@M E don't ever say manchu again, that's an insult for Chinese people(kinda racist word). also, wtf is mao from the centre, pls learn more about China and start to respect China.
I went to Tulou with my friends before, but we just visited a few famous Tulous in 2 hours. You know more about Tulou than 99.99% of Chinese. Such a Genius.
A couple of things I find interesting 1. She doesn't disparage the rural community as run down and is pretty open minded about the whole experience. 2. The hotel room is outfitted with modern furnishings... quite unlike an actual Tulou that people lived in. Quite amusing.
Its basically an apartment building concept, just a few thousand years old. The combination of multiple families living in a efficient and easy to protect structure is awesome. Does show real innovation from back then.
My ancestors were Hakka people who migrated to Malaysia in the beginning of 20th century. The Tu Lou community is fascinating, but also a testament of the perseverance, tenacity and survival of a cultural group. I am a proud Hakka who still speak Hakka and cook Hakka food though living in the US right now.
AHH, this is so cute, I love how you were able to just have a meal and hold a conversation with the old man. And your Chinese is soo good! (You're getting a lot of the tonalities spot on!) I learn so much about Chinese culture through your videos, and honestly, I just live vicariously through your videos ;)
Being of Hakka descent seeing these tulous and people learning about them makes me so emotional for some reason hahah. Immensely proud. Would love to visit and learn more about my people’s history
The people are so lovely and genuine. This is so much more interesting to watch your travels take you to such authentic places. One can't experience this with an ordinary travel guide. Thank you for sharing your adventures, I love each little village and tiny treasures you find along your way. 💕😀
I went there literally 10 years ago. The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism should have issued you a medal or hired you as a tourism ambassador! You are doing such a great job to introduce how diverse China really is
I used to be a student from Xiamen University, my teacher took us to Nanjing county for an anthropology field trip, the Zhang family of Taxia village is still in my memory! Great video!
A tulou is a small fortress actually, they were built like this for defense and security purpose in old times. And there were similar buildings across China in ancient time
But fortresses are usually for kings or nobles. This is like a whole village. So it's like an ancient apartment complex. With shared club house facilities. A real bummer though, cuz you need to get out to poo.
@@Jumpoable no it's actually a fortresses, because hakka means guests, they are migranting from northern part of china mostly during the fall of song dinasty when the mongol invaded the capiltal. but they are not so welcome in the south, that's why they build fortresses like these to protect their community. you can see there's no window looking outside on the first and second floor.
Thank you Amy for covering on life in Tulou. Now i know there are still people who live there and the rooms inside Tulou. Eye opening content. Well done 👍
You present such beauty of the Chinese people, culture, heritage and places. Well done and thanks for sharing your amazing journey with us, building some important bridges between China and other countries and helping to make this a better and friendlier world for all of us to live in.
I find this kind of dwelling fascinating. The sense of community, and the history makes me want to go visit Fujian. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Oh my goodness, this is fascinating and creative historic architecture! I have not had the chance to see the live action film of Mulan, so I hadn’t seen any toulo shown anywhere ever! Could this be a predecessor of the apartment house with a large courtyard? Certainly the idea of living this way as an entire village is a good way to survive together in tougher times. I would guess that the community as a village would pull together during times of adversity such as repairing building damage from storms, helping to look after each other’s young children while parents are busy, and helping each other when illness strikes.
Fun fact: decades ago, when US saw these buildings from their satellites, and thought they were Nuclear Launchers. After investigating, Americans were relieved!!!
与天相斗,其乐无穷! Yes , fun facts , yes on that too . No surprise, their agency has some thorny awakening, , , , imagine their surprise that deep inside hinterland , There are clusters of what look like missile silos , from aerial photos.
Andrew Smith So sad , very sad . it was circulated that those numbers are quite low . And since the dead problems on this earth is over , their survivors are facing difficulties of immense proportions.
@@asiacuisine4869 Iraq doesn't have as much oil as the other gulf states. Still if the U.S. wanted oil from Iraq they would have to buy it. They can't just come in and take Iraqi oil for free, you know. The reason Bush invaded Iraq was pretty much having a lot to do with re-election. The American people and people from just about every democratic country around the world tend to re-elect the incumbent presidential candidate during the time of war. And that's exactly what happened. The US invaded Iraq and Bush was re-elected.
Very well made video. I’m a Hakka myself living overseas ( Mauritius,uk,Toronto) but my ancestors moved from this place to meizhou city, guangdong。 Thank you for making this video.
I was literally there a few years back. The air was so fresh, and near to where Blondie stays is a river, near the river, is or maybe was a restaurant. I did stay in one. It was a very calming experience.
i am hakka people, but live in indonesia. watching this video made me feels like home. i wanted to visit 土楼someday. and i will ;) 因为每次看见土楼我好像感受了人家的温暖人家的亲切感，再说我的祖祥也是客家人。天哪我必须去那儿！
your editing skills is amazing, I have watched like 10 of you videos in a row after randomly discovering it 🤣 if more people can be positive like you the world would have been a much better place 🥰
I was in china many years ago, it is amazing how nice the local people are, if you are their guest, they will make sure that their guest receives the best treatment.
Hello blondie, im from south america (Peru) and looking for Shenzhen info i found your channel, love your videos!! So much information and fun! Thanks and good luck!!
Tulou is also known as the first ever apartment complex in history! And it was featured in the upcoming Mulan movie as her house though that was not historically correct LOL. Hakka people are known to be great politicians in history, eg Sun Yat Sen and Lee Kuan Yew. The term Hakka means guest people, so when they moved to the south in Guangdong and Fujian provinces few hundred years ago, they were seen as outsiders and was despised especially by Cantonese people. That was also one of the reason they designed and built their houses in such a way to protect their community. And it was said that Hakka women didn't bind their feet in ancient days.
you are literally the best ambassador for Chinese tourism!!!! All your videos are not just beautiful, but also have such an authentic and human element to them.
As a Chinese, it's kinda ironic that I am subscribing your channel to get a knowledge of many different regions in China from a new perspective while studying in Germany😳 Honestly, I have never been to 80％ of your vlog tourist destination. I feel a little ashamed😅 I should and MUST take several months out and travel through China with my parents or my bros or potential girlfriend😂😂😂 Keep on the amazing work👍👍👍👍👍
@@user-lq3td5zd8s Awww thank you very much! I study at Uni Stuttgart now and I am in 3. Semester :) Honestly I prefer north Germany to south Germany haha. Hamburg and Berlin have a very nice scenary! Stuttgart and München are a little boring compared to them😄 Anyway, willkommen in China. Wenn du Frage hast, schreib mir einfach :D. Du kannst meine Kontaktadresse speichern wenn du willst ;) Viel Erfolg beim Studium. 😁
@@user-lq3td5zd8s maybe you can find my instgram, we can talk about it on ins privately :) My account is called 'geng________', also 8 Unterstrichen😂 a little complicated😳
@Xin Fan Zheng i'm hakka 3 (lols)... but sadly can't "kong hak fa.." but i love to eat "ham choi kon" :D :D i must admit (as chinese overseas) my putonghua is way (wayyyy) below amy here :p
My mum is hakka and when i saw Mulan and she told me this is a true hakka house. i was shocked. i think it makes it more special that they are still living there. it has a lovely atmosphere because they are living the community life. so precious. i wonder if the youngsters still want to live like this. it will be sad to see Tulou's empty
Kolkata used to have a huge Hakka Chinese population. My paternal grandmother was half Hakka Chinese and she also used to say that she had Tung blood in her. My cousins are full blooded Chinese and moved to Canada in the late 90s.
Totally Unique, Level One Utopia! :D I've seen these in videos before but this trumps them all. Loved your interaction with the residents and the details you managed to extract from them.
The most extreme inaccuracy of the live-action Mulan is that Mulan is Northerner and the story took place in the North, while Tulou is a kind of southern building. Imagine a movie about a winged hussar, but she came from a beautiful neighbourhood that looks Venice.
So sad to see the older and uninhabitated TuLous in a state of disrepair. Maybe those could be fixed up and rented into some kind of AirBNB model by their owners for the duration they're unoccupied. Would be such a huge boon to the local rural economy :)
Some interesting facts in this video including the fact that tulous can withstand ammunition and extends metres underground. Diversity is my middle name. Well not really. I don't know enough about tulou but I believe in "to love."
I’ve lived in China for ten years and have never appreciated the culture, people, and history on such a deep level as you have. I think I have just taken China for granted. You really changed how I think China as a whole. 👍
I am amazed at the fluency of your Mandarin and you feel so at-home with China. This is the first video I have come across from you and will support you in all your productions from now on. Great job 👍👍. Keep up the great work.
Tulou is actually really of interest to the architecture community. From the beginning of the 20th century, the idea of creating a systematic utopian society based on modular assignment of living space has been brought forth by architects and theorists, notably Le Corbusier. The later social housing programs around the world all attempted to formulate this efficient and promising model. The social housing program in St. Louis is one in particular that has made an impact. But due to the inherit flaw of the system, the project soon turned into a breeding ground for criminal activities and was torn down. Prestigious architecture school today like the AA school of architecture and Harvard GSD are still researching the possibility of modular community (especially in coping with the exponential growth in population). So it is fascinating to see this idea being implemented in China a few hundred years ago.
Your video reminded me of the experience of being volunteer teacher in 南靖 primary school in summer vacation in my college. And I visited the 土楼 also.It’s very a unforgettable experience. Appreciate it!
This video brought back so many good memories! I stayed here (in the same tulou you stayed in) during a school trip 6 years or so ago! Nothing has changed! 😭💖
Blondie, this was my ancestors house/building. Thank you for introducing our Hakka culture. I'm in Toronto and we have THHA The Hakka Heritage Alliance
Superb video. A view from just. Good side, bad side, true side. Thanks for sharing this to the west. You and lots of friends are helping promoting the true China. Not like what the US press said.
It is both admirable and easily forgivable that Blondie took some “artistic license” for we Western viewers, to draw us in to the video. Otherwise we might have not taken the time to view this incredible world heritage site. But for those curious, The Ballad of Hua Mulan is actually set in the Northern Wei era (386-536). That is where her injured father was called upon to defend the Tuoba realm from Rouran (Hun) invaders. So yes, it’s Northern in origin. However, the point Blondie was making was that these people in the video live in what is essentially a fortress. To westerners like myself, whether accurate or not, mention Hua Mulan, and we’re sucked right in because we know the story because of the cartoon. Her play on words served a good poetic purpose and is something we westerners do all the time to get someone’s attention to a broader concept. It would be like when I visited the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, and innocently commented to my friends, “Wow, the Pharaohs of Egypt really got around...” Not quite true, of course... and I knew it. But it opened up a discussion of common architecture and questions regarding humanity’s deep history which was my actual intent. It enabled a friend of mine who is of Mexican descent to punch me in the shoulder and correct me. He was grateful to me for the joke because usually he is shy and has difficulties opening the floor to historical things about his culture for fear that what he has to say might not be interesting. Shy people for some reason are often afraid of saying what they know, and need to be encouraged by creative means. 😉
There were several people who became the genesis of Mulan. 1. Yuenu. The Lady of Yue - one of the first known martial artists and became a posthumous goddess. 2. Northern Wei Dynasty. 3. Sui - to - Tang. Red-Sleeved Maiden, wife of Li Jing. (The movie could be set in this period, where in Fujian would be right) 4. other female heroines lost to history 5. the four above combined in the Ming Dynasty into a single character
Wow !! This is new to me .. I also always fascinated with China and their culture, and this is Tulou really blow my mind.. great video and thanks for sharing ...
Amazing video and insight Amy , well done on integrating into its culture and locals too! Incredible to know co-living as communities existed centuries ago and its making a come back with co working and co living as communities again. Being self sufficient is also coming back for pure nutrients and freshness from the ground and food source. Keep up the great work in your adventures !
I really admire how brave you are to travel alone and experience all these wonderful moments by yourself. I'm quite shy when it comes to meeting new people but I want to change that about myself. Could you possibly make a video about how you travel alone and still have fun?
TH-cam's algorithm suggested this vid to me (probably because I'm playing a billion hours of Romance of Three Kingdoms recently) but it's great that folks like you are actually out there making these. Sinophobia in the West is at an all time high so I think having a more positive "western" perspective on social media helps. :( Your Shanghai vid is great, really made me feel nostalgic with some of the older parts of the city still intact. Gave a sub for support.
These buildings sure look similar to missile silos, especially from the top. During the Nixon administration, the U.S. spotted these Tulou and were trying to figure out what they are. It would be nice to see these buildings but to stay there for a night is a different story.
This is fascinating!! I’ve heard about these buildings before but never seen the interiors until this video. Thank you! I’ve enjoyed all your videos so far.
Ajisen Ramen Warring period , somewhat correct . Its war from the local’s residents ,, ,, who don’t want the new refugees diaspora from northern china , living there . The new arrivals , called Hakka , just settled in the worst areas, With almost no fertile land , not much of flat land, and water Irrigation is non-existent , Yet the Hakka stayed , develop agriculture, dug water wells , create rudimentary irrigations systems , Becoming self sufficient, , And the local with envy, Will attack the Hakka settlers, to “reclaim”, their land , after its been developed. So the Hakka people , have to defend themselves, and what a better structure they build there . Small windows opening, located high from the ground , making intrusion difficult. And they also created their own martial arts systems , all just to protect themselves . I would know , I studied on this subject .
lyhthegreat History , History is replete with conflict , That is just Human traits , Weakness invite predators, Hunger needs to be fed , Ambition create grandiose dreams , And Greed is one of the most destructive Motivator of humanity. The whole history of Old china , & even the present china , and the entire humanity in this world , has blood , been spilled , soak, and dried . Define “warring” ? ? ? Since when in recorded history has there been no conflict and wars .
lyhthegreat The Mullan story , is just one of those myth, Just like Hollywood, Almost everything is a myth and biased productions .
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@@angelsan1982 "Warring Period" is just the actual term historians have used for this. Don't know why you had to write an essay about stuff people already know. It's like the Chinese junks - that's the real term for an actual design of Chinese ships. We're not saying it's garbage, that's the actual name! You need to stop taking things so literally
Thank you Amy for the nice introduction of Tulou(土楼). It's so interesting even for a Chinese like me. I've known this kind of construction since I was a middle school student, but actually this is my first time have a close look at it.
When you are Chinese and realize that you are learning your own culture from a blondie👀🤯🤯🤯
@@xxibkryss.l9834 well technically no, I'm kinda from the American culture😅
Alan Xie I think she meant like where your Chinese ancestors live around.
@M E don't ever say manchu again, that's an insult for Chinese people(kinda racist word). also, wtf is mao from the centre, pls learn more about China and start to respect China.
Alan Xie LOL as an ABC myself i relate to this sm
Same here haha
I'm an Indonesian Hakka. Thank you for showing our culture. There's a Hakka Museum in Jakarta modelled in the shape of a Tulou.
Disney put north Chinese girl Mulan, in a south China building, TuLou . LOL
Well the hakka people did migrate from the north right😀
lucky coin anyway, Mulan isn’t Hakka people
lucky coin Well, Tulou only exists in Southern China, where Mulan grown up in the northern China, so the movie did not reflect the real situation.
lucky coin at that time, Hakka has not become Hakka yet, they still lived in north and no need to build a castle like this.
Just be grateful they didn't cast Scarlett Johansson as Mulan.
What an amazing place...I love how adventurous you are and also appreciative of each unique Chinese culture! Well done video!
In fact ,Like this historical and amazing building that have a lot of building in China ,but destroy many building
by Europe and Japanese aggressor
I went to Tulou with my friends before, but we just visited a few famous Tulous in 2 hours. You know more about Tulou than 99.99% of Chinese. Such a Genius.
A couple of things I find interesting
1. She doesn't disparage the rural community as run down and is pretty open minded about the whole experience.
2. The hotel room is outfitted with modern furnishings... quite unlike an actual Tulou that people lived in. Quite amusing.
Its basically an apartment building concept, just a few thousand years old. The combination of multiple families living in a efficient and easy to protect structure is awesome. Does show real innovation from back then.
My ancestors were Hakka people who migrated to Malaysia in the beginning of 20th century. The Tu Lou community is fascinating, but also a testament of the perseverance, tenacity and survival of a cultural group. I am a proud Hakka who still speak Hakka and cook Hakka food though living in the US right now.
AHH, this is so cute, I love how you were able to just have a meal and hold a conversation with the old man. And your Chinese is soo good! (You're getting a lot of the tonalities spot on!) I learn so much about Chinese culture through your videos, and honestly, I just live vicariously through your videos ;)
Yeah same feeling! Amy is the best!
Aww thank you so much!! That’s so nice to hear :)
Do you realize that the wife does eat with them? The males usually eat first in traditional Hakka family
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Amy is not only beautiful outside but also inside. love it ^^
Being of Hakka descent seeing these tulous and people learning about them makes me so emotional for some reason hahah. Immensely proud. Would love to visit and learn more about my people’s history
For those kids, that uninhabited TuLou must be an AWESOME place to adventure!!!! I really want to a kid again, growing up among those Tulous
The people are so lovely and genuine. This is so much more interesting to watch your travels take you to such authentic places. One can't experience this with an ordinary travel guide. Thank you for sharing your adventures, I love each little village and tiny treasures you find along your way. 💕😀
I went there literally 10 years ago. The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism should have issued you a medal or hired you as a tourism ambassador! You are doing such a great job to introduce how diverse China really is
Another amazing video!! Thank you Amy for going out and engaging with the local community, a must try once travel is back!! 😍
I used to be a student from Xiamen University, my teacher took us to Nanjing county for an anthropology field trip, the Zhang family of Taxia village is still in my memory! Great video!
A tulou is a small fortress actually, they were built like this for defense and security purpose in old times. And there were similar buildings across China in ancient time
But fortresses are usually for kings or nobles. This is like a whole village. So it's like an ancient apartment complex. With shared club house facilities. A real bummer though, cuz you need to get out to poo.
@@Jumpoable no it's actually a fortresses, because hakka means guests, they are migranting from northern part of china mostly during the fall of song dinasty when the mongol invaded the capiltal. but they are not so welcome in the south, that's why they build fortresses like these to protect their community. you can see there's no window looking outside on the first and second floor.
As a Chinese, I appreciate your video for spreading Chinese culture, and I am amazed by the way you look at the world. I really like your videos.
Thank you Amy for covering on life in Tulou. Now i know there are still people who live there and the rooms inside Tulou. Eye opening content. Well done 👍
You present such beauty of the Chinese people, culture, heritage and places. Well done and thanks for sharing your amazing journey with us, building some important bridges between China and other countries and helping to make this a better and friendlier world for all of us to live in.
Welcome to my hometown. You are a true legend.
One of the most essential lessons I learned from your video is that I think everyone should travel when they are young
what I like about your channel is even a chinese like me can learn something we don't know.
I find this kind of dwelling fascinating. The sense of community, and the history makes me want to go visit Fujian. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Oh my goodness, this is fascinating and creative historic architecture! I have not had the chance to see the live action film of Mulan, so I hadn’t seen any toulo shown anywhere ever!
Could this be a predecessor of the apartment house with a large courtyard? Certainly the idea of living this way as an entire village is a good way to survive together in tougher times.
I would guess that the community as a village would pull together during times of adversity such as repairing building damage from storms, helping to look after each other’s young children while parents are busy, and helping each other when illness strikes.
She is so sincere in her reporting.and genuinely enjoy her job.
A pleasure to watch.
Fun fact: decades ago, when US saw these buildings from their satellites, and thought they were Nuclear Launchers. After investigating, Americans were relieved!!!
与天相斗,其乐无穷!
Yes , fun facts , yes on that too . No surprise, their agency has some thorny awakening, , , ,
imagine their surprise that deep inside hinterland ,
There are clusters of what look like missile silos , from aerial photos.
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So sad , very sad .
it was circulated that those numbers are quite low .
And since the dead problems on this earth is over , their survivors are facing difficulties of immense proportions.
@Andrew Smith I don't think it is imaginary, rather it is flat out lie so that US has a 'legitimate' reason to invade and overthrow Saddam Hussein.
@@garymoh4828 They want Iraqian oil. Thats the reason. And they recently demanded 50% of Iraqi oil revenue.
@@asiacuisine4869 Iraq doesn't have as much oil as the other gulf states. Still if the U.S. wanted oil from Iraq they would have to buy it. They can't just come in and take Iraqi oil for free, you know. The reason Bush invaded Iraq was pretty much having a lot to do with re-election. The American people and people from just about every democratic country around the world tend to re-elect the incumbent presidential candidate during the time of war. And that's exactly what happened. The US invaded Iraq and Bush was re-elected.
Very well made video.
I’m a Hakka myself living overseas ( Mauritius,uk,Toronto) but my ancestors moved from this place to meizhou city, guangdong。
Thank you for making this video.
This is really interesting. It definitely will be in my bucket list. You really have to love your neighbors to live here.
I was literally there a few years back. The air was so fresh, and near to where Blondie stays is a river, near the river, is or maybe was a restaurant. I did stay in one. It was a very calming experience.
I've been so interested in these buildings since I watched "Big fish & begonia", I'm so happy you made this video
i am hakka people, but live in indonesia. watching this video made me feels like home. i wanted to visit 土楼someday. and i will ;) 因为每次看见土楼我好像感受了人家的温暖人家的亲切感，再说我的祖祥也是客家人。天哪我必须去那儿！
your editing skills is amazing, I have watched like 10 of you videos in a row after randomly discovering it 🤣 if more people can be positive like you the world would have been a much better place 🥰
I was in china many years ago, it is amazing how nice the local people are, if you are their guest, they will make sure that their guest receives the best treatment.
Hello blondie, im from south america (Peru) and looking for Shenzhen info i found your channel, love your videos!! So much information and fun! Thanks and good luck!!
Nice to see a content provider showing the good side instead of the constant negativity from other youtubers.
Tulou is also known as the first ever apartment complex in history! And it was featured in the upcoming Mulan movie as her house though that was not historically correct LOL. Hakka people are known to be great politicians in history, eg Sun Yat Sen and Lee Kuan Yew. The term Hakka means guest people, so when they moved to the south in Guangdong and Fujian provinces few hundred years ago, they were seen as outsiders and was despised especially by Cantonese people. That was also one of the reason they designed and built their houses in such a way to protect their community. And it was said that Hakka women didn't bind their feet in ancient days.
I'm half Hakka, half Cantonese. No wonder my left hand don't like my right hand. lol
WEI of the DRAGON
That's true, my great grandma didn't bind her feet.
Interesting, thank you!!
not to be rude but I think apartment buildings were built long before Tulou, and I am Chinese, too.
Another rumour mention by Han Suyin, a Hakka herself, is that when they moved ... they also abandoned their infant girls...
theyre beautiful wow and absolutely genius. i love that people still love in them now
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"What's a village without it's people?"
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@@xiaohexiaoheyang3389 the building would be the easiest to fix in order to make the local tourism economy work
you are literally the best ambassador for Chinese tourism!!!! All your videos are not just beautiful, but also have such an authentic and human element to them.
Thank you so much for that lovely comment!! ❤️❤️
As a Chinese, it's kinda ironic that I am subscribing your channel to get a knowledge of many different regions in China from a new perspective while studying in Germany😳 Honestly, I have never been to 80％ of your vlog tourist destination. I feel a little ashamed😅 I should and MUST take several months out and travel through China with my parents or my bros or potential girlfriend😂😂😂 Keep on the amazing work👍👍👍👍👍
_ Geng there’s so many amazing places to see and explore in China!! Definitely recommend taking some time off to check out some places :)
@@user-lq3td5zd8s Awww thank you very much! I study at Uni Stuttgart now and I am in 3. Semester :) Honestly I prefer north Germany to south Germany haha. Hamburg and Berlin have a very nice scenary! Stuttgart and München are a little boring compared to them😄 Anyway, willkommen in China. Wenn du Frage hast, schreib mir einfach :D. Du kannst meine Kontaktadresse speichern wenn du willst ;) Viel Erfolg beim Studium. 😁
@@user-lq3td5zd8s maybe you can find my instgram, we can talk about it on ins privately :) My account is called 'geng________', also 8 Unterstrichen😂 a little complicated😳
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@@jenniferisabellawagner1957 大城市法兰🌝
Wonderful diversity, fantastic history, fantastic family culture
Thanks blondie! This is a Hakka dwelling I’m Hakka but have only seen this through your video, thanks!
Yes. Thank you blondie. I'm hakka 2. Would like to visit in the future.
@Xin Fan Zheng i'm hakka 3 (lols)... but sadly can't "kong hak fa.." but i love to eat "ham choi kon" :D :D
i must admit (as chinese overseas) my putonghua is way (wayyyy) below amy here :p
Hello fellow Hakka ren “Ni sit Pau fan mang nga??”
Your last name sounds like Xie in Hakka.
Hakka here.Can you tell me where do you come from,my brother??Thai ka si hiung,nyin shit ha loi.Hakka nyin jit thiau sim!!!
Wow can’t wait to visit !
ABSOLUTELY ❤❤❤ this video! Keep then coming🙂
DaViD J thanks David!!!
My mum is hakka and when i saw Mulan and she told me this is a true hakka house. i was shocked. i think it makes it more special that they are still living there. it has a lovely atmosphere because they are living the community life. so precious. i wonder if the youngsters still want to live like this. it will be sad to see Tulou's empty
Great video Blondie! I always enjoy the things that you show. I love China ♥ 我爱中国. By the way, today I start my Chinese course and I'm soo happy!
Eres tan linda
加油，come on！
Congratulations
Glad you love Chinese culture, good luck
Welcome to China!
As a Chinese who only heard about Tulou, I learned a lot about Tulou from your video. Thank you!
Hahah thats awesome! glad you enjoyed it!!
Kolkata used to have a huge Hakka Chinese population. My paternal grandmother was half Hakka Chinese and she also used to say that she had Tung blood in her. My cousins are full blooded Chinese and moved to Canada in the late 90s.
How do they came india?
How do they came india?
that big building is just jaw dropping beautiful from inside
Totally Unique, Level One Utopia! :D
I've seen these in videos before but this trumps them all. Loved your interaction with the residents and the details you managed to extract from them.
RespectOthers thanks so much!! It was a super fun and informative video to make
The most extreme inaccuracy of the live-action Mulan is that Mulan is Northerner and the story took place in the North, while Tulou is a kind of southern building.
Imagine a movie about a winged hussar, but she came from a beautiful neighbourhood that looks Venice.
So sad to see the older and uninhabitated TuLous in a state of disrepair. Maybe those could be fixed up and rented into some kind of AirBNB model by their owners for the duration they're unoccupied. Would be such a huge boon to the local rural economy :)
That means more money to rehabilitate the structures
My family is from Fuzhou and I never been to that area. Thank you for showing me places of my family hometown
Some interesting facts in this video including the fact that tulous can withstand ammunition and extends metres underground.
Diversity is my middle name. Well not really. I don't know enough about tulou but I believe in "to love."
Yin Hou Khor haha that’s cute :)
I’ve lived in China for ten years and have never appreciated the culture, people, and history on such a deep level as you have. I think I have just taken China for granted. You really changed how I think China as a whole. 👍
Another great video Amy! Can't wait to see what you do when Chinese New Year rolls around.
Al F. Thank you!!
I am amazed at the fluency of your Mandarin and you feel so at-home with China. This is the first video I have come across from you and will support you in all your productions from now on. Great job 👍👍. Keep up the great work.
Tulou is actually really of interest to the architecture community. From the beginning of the 20th century, the idea of creating a systematic utopian society based on modular assignment of living space has been brought forth by architects and theorists, notably Le Corbusier. The later social housing programs around the world all attempted to formulate this efficient and promising model. The social housing program in St. Louis is one in particular that has made an impact. But due to the inherit flaw of the system, the project soon turned into a breeding ground for criminal activities and was torn down. Prestigious architecture school today like the AA school of architecture and Harvard GSD are still researching the possibility of modular community (especially in coping with the exponential growth in population). So it is fascinating to see this idea being implemented in China a few hundred years ago.
Because they don't have an East Asian Confucian-based communal culture to begin with. Plus the Hakka are just getting high on tea, not crack cocaine.
Your video reminded me of the experience of being volunteer teacher in 南靖 primary school in summer vacation in my college. And I visited the 土楼 also.It’s very a unforgettable experience. Appreciate it!
土枪 is kinda like a homemade musket for hunting.
This video brought back so many good memories! I stayed here (in the same tulou you stayed in) during a school trip 6 years or so ago! Nothing has changed! 😭💖
ohhh thats so cool!
so cool. what a wonderful experience.
“大鱼海棠”的场景也是取自土楼
Wow thank you.. I enjoy see you video
Being of Hakka descent it’s great to see the inside of a 土楼。Not sure about the lack of toilets 😂 though..
I've stayed in a traditional miao inn in xijiang village and now I want to stay in a tulou inn. Thanks for the great informative video!
So apple's new hq is inspired by this?
LOL
protect empolyees from androids
omg... u remind mi
@@janusli8820 To protect employees from angry customers.
Good job blondie. Amazing house MULAN
福建有不少城市都有土楼，漳州市的南靖县、漳浦县、华安县和平和县等，龙岩市的永定县，另外，我妈是永定客家人。
和台湾客家人是否一样
@@古往今來-l6w 这我就不太清楚，应该差不多
Blondie, this was my ancestors house/building.
Thank you for introducing our Hakka culture.
I'm in Toronto and we have THHA
The Hakka Heritage Alliance
有中文字幕，必须给个赞。
Thank you so much for this video. I learn something new about my own culture.
Superb video. A view from just. Good side, bad side, true side. Thanks for sharing this to the west. You and lots of friends are helping promoting the true China. Not like what the US press said.
Thanks for Sharing the local culture, the architecture, the people & of course the food. Good work!!!
It is both admirable and easily forgivable that Blondie took some “artistic license” for we Western viewers, to draw us in to the video.
Otherwise we might have not taken the time to view this incredible world heritage site.
But for those curious, The Ballad of Hua Mulan is actually set in the Northern Wei era (386-536). That is where her injured father was called upon to defend the Tuoba realm from Rouran (Hun) invaders.
So yes, it’s Northern in origin.
However, the point Blondie was making was that these people in the video live in what is essentially a fortress.
To westerners like myself, whether accurate or not, mention Hua Mulan, and we’re sucked right in because we know the story because of the cartoon.
Her play on words served a good poetic purpose and is something we westerners do all the time to get someone’s attention to a broader concept.
It would be like when I visited the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, and innocently commented to my friends, “Wow, the Pharaohs of Egypt really got around...”
Not quite true, of course... and I knew it. But it opened up a discussion of common architecture and questions regarding humanity’s deep history which was my actual intent.
It enabled a friend of mine who is of Mexican descent to punch me in the shoulder and correct me. He was grateful to me for the joke because usually he is shy and has difficulties opening the floor to historical things about his culture for fear that what he has to say might not be interesting.
Shy people for some reason are often afraid of saying what they know, and need to be encouraged by creative means.
😉
There were several people who became the genesis of Mulan.
1. Yuenu. The Lady of Yue - one of the first known martial artists and became a posthumous goddess.
2. Northern Wei Dynasty.
3. Sui - to - Tang. Red-Sleeved Maiden, wife of Li Jing. (The movie could be set in this period, where in Fujian would be right)
4. other female heroines
lost to history
5. the four above combined in the Ming Dynasty into a single character
Wow !! This is new to me .. I also always fascinated with China and their culture, and this is Tulou really blow my mind.. great video and thanks for sharing ...
Interesting... a 15th century Chinese apartment dwelling.
Yeah, rammed earth is very strong building material and can last for millennias.
Yes absolutely
Spot on. An apartment building with really good security.
Amazing video and insight Amy , well done on integrating into its culture and locals too! Incredible to know co-living as communities existed centuries ago and its making a come back with co working and co living as communities again. Being self sufficient is also coming back for pure nutrients and freshness from the ground and food source. Keep up the great work in your adventures !
I was confused when I saw the mulan trailer and they had the tulou since its from a different time period than the makeup mulan puts on.
wumao npc the clothing and makeup were wayyy off, looked too cheap
I really admire how brave you are to travel alone and experience all these wonderful moments by yourself. I'm quite shy when it comes to meeting new people but I want to change that about myself. Could you possibly make a video about how you travel alone and still have fun?
So love hearing Fujian people speaking Mandarin. Polite, soft and slow sometime.
Roger Yang Southern Mandarin has a softer tone..
I prefer them speaking Minnan.
Communities of the future in rural ancestral buildings. BRILLIANT!
Now that's what I call a really close-knit community.
Yes, I've seen a building like that.
I'm pretty sure I saw THAT building.
Good place to visit for a day or two.
Fact --- this ”tulou“ used to be stupidly considered as nuke silo by amelicunts.
X Z lol such hostility, they didn’t know. Wouldn’t blame them.
@@Null-941 and now more trade wars will come
TH-cam's algorithm suggested this vid to me (probably because I'm playing a billion hours of Romance of Three Kingdoms recently) but it's great that folks like you are actually out there making these. Sinophobia in the West is at an all time high so I think having a more positive "western" perspective on social media helps. :( Your Shanghai vid is great, really made me feel nostalgic with some of the older parts of the city still intact. Gave a sub for support.
迪士尼亂帶節奏。北朝時期花木蘭居然會住在圓形土樓。
是的。不过电影本来就是讲故事。小细节就忽略不去计较了。不过随之而来的问题确实就是不明就里的人以为土楼就是木兰的老家。。
这是历史二三百年的美国人糟糕的历史观
@@ccmutb 电影可以艺术加工，但是有史可据的事情，他们做不到就是不到位了。再说，美国公司大家也没抱有什么希望
这种把自己的文化强加到中国文化的电影，我是不看的。
1.替父从军，是担当，孝道，绝境求生。改成公主，爱情，荣誉
2.男装一看就是女的，女装一看就是丑化中国审美。
只能说明迪士尼的目标观众不是中国人，看迪士尼花木兰的人想看猎奇的符号化的东西
Holy Molly. My mind is blown away.
欢迎来到中国 😀我也是广东河源龙川客家人 我们那边有个霍山 旅游区，可以理解一下
Thank you for this amazing video!! I have seen some photos of these buildings but not closeup video. Best regards!!
interestingly，this kind of buildinh was almost regarded as missile launcher by the US satellites during the 60s
Its must be a magical place during New Year with all the lights and people
These buildings sure look similar to missile silos, especially from the top. During the Nixon administration, the U.S. spotted these Tulou and were trying to figure out what they are. It would be nice to see these buildings but to stay there for a night is a different story.
very interesting story
I really enjoying your explaination, get it up miss.
Now I know where Apple get their building design from. So the Chinese are originally the more creative! Americans just copy it.
This is fascinating!! I’ve heard about these buildings before but never seen the interiors until this video. Thank you! I’ve enjoyed all your videos so far.
Looks like it was from the Warring period in China’s history.
Ajisen Ramen
Warring period , somewhat correct .
Its war from the local’s residents ,, ,,
who don’t want the new refugees diaspora from northern china , living there .
The new arrivals , called Hakka , just settled in the worst areas,
With almost no fertile land ,
not much of flat land, and
water Irrigation is non-existent ,
Yet the Hakka stayed , develop agriculture,
dug water wells ,
create rudimentary irrigations systems ,
Becoming self sufficient, ,
And the local with envy,
Will attack the Hakka settlers, to “reclaim”, their land , after its been developed.
So the Hakka people , have to defend themselves, and what a better structure they build there .
Small windows opening, located high from the ground , making intrusion difficult.
And they also created their own martial arts systems , all just to protect themselves .
I would know ,
I studied on this subject .
warring period as in the era mulan lived in?
lyhthegreat
History , History is replete with conflict ,
That is just Human traits , Weakness invite predators,
Hunger needs to be fed ,
Ambition create grandiose dreams ,
And Greed is one of the most destructive Motivator of humanity.
The whole history of Old china , & even the present china , and the entire humanity in this world , has blood , been spilled , soak, and dried .
Define “warring” ? ? ?
Since when in recorded history has there been no conflict and wars .
lyhthegreat
The Mullan story , is just one of those myth,
Just like Hollywood,
Almost everything is a myth and biased productions .
@@angelsan1982 "Warring Period" is just the actual term historians have used for this. Don't know why you had to write an essay about stuff people already know. It's like the Chinese junks - that's the real term for an actual design of Chinese ships. We're not saying it's garbage, that's the actual name! You need to stop taking things so literally
Thank you Amy for the nice introduction of Tulou(土楼). It's so interesting even for a Chinese like me. I've known this kind of construction since I was a middle school student, but actually this is my first time have a close look at it.
支持一下澳大利亚的妹子 从正确的方向了解中国
正确了解中国人民热爱中国共产党的事实。
小熊维尼 认为土楼是花木兰老家，很可爱的想法，哪里毒了？你这种脑子才有毒吧
@@k278946 你是职业的吧