Hi there, appreciate the video, keep doing~few things to clarify 1.12:24 fake singing, it's refer to the band Mayday for sure , but they are from Taiwan not China. Most of normal Taiwanese will take it offended been called chinese, we are proud to be Taiwanese. Btw, that scandal happened because ccp demand them to do propaganda for ccp in order to influence the young people in Taiwan before 2024 presidential election, but they refused, therefore ccp tried to oppress Mayday by spreading rumors of Mayday fake singing to humiliate them and to make them lose fans in China. 2. 13:12, it refers to a Taiwanese talent Raine Yang who claimed that Taiwanese are so poor to afford seafood, clearly she is in tune with ccp propaganda. 3. 13:18, it also refers to a Taiwanese talent Jam Hsiao who is the descendent of Taiwan aboriginals, he claimed we Taiwanese are brought up by drinking water from Yellow River( known as mother river in China), what's funny is that the aboriginals of Taiwan don't even share the common ancestors with China. And the rest of Taiwanese, we may have ancestors came from China but that's it, we won't think ourselves as Chinese. Will people of the U.S. think themselves as British?
"And the rest of Taiwanese, we may have ancestors came from China but that's it, we won't think ourselves as Chinese." In my experience, 90% Taiwanese people will be proud of their 5000 years of Chinese heritage and culture. Zhong hua min guo song... BUT that truly depends on the context of conversation. Boils down to, we are Chinese but not communist. And just to add I am talking about young , mid and old age people, and none of them are KMT voters. EDIT, if Taiwanese are not Chinese why do you claim mainland-west Taiwan and Tibet in your constitution?
Good point! My answer is because our constitution is outdated. It was found when ROC aka Taiwan was still the government of mainland China, and then KMT was defeated by CCP and retreated to Taiwan. The leader of KMT of the time, Chiang Kai-shek, thought he would fight back and take back mainland China, so he wouldn't revise the constitution. As time goes by, taking back mainland China seemed impossible, then why the constitution still remain the same? Obviously, CCP threatens to wage a war between the strait when we try to announce independence, and to revise the constitution of Taiwan equals independence to CCP. We are a small country and they are giant. On the other hand, U.S. would not hope we try to change the status quo between the strait because that's better for every bodies benefit, and we are ally of the States and of the free world, so we should take allies' benefit in consider. Finally I want to quote this "90% Taiwanese people will be proud of their 5000 years of Chinese heritage and culture", well, ten more years ago, maybe so, because after KMT came to Taiwan they tried to brainwashed all Taiwanese we are all Chinese and our text book is all about China history and geography, even more our local Taiwanese language is prohibited to speak in public for a while. However, as you may know the behaviors of Chinese wolf warrior or little pink all over the world, I'd rather say that nowadays 90% Taiwanese people don't want to be mistaken as Chinese from China, it's really embarrassing.
14:18 In Malaysia, we have a group of people who their nationality is Malaysia (truely born and grow up in Malaysia) but they pro-ccp/China just because their ancender from China (the truly the people of the dragon haha), and of course due to the influence of the propaganda on social media such as Tik Tok, We chat and TV Shows. In Malaysia, we call them "中华胶”（literal translation: Chinese glue) and we give them a cute nickname "胶胶”(little glue？😂), Namewee writes it in the lyric. In the English translation, the "Jingoistic" refer to the "little glue". To make it easy to understand, just consider them as Malaysian little pink. I as a Malaysian, I really proud with Namewee. He truly a legend and so creative! 🇲🇾
And a little correction. In 3:18 here 666 doesn't refer to lucky number. It's come from that 6 is sound like 「溜」, which means someone is good at something. When it comes to 666 in Simplified Chinese internet culture, it's means compliment someone is awesome. For example, if your favourite FPS game streamer head-shot another player in the game, you could type 666 in the chat to express that you feel he / she do a really good play.
14:18 In Malaysia, we have a group of people who their nationality is Malaysian (truely born and grow up in Malaysia) but they pro-ccp/China just because their ancender from China (the truly the people of the dragon haha), and of course due to the influence of the propaganda on social media such as Tik Tok, We chat and TV Shows. In Malaysia, we call them "中华胶”（literal translation: Chinese glue) and we give them a cute nickname "胶胶”(little glue？😂), Namewee writes it in the lyric. In the English translation, the "Jingoistic" refer to the "little glue". To make it easy to understand, just consider them as Malaysian little pink. I as a Malaysian, I really proud with Namewee. He truly a legend and so creative! 🇲🇾
Jiao in 胶水(glue) has same pronunciation as 蛟龙 a type of dragon. I wonder if that's the intended meaning that got lost in generational failure at the language.
@@RonLarhz it not related with 蛟龙because we started to use 中华胶 since the protest in HK, and this song just released few days ago. It totally not related with dragon in this word in the lyric.
1.00 is wrong. the song was made earlier than London incident. He referred to Hong Kong people mass migrated to UK after mass demo against ccp incident.
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Superb video, very informative, I have watched the MV just yesterday and it's a masterpiece of the decade. Thank you for making this video. Love from Nagaland, India. JAI HIND.
That’s a female Taiwan singer (yang Cheng Lin) who said she in Taiwan was so poor she can’t afford to eat seafood, hence she is being fed by ccp the shrimp. She is also the person said 爱骗人 in a concert , hence the token 爱骗人is also reference to her .
I only heard of Namewee about 40 minutes ago; then watched his music video and this one. I got the gist of his music video, but hadn’t realized how much there was to unpack. I’d heard of the 50 cent party before, but not the little pinks. Very informative and eye-opening! Thank you!
Namewee is actually an awesome artist which always tend to add the current political situations to express his/ many other people thoughts about that particular topic. There have been few videos banned in china such as "fragile" due to criticizing the China government and something more or less about that
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@@ChinaInsiderWithDavidZhang And the seafood feeding scene at the last, the actress, there’s a mole slightly beneath her right eye, which is also same with Raine Yang Why feeding her seafood? Because she said in a China TV show, she was so poor in Taiwan when she’s young that she barely had the chance to enjoy seafood
recently got a team of ppl mis- downloaded namewee version of 龍的傳人 and use it as the bgm for dancing traditional dance(with fans) huh looks like their performances wont included in China TV
Thank you so much for the insight, really add to the MV 8:18 after the 2008 Chinese milk scandal, chinese parent would rather buy foreign milk and infant formula from Hong Kong
Protest through music, and done very well. Thank you China Insider for providing so much background detail for those of us that don't understand Chinese.
I sooo wish this news got coverage in India. People are gonna love it. All it took was a simple hearted artist to stand up to CCP bullies. Brilliant guys! God bless y'all.
You missed out that when then lyrics comes to “long long root”, the action that Namewee is doing means “po lampa” in hokkien, means supporting his balls (supporting blindly)…
David, the nuclear wastwater thing is interesting. In the 1980 or so, Germany paid China millions of dollars to dispose of their nuclear waste. What did China do with it????? What has China done with all the nuclear waste from their nuclear plants in the past years?? Has it been dumped in the ocean? Where is it???? Can you do a video on this topic?
Awesome vid! Helped me study up on my Chinese language meme inventory haha. I noticed there was one possible meme that everyone seemed to miss though: the line 快來挖呀挖呀挖 seems to be a direct reference to that ex-kindergarten teacher Ms. Huang 黃老師 who quit her job to become a full-time livestreamer. She uses a heavily edited beauty filter and sings these annoying kindergarten songs that go 挖呀挖呀挖 over and over. She blew up online some time last year with thousands of simps (both domestic and foreign) flocking to give her "donations", and of course there were a ton of memes mocking her going around the Chinese speaking internet as well haha
Thanks for analyzing all the references! That was really interesting! I've already watched this music video, many times! It's brilliantly entertaining, and the tune is catchy!
Thankyou DZ for your reference list, these digs are very smart satires. 9:14 and 15:43 the reference to "In this life and the next, Im proud of my nation", I believe this phrase was also quoted by Xi's daughter who lives in the lap of luxury. 13:51 the celebrities who had been publicly cancelled by the CCP like FanBingBing, WuYiFan, the list goes on.
Thank you for this. I was actually looking for a breakdown and explanation of the song yesterday(couldn't find one in English) not being Chinese I knew there was a lot I was not getting. This was awesome, thank you!
Wow not a single reference in this song escaped your keen eye! There're so many memes and jokes that I overlooked the first couple times. Thanks to your video, I get to know the fun details. 👍👍👍👍
Winnie the Pooh was banned because Xi was walking next to Obama, and someone compared it to a picture of Pooh walking next to Tigger. Some people found resemblance in their respective height and girth.
I regularly watch Namewee's Music Videos! Tokyo Bon is the earworm, playing most often in my head! But I really enjoy 10 Men, Fragile and People of the Dragon! And your analysis, David, lets me understand the many, subtle references Namewee packed in this brilliant Music Video, like so many Easter Egg! Thanks! 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜
Namewe's (黃明志) latest work just keeps getting better. Long de Chuan Ren 龍的傳人 'The People of the Dragon', is a masterpiece of orchestration and a tour de force in the art of dissent against tyranny. (*TH-cam, do something about the false flags from your fake YT accounts).
Thanks for the detailed explanation, it gives greater depth to the song. People of the Dragon is complex and perplexing. I'm laughing hysterically, yet feel the anguish that inspired the song in the first place. Btw, in this vid, David, your eyes were twinkling. lol
Thanks David well done in interpreting the song. I cant beleive that tour video has nt been demonitized yet by youtube. Long live freedom and democracy. Those who disagree raise their hands.
Nice video out there!! Also, at 14:45 , you can hear the they said "Look closely, look at these two men (this man,this women), such a badass", these are the common starting line you heard when clicked (almost) every tv show/drama/movies reviews that comes from china (mostly pirated, sometimes you can found it on FB or even youtube). And mostly the main character they will call them "小帥".
Apparently, I was mind blown with the song and the lyrics are so meaningful + entertaining. I have watched it many times, after watching your comment, that makes me even more mind blown as I didn’t notice such a details hinder message from the MV. I must said namewee, the team and the MV shooting are so smart, creative and brilliant. As a Malaysian, I’m proud with namewee and his team are being so authentic and daring with creative mind 🤩
If I'm not mistaken Namewee is the same guy who sang Japanglish. He's now making a song for CCP I gotta watch it. Japanglish got stuck in my head for 2 days after listening to it 8 times.
I thought that meant amazing or awesome and you are great in China?? Though it meant differently in the West, the number of the beast = EVIL. 777 is the lucky number in the West?
The official “Making of The People of the Dragon” has released. It also indicated “Baidu Manual” (百度真經), “Little Pink Book” (小粉紅書), “Truthfulness, Benevolence and Forbearance are no good” (真善忍不好), “Fragile Heart Manual” (玻璃心經), etc.
Buying milk powder in HK is because of the 2008 Chinese milk scandal. Quoted WIKI -- "It was a significant food safety incident in China. The scandal involved Sanlu Group's milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with the chemical melamine, which resulted in kidney stones and other kidney damage in infants." Since then a lot of people from Shenzhen traveled to Hong Kong to buy formula milk every day until the government had to issue a purchase restriction order since mothers in HK could not buy any for their babies. The same happened to Japan and Australia. Basically, it's just teasing that the food quality in China is not safe. All this fake meat, Waste oil for cooking, etc.
Yeah, so proud to be dissed and mocked for being Chinese. It's got nothing to do with CPC. Winnie represents yellow skin and beady eyes. If you are Chinese, you should be upset.
I watched the video, and then this reaction. Thank you. I now feel better about my Asian ancestors, knowing that people over there are fighting back too. It reminds me a lot of Canada, which is where my grandfather came in 1923...
Namewee is a genius of the dragon people. The song begins with the playing of Chinese folk instruments and the vocals are accompanied by background music of some Chinese movie song. The lyrics and images are metaphors that cover everything happening inside and outside China. A unique production that combines entertainment and current affairs which could be Included in history textbook.
14:20 - it's a reference to that CRAZY popular viral song by a teacher that taught her students about how to grow a garden and the importance of digging. The song is hella catchy though and technically has a good message.
Good to hear from you again, David. This is an amazing song for sure, and we all love it. You’ve done a great job as in helping English speakers understand deeper towards potential meanings of the song. Btw, I texted and suggested Brendan to have a talk with you, as I’m really worried about what may come to him in the near future. You may give him more effective actions to tackle what pink commies may do to him, and this is not what we are able to do. Pls help him at your convenience, thanks heaps!
Hi David Zhang, I was wondering 2 parts. The 1st is about the handcuffed lady in the courtroom. Is that referring to the chained woman of 8 children? 2nd, phone call till dawn referring to non-stop harassment called to Japan?
loved the breakdown & Namewee's song make me laugh even if I don't understand chinese although I'm learning many things about it's culture. The end breakdown makes more sense now
The milk powder might’ve been a reference to the scandal with the baby milk powder which caused disabilities in children not too long ago. Just a thought.
I watched the video a few days ago, but now it makes more sense since I know some of the meanings behind it. Namewhee is a pretty cool dude. Love the references to his "third leg".
Oh also most of these reference explained videos missed the lobster reference from a few years ago when they were mad at Australia and banned their lobster, coal and many other goods imports. They ended up shooting themselves in the feet with not enough coal for power plants and created a big lobster smuggling operation near the east side of the HK sea and people described that was like a huge floating seafood market 😂 every words and things in this video have references back to a real world incident what a masterpiece
Reminded myself at that time the ccp electricity plant didn’t even have enough coal to produce electricity for their cities they had to limit the electricity usage of each house/city. They did not have enough electricity for most the time 😂😂
Also China looks down at Hong Kong but then when their baby formula was tainted they had to go to Hong Kong to smuggle it back because they couldn't trust the formula that were made in China. 😂😂😂
Please note the 'bloody' red stairs to the throne for the Emperor The part about seafood is to mock two Taiwanese singers: Rainie Yang who said her family was too poor to afford seafood and said the Henan people love lying in a concert in 2023 Jam Hsiao, as a native in Taiwan, saying he was nurtured by the water of Yellow River Both are the artistes which may not be so popular before and have to kneel down before RMB to perform in China
@5:20 That London reference is probabaly for the Chinese Politic Graffiti off London Street. Dr. K incident is way too recent for the production to wrok. The filming is probably done 2-3 weeks ago, then the crews have to cut, edited, mixed and publish the MV. Not to mention, doing the storyboard, scouting localtion, making prop and writing the lyric, all takes time. But just ridiculous how many incident these little pink can cause!? Twice, within 3 months, at the same city. Even lightining doesn't hit the same that often.
In between the 2 incidents there was one in Tokyo, a little pink youtuber came to a Japanese restaurant asking why the entrance showing the sign of "Chinese not welcome", the little pink called in the police to bring up the issue of racism, he then upload the video to Chinese social media to incite patriotism at home, it was well planned
Newtonian physics is great but I cannot say the same for Newtonian public relations.. the mess he has created and the anti-%@$ sentiments are so uncalled for.
Some of my opinion: 1:31 the green background is just the normal "this movie had been checked by official" thing would be like in every other chinese movie. 1:37 The chives is still a real slang, as far as I remember it's mostly from financial slang, with the image that one slice could just bring a lot at once. 2:11 It's in chinese history, that every emeperor has name for his reign. 3:20 666 means "swag" or "dope"
That can't afford the seafood and love to lie parts thing is a parody of Taiwan actress Rainie Yang. She once said in a China Henan music concert that Henan people love to lie. You can see in the Talent list, there have the "Rainie Zero" name on it.
the opening shot is an actual China film starting screen is a reference of permit of screening in China. Not related to chives reference you talked about
Truly, with all due respect to the courage shown by so many in HK, the best opportunity for HK independence was when the British Navy was still in port. That was the time to protest against the CCP and then the Brits could have backed it up and pushed for independence. In failing to do so, the HK people of the 90s let their children and grandchildren down. But as covid showed, very few people stand up for things when there is the chance of real consequences. No offence intended, I respect what you are saying (free HK) and the real courage (not just my internet courage) that it must take to stand up for these causes.
The 4 lines rap @13:05 First 2 lines are insulting Taiwanese are poor and can not even afford seafoods The second 2 lines is a jab at Jam Hsiao Jin Teng who is Taiwanese aborigines but during an interview in China, he said he drank Huang He water while growing up. Pretty much calling out Jam Hsiao as kissing CCP ass to make some RMB
Hi there, appreciate the video, keep doing~few things to clarify
1.12:24 fake singing, it's refer to the band Mayday for sure , but they are from Taiwan not China. Most of normal Taiwanese will take it offended been called chinese, we are proud to be Taiwanese. Btw, that scandal happened because ccp demand them to do propaganda for ccp in order to influence the young people in Taiwan before 2024 presidential election, but they refused, therefore ccp tried to oppress Mayday by spreading rumors of Mayday fake singing to humiliate them and to make them lose fans in China.
2. 13:12, it refers to a Taiwanese talent Raine Yang who claimed that Taiwanese are so poor to afford seafood, clearly she is in tune with ccp propaganda.
3. 13:18, it also refers to a Taiwanese talent Jam Hsiao who is the descendent of Taiwan aboriginals, he claimed we Taiwanese are brought up by drinking water from Yellow River( known as mother river in China), what's funny is that the aboriginals of Taiwan don't even share the common ancestors with China. And the rest of Taiwanese, we may have ancestors came from China but that's it, we won't think ourselves as Chinese. Will people of the U.S. think themselves as British?
"And the rest of Taiwanese, we may have ancestors came from China but that's it, we won't think ourselves as Chinese." In my experience, 90% Taiwanese people will be proud of their 5000 years of Chinese heritage and culture. Zhong hua min guo song... BUT that truly depends on the context of conversation. Boils down to, we are Chinese but not communist. And just to add I am talking about young , mid and old age people, and none of them are KMT voters. EDIT, if Taiwanese are not Chinese why do you claim mainland-west Taiwan and Tibet in your constitution?
Good point! My answer is because our constitution is outdated. It was found when ROC aka Taiwan was still the government of mainland China, and then KMT was defeated by CCP and retreated to Taiwan. The leader of KMT of the time, Chiang Kai-shek, thought he would fight back and take back mainland China, so he wouldn't revise the constitution. As time goes by, taking back mainland China seemed impossible, then why the constitution still remain the same? Obviously, CCP threatens to wage a war between the strait when we try to announce independence, and to revise the constitution of Taiwan equals independence to CCP. We are a small country and they are giant. On the other hand, U.S. would not hope we try to change the status quo between the strait because that's better for every bodies benefit, and we are ally of the States and of the free world, so we should take allies' benefit in consider. Finally I want to quote this "90% Taiwanese people will be proud of their 5000 years of Chinese heritage and culture", well, ten more years ago, maybe so, because after KMT came to Taiwan they tried to brainwashed all Taiwanese we are all Chinese and our text book is all about China history and geography, even more our local Taiwanese language is prohibited to speak in public for a while. However, as you may know the behaviors of Chinese wolf warrior or little pink all over the world, I'd rather say that nowadays 90% Taiwanese people don't want to be mistaken as Chinese from China, it's really embarrassing.
14:18 In Malaysia, we have a group of people who their nationality is Malaysia (truely born and grow up in Malaysia) but they pro-ccp/China just because their ancender from China (the truly the people of the dragon haha), and of course due to the influence of the propaganda on social media such as Tik Tok, We chat and TV Shows.
In Malaysia, we call them "中华胶”（literal translation: Chinese glue) and we give them a cute nickname "胶胶”(little glue？😂), Namewee writes it in the lyric.
In the English translation, the "Jingoistic" refer to the "little glue". To make it easy to understand, just consider them as Malaysian little pink.
I as a Malaysian, I really proud with Namewee. He truly a legend and so creative! 🇲🇾
3:03 Namewee said he filmed this MV at the Great Wall, which is true, but the Baihe Great Wall in Tainan, Taiwan instead of China lol
And a little correction. In 3:18 here 666 doesn't refer to lucky number. It's come from that 6 is sound like 「溜」, which means someone is good at something. When it comes to 666 in Simplified Chinese internet culture, it's means compliment someone is awesome.
For example, if your favourite FPS game streamer head-shot another player in the game, you could type 666 in the chat to express that you feel he / she do a really good play.
Thanks so much for this. Namewee is a genius.
這位頻道主根本很少提到台灣啊
連五筒的意思也根本沒提原始意義
其他頻道主解析得都比他深入啊
（香港好幾個 歐美華人 等等都說得比他透徹 你就別感謝他太多了他不重視台灣在裡面多次被表達的意思 他搞不好連黃明志在台灣求學很多年受到台灣影響很多都不知道）
Because he graduated from university in taiwan! Taiwan groom talents
14:18 In Malaysia, we have a group of people who their nationality is Malaysian (truely born and grow up in Malaysia) but they pro-ccp/China just because their ancender from China (the truly the people of the dragon haha), and of course due to the influence of the propaganda on social media such as Tik Tok, We chat and TV Shows.
In Malaysia, we call them "中华胶”（literal translation: Chinese glue) and we give them a cute nickname "胶胶”(little glue？😂), Namewee writes it in the lyric.
In the English translation, the "Jingoistic" refer to the "little glue". To make it easy to understand, just consider them as Malaysian little pink.
I as a Malaysian, I really proud with Namewee. He truly a legend and so creative! 🇲🇾
Yes indeed, we call them 中华胶 (China gum). Just like a chewy gum stick with CCP propaganda and deep love for China, no matter what fact it is.😄
@@user-pn5mq20ju3v wow... pro Isis! Ada politician yang pro Isis jugak? 🤔🤔
Jiao in 胶水(glue) has same pronunciation as 蛟龙 a type of dragon. I wonder if that's the intended meaning that got lost in generational failure at the language.
@@RonLarhz it not related with 蛟龙because we started to use 中华胶 since the protest in HK, and this song just released few days ago. It totally not related with dragon in this word in the lyric.
"胶胶”(jiao jiao) would also pronounce as "d*ck" slang in Malaysian Chinese communities. Which is apt.
0:01 中國的公映許可證
0:01 龍頭變成了維尼頭
0:02 第8964號是指1989年6月4號 六四天安門事件
0:15 "龍"字的那一點 ` 是新冠病毒的圖案
0:22 中國博主時常講的話
0:27 皇上角度 (說人是牧羊犬, 反賊, 曱甴 )
0:27 曱甴由來2019香港反送中抗爭者穿黑衣被説曱甴(蟑螂)
0:27 黃明志扮演的小廝頭上的毛是指 拿著雞毛當令箭
0:55 YYDS 中國梗
0:57 呼應了另一首龍的傳人的歌詞
1:00 諷刺最近小粉紅在倫敦鬧事的事件
1:02 諷刺詐騙集團都來自中國
1:07 諷刺電話詐騙案
1:12 - 1:15 諷刺小粉紅
1:13 MV 畫面的華僞寶劍暗諷華爲被小粉紅當作懟發達國家的一把利劍
1:16 小粉紅說和台灣兄弟情深, 結果又說留島不留人
1:17 中國首富跑到新加坡
1:19 諷刺中國人隨地大小便
1:22 抖音真"莖" 的書, 暗諷中國抖音
1:23 "遙遙領先" 是華爲在發佈會說它的技術是遙遙領先的
1:25 諷刺中國假奶粉
1:27 那些人看到"抖音真莖"就跪下了, 諷刺抖音毒害社會現狀, 洗腦讓人上癮
1:27 - 1:30 是指粉紅說日本很討厭, 廢水污染嚴重, 結果還是飛過去吃日本料理
1:32 諷刺傳染病毒
1:34 諷刺中國海底撈比愛心暗號
1:37《白紙劍法》諷刺白紙運動
1:39 中國人時常說台灣和中國的關係
1:42 "華僞寶劍" 諷刺華爲
1:46 中國的美食
1:52 把拳頭放嘴裏是指用呐喊對抗中共鐵拳
1:53 反送终拳
1:55 紅色布條"五筒天下" 指的是小粉紅說要武統台灣
1:59 傳説儅不利政權時, "皇帝" 會挖藝人的黑料 (假唱, 娘炮, 辱華, 愛騙人)
2:03 諷刺楊丞琳
2:06 諷刺蕭敬騰
2:08 諷刺"皇帝"會收國裏首富的錢
2:11 諷刺明星去中國跪舔賺錢|
2:17 中國熱梗"求佛"
2:17 中國熱梗 "恐龍抗浪"
2:21 中華膠
2:23 中國熱梗"在小小的花園裏"
2:28 中國電影解説
2:29 MV畫面諷刺習近平有兩個"面具"
2:32 中國熱梗 "科目三"
2:34 左邊店牌寫"光復診所", 指的 2019 年的光復香港口號
3:15 暗諷反對黨
3:40 小熊維尼一個人踩在椅子上在暗示「獨」「裁」（踩）者
1.00 is wrong. the song was made earlier than London incident. He referred to Hong Kong people mass migrated to UK after mass demo against ccp incident.
龙虾，龙眼，龙马精神。虾眼马=瞎眼马。riding a blind horse..
1. 曱甴一詞最初出自情緒失控的香港警察，後來在屯門一次驅散行動，香港警察廣泛利用該詞挑釁在場市民，急救員及記者。
2. 紅色布條寫有捌玖陸肆，YYDS (永遠的神)，聾的傳人，韭菜好吃，全數通過，小熊為你，愛國愛黨，洞態清零及五筒天下。
3. 標題的龍字下方的五顆星像倒轉的中華人民共和國國旗。
謝謝你，我們都是反共大馬人
It shows the ignorance with deliberate and disturbing accusations to bad mouth China! SAD
People of the dragon would be a good song to play in the background of your TH-cam shorts
Newton Leng and Adelina Zhang and Mengying Liu and Cristina Lee are suing Brendan Kavanaugh.
Cristina Lee owns a very successful Law Firm in London.
Get ready with your popcorn 🍿
It should rightly be translated as 'Descendants of the Dragon', not 'People of the Dragon'.
Superb video, very informative, I have watched the MV just yesterday and it's a masterpiece of the decade. Thank you for making this video. Love from Nagaland, India. JAI HIND.
That’s a female Taiwan singer (yang Cheng Lin) who said she in Taiwan was so poor she can’t afford to eat seafood, hence she is being fed by ccp the shrimp. She is also the person said 爱骗人 in a concert , hence the token 爱骗人is also reference to her .
They even got the mole on her face.
I only heard of Namewee about 40 minutes ago; then watched his music video and this one. I got the gist of his music video, but hadn’t realized how much there was to unpack. I’d heard of the 50 cent party before, but not the little pinks. Very informative and eye-opening! Thank you!
Namewee is actually an awesome artist which always tend to add the current political situations to express his/ many other people thoughts about that particular topic. There have been few videos banned in china such as "fragile" due to criticizing the China government and something more or less about that
Newton Leng and Adelina Zhang and Mengying Liu and Cristina Lee are suing Brendan Kavanaugh.
Cristina Lee owns a very successful Law Firm in London.
Get ready with your popcorn 🍿
Not just few of it. All his social media accounts and videos have been banned in China.
Xi the Pooh has been real quiet ever since Namewee's track dropped
@@thiscommentsdeleted Too busy listening to the sweet tune to know that it is making fun of him. "Where's my honey!!! Give me more honey!!!"
I wonder how did the Chinese audience react to this music video? Liked it? Hated it?
The love to lie refers to Raine Yang making joke of Henan people during her concert.
Oh yes, totally forgot about that whole issue!
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And the seafood feeding scene at the last, the actress, there’s a mole slightly beneath her right eye, which is also same with Raine Yang
Why feeding her seafood?
Because she said in a China TV show, she was so poor in Taiwan when she’s young that she barely had the chance to enjoy seafood
Not the seafood meh?
She probably she wasn't fortunate enough to enjoy seafood when she was young. but they twist it into taiwan cant afford seafood.
@@ChinaInsiderWithDavidZhang Basically the lady is the stand-in for Rainie Yang. Even credited as Rainie Zero (清零 is almost homonym with 丞琳)
4:20 - 4:21 what he was doing is a titanic gesture that symbolizing the sinking economy of china in just a short period of time..
Play it during Chinese new year, see how many little pink can you find.
recently got a team of ppl mis- downloaded namewee version of 龍的傳人 and use it as the bgm for dancing traditional dance(with fans)
huh looks like their performances wont included in China TV
I wouldn't have known all the references without this video. Great analysis!
Thank you so much for the insight, really add to the MV
8:18 after the 2008 Chinese milk scandal, chinese parent would rather buy foreign milk and infant formula from Hong Kong
Ya. And Chinese wipe out all the formula in Hong Kong that locals have no formula to feed their children
Not just hong kong. Australia's milk powder too.
Another HIT SONG by Namewee; thanks for the analysis and translation
Protest through music, and done very well. Thank you China Insider for providing so much background detail for those of us that don't understand Chinese.
As a Singaporean, I agree your commentaries are detailed, complete and absolutely YYDS or GOAT! ❤
YYDS is the short form for Yong Yuan De Shen (永远的神）meaning the forever god.
Long Long 的根 has 2 meaning (1) the long and deeply rooted (2) from the gestures by NameWee it also signify the male organ
The ultimate dis track. Thank you for covering it all. I downloaded it.I gonna support my Asian rappers!
Man iam not even Chinese but.that was funny!!
Good job David. Thank you for this. Made even more sense now.
Well done, David. Well explanation to all these details. Thank you. You are almost my YYDS. Hahaha.
What a brilliant song and video, thanks for the breakdown David!
David, i give you 100 points for your expertise in technical interpretations of this new song.
I sooo wish this news got coverage in India. People are gonna love it. All it took was a simple hearted artist to stand up to CCP bullies. Brilliant guys! God bless y'all.
india and modi is no better.
@@aeonking93 Emotions don't pay the bills.
@@aeonking93 Bruh Modi is thousand times better than those thugs we have in Opposition here.
You missed out that when then lyrics comes to “long long root”, the action that Namewee is doing means “po lampa” in hokkien, means supporting his balls (supporting blindly)…
Can’t beat Taiwan tea. It’s the best
The music video keeps getting better. And the tune is catchy
David, the nuclear wastwater thing is interesting. In the 1980 or so, Germany paid China millions of dollars to dispose of their nuclear waste. What did China do with it????? What has China done with all the nuclear waste from their nuclear plants in the past years?? Has it been dumped in the ocean? Where is it???? Can you do a video on this topic?
Awesome vid! Helped me study up on my Chinese language meme inventory haha. I noticed there was one possible meme that everyone seemed to miss though: the line 快來挖呀挖呀挖 seems to be a direct reference to that ex-kindergarten teacher Ms. Huang 黃老師 who quit her job to become a full-time livestreamer. She uses a heavily edited beauty filter and sings these annoying kindergarten songs that go 挖呀挖呀挖 over and over. She blew up online some time last year with thousands of simps (both domestic and foreign) flocking to give her "donations", and of course there were a ton of memes mocking her going around the Chinese speaking internet as well haha
Boy I don't even know about that as a Chinese malaysian. thanks for clarifying 😊
Malaysia have a lot of talent, but Malaysia government no appreciate them, even Michelle Yeoh also Malaysian Chinese
Thanks for analyzing all the references! That was really interesting! I've already watched this music video, many times! It's brilliantly entertaining, and the tune is catchy!
Thankyou DZ for your reference list, these digs are very smart satires. 9:14 and 15:43 the reference to "In this life and the next, Im proud of my nation", I believe this phrase was also quoted by Xi's daughter who lives in the lap of luxury. 13:51 the celebrities who had been publicly cancelled by the CCP like FanBingBing, WuYiFan, the list goes on.
Thank you for this. I was actually looking for a breakdown and explanation of the song yesterday(couldn't find one in English) not being Chinese I knew there was a lot I was not getting. This was awesome, thank you!
Thanks!
Name made references to his long slong which has two steels balls attached.
Thanks David, now I have that song stuck in my head!
Been there all day...
His rap is quite good. been a fan since Negarakuku. It's is okay to diss a government if they are not doing enough for their citizens.
I know using AI voice may be controversial and potentially have ethical issues, but I approve of its use by Namewee here.
Outstanding. I would never have understood all of that without your interpretation.
Wow not a single reference in this song escaped your keen eye! There're so many memes and jokes that I overlooked the first couple times. Thanks to your video, I get to know the fun details. 👍👍👍👍
Winnie the Pooh was banned because Xi was walking next to Obama, and someone compared it to a picture of Pooh walking next to Tigger. Some people found resemblance in their respective height and girth.
Damn...I didn't realise that the song has so many deep meanings. Thanks David for covering this song
Thank you for explaining everything 👍🏼
I regularly watch Namewee's Music Videos! Tokyo Bon is the earworm, playing most often in my head! But I really enjoy 10 Men, Fragile and People of the Dragon! And your analysis, David, lets me understand the many, subtle references Namewee packed in this brilliant Music Video, like so many Easter Egg! Thanks! 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜
Namewe's (黃明志) latest work just keeps getting better.
Long de Chuan Ren 龍的傳人 'The People of the Dragon', is a masterpiece of orchestration and a tour de force in the art of dissent against tyranny.
(*TH-cam, do something about the false flags from your fake YT accounts).
Amazingly valuable cultural insight, that i'd have completely missed with out this breakdown. Thank you
I'm also learning a few more characters.
EXCELLENT EXPLANATION ON NAMAWEE SONG MEANING THANK YOU.NAMAWEE THANK YOU SHOWING REAL CHINA PEOPLE SUFFERING UNDER CCP TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
Awesome explanation of all the details and meaning behind the song and smart visuals. Thanks!
Thanks for the detailed explanation, it gives greater depth to the song. People of the Dragon is complex and perplexing. I'm laughing hysterically, yet feel the anguish that inspired the song in the first place. Btw, in this vid, David, your eyes were twinkling. lol
農曆新年快樂, Mr Zhang, thank you for sharing. Love from malaysia.
Thanks David well done in interpreting the song. I cant beleive that tour video has nt been demonitized yet by youtube. Long live freedom and democracy. Those who disagree raise their hands.
Nice video out there!!
Also, at 14:45 , you can hear the they said "Look closely, look at these two men (this man,this women), such a badass", these are the common starting line you heard when clicked (almost) every tv show/drama/movies reviews that comes from china (mostly pirated, sometimes you can found it on FB or even youtube). And mostly the main character they will call them "小帥".
Apparently, I was mind blown with the song and the lyrics are so meaningful + entertaining. I have watched it many times, after watching your comment, that makes me even more mind blown as I didn’t notice such a details hinder message from the MV. I must said namewee, the team and the MV shooting are so smart, creative and brilliant.
As a Malaysian, I’m proud with namewee and his team are being so authentic and daring with creative mind 🤩
If I'm not mistaken Namewee is the same guy who sang Japanglish. He's now making a song for CCP I gotta watch it. Japanglish got stuck in my head for 2 days after listening to it 8 times.
He is!
00:16 haha the "but dont touch me!" at the end. Hilarious 😂
I love that song, and i love it even more after your explanation! Thank you.
Thank you for explaining the meanings
Love the breakdown and love Namewee’s new song, thanks David!!!
the number 666 is called lucky number for other people but it is related on greediness and corruption..
I thought that meant amazing or awesome and you are great in China?? Though it meant differently in the West, the number of the beast = EVIL. 777 is the lucky number in the West?
The official “Making of The People of the Dragon” has released. It also indicated “Baidu Manual” (百度真經), “Little Pink Book” (小粉紅書), “Truthfulness, Benevolence and Forbearance are no good” (真善忍不好), “Fragile Heart Manual” (玻璃心經), etc.
This is soooo good. Thank you!
Wow...this song is so contextual. Thanks for breaking it down.
Thanks, i knew some, but many just flew right over my head when i first watched it.
Buying milk powder in HK is because of the 2008 Chinese milk scandal. Quoted WIKI -- "It was a significant food safety incident in China. The scandal involved Sanlu Group's milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with the chemical melamine, which resulted in kidney stones and other kidney damage in infants."
Since then a lot of people from Shenzhen traveled to Hong Kong to buy formula milk every day until the government had to issue a purchase restriction order since mothers in HK could not buy any for their babies. The same happened to Japan and Australia.
Basically, it's just teasing that the food quality in China is not safe. All this fake meat, Waste oil for cooking, etc.
I'm Malaysian and I'm super proud of Namewee 👍🏻👍🏻 HK and Taiwan loves him too
Yeah, so proud to be dissed and mocked for being Chinese. It's got nothing to do with CPC. Winnie represents yellow skin and beady eyes. If you are Chinese, you should be upset.
Thanks for the explainer... what a banger song!
That dragon with green screen is a Hong Kong movie intro *lmfaoo*
No, that's actually the intro of Chinese Censor Board(or something like that) cuz that screen appears before any Chinese movie.
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What?
@@watersluggers7413 Watch any Chinese movie. You will get my point.
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how is it censor tho?
Thank you for your sharing.
I watched the video, and then this reaction. Thank you. I now feel better about my Asian ancestors, knowing that people over there are fighting back too. It reminds me a lot of Canada, which is where my grandfather came in 1923...
Namewee is a genius of the dragon people. The song begins with the playing of Chinese folk instruments and the vocals are accompanied by background music of some Chinese movie song. The lyrics and images are metaphors that cover everything happening inside and outside China. A unique production that combines entertainment and current affairs which could be Included in history textbook.
14:20 - it's a reference to that CRAZY popular viral song by a teacher that taught her students about how to grow a garden and the importance of digging.
The song is hella catchy though and technically has a good message.
Good to hear from you again, David. This is an amazing song for sure, and we all love it. You’ve done a great job as in helping English speakers understand deeper towards potential meanings of the song. Btw, I texted and suggested Brendan to have a talk with you, as I’m really worried about what may come to him in the near future. You may give him more effective actions to tackle what pink commies may do to him, and this is not what we are able to do. Pls help him at your convenience, thanks heaps!
Hi David Zhang, I was wondering 2 parts. The 1st is about the handcuffed lady in the courtroom. Is that referring to the chained woman of 8 children? 2nd, phone call till dawn referring to non-stop harassment called to Japan?
loved the breakdown & Namewee's song make me laugh even if I don't understand chinese although I'm learning many things about it's culture. The end breakdown makes more sense now
The milk powder might’ve been a reference to the scandal with the baby milk powder which caused disabilities in children not too long ago. Just a thought.
I watched the video a few days ago, but now it makes more sense since I know some of the meanings behind it. Namewhee is a pretty cool dude. Love the references to his "third leg".
Oh also most of these reference explained videos missed the lobster reference from a few years ago when they were mad at Australia and banned their lobster, coal and many other goods imports. They ended up shooting themselves in the feet with not enough coal for power plants and created a big lobster smuggling operation near the east side of the HK sea and people described that was like a huge floating seafood market 😂 every words and things in this video have references back to a real world incident what a masterpiece
Reminded myself at that time the ccp electricity plant didn’t even have enough coal to produce electricity for their cities they had to limit the electricity usage of each house/city. They did not have enough electricity for most the time 😂😂
Also China looks down at Hong Kong but then when their baby formula was tainted they had to go to Hong Kong to smuggle it back because they couldn't trust the formula that were made in China. 😂😂😂
Thanks for this! 👍
The most ironic thing is that the host remained a serious tone when analyzing all the funny references for almost twenty minutes.
It's a very good actually. I enjoy listening to it so much, even watching for like the fifth time already. And I never listen to Chinese songs.
Thnx for da research and explanation. Namewee is da man
翻譯的太好了
A collab would be so cool !
Please note the 'bloody' red stairs to the throne for the Emperor
The part about seafood is to mock two Taiwanese singers:
Rainie Yang who said her family was too poor to afford seafood and said the Henan people love lying in a concert in 2023
Jam Hsiao, as a native in Taiwan, saying he was nurtured by the water of Yellow River
Both are the artistes which may not be so popular before and have to kneel down before RMB to perform in China
Do another one for the other song (glass heart)
@5:20 That London reference is probabaly for the Chinese Politic Graffiti off London Street.
Dr. K incident is way too recent for the production to wrok. The filming is probably done 2-3 weeks ago, then the crews have to cut, edited, mixed and publish the MV. Not to mention, doing the storyboard, scouting localtion, making prop and writing the lyric, all takes time.
But just ridiculous how many incident these little pink can cause!?
Twice, within 3 months, at the same city.
Even lightining doesn't hit the same that often.
In between the 2 incidents there was one in Tokyo, a little pink youtuber came to a Japanese restaurant asking why the entrance showing the sign of "Chinese not welcome", the little pink called in the police to bring up the issue of racism, he then upload the video to Chinese social media to incite patriotism at home, it was well planned
Brilliant explanation.
感謝您用心解說！相信令更多西方人，明白這首歌！你做得很好！謝謝
This song is the best, I kinda gave up on studying Mandarin but maybe I'll start again because people like this should be heard
Don't say "Chinese New Year" but "Lunar New Year"
But this song is aim for Chinese..not Asian.
But this song is aim for Chinese..not Asian.
Newtonian physics is great but I cannot say the same for Newtonian public relations.. the mess he has created and the anti-%@$ sentiments are so uncalled for.
the credits show that (part of?) the MV is filmed in a place called Great Wall... in Taiwan.
This song is awesome. I heard and saw it playing in a convenience store in Indonesia the other day 🎉😊.
The outro gets me every time😂
Meyoo
Some of my opinion:
1:31 the green background is just the normal "this movie had been checked by official" thing would be like in every other chinese movie.
1:37 The chives is still a real slang, as far as I remember it's mostly from financial slang, with the image that one slice could just bring a lot at once.
2:11 It's in chinese history, that every emeperor has name for his reign.
3:20 666 means "swag" or "dope"
That can't afford the seafood and love to lie parts thing is a parody of Taiwan actress Rainie Yang.
She once said in a China Henan music concert that Henan people love to lie.
You can see in the Talent list, there have the "Rainie Zero" name on it.
the opening shot is an actual China film starting screen is a reference of permit of screening in China. Not related to chives reference you talked about
8:40 means we love spreading everywhere (covid-19)
the shrimp for the lady at 16:03 probably meant the Taiwanese artist who claimed that it’s too expensive to eat seafood in Taiwan.
3:51 - 3:54 the guy under the emperor whinnie the pooh🍯🐝 that carrying the horse resembles as persian(iran)..
Free Hong Kong
Truly, with all due respect to the courage shown by so many in HK, the best opportunity for HK independence was when the British Navy was still in port.
That was the time to protest against the CCP and then the Brits could have backed it up and pushed for independence.
In failing to do so, the HK people of the 90s let their children and grandchildren down.
But as covid showed, very few people stand up for things when there is the chance of real consequences.
No offence intended, I respect what you are saying (free HK) and the real courage (not just my internet courage) that it must take to stand up for these causes.
The 4 lines rap @13:05
First 2 lines are insulting Taiwanese are poor and can not even afford seafoods
The second 2 lines is a jab at Jam Hsiao Jin Teng who is Taiwanese aborigines but during an interview in China, he said he drank Huang He water while growing up.
Pretty much calling out Jam Hsiao as kissing CCP ass to make some RMB