_the_Nog How is the wall a symbol of tyranny ? It was literally built to protect the country from outside invaders, something that happen very frequent during ancient time. Only a smooth brain would think the wall somehow represent tyranny.
The mythical title God of War was given to Chiyou because the Yellow Emperor and Yan Emperor could not defeat Chiyou alone. Altogether, Chiyou won nine major battles including 80 minor confrontations. On the 10th and final war, both emperors combined their forces and conquered Chiyou. This part im about to write has never been written in history or stated down because its gonna make them two EMPEROR look like DOG SHIT. Ancestors who made their way out of China after Chiyou was capture kept the fire going... till these days.... the fire is still burning about Chiyou legacy. After losing the 9th battles. the two emperors gave up.... sending message to ChiYou that they are not going to fight no more. to end the LONG WAR. Chiyou accpeted and stop the war, they got close to one of his leaders and bribe him with GOLD and higher position to betray Chiyou....and thats excactly what happen. He then told the two emperor the only way for you two to win Chiyou is Come when it's Raining.... built blockage to his village and flood his kingdom. when he sees his ppl suffering, he will then surrender by then u have a chance to capture him and do w.e u want. so, the two emperors begin to construct blockage and wait for a heavy rain strom...and flooded Chiyou kingdom. Chiyou then surrender and was capture by the two emperors. He knew who betray him but still love them as his son and for gave them for what they have done. the two emperors then cut chiyou into 9 pieces and scattered his body part around.... until this day no one knows where his body is at because of fake tomb to cover up......the two emperors have a saying that this is the only way to keep the Miao people apart and there should never be a person like Chiyou ever again in MIAO life to lead them and show them.
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@@mingouczjcz3800 From 1985 some Chinese argued that when Zhou eliminated Shang, some Shang's main troops floated to middle America and that was Maya. However Shang had chariots, wheels, bronze, Chinese letters, Chinese calenders etc. So I don't believe their theory. I think the main troops scattered everywhere in China when Zhou at last defeated Shang.
Actually, the ancient neolithic Chinese did that, but more for bigger structure, such as palaces or walls. Due to the difficult tasks, human sacrifices were performed at the foundation to seek divine assistance. This has been proven by archaeology. The Shang also inherited this practice and human sacrifices can be found in the foundation of their palatial complexes as well. The Zhou stopped this, as they encountered a population increase, so they need as many pairs of hands to be farmers. However, some descendants of the Shang still practice this, until someone developed the idea to use clay/wooden dolls. This was also proven by the terracotta armies and archaeology research around Han dynasty mausoleum. Regardless, this has become an urban legend to scare the children not to wander away from the parents, "if you go to somewhere unknown, you will be buried to ensure the new structure is secured".
@@kennywong4239 我知道你认识汉字，你说的所有人从商朝开始都埋在墓地，祭祀区，看好了。 I know you use Chinese. All the guys you mentioned from Shang on were buried in cemetery and sacrifiicial area. See clearly.
I had the impression that this would be a well-documented video on China, but I find it rather mundane and lack Indepth. Fortunately, I didn't have to waste my time and, thanks to technologies, can skip sections to get to the end.
Photography was not invented then. To preserve with Arts & Drawings. Hence, you find many statutes and figurines. As a result, today you find China a country of well cultured educated inhabitants with a 'proud and stuck-up' attitude speaking Mandarin.
MORE INTERESTING IS THE CHILDHOOD LIFE OF PRINCE TIREN LATER NAMED KING ZHENG AFTER HIS FATHER'S DEATH AND AGAIN CHANGED HIS NAME TO QIN SHI HUANG'S WHEN HE ASCENDED THE THRONE HERE IS A LIST OF ENTERTAING CHINESE ENGLISH SUBBED DRAMAS ON VARIOUS DYNASTIES. EMPRESS OF CHINA THE STORY OF YANXI PALACE MING DYNASTY QING DYNASTY "WINTER BEGONIA" FEATURING A MALE OPERA SINGER
Highly developed societies and cultures of ancient China became an obstacle for its later industrialization in 18 centuries due to the cumbersome political system and the inveterate cognition of the world.😂
I don't know who is this gentleman, but his poor knowledge shocked me. To bury human, live or dead, under buildings is a long lasting Chinese history ugly tradition, it can go back to at least Late Shang period (晚商時期) ,1600-1100 BC.
this first interviewer has a very mislead information and opinion of Chinese culture! The Great Wall was a collection of walls built long before Qing. Qing connected them!
He actually mentioned that. There were earlier walls built. It was connected by Qing. Work rarely ceased, with repairs and improvements continuously for centuries under many Dynasties. It's a constant project for restoration today.. Recently a couple of people chose to "make a shortcut" through a section of the Great Wall.. Not advocating, but I wouldn't protest the addition of 2 more "spirits" adding their strength to possible future restoration. Be Well!! 😃
budhism was not a religion, was the only man who said wasnt a prophet. :))))) and stew u do in uk, we dont even eat it in romania. in fact budha said anybody can be like him, so should i rate this
@@zzzyyy5178 I make it short: Either your comprehension or your writing is so bad that you just contradicted yourself with your Yuan empire example. And sssuuuuurrrrrrreeeeeee every emperor considered himself chinese, even the manchu ones apparently.
@@inotaishu1 The Manchu ones considered themselves Chinese. They did not consider themselves Han, mind you. You're confusing the idea of China with an ethnostate. It never quite was that. China was treated like how Rome and Egypt was treated by those who ruled it. At its zenith and height of power, yes, indeed, its people the Hans considered all other cultures and peoples inferior and barbaric, but they were only unified as a people in terms of being part of Chinese Civilization, much like how Rome was. You can become Roman, without needing to be a Latin from Latium. In the same way that Cleopatra viewed herself as Egyptian, the Manchus viewed themselves as Chinese, because they ruled China.
@@Fear_the_Nog I am not going to comment on what you all got wrong, again, but get to the main point: that still doesn't answer my first question!!!! How exactly are all these different states and empires all "China"? Geographically doesn't work apparently, it is not based on culture or language, nor ethnicity.
@@inotaishu1the land is called China, or central kingdom. When a empire collapses，it breaks down into several states, then the states fight each other to unite China again. the state won would then name itself xx dynasty. And show that they are the legitimate government of China, chosen by the heaven. 😂
Unfortunately because of the One Child per Family Rule, China is undergoing the lowest birth rate in its entire history. In a few decades, China is expected to have the smallest population its ever had. I know this rule has been changed to the Two Children per Family, but the damage has been done.
I do not understand why this is regarded as a 'good', or even 'acceptable' documentary. Beyond obvious biases, it can't even get basic facts right. The Great Wall, while wondrous, was not one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World (Colossus of Rhodes, the Great Pyramid, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis in Ephasus, and the now-believed-apocryphal Hanging Gardens of Babylon). While the Great Wall can be seen from low earth orbit, and some higher orbits, it is not visible by the human eye from Geosynchronous orbit (35,000+km), much less Lunar distances (362,000 km). If I recall correctly, that claim was made by Jules Verne, around 100 years before we landed on the moon. If the documentary can't get these sort of easily researched basics correct, or challenge experts when they get them wrong, I have a hard time believing there was sufficient fact verification on any of the subject matter. (Yes, it was pre-internet for most people; the 7 wonders are listed in any encyclopedia, and the Great Wall from the Moon claim was refutable by minimal research; which I had done, myself, by 1989)
I spit my drink everywhere and snorted laughing when he said the freaking moon. Maybe i'll save this under comedy documentary, it would fit neatly next to docudubery's "what the fall of constantinopel meant for lebron james legacy"
And today the Chinese are Serfs and Plebes. Im not impressed. Have a spine and throw off the yoke of your Oppressors. Then maybe your Story will be Inspiring . Not so Lame.
In fact, more and more evidence shows that many descriptions of Qin Shihuang's cruelty are false or exaggerated, and many laws of the Qin Dynasty seem complete and reasonable today. In 2002, archaeological discoveries of over 200,000 words of Qin Dynasty documents revealed many interesting things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liye_Qin_Slips
Hello is their any Chinese people who understand this documentary that can tell me or not if this is a load of shit or not... because it sounds like a made up story trying to describe Chinese people and invent a story with the information they have gathered so far... idk let me know 😂😂😂
@ANTSEMUT1 what I figures and how I felt about it before you responded but I was Born in Germany and raised in america and spent about a month in Hong Kong and a day in Central china so I am not expert but I know a little bit and learn fast and done believe what don't make sense if you catch my drift 🥸😎🫡✌🏾🙏🏾
Two or three years ago I read the book "The Chinese Empire", by Herbert Franke and Rolf Trauzetel. I am a Lawyer and I have been studying the History of Law since 1990. What caught my attention most in the aforementioned book were the ideas of Han Fei-tzu (213 BC) about legal legalism, which advocates the Law as an abstract general norm applicable without distinction to all people regardless of any personal distinction.
In Western antiquity this was never discussed. For example in Greek city-states, foreigners did not have the same treatment as citizens and in some only the rich could hold public office. In Rome the social distinction between patricians and plebeians was reflected in legislation, not to mention the difference between "ius civile" (applicable to Roman citizens) and "ius gentium" (applicable to conquered peoples).
In the West, equality before the law would only slowly begin to be implemented after the French Revolution. But even today, probably due to neoliberalism, it is possible to see the Judiciary of democratic and developed countries applying the Law in a different way according to the status and economic condition of the people or as a result of the position they occupy in the State.
i.e. trump not in prison rn for the stealing top secret docs... anyone else being investigated for his crimes would be in jail rn. look at how the j6 traitors are being sent to yrs in prison while the man who 100% encouraged it is running for the freaking presidency.
trump is a perfect example of a 2 tiered justice system youre speaking of.
it is pretty amazing though that chinese thinkers in 200 bc were contemplating justice regardless one's of position in life...
such a simplistic idea that has never truly came to fruition due to someone always held to a different standard in every society throughout mankind.
_'But even today, probably due to neoliberalism…'_
You will spend the rest of your life, dedicated to explaining (excusing) the inherent flaws of your ideology:
_Socialism really will create paradise on Earth, as soon as it is implemented correctly._
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?
Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Well, that may be good & well, but the modern Chinese don't practice "Legal Legalism" nor was that applied over the centuries within their culture, ever. The rich always had personal distinction, just like CCP members get personal distinction. A very modern example of this is Peng Shuai. Google The Guardian article 'Tennis Peng Shuai WTA China U Turn and tell me that the laws are applied without distinction and that money doesn't play a part of the power.
Let's be clear, Peng Shuai publicly accused former Chinese vice-premier, Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. Not only was Zhang Gaoli never investigated for the crime, the victim, Peng Shuai, was removed from public and silenced by the CCP. She hasn't attended a WTA event since that time and when WTA officials asked for clarification, she was only allowed to be interviewed by FOREIGNERS with CCP officials in the room and speaking CHINESE when she is fluent in English. WTA was boycotting their contract to play the WTA championship games going forward in China, FOR MONEY, until they were clear Peng Shuai was safe. Fast forward 2 years, and there is still no response by the CCP nor Shuai, and now that COVID RESTRICTIONS are over, the WTA's state boycott is broken because they don't truly care about the "PERSONAL DISTINCTION" of the legal legalism of having someone be investigated and prosecuted under the laws of the land, and someone's rights and freedoms being violated as long as they get CHINESE MONEY.
cool it bruh.....calm your intellectual bone-er down.
@@mrgenetics4063 Haven't you dropped dead today?
The key to most advanced ancient civilizations was water. The great rivers were the key in China, India, Southeast Asia, Sumaria, and Egypt.
sheesh yall super bugging america is the ancient land !!
@@BornToKillNY Not much is known about ancient civilizations in the Americas. It can readily be assumed that where abundant farmland and water existed that developed civilizations flourished. The point is there are very few stone buildings or records to tell us of these past peoples.
@@muzikizfun you know this is 100% false so much has been found in america lands its more, bigger ANCIENT civilization here actually if you wanna be technical eveything was found here down to animal bones nothing but a pyramid a few dead temples in giza haha 😂 ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ON MEXICO PYRAMIDS THAT NATIVE INDIANS DID BLACK NATIVE INDIAN TO BE exact they know all there history and destroyed most of it but they we still have it thanks to India 💜 WE AMERIKA WERE THE ANNUNAKI WE CREATED LIFE ON EARTH Actually the reason they ignore aztek cuz aztek says this is argtha inner earth 🤦♂️ they guarded the other realms see slot hidden specially the real Gods Lyrans have you not notice growing up lyrans were all over giza now its Reptilians how ?
Mayans had the river too, but it was BELLOW the ground, check it out @@muzikizfun
Agriculture between the Yellow and Pearl rivers produced a unique culture. Rice farming required a community effort spread over generations to build and maintain canals, dikes and rice paddies for flood irrigation of a swamp grain that was not equaled elsewhere. Confucius later codified that ancient culture.
Without Qin Shi Huang, there would be no current China. He unified the language, writing system, weight to measurement. Without him, China would have been divided into many kingdoms which may eventually became smaller countries now like present Europe. He was the creator, the maker of China
As someone who was obssesed with immortality, I think he has successfully achieved it. He's still "alive" now, feared, amazed, talked, admired. Although it is not in the manner as he wished, he is immortal. What a man!
Exactly!
China is still un unified if the differing nations with in had a choice they would leave. Oppression keeps China one nation. That's not unified thats a slave nation
He was a complex figure. Brutal and paranoid, and yet with a big vision for China, and he was probably a huge narcissist, since his vision of One China meant One China under his absolute rule. Nevertheless, he was a brilliant military commander of his times.
He also started drinking mercury later in his life, believing that mercury was an elixir of immortality. His last years are the story of a once great man who was completely losing his mind as his nervous system deteriorated from the constant mercury intake.
While I would be careful about deifying or over-glorifying him, the fact is as you state, without him it is not certain at all that what we now call China would ever have been unified.
The same is true for North America, because of the Mississippi. Watch this video on the subject on the Real Life Lore TH-cam channel:
How Geography Made The US Ridiculously OP
th-cam.com/video/BubAF7KSs64/w-d-xo.html
He is also the killer of free thinking intellectuals. He is at least part of the reason why China is lesser a country than US.
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The music was getting me so uncomfortable. We Han Chinese don’t use this style when explaining “ancient” Chinese culture. Cuz the instrument was not Han originated, and the style was closer to later time in the history. I guess Westerners would like to use this to represent Chinese culture just because of the influence from Hollywood Chinese movies.
I have the same feeling.
I’m Arab but I’m obsessed with Chinese culture and history
You can read Chinese online novels, Arabs like Fang Yuan
@@user-fs9kc1vo4o what do you mean? Who’s Fang Yuanv
@@guldanh The protagonist of a Chinese fantasy novel, loved by many Arabs th-cam.com/video/gqAgRqmC3fE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UFK4qo9C8V1y8gnA
Architecture of wooden temple in 山西is still standing with a history of more than 1100 years.
One of the ingenious civilizations that moved humans forward
A truly astounding culture.
Fascinating. ☑
Great tuff
It took me 2 minutes to fall asleep watching this. The soft music helped and I was glad afterward for it’s peaceful effect. I was very tired.
But I was sorry I missed the story, so when someone asked me a question and brought me back to the video, I got another chance to watch it. Thank you.
Then you woke up many hours later and left this comment? Nice!
@@capsicum886 it was not like I slept all night . Just a needed nap.
The music at the start is so beautiful and soothing.
Another 30 yr old classic piece of uploading. Ancient knowledge about ancient knowledge.
Who said we would bury someone under the house? No, never had this happened after Zhou Dynasty.
The Central Kingdom has a written history of more than 3800 years, a civilization of 5000 years, relic evidence of 1100000 years.
Humans are only supposed to have left Africa 70,000 years ago.
@@sandponicswell there was an unsuccessful attempt around 125,000 years ago. Before they died out they made as far as modern day Iraq iirc.
@@sandponics Thats more an theory and a false one
The first King of Zhou dynasty was a high official in the Shang dynasty.
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lovely old documentary.. however 2:13 sounds like somethings from an austin powers movie...
Who said we would bury someone under the house? No, never had this happened after Zhou Dynasty.
Roda sejarah akan berputar kembali ke asalnya.China telah menuju jati diri negara besar yang berpengaruh.
That historian after 5:00 was so wrong almst every words... Zhou didn't break up very soon, if you consider several hundred of years are "soon". and also, Qin never was a small state, it was the 2nd largest in land, biggest in agriculture aand manpower. in short, the history of China sounds like tales and magic in his words, but actually it was science and logic. Qin became dominance not from a small country, but because it's already the largest and strongest almost in every dimension.
Agree with you. From the very beginning, a lof of misinformation. The Zhou dynasty was not a different people that took over the Shang. The first King of the Zhou was a high official in the Shang dynasty. The Zhou dynasty did not do centralized ruling but gave land to their offsprings and relatives as well as people who had won wars etc. to rule their own land. So the Zhou dynasty was sort of like what was in Europe. But the nobilities after a few hundred years started to fight between themselves. The Zhou dynasty lasted 800 years, the longest dynasty in Chinese history. The first emperor was a si ma, official in charge of horses, of the Zhou dynasty. When Zhou dynasty moved to the East, the Zhou king gave his old place to his si ma, who later united China, and started the centralized ruling, and became the first emperor of China.
秦国的强大是因为法律解放了奴隶，拥有了更高效的组织方式和更强的军队，他们拥有的地理位置优势是任何一个国家都无法相比的，它的核心领土足以养活五百万人口，并且容易获取大量马匹，同时他们可以依靠优势地形抵挡六国联军的多次围困和进攻。
This was very enjoyable to watch, always been fascinated with China. A relative of mine visited a section of the great wall and saw the terracotta army back in the 90s.
41:33 ok that's enough tv for today
I love learning about the east
Too much about Qinshihuang.
Very shallow look at Confucius and Confucianism.
Almost nothing about Chinese literature. (The Tang poems? The Ming and Qing novels?)
Almost nothing about China's achievements in science and technology. (Joseph Needham?)
I think this documentary could use some improvement...
This documentary is meant to be a mere ‘introduction’ to Chinese history - definitely not a complete encyclopedia…
@@fabiengerard8142 Then it should focus only on the _origins_ of China. Leave out everything else. Except it didn't.
I think this documentary (despite its misinterpretations and mistakes) is a well intentioned attempt at helping non-Chinese begin to understand one of the longest lasting, continuous but adaptive cultures that created the modern nation-state of China.
Be Well!! 😃
@@michaelfritts6249 Thank you. :)
Not enough on the Game of Thrones-y Feudal Period, what with all the hostages and enfeoffment conflicts and political stabbings, ladies seducing lords and dukes starting wars due to beautiful women. Not enough on the others from the 100 Schools of Thought. Not enough on Chinese engineering. Basically, this is a very cursory look that barely scratches the surface, and the Pangu myth is a late addition to the Chinese cosmology, and actually likely was a foreign adoption. Indigenous myths were around Shangdi and Nuwa and all that.
Great video China rules!
Be careful what you wish for.
@@sandponics what?
Correction, 7000 year civilization
An excellent, early (1990s) documentary on China….Most interesting to me was realizing how little the Chinese people have changed over time : as the interviewed historian says, “The Chinese have always had the desire to seal themselves off from the outside world” (as we’re seeing happening again)….
Also, I’ve always been somewhat amused by my (very educated) Chinese friends’ strong beliefs in omens & superstitions (especially, the belief that drastic or unusual weather & other phenomena are harbingers of momentous events)-beliefs hardly changed from their ancestors….Leaves me wondering if there aren’t, nestled deep within our DNA, the ghosts of our ancestors….
You just know the surface and comments like this. Do read up more.
i 100% think our ancestors experiences are imprinted in our dna. it becomes unlearned wisdom we just know... like how to spot a snake in foliage or a lion in the grass.
we have somewhat lost it since our lives no longer require it but if you meet enough people you can see that some people naturally have those survival traits and some are compleely void of any sort of survival skills.
imo the person we are, our natural abilities, our survival skills all comes from who our ancestors were and the things they went through.
im shrooming my arse off right now so i dunno if what i wrote was grammatically correct let alone makes sense to a sober & sane person, lol.
Nah, this is a very shallow understanding. Maybe because it is an old video.
The Chinese people have unfortunately changed greatly and much of their own history is obfuscated and covered up if it doesn’t really align with the current politburos goals
The Han are not the indigenous people of China. Indigenous means Black people, since they are the only human beings on the planet according to science.
In my country legends only young beautiful women are buried under bridges and churches. Preferably freshly married and with young child. However, I don't know if it actually happened or it's just legends.
Not Middle Kingdom, they actually originally call themselves central kingdom, but westerners just don’t want to give good name to other countries.
It is not petsonal. It is a difference in transportation. Central is a word relating to identifying spaces, like saying you in are the center of the room or the hands of an analog clock are attached in the center of a face. The word middle is to designate place, as if you have 3 siblings and are the second born, you are the middle child.
This production was probably made in the early 2000s, with a limited budget, and for the casual viewer, not a historian.
@@Nylon_riot They called themselves central kingdom because they thought they were in the center of the world. thus central kindgom is correct.
Lmao translation
It is a bit like Tolken's Middle Earth, pure fiction.
The Great Wall of China CANNOT be seen from the Moon. Let’s just get that straight right away.
Been there have you.
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The guy who speaks here, his voice is so soothing and calming 😭
yeah that historian is giving a lot of inaccuracies, for one: though they are aware of and understand its morbid origins, chinese are incredibly proud of the great wall and what it symbolizes
depends on who you ask. Stop pretending that almost one and a half billion people all share the same perspective on their history. They don't even speak a single language for crying out loud or practice the same religion. There are many who look at the Wall and see it as purely a symbol of tyranny. Chinese stand up comedians make fun of it.
@@Fear_the_Nog you're totally right. my comment was meant to just advise others to not take what this historian is claiming for 100% truth, because just as you say, there's so much more to China than the broad claims he makes at times. I watch documentaries to learn, but sometimes you gotta take them with a grain of salt. So if something in them is not correct or there's another major perspective not being provided, I would want to be made aware of it.
@@Fear_the_Nog How is the wall a symbol of tyranny ? It was literally built to protect the country from outside invaders, something that happen very frequent during ancient time. Only a smooth brain would think the wall somehow represent tyranny.
Our Lady Of China • The Great Mother
THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
That is not a wall, it is a road, Bridge,
How old is this video? 1980s?
The mythical title God of War was given to Chiyou because the Yellow Emperor and Yan Emperor could not defeat Chiyou alone. Altogether, Chiyou won nine major battles including 80 minor confrontations. On the 10th and final war, both emperors combined their forces and conquered Chiyou. This part im about to write has never been written in history or stated down because its gonna make them two EMPEROR look like DOG SHIT. Ancestors who made their way out of China after Chiyou was capture kept the fire going... till these days.... the fire is still burning about Chiyou legacy. After losing the 9th battles. the two emperors gave up.... sending message to ChiYou that they are not going to fight no more. to end the LONG WAR. Chiyou accpeted and stop the war, they got close to one of his leaders and bribe him with GOLD and higher position to betray Chiyou....and thats excactly what happen. He then told the two emperor the only way for you two to win Chiyou is Come when it's Raining.... built blockage to his village and flood his kingdom. when he sees his ppl suffering, he will then surrender by then u have a chance to capture him and do w.e u want. so, the two emperors begin to construct blockage and wait for a heavy rain strom...and flooded Chiyou kingdom. Chiyou then surrender and was capture by the two emperors. He knew who betray him but still love them as his son and for gave them for what they have done. the two emperors then cut chiyou into 9 pieces and scattered his body part around.... until this day no one knows where his body is at because of fake tomb to cover up......the two emperors have a saying that this is the only way to keep the Miao people apart and there should never be a person like Chiyou ever again in MIAO life to lead them and show them.
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Wow, didn't even show the ammo or it during, what blue balls you give everyone
I wish I could, somehow, make Australian politicians watch and learn.
Huh?? Everyone’s an idiot. Haven’t you figured that out?
Why? I don't understand your comment. Enlighten me please.
Yep(MODern)
You want modern Aussie politicians to model their government off of a feudal warlord and god emperor system that subjugated millions?
Australian politicians still think the Great Wall of China was built to keep the rabbits out 🐇
Who said we would bury someone under the house? No, never had this happened after Zhou Dynasty.
The author wittily thought that this type of Maya's idea or practice is the same as ancient Chinese practice.
@@mingouczjcz3800 From 1985 some Chinese argued that when Zhou eliminated Shang, some Shang's main troops floated to middle America and that was Maya. However Shang had chariots, wheels, bronze, Chinese letters, Chinese calenders etc. So I don't believe their theory. I think the main troops scattered everywhere in China when Zhou at last defeated Shang.
@@mingouczjcz3800 Even in Shang they buried the dead in tombs outside the city.
Actually, the ancient neolithic Chinese did that, but more for bigger structure, such as palaces or walls. Due to the difficult tasks, human sacrifices were performed at the foundation to seek divine assistance. This has been proven by archaeology. The Shang also inherited this practice and human sacrifices can be found in the foundation of their palatial complexes as well. The Zhou stopped this, as they encountered a population increase, so they need as many pairs of hands to be farmers. However, some descendants of the Shang still practice this, until someone developed the idea to use clay/wooden dolls. This was also proven by the terracotta armies and archaeology research around Han dynasty mausoleum.
Regardless, this has become an urban legend to scare the children not to wander away from the parents, "if you go to somewhere unknown, you will be buried to ensure the new structure is secured".
@@kennywong4239 我知道你认识汉字，你说的所有人从商朝开始都埋在墓地，祭祀区，看好了。
I know you use Chinese. All the guys you mentioned from Shang on were buried in cemetery and sacrifiicial area. See clearly.
"His fleas"... lol
You cannot see the Great Wall from the moon. It's only about 20 feet wide.
Have you been to the moon?
@@D_J_R_Sno. Have you. You can't even see the wall from the ISS. This is a MYTH.
^^^Hahahahaha^^^
You also can't see it from space, let alone the moon.
Who said we would bury someone under the house? No, never had this happened after Zhou Dynasty.
ok who knows how to use computers and made those crazy graphics of the Great Wall???
HUN ... !
Az origin kinainak nincs bajusza , és szakálla ... !
:)
I had the impression that this would be a well-documented video on China, but I find it rather mundane and lack Indepth. Fortunately, I didn't have to waste my time and, thanks to technologies, can skip sections to get to the end.
Fleas on a Giant? Okay
Photography was not invented then. To preserve with Arts & Drawings. Hence, you find many statutes and figurines. As a result, today you find China a country of well cultured educated
inhabitants with a 'proud and stuck-up' attitude speaking Mandarin.
Chinese food come from China or Dragons Gate im the City?
MORE INTERESTING IS THE CHILDHOOD LIFE OF PRINCE TIREN LATER NAMED KING ZHENG AFTER HIS FATHER'S DEATH AND AGAIN CHANGED HIS NAME TO QIN SHI HUANG'S WHEN HE ASCENDED THE THRONE
HERE IS A LIST OF ENTERTAING CHINESE ENGLISH SUBBED DRAMAS ON VARIOUS DYNASTIES.
EMPRESS OF CHINA
THE STORY OF YANXI PALACE
MING DYNASTY
QING DYNASTY
"WINTER BEGONIA" FEATURING A MALE OPERA SINGER
all the videos are taken in 90s..- sigh
love them or hate them... however the china man calls the shots now!
Who loves gunfire dragons and noodles
Wasn't that debunked that you could see the wall from space?
Still doesn't explain where the absolute first Chinese people came from?, were they African, Egyptian?.
They are Chinese, not Egyptian. No signs of Egypt found in China.
Some tree in China
The first Chinese are Chinese
Serum & body fluid haplo gene marker "afb1b3 austronesian"
= Chinese origin
Highly developed societies and cultures of ancient China became an obstacle for its later industrialization in 18 centuries due to the cumbersome political system and the inveterate cognition of the world.😂
almost every professor has weird hairstyles
I don't know who is this gentleman, but his poor knowledge shocked me.
To bury human, live or dead, under buildings is a long lasting Chinese history ugly tradition, it can go back to at least Late Shang period (晚商時期) ,1600-1100 BC.
this first interviewer has a very mislead information and opinion of Chinese culture! The Great Wall was a collection of walls built long before Qing. Qing connected them!
He actually mentioned that. There were earlier walls built.
It was connected by Qing.
Work rarely ceased, with repairs and improvements continuously for centuries under many Dynasties.
It's a constant project for restoration today..
Recently a couple of people chose to "make a shortcut" through a section of the Great Wall..
Not advocating, but I wouldn't protest the addition of 2 more "spirits" adding their strength to possible future restoration.
Be Well!! 😃
Who said we would bury someone under the house? No, never had this happened after Zhou Dynasty.
not Qing 清, it's Qin 秦. very different dynasty. Qin the 1st empiral dynasty. Qing was the last one ended in 1911.
Where did dreams come from? Why do we have dreams? Who is God? Where did God come from? What are the purposes of being in this world? God is teaching?
God The Father
God The Son
God The Holy Spirit
The narrative is a mess, received ideas a and plain rubbish, illustrations often centuries off. Painful.
Completely agree.
既然你都知道盤古了，忠於原著很難嗎？為什麼要胡說八道。聽了十句，錯誤了6句。
Western Society: wE iNvEnTeD aLL tEh tHiNgS
Chinese: No WE INVENTED ALL THE THINGS
no educated person actually thinks that
Ancestors tears
@@CatharticCreation Educated people know that there was very little exchange between East/West.
No one thinks that
这种背景音乐真让人厌恶
His fleas became the human race...sounds about right 😂
Purely 'pictography' as the written signs of the 'cave-man'..
The Chinese historians really pile on the BULL CRAP A MILE HIGH!
Who the chinese are. She traveled thousands of miles for her dead husband. Most people today had multiple spouses and married for money etc...
Who said we would bury someone under the house? No, never had this happened after Zhou Dynasty.
This is a myth story to answer why Qin Dynasty lasted only 14 years. One of the four romantic legends of China.
budhism was not a religion, was the only man who said wasnt a prophet. :))))) and stew u do in uk, we dont even eat it in romania. in fact budha said anybody can be like him, so should i rate this
WTH are you incoherently babbling on about?
Potato heads . the end.
before there was god, there was a chinese take-away.
I’m surprised that none one else (maybe I missed it) but why are Westerners telling us about the history of China?
Oh, the diversity is quite profound.. dr... lol
"China is one of the oldest and most powerful countries in the world"?! Based on what? In what way are all these different empires somehow all China?
Cultrue, their character and culture are not interrupted, every emperor considered himself Chinese, even in Yuan Dynasty the emperor is a Mongolian
@@zzzyyy5178 I make it short: Either your comprehension or your writing is so bad that you just contradicted yourself with your Yuan empire example. And sssuuuuurrrrrrreeeeeee every emperor considered himself chinese, even the manchu ones apparently.
@@inotaishu1 The Manchu ones considered themselves Chinese. They did not consider themselves Han, mind you. You're confusing the idea of China with an ethnostate. It never quite was that. China was treated like how Rome and Egypt was treated by those who ruled it. At its zenith and height of power, yes, indeed, its people the Hans considered all other cultures and peoples inferior and barbaric, but they were only unified as a people in terms of being part of Chinese Civilization, much like how Rome was. You can become Roman, without needing to be a Latin from Latium. In the same way that Cleopatra viewed herself as Egyptian, the Manchus viewed themselves as Chinese, because they ruled China.
@@Fear_the_Nog I am not going to comment on what you all got wrong, again, but get to the main point: that still doesn't answer my first question!!!! How exactly are all these different states and empires all "China"? Geographically doesn't work apparently, it is not based on culture or language, nor ethnicity.
@@inotaishu1the land is called China, or central kingdom. When a empire collapses，it breaks down into several states, then the states fight each other to unite China again. the state won would then name itself xx dynasty. And show that they are the legitimate government of China, chosen by the heaven. 😂
westeners butt hurt
i'm learning chinese history and the language so I can impress a chinese girl one day :)
lol
Who said we would bury someone under the house? No, never had this happened after Zhou Dynasty.
Even in a documentary propaganda finds its way. 😅😅
Seems you can't get away from it anymore. We're just livestock with a bank account to the powers that be.
The Chinese are happy with one street. The Pakistanis and Bangladeshis want whole Counties
CHINER IS A GREAT CUNTRY!
Black history: ancient Chinese were Africans! Ancient Japanese were Africans! Koreans also Africans!
Unfortunately because of the One Child per Family Rule, China is undergoing the lowest birth rate in its entire history. In a few decades, China is expected to have the smallest population its ever had. I know this rule has been changed to the Two Children per Family, but the damage has been done.
China doesn’t have any history but yeah Han people do .. which has nothing to do with Tibetans Mongolians or Uyghurs
Indians have no history, India has been colonized for 2800 years, they don't know where they come from
I do not understand why this is regarded as a 'good', or even 'acceptable' documentary. Beyond obvious biases, it can't even get basic facts right. The Great Wall, while wondrous, was not one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World (Colossus of Rhodes, the Great Pyramid, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis in Ephasus, and the now-believed-apocryphal Hanging Gardens of Babylon). While the Great Wall can be seen from low earth orbit, and some higher orbits, it is not visible by the human eye from Geosynchronous orbit (35,000+km), much less Lunar distances (362,000 km). If I recall correctly, that claim was made by Jules Verne, around 100 years before we landed on the moon.
If the documentary can't get these sort of easily researched basics correct, or challenge experts when they get them wrong, I have a hard time believing there was sufficient fact verification on any of the subject matter. (Yes, it was pre-internet for most people; the 7 wonders are listed in any encyclopedia, and the Great Wall from the Moon claim was refutable by minimal research; which I had done, myself, by 1989)
I spit my drink everywhere and snorted laughing when he said the freaking moon. Maybe i'll save this under comedy documentary, it would fit neatly next to docudubery's "what the fall of constantinopel meant for lebron james legacy"
Roman Empire version in far east with their expansionism mindset.. 🤣🤣🤣and buddhism wasn't origin in han chinese culture.
And today the Chinese are Serfs and Plebes. Im not impressed. Have a spine and throw off the yoke of your Oppressors. Then maybe your Story will be Inspiring . Not so Lame.
Haplogroup O is the origin of the group in mainland China.
In fact, more and more evidence shows that many descriptions of Qin Shihuang's cruelty are false or exaggerated, and many laws of the Qin Dynasty seem complete and reasonable today. In 2002, archaeological discoveries of over 200,000 words of Qin Dynasty documents revealed many interesting things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liye_Qin_Slips
Hello is their any Chinese people who understand this documentary that can tell me or not if this is a load of shit or not... because it sounds like a made up story trying to describe Chinese people and invent a story with the information they have gathered so far... idk let me know 😂😂😂
只能说油管上没几个真懂中国历史的，都是意淫
50/50 although the bs bits are bs because they are embellishing the truth a fair bit.
@ANTSEMUT1 what I figures and how I felt about it before you responded but I was Born in Germany and raised in america and spent about a month in Hong Kong and a day in Central china so I am not expert but I know a little bit and learn fast and done believe what don't make sense if you catch my drift 🥸😎🫡✌🏾🙏🏾
@@user-rq3cm4bu8y also it's a very condensed version of Chinese history so a lot of details are lost