Northern Chinese vs Southern Chinese
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2015
- There are many cultural differences in China and this is very apparent between the North and the South.
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Southern food is quality food. Fresh vegetables and seafood. In my opinion southern food is so much better. Dim sum, seafood, just everything is so good. Northern food is so hot. They need that heat to cover up the taste of bull frog and other strange meats. Some northern dishes have mouth numbing peppers etc. So Team Dan all the way!
Southern food is fresher and more delicate. People care how a dish looks in addition to its tastes. When you look at the desserts糕点, they are almost like art! And the taste is not too heavy (northern food is either too salty or too spicy or too sour or too much garlic or a combination of these), so definitely healthier!!
Yangtze Rive really?? Not Qinling-Huaihe (秦岭淮河一线) Line??
Thumbs up for Felicia!!!
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Fuck yeah Aussie Chinese girls!!
***** Do you mean Carmen?
***** yes all Aussie-Asians are related
***** i miss carmen too!!!
Thumbs up for Team Mike!!!!
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Northern Food for the Win!
Northern food!
Dumplings, Noodles and Skewers rule. Hebei represent.
I love northern food!!!
My parents are from southern China (Canton). I am not an expert but I think Cantonese cuisine emphasizes on the natural flavor of the food. For example, if you are eating fish, you want to taste the fish. Dumplings, noodles and such are indeed tasty, but I don't think I can go a few days without eating rice.
Yes! When cantonese ppl cook we cook to enhance the flavor. If we r paying for a lobster we want to taste the natural flavor of the lobster. If we r cooking steak, we want to taste the steak itselve. We don't want a thousand lb of sauce drowning over our dish
Yeah my parents are the same way. They put a strong emphasis on the freshness of food and they try to keep recipes simple but flavorful. All the dishes my mom cooks have subtle flavors, but when you eat it often you learn taste the simplistic natural richness.
Yes, I actually always eat rice. I can not go on a dinner with rice. Rice for life.
霜夜 彬 That is actually very accurate indeed! We don’t like changing the taste much at all. We want a natural flavour out of the food we eat.
Same I don't think I can live without rice
I think it's funny that Mike roots for the North and Dan for the South when - going by their looks - Mike looks like he's from the South and Dan from the North.
Totally
Actually both of them look pretty northern. I'd say Felicia looks the most southern out of the three of them though shes a mix of north and south
Dan looks southern
goshadowkenny that is so honestly true.
So jackie chan is from north if i got this right and jet li is south
Is it just me or does the guy with the Vancouver shirt look like Jackie Chan?
+That T-shirt Guy too true
+That T-shirt Guy My daughter was like 5y.o. and while watching a report on China said: "Thank's God I was not born in China" "Why sweetheart?" "Cause I would never know who were my father and mother"
+That T-shirt Guy That could be construed as racist, except... he really DOES look like Jackie Chan!
agree!
his youtube id is literally Mickie Chan, b/c of his resemblance to jackie
America is the same way. Americans from the South have their own unique style of Southern foods, dating, marriage standards, spirituality, language, dialects, and everything. It's amazing how similar China and America are in that respect.
Triumvirate888 My sister took human geo and she said how there are patterns in human populations. Not entirely sure why, but apparently there are reasons.
silveryfeather208
I think that reason is called "human nature". Doesn't make it any less amazing. Knowing the mechanism behind something only makes it more astonishing. It's like how the more you know about painting, the more you are amazed at the genius of a Rembrandt.
So many countries are like that, it's not an american and chinese thing. When you look at India with its difference from the North and South. Or Iran with it's North and South.
xinyiquan666 You should read the original poster's comment.
Im pretty sure, most if not ALL countries of the world are like that ...
Like if you're Southern Chinese!
If you are, which province or area of China?
(I'm from Fuzhou, Fujian)
I'm from Fuzhou as well!
shanghai :D
I'm from Fuzhou,Fujian too!! More specifically Guan Tou
im a quarter southern Chinese does that count?
Eeyy ! Me too 😊 fujian,fuzhou 😅
Southern China ! Who else is cantonese here :)?
I'm cantonese! But I'm located more south than southern china. Descendants of southern china immigrants in singapore. Woot!
Canto team 😁
im a quarter Cantonese does that count?
Canto here
I'm cantonese! *high five*
I'm not chinese but I'm fascinated by the diversity within that country. I was really interested in your video and plan to visit you again to learn more. I'm Puerto Rican born and raised in Ohio in the USA but our household was very traditional Puerto Rican customs, traditions, food, language, manner of dressing (modestly) but when it came to my education and school friends it was like stepping into another world.
Down in ohio 💀
It is not Yangzi River，it should be QinLing Huaihe (秦岭淮河). Come on，how can you mistake this if you are going to introduce what is south and what is north. You don't even figure out the right boundary!
About hot pot, obviously, Sichuan province and Chongqin are as good as the northern cities. Actually, their hotspot are more popular!
I think it depends. I am a Chinese, and I don't usually eat those hotpots since they are too spicy. It sounds a little dicriminative toward the rest of the China.
hahahahhaha. i love hotpot but i'm from Lanzhou
Wen Z hang China history are fakes just like most of world history.
Wen Z hang Yeah! It disturbs me that they use the wrong boundary
the physical differences are huge, the noses and the shape of the eyes are so different between north and south, also southerners tend to be more tanned. I live in Taiwan for 2 years and now I'm living in Sichuan, people is SO different really.
They're both in the South, lmao.
Sichuan is a southerner
don't get too stereotypical on this matter. Domestic migration within China is far more complex than you think.
How are the noses and shape of the eyes different from the southerners vs northerners? Can you be more specific? Thanks. :)
@@amyr3285something easy to imagine is north is more like korean eyes and noses and south is more like vietnamese eyes and noses
It is fantastic that you guys openly and fairly discuss all kind of topics and issues that are mysteries to waiguoren, lol. I am learning the hard part about living in or visiting China: the cultural part. Language is one thing, culture something else again. So, thanks for the amusing and instructive videos!
for us Cantonese, outside GuangDong, it's Northern China
+鄉講仁 how about HaiNan lol
+鄉講仁 For rest of Southern Chinese, everywhere South of China except Guang Dong.
hahh, you are hilarious...its like in a class which has 10 boys and 10 girls, and you are saying I am the only girl and the rest are all boys. no matter what you girls think, I believed tho, lol
True. I actually still think that way. Out of GuangDong is northern china, or as I call it, the mainlanders.
ahhahah that's true. And one more thing is that as long as the guy whocan't speak Cantonese，he must be from northern china（no matter you are from hainan or other southern place）😂
My grandfather and ancestors are from Fujian province. They migrated to the Philippines during the war. Hokkien is greatly spoken by most Filipino-Chinese and Chinese living in the Philippines. Mandarin is taught in Chinese schools here but most of us speak and understand Hokkien better as it is the language our relatives spoke.
Wow. I did not expect filipino chinese to know mandarin at all
You should do a video breaking down all the regions in china explaining their cuisine and such that would really interesting! Because there is so many ones and each is unique like Guangdong, Sichuan, Zhejiang, jilin along with hearing about western china(Xinjiang, tibet ext) which I don't think you have covered yet.
cheers!
How can one claim spicy to be a northern flavor?!! That's totally Southern (Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou). Hot Pot is definitely Southern (Sichuan). Wanton, oh please, it's also Southern (Canton, Fujian). Northern food is salty, then what? more salty.
This is a poorly researched video.... They dont really know the difference cuz as felicia say, they grew up in western cultures
Chill
then u may dont know Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang they all have spicy food... u also poorly researched about it, so calm down. and if you really know about the geography of hot food in china, then the South East of China, Yunnan, Guizhou... they also have hot food. So it is more like Western Chinese food (hot) vs. East Coast Chinese food (non-hot) and yes im from beijing, traditionally we dont take hot food, so I do agree with you that northen food from where i am is more about soy sauce flavoured, and it is salty....
Chinese people on the whole are pretty good at eating spicy food, but the southern half is known for eating well.
I wonder if this relates to northern climates in general. My family originally came from Scandinavian (Sweden, Norway, Finland). During the holidays we'd have traditional Scandinavian dishes which were: boiled cabbage, boiled beets, boiled potatoes and lefse a very thin, chewy (undercooked) pancake made with potatoes and flour. One of the specialty dishes was luetefisk. Literally Lye fish. Traditionally, it was prepared by drying whitefish and burying it in lye as a preservative, which jellified the fish and gave it a slightly metallic, soapy taste.
It's not surprising that Scandinavia was the land of the Vikings. The only way you could get something good to eat was by getting in a boat and raiding more southernly countries that had access to spices, different types of foodstuffs, better cooking technology and a long established culinary culture. If you died in at sea or in the raid? Oh, well, at least you weren't stuck back home eating lye fish.
I've lived in Shanghai, and I'm Italian…I'm looking forward to go back there.
I totally LOVE Shanghai, I've travelled a lot, and I can totally see why you pointed out these differences, because they're reeeeeally true.
Also one thing for me super surprising at the beginning were those park full of parents trying to find a wife or a husband for their sons and daughters, with billboards in which mainly there were written proprieties of the person, like if they had car license or not, if they had a car, a bicycle, a house, a job and what…there was something written about education, but was mainly about material stuff.
I love your videos btw
Shanghai non è Cina, lo è solo dal punto di vista amministrativo
absolutely!!most CHINESE parents are helicopter parents
Happy to see that you love Shanghai.
@luigispina6693 😂😂😂😂 che Cosa ?? Posa il vino 😂
Sooner south india too needed those kind of parks. Unmarried guys are expecting that
In the French Concession in Shanghai during the 1920's, the French authorities had a unit of riot police manned by northern Chinese (from the Beijing ang Manchuria regions, apparently), because they were considered taller and more physically imposing than the Shanghainese. Seems like Dan's not the only one with that impression.
It's because of their diet northerners eat more meat.
Incredible videos. Thank you for sharing!!
One of the most interesting topics on this channel because I've seen similar correlations between the western and eastern regions in Japan across all the aspects you discussed. I'm not trying to be politically correct but I love BOTH authentic northern and southern Chinese cuisine! And I love your fearlessly frank talk that breaks so-called taboo across all East Asian countries!
If you could, I would love to see an episode where you talk about some of the lesser known peoples that make up China's over 50 ethnic groups. Especially some of the more surprising ones, like Uyghurs and Tajiks of Xinjiang for example.
You all make me laugh so much. What great information, wonderful presentation, & profound humor accompanied by humility.
Thank you so much for sharing.
cool i love these videos explaining the differences in countries! awesome video guys!
Definitely South, no questions about it. First of all, the very fact of it being linguistically diverse shows that not only "being southern" is paradoxically not exactly a thing, but what unites them (even before the advent of Standard Mandarin) is the need to overcome communication and cultural barriers. Already, you have some cultural exchange in a region (think Central Europe with its diverse Slavic and Germanic peoples), which prepares them for the next big thing: worldliness. Shandong, Tianjin, and Dalian are coastal, and yet no-one speaks of a "Shandong diaspora" or a "Tianjin diaspora" the same way you hear about a "Cantonese diaspora" or "Overseas Hokkien". Southern peoples were the first to venture beyond the confines of continental China all across the world.
Contrast this with the North, which really exists as a thing because it is just so monolithic. Due to geography and culture, frontier elements from Mongol, Manchu, and Uighur/Muslim cultures seem to be absorbed unconsciously into the northern way of life without actually making a significant cultural impact. Because the North was the center of power for a long time, constantly having to deal with nomadic invaders as well as farming/pasturing for survival, I believe they are consequently less equipped to deal with the intricacies of polite society, so one could hardly blame them for being "direct" (i.e. brutish). Now, this wasn't always the case, as during the Silk Road times, Northern China had the same cosmopolitanism that we associate with Southern China today. Yes, Virginia - once upon a time, Xi'an was basically Shenzhen. But due to the development of history (and a few barbarian invasions), the North was relegated to the boonies while the South rose.
Omg!!! Yay! Felicia in da house! Don't worry Dan, I'm on ur team! Lol go shanghainese XP
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The girl in beauty within is felicha????????
I enjoyed this discussion. Thank you for sharing your views.
love videos like this :)
keep up the awesome videos!
The main difference between the taste is that the northern dishes is more salty and the southern dishes are sweeter
I actually think there's a difference between north and south Taiwan as well! My family is Taiwanese and there's always a lot of comparison on the people from the north (AKA Taipei) and everyone else. I'd love to see a comparison video!
Enjoyed this. Pleasant surprise. Keep it up!
I enjoyed that. Well done! Anything related to a different culture fascinates me.
My parents are from Hainan Island. Not many people are familiar with the small island. So many people are so used to asking me if I strictly speak Cantonese and/or Mandarin. But I can speak both and Hainan as well.
it's interesting seeing the parallels between north and south china areas and the north and south of the united states
Thanks! This video is very informative and interesting!
ive been living in japan for a year now, i discover this channel today and heard Felicia talk. instnt homesick. the most strayan accent ever. i guess im so surprised as i dont seem to find many aussies on the youtubes.
The dividing line for Northern and Southern China is not the Yangtze. It's actually the Huai River(淮河). The major cities along the Yangtze coast are considered southern China. Off the Great Wall
These guys are doing a great thing!
You probably didnt catch all the mistakes they made there then
Yixi Guan Then you didn't catch any mistakes they actually had.
Nice job, guys, this is a great video
Cool videos! You guys are fun to watch!
Felicia is very pretty.
Southern and northern China are separated by qinling and huaihe. Jesus, you think Sichuan is in the north?
Actually it is usually regarded as part of norther China.
+Alex Guan impossible.Sichuan is a classical example for southern part
+DeGroff Tevie actually I we wrong. But so are you. It's western China
Alex Guan lol. .We usually define western China as 甘肃 山西 新疆 青海...
agreed. fact from geography class
Learnt alot. Great vid x
This was really interesting - thank you
I'm Southern Chinese (Hong Kong) and personally I love northern food better x3
there's no way northern food is better than southern food...we got seafood and all kind of fruits, lychee and all that. That alone can end this argument.
Dalian is North and it's got plenty of seafood.
seafood in north is better..
@@yilongliu2353 Fishes travel across the ocean there isn't a specific location where it thrives.
Yes true southern Chinese food is more diverse. Cause of the climate which enables it to grow many things.
AWESOME video!
I've waited so long for a video like this O-O... yaaaaaay ^^
Hot pot is not from the North. You guys need to have the fact checked. Hot pot is from Sichuan (south of China) ...
Hotpot is from the North. The spicy broth is from Sichuan.
@@chit-kwaiyuen6360 The broth is the essence of the dish so it plays a important part.
The provinces close to South East Asian have a lot of spicy foods too.
a good documentary, ty for those
Thanks for sharing video .
I'm Indian and I find this video very interesting because north and south India has some of the same differences you mention between the north and south of China.
+Avi Arun True, the same goes to Europeans as well, especially the height and skin pigmentation differences between north and south populations, but I think the difference between northern and southern Indians is greater than the difference between north and south Chinese,because ethnically India is way more diverse than China, be it north or south Chinese, no matter how different they are ,in the end they still grouped under same ethnic group.
Is Mike from the same part of China as Jackie Chan? He looks like Jackie chan
+Boristos Jaxon Jackie Chan is from Hong Kong ,his dad was from somewhere that's quite close to where Mike is from.
Broken Chen Well that explains their similar looks
+Broken Chen But Jackie Chan's father is from Shandong.XD
+Boristos Jaxon they both have parents from northern China, does it count?
Warrior Son chan
Working in China this TH-cam Channel has helped me so much!! 谢谢 :)
Definitely need more of these type of videos! Maybe start comparing Chinese traditions from China vs Chinese traditions in Malaysia (from those that moved from China at the start of the 20th century)?
To be accurate, only compare Guangdong and Fujian region which isn't a whole lot different from Southeast Asia Chinese not to mention since OTGW is situated in the US and don't have any representative south of Shanghai, things are bound to get messed up.
I thought the guy on the right was Cantonese because he looked sort of like Jackie Chan, lol
hahaha same
***** are you sure ?i couldn't find any information about his ancESTRY
xinyiquan666 Jackie Chan had single eyelids before, he got surgery to make them double eyelids.
xinyiquan666 double eyelids are more common among southerners IMO
TheXanian Yup. Google "Qin Kai and He Chong". Shows the difference between Northern and Southern.
Most of People who lives in Chinatown are Cantonese whom from southern China. The ridiculous thing is they are representing for a Whole China, considering the fact that They are so different from Mandarins.
That's because in the past, southern chinese were more adventurous in search of new opportunities in foreign lands. Cantonese immigrants travelled to many parts of the world, to the west and other parts of asia. In south east asia, most early chinese immigrants were teochew, hainanese, hakanese, fujianese and cantonese which are all southern chinese.
Southern Chinese people have smaller body because they were mixed blood with Southern tribes like the Baiyue people who were basically small bodied.
GRIM TH-cam Channel yeah the “real” Chinese look like skinny ass girls but aight
GRIM TH-cam Channel and northern Chinese are not pure “Han” as well as mongols Manchus and other northern nomadic populations also integrated with the northern populous, if you want a full blooded han, central China could be your “real” Chinese
So you actually thought that Cantonese and Mandarin are also... names of people??? man you are so funny
Omg thank God I found this channel. Everyone focuses on Canto and Madarin but forgets Fuzhounese. Thanks for bringing my home spoken language to light!
oh wow. I learn so much from you guys :)
just want to point out that wonton is definitely a southern/cantonese thing... even the word itself is in canto...
I'm getting the notion, that Japan has more of a relation to southern china then north
with rice and tea ceremony all interesting
Thanks for the interesting video. As a beginner in mandarin language i find all the language and cultural differencies across chinese regions very crazy sometimes :)
Great video.
Always been lots of Asians
in Vancouver but never knew
the real differences until now .
Thank you for info .
I always though HK tv shows and films were full of bad acting/writing because the characters seemed so fake. Then I went to HK, hung out with my teenage cousins. Only then did I understand that the acting wasn't bad; that's just how people acted IRL. lol #princesssyndrome No hate. Cultural differences are interesting :-)
30 lbs heavier,in Mike's case, a lot of that will be in muscle, so don't worry too much
So good to see visitors on the show
I read about that same wheat vs rice study!! When you started talking about it I was like "I know exactly what he is talking about and what he is going to say next"
You both rock!
north food - lets put chilli in everything because food tastes like shit
Sorry mike I'm gona go with #teamdan with the food. Bc northern food is really in ur face n I be like 😤🙅 whoaaaaa get out of my face
Annie Wu Oh my, I actually agree.
OTGW, great video. I like it but can you improve the sound quality. When you talk at a normal volume, it's fine but when the voices are slightly raised, the effect sounds super loud for some reason. I don't want to miss the content if I turned it down a little bit. Thank you! :)
You guys are so right about the differences
my mum;s from the north and my dad's from the south ._.
Emma Cookie Hello!
You seem interesting to talk to.
Me too haha
Speaking as a Taiwanese girl here, I never thought of my mandarin as particularly "cutesy" until my Chinese and Singaporean friends pointed it out. So it's definitely not a deliberate attempt. But it definitely sounds gentler to my ears compared to say, the Beijing accent.
Lol when I was talking to mainland Chinese people about what a Taiwanese accent is supposed to sound like (since my mom is from Taiwan so my Mandarin is based on that) and that's what they said.
I agree I'm a Singaporean.
Very fun and educational! What I like best about China... the History, and the romanticized myths around it, like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms! You guys are awesome.
hahahaha I love when Mike and Dan start to argue when non-intended
Mike would gain 30 lbs if he visits Taiwan. I'm from there and absolutely love the food.
TW's food is so bad only the Night market's food is edible. I don't get what the hype is about. SEAsia food wins hands down.
you shut your face
Gee,how criticism friendly
Summary of my life as a Taiwanese American:
Gain 30 lbs
Lose 30 lbs
Gain 30 lbs
Lose 30 lbs
I'm gonna visit my family next month. I'm scared of the weight I'll gain, but those Taiwanese breakfast sandwiches are so good. Why god, why is grandpas house on top of the best goose meat restaurant on earth?!? That goose liver on rice is not kind to my waistline.
You guys need to visit Thailand, M'sia or other SEA nations. TW food is overrated compared to them. Not to mention their japanese food is so bad even though they follow the japanese culture. How?
I prefer the lifestyle and the innovation of the south (I think the sea has allowed for a blend of ideas etc.) I prefer the food and morals of the north. I am generalizing completely though.
Omg Mike we're so alike !!!! I have such a bad memory, especially for faces !! Once I watched a short movie and a same actor was playing 2 versions of himself, dressed differently... I didn't get the whole movie until the end because I thought that they weren't the same guy ! For the quality, that video was great, so informative. I did know there were food differences between the north and south but had no idea that there could be any other ! I thought Shanghai and Beijing would be the same atmosphere, so I really learned something from this video :) Apart from the accent, I grew up in Taiwan and in Beijing and I must say that it's 2 different worlds for the accents hahah ! I remember, we first lived in Taiwan and then moved to Beijing : my brother was born when we were already in Beijing, and he would always talk like this "ayiiiiii wo yaor qu wannrrr!!!!" ^^" ! For the food, I don't have preferences for anything, love all of them, couldn't choose. But I do have a soft spot for Taiwan though, Mike let's go live there and fill our bellies and cause starvation ! Hahahah
The north and south of China also had different warrior cultures. In the north, there was most use of siegecraft and cavalry in warfare while in the south there was a stronger emphasis on marines and naval combat.
I come from Sichuan province. I always believe I come from south China, but according to the map you provide, I am from North China! Unbelievable!
No they got it wrong, it’s the qinling huaihe that’s the river they got the wrong river, Sichuan is southern
Isn't spicy food more like Sichuan / Hunan which is Southern China?
YummYakitori Exactly, which is why it's so ridiculous to group "Southerners" together in the first place!
BARRR Only southeast people don't like spicy food in china. they like sweet food and seafood.
is actually considered North
Ashley Song What? We eat mostly rice, we grow lychees and longans not to mention mangos and papayas, Chengdu is warmer than Shanghai and even Changsha in winter, how are we considered North?
xiaocaimingxia Yes, Chengdu is much warmer due to its valley effect. Chengdu it's inside the Sichuan Basin or 四川盆地. Hot scorching summer, but very cool winter.
The boundary is not Yangtz River, and according to geographics textbook in China, it is supposed to be Qingling Mountain-Huai River boundary.
Yes true.
keep it up!
Forgot that northern chinese people have better sharper nose
when I see a video about china, there are always have argumen about whether taiwan is a part of china. can we just don't talk about it.
Time will prove everything.
Ahh I love Mulan so much! And this was so interesting
ありがとうございます OTGW
Nitori ShogiPlayer
They sound like pirates!
Shir shir shir shir shir
Even Dan says "Beizhing" though.
Lao Shir ... Lao sai
中國的南北分界線時秦嶺淮河，並不是長江，長江流域都屬於南方。
was going to make that comment too!
但是长江北岸，北方人文气息越来越重了。。
正是。
please do a video about different wedding ceremonies!!
Just wanted to say . . . my boyfriend and I saw Mike at a Sichuan chain when we were visiting NY V-day weekend. We're from the Midwest so it's rare for us to see anyone famous. Let's just say it was one highlight of the trip. ^_^ Like the videos and the discussions! Keep it up!
one of my favorite food in the world is cantonese
BEIJING ren here!!!
Ok thank you, Mr. Michael Wong
Today's show was great !
Damn, this is strangely similar to the differences in northern and southern Americans.😱 American/Chinese mirror dimension. ⚡️💜🤫🌎🌏
Agreed
I was gonna say its the same in Mexico the northern part the people are lighter skinned more mixed with european and the southern are way darker and more shorter native like. Same with countries like India the north punjabi are light skinned and southern indians are dark.
Nope, because American is a migrate country, northerners and southerners were probably from same country before they came to America. But China is not a migrate country, people from different place are originally different, that's pretty same as Indian
I'm not from China but my ancestors are from Hainan island and Fujian
Yehezkiel Chan Nice! I'm in the same boat
I waiting for this comment. I traced my ancestor back to north east. I able to speak hainanese, fujian, cantonese, English and mandarin I from Singapore!
I'm from Singapore too! My ancestor are from Guangdong so they're probably Cantonese.
i half hainanese half fujian . i live in hongkong for 2 years due to fathers work
I'm not from china too ... But mum came from Fujian and gramma and gramps too
Awesome video :) Could you do a video on rural vs urban living in china?
Revive this channel, pleaaaase!