【4K, 60Fps Colorized】China 1912, Qing Dynasty, 100 years ago 【AI Restoration】

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2020
  • This video is for studying purpose.
    The original is a silent film, ambient sound is post added on. SFXs come from Internet.
    Hello this is DGSpitzer! I use a series of AI to recover a video from 100 years ago!
    It's about China street scene around 1912. Shot by Albert Kahn.
    thanks to @VIVY Has A Dream for her Yangqin performance. She played two ancient Chinese music pieces "Three Variations on the Yang Pass" & "Triple Falling Plum Blossoms";
    This is her channel: / @viviannayan
    Using DAIN, DeOldify & ESRGAN for AI restoration;P
    Hope you like it!
    Source video: • [South-East Asia] [Chi...
    [China] (1912/1913) Library and Archives Canada. National Film Board of Canada fonds, 1990-0347. IDC: 164835.

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  • @kevinkuo672
    @kevinkuo672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +452

    Another banger! Thanks for this. The previous release was clearly Northern China (Beijing), This one looks like Southern China. Anyone have any ideas?

    • @dgspitzer4771
      @dgspitzer4771  4 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      Actually my audiences from China found it out!! It was filmed at Ji Nan, Luo Yuan Door 济南,泺源门(濼源门).
      The photographer of this film, French banker Albert Kahn indeed had been to Shandong Province before:www.zhihu.com/question/399225415

    • @kevinkuo672
      @kevinkuo672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      ​@@dgspitzer4771 Thanks for the clarification! This is awesome stuff. Keep up the great content!

    • @lloydchung7886
      @lloydchung7886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@dgspitzer4771 大谷本人吗?之前在微博看过你的视频

    • @Simon-wz8en
      @Simon-wz8en 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I am adamant at 7:04 I heard a man complain what the purpose was recording was for and that someone was in the way. This was very similar to modern day Cantonese.

    • @RasheedKhan-he6xx
      @RasheedKhan-he6xx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Simon-wz8en wouldn't that mean they were also recording sound while filming? Very advanced technology that I think hadn't been invented yet. It might be creative sound effects artistically added to this render.

  • @BreakawayBites
    @BreakawayBites 4 ปีที่แล้ว +494

    Once upon a time in China.......
    The people are curious, ."What the heck is that thing with the glass lens?"......
    Fast forward and here we , 100 years later , watching it on TH-cam ....

    • @NightcorEDM
      @NightcorEDM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mass produced it

    • @emiogawa86
      @emiogawa86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Even nowadays they still be staring like this nothing have changed.

    • @emiogawa86
      @emiogawa86 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@goognamgoognw6637 found out Japanese people are same like that too? Maybe it's an asian thing? Or just life is boring that they have to observe others for their entertainment? For Europeans slightly fewer ones doing this.

    • @thomasscream4179
      @thomasscream4179 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@emiogawa86 There is no defending modern China's intellectual property theft, but attributing it to East Asians exclusively is either disingenuous, or simply historically uninformed. This phenomenon of IP theft by industrially undeveloped, but ambitious nations has been prevalent throughout human history.
      In the 18th century especially, the US was to the UK what China was to the US from the late 20th century up till the 2010's. Britain had laws enacted that threatened headhunters with a year in prison for every British worker recruited to work overseas (these were the days before standardized blueprints and construction plans, so knowledge was stored and reproduced in workers), and the US had actual state sanctioned and funded technology acquisition programs, targeting industrialized European nations, Britain especially. Note that in those days, IP rights didn't have the same legal support and publicity that they do today, so individual cases weren't nearly as visible as they are now. The US became a champion of IP rights *after* it became the world industrial champion.
      So please, criticize China's recent history of theft as you would criticize any IP theft, I'd do the same! But don't fall prey to that reptilian racist intinct present in every man while doing it. In any case, opinions like these will look increasingly ludicrous as time goes on. Technologically informed individuals would know of several so far incremental innovations of chinese origin all but absent in the west, despite china's drastically lower average gdp per capita, that will only increase with time.
      You kids are letting a perhaps intentionally myopic view of history, limited to the post-modern era, fuel your barely hidden racist thoughts. I can understand man's natural tendency towards xenophobia, but I thought most people would've quelled it with knowledge and thoughtfulness in their teenage years, given a decent education and sufficient reading.

    • @fuckyoutubeusernamechange
      @fuckyoutubeusernamechange 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @J C It should go like this, "It was already 1912. What! do you think they are still in middle age, lol."

  • @kiwifan6002
    @kiwifan6002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +413

    The oldest living person Kane Tanaka was born in 1903 so she would be a 9 year old when this was recorded. Unbelievable.

    • @isoclem7340
      @isoclem7340 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      This makes it more amazing damn. It's with that kind of comparison that we realize that we know nothing about the concept of time x)

    • @isoclem7340
      @isoclem7340 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@goognamgoognw6637 Yeah i'm actually pretty young x) (18 years old) but the subject remains the same x)

    • @MALAY_TENGU
      @MALAY_TENGU 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@goognamgoognw6637 not old? 100 y/o is not old
      Are you caveman
      You Gonganga

    • @mehreenmalik1869
      @mehreenmalik1869 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      She could have very well been one of the people reacting to a camera like this

    • @pinkegg3179
      @pinkegg3179 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      if you tell her that she was 9 when this was film, I think her mind would be blown. over a century ago that's amazing.

  • @catmonster2939
    @catmonster2939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    It’s really eye opening to see what life was really like in Qing dynasty, unlike those things that are depicted in modern historical dramas. Really glad that this video exists and captures moments we will never get to experience in the modern world now.

    • @treeinc8897
      @treeinc8897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      The video filmed the late Qing. The early Qing was quite prosperous.

    • @romeforeverr
      @romeforeverr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@treeinc8897 this wasn’t filmed in the Qing at all. The Qing dynasty fell in early February 1912, this was taken after.

    • @user-cc5or5st8t
      @user-cc5or5st8t ปีที่แล้ว

      是的,清朝昌盛时期真的非常繁华,但后来皇帝不敢反抗外来势力,觉得以和为贵,不断地向入侵者妥协,不断地割让领地给其他国家,一直到后来八国联军洗劫了清朝大量财宝,当时的清朝皇帝正带领着整个国家一步步走向灭亡

    • @johnyossarian9059
      @johnyossarian9059 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      This was recorded in 1912. By that China had suffered a lot of wars that devastated the country.
      The Taiping rebellion alone killed around 20 million. Compare to the American Civil war that took place around the same time that killed around 500,000.
      And the Taiping rebellion was just one example. There were also natural disasters such as flooding and failed harvests.
      Those Qing TV dramas usually portrayed the golden age of the Dynasty.

    • @innocenceyu7296
      @innocenceyu7296 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@treeinc8897 这时候大清都亡了

  • @Winkdollbeauty
    @Winkdollbeauty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    Jinan is my hometown and it’s crazy to know that this film was taken place in the city I was born in and grew up in. I wonder if any of these people were my ancestors, or if they’re distant relatives of people I knew - or even relatives of people I briefly passed by on the streets of Jinan. Great work!!

    • @potnoogle5780
      @potnoogle5780 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah they were peasants and beggars.

    • @Winkdollbeauty
      @Winkdollbeauty ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@potnoogle5780 if that's the case they'd be very proud of me today (;

    • @mantea3481
      @mantea3481 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      we all came from peasants and beggars. My family in the 1920s were farmers, miners and even sheep stealers ha! Wish we could bring them to the future so they could experience the luxurious life we have now, because of their sacrifices I think they deserve it.

    • @redtobertshateshandles
      @redtobertshateshandles ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sure are. I studied my wife's Aussie family. It was amazing that most people were related to each other.

    • @Karina-er7mx
      @Karina-er7mx ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@Pot Noogle so rude, there was no need to mention that to him! These people during that tine, suffered wars and natural disasters. You can see the sadness in their faces . Be more compassionate.

  • @CharlieLiuPhotography
    @CharlieLiuPhotography 4 ปีที่แล้ว +432

    I've never thought that watching old home recorded films could be this interesting. Thanks for working on this.

    • @Zionara_.
      @Zionara_. 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jane J there might’ve been a fair bit of methane in the air tho because of waste

    • @condorX2
      @condorX2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As a westerner, I just realize Qing is the barbarian that colonize China after they defeat the Ming. They also get ride of their ally, a Korea dynasty call Joseon.
      www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Manchu_invasion_of_Korea

    • @mmmmallqui2176
      @mmmmallqui2176 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great history.

    • @crazymode341
      @crazymode341 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out Nelson Sullivan.. He did early 80s vlogs of my night life

    • @vister6757
      @vister6757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree with you. They are valuable footages

  • @areijizen1790
    @areijizen1790 4 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    My patient is 107 years old chinese female and she was alive when this was taken. Crazy 🤯

    • @saeedurrahman2056
      @saeedurrahman2056 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      1912 is 108 years ago so it was 1 year before her birth?

    • @harsamc123
      @harsamc123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@saeedurrahman2056 maybe she was born in late 1912 or early 1913 when the qing emperor abdicated in february 1912

    • @adamlam2990
      @adamlam2990 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@saeedurrahman2056 faxxxxxxx

    • @EchoBravo370
      @EchoBravo370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      She has seen many big changes during her life. Love from Australia.

    • @wilhelmvonbrandenburg5850
      @wilhelmvonbrandenburg5850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow her life is epic! from the Qing empire to the republic and finally to the people’s republic.

  • @q_q123
    @q_q123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    As a Chinese, it's crazy to think my great/great-great grandparents lived in a time when China was so different. I love it

    • @AntiEuroUnion
      @AntiEuroUnion 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *british colony number 48 😂

    • @user-yy4gm4qc6y
      @user-yy4gm4qc6y 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Will Britain now dare to make China a colony? 😂😂😂😂😂​@@AntiEuroUnion

  • @daliang7131
    @daliang7131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    7:04 It is Jinan in Shandong. Someone in China has figure it out by the Gate. The Gate name is "泺源门”(濼源门LuoyuanMen). The gate has gone today but the street is still there, and called "泺源大街”LuoyuanDajie.

    • @johnthenaive
      @johnthenaive 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      you should be pinned on top ;)

    • @weizhang2834
      @weizhang2834 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Da Liang yes Le yuan ave today

    • @weizhang2834
      @weizhang2834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Da Liang 作者不想纠正任何他犯的错误,忙着告诉世界加拿大人给拍的

    • @daliang7131
      @daliang7131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@weizhang2834 这个4K高清是不是一个中国留学生搞得?原视频的确是西方人拍的。

    • @tetsuw5989
      @tetsuw5989 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      别处确定没有氵乐源门的话,可能就真是济南了。里面的人说话都没怎么录下来,太难判断了。

  • @pcdude2394
    @pcdude2394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    When I watched this video, couldn’t help but made me sad to think that’s the lifestyle my great grandparents had endured. My grandparents left China in the 1920s to find a better life and I am glad. I wouldn’t have the life I have now in the U.S if it weren’t for them. My grandparents told me life was tough, but I didn’t know it was this tough as shown in the video. Makes me love them even more. Thanks for sharing.

    • @mahmoudq4286
      @mahmoudq4286 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      do you still speak mandarin

    • @IronKurone
      @IronKurone 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@andicee8324 Bruh, Mao zedong could never have that power if Chiang Kai shek was ruling very good, he also kill alot of people who disagreed with the Nationalist which soon led to the civil war.

    • @michaellou7101
      @michaellou7101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Duc Ly people in China also wouldn’t live like this anymore. So, you wouldn’t have had to endure this if your grandparents were still in china. It’s called progress. China today is very different from that in the video. Ever seen videos of Beijing today? Communism for all of its flaws gave dignity to the Chinese people. In my opinion.

    • @guangyang8205
      @guangyang8205 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      我为你难过,今天的中国比美国要方便。

    • @Crow44195
      @Crow44195 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@michaellou7101 The people in this video do not have dignity? The CCP treat the Chinese ppl like cattle. Look at Hong Kong, the CCP is introducing them to dignity and democracy!

  • @a.s.3267
    @a.s.3267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    The young children in this would see a lot of changes over time.

    • @OddZodd
      @OddZodd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not until the investments started, after the great famine

    • @Maisonier
      @Maisonier 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@OddZodd Great Famine, Ireland?

    • @kleanovodust-bin69
      @kleanovodust-bin69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Yes. After they saw the fall of Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China, they would see the World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War. Then the China Civil War and then the establishment of the People's Republic of China and would go through the Great Chinese Famine in the '60s and some of them who were lucky enough would go through the Chinese Economic Reform in the '80s.

    • @baqikenny
      @baqikenny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes, my great grandma (1917-2013) saw a lot of these even though she stays on Hainan island (part of Guangdong/Canton Province until 1988), not on real mainland china most of the time

    • @baqikenny
      @baqikenny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@kleanovodust-bin69 cultural revolution and the great famine, most memorable to elders born between 30s-60s

  • @righttrue3247
    @righttrue3247 4 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    If youtube still a thing in year 2220 imagine what people would see
    *"commented 200 years ago"*

    • @republicofitaly1828
      @republicofitaly1828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Right True it will not exist in 2220

    • @BigB0ss00
      @BigB0ss00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      They'd be sad like us thinking the people who commented is dead

    • @abdulh8958
      @abdulh8958 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think.we will return.to stick and stone

    • @republicofitaly1828
      @republicofitaly1828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@abdulh8958 yes world war 4 major strongest weapon stones

    • @AgentSmith911
      @AgentSmith911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      TH-cam will be gone within the next 20 years

  • @infiniteinnocence
    @infiniteinnocence 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Wow. This is so incredible to see. Thank you. My grandmother died when I was 4 - she was 3/4 Chinese and 1/4 Vietnamese, born and raised in Vietnam. The rest of my heritage is White.... I like watching these videos to see what it was like for my distant anscentors. I long for connection to my Chinese and Vietnamese heritage. Thank you for sharing these videos.

  • @alanx1522
    @alanx1522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Its amzing to watch something over 100 years ago. Its like travel back in time. Thanks so much. Please do more.

    • @alanx1522
      @alanx1522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      goognam goognws I doubt it, then China was being overruned by western powers maily Great Britain and its lifeline would have been completely sucked dry. The Chinese culture and nation would not be strong and proud today. As it once was in ancient time 4000 years ago.

    • @alanx1522
      @alanx1522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jin of course, I am referring to the Chinese people. It’s not obvious? The success of China comes from its people. I am sorry you didn’t understand.

    • @alanx1522
      @alanx1522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jin I was stating what had happened in China. It’s a historical fact. I think you pick in the wrong comment.

    • @alanx1522
      @alanx1522 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jin as I had expected. Talking off your rear end. Advice, is you crawl back under the rock where you came.

    • @alanx1522
      @alanx1522 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jin I am just copying you. STUPID.

  • @History_of_China
    @History_of_China 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Absolutely fantastic work! Congratulations to both you and the musician. I look forward to your future projects :)

  • @Nightbird.
    @Nightbird. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    I feel guilty sitting here in my air conditioned home relaxing watching this..while these people are working very hard for very little money and food. Blessings to all their spirits!

    • @Nightbird.
      @Nightbird. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @ruben champollion People are also brown genetically as well. Asians come in brown shades too.

    • @theoduval1408
      @theoduval1408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      but they’ve got hot bodies tho

    • @Nightbird.
      @Nightbird. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theoduval1408 That's the spirit..lol.

    • @leandroantelo7154
      @leandroantelo7154 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Nightbird. But bro didn't you buy your air conditionated with all your hard work and sweat?

    • @DDKKAY
      @DDKKAY 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@leandroantelo7154 maybe his air conditioner is "Made in China" ...... just maybe...

  • @bernardcheng2208
    @bernardcheng2208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is so beautiful to watch. I loved looking at old, vintage photographs, but a vintage video? This is amazing.

  • @lihuang5937
    @lihuang5937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    感谢重现历史珍贵片断!两年以后,1914年冬季,我祖父年仅19岁,告别祖母(16岁),穿着夹袄(两层布衣)冒着大雪在平桥车站(逃票)踏上平汉铁路袁大总统的运兵列车,家乡已没有立锥之地了!北上北平,转赴天津,受尽磨难,跨入北洋的校门!谢天!谢地!谢父老乡亲!谢曾经帮助我们黄姓家族的恩人们!现在,儿女,孙(女),曾孙(女),玄孙(女)散布世界!我们很少做梦!我们常唱思乡曲!

    • @kulala2
      @kulala2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      有家史可以留下来已经很好了。我爹到死都没告诉过我爷爷的名字,就因为他自己是中共党员,英年早逝的爷爷是黄埔军校毕业的国军将领。

    • @lihuang5937
      @lihuang5937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@kulala2 父爱如山!老人是不想让幼年的你有任何自卑感,无忧无虑。从1949-1976,政治运动太多了,稍有不慎,严重影响儿女的未来。
      1974年,我已上初中,某日从家中存钢蹦儿盒子底下发现父亲写的字条:
      1. 大地主出身,(祖父毕业后,用做土木工程师,大学做教授,系主任……的薪水积累,在兵荒马乱的1948年购置田地,有上千石。)
      2. 远房4位本家,还有父亲的一位表叔(著名教肓家,第一届国大代表) 在1951年镇反运动中被万人公审处决!
      3. 有严重海外关系,其兄从1936年留英,从没有回过新中国。(伯父毕生热爱中华,他及他的后代为两岸四地,欧、美及东南亚华人同胞……作了许多有益事业)
      看完字条,我楞了很久,小学一年级填家庭出身,父亲一直让我填职员,从小是位军迷,立志做歼击机飞行员,我明白,别说飞行员,将来想入伍,在国家重要企、事业单位工作,政审就过不了关!恢复高考,我15岁去赶考,成绩不错,父帮我选大学及专业,全是硬碰硬的。此地不留爷,自有留爷处!做自由职业者,不为五斗米折腰!……

    • @kulala2
      @kulala2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lihuang5937 我知道我爹是为我好,只是感慨连自己家史都无从得知。那个制度太可怕了。

    • @lihuang5937
      @lihuang5937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@kulala2 你父亲不想让你对社会产生逆反心理,……。全世界都一样,无论社会主义、资本主义、封建主义制度都如此,轻重不同吧了!
      公司有位同事,白人,来自宾夕法尼亚。据他自述,祖父、母均出生于德国巴伐利亚卅,青年时代移民美国。某日早上我用简单的德语问候他,这位先生毫无反映……。中午出外就攴,我直言其不是德裔……,他很郑重地开口讲述,其父出生及年幼正值二战美国对德、对日战争艰难时刻,各地对德裔美国人掀起了各种迫害……,其祖父母在家里不讲德语,德裔社区、社团、私立学校、甚止天主教堂,没有人讲德语,其父就是德语盲,更不用说他了……。
      家史就是话的历史,每位华人的家族史汇集成中华民族史。如果无法发掘,难于寻根,将是很遗憾的事情。族谱、家史、祠堂……是中华文华要最后坚守的堡垒!
      请分享我的家史,苦难的成份较多,1949年后,海外后代对国内不了解;国内后人不敢写,无从下笔……。、《开花的石榴树》,网上可阅节选。
      探究自已家族史的华人都是有节气之君!现在十字军磨刀霍霍,又要东征了!推荐一篇记者通讯,不知是否给您启发?〔林奈大学国际风〕,Stephen 是我四哥。(网上可搜出来)

    • @bdbdshhs9355
      @bdbdshhs9355 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kulala2 中华民国是联合国创始国,1911年建国,1949受苏联扶持的反政府武装,分裂中华民国大陆地区,你们这些来自西方德国的反华马列分子,有一天会遭到清算的

  • @Gravelgratious
    @Gravelgratious 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    1:40 that baby is the only person on the screen that has the slightest chance of still being alive. They would be 108 or 109 right now.

    • @theasianboy315
      @theasianboy315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Yeah, if he survived WW2 and Great Leap Forward

    • @akosbarati2239
      @akosbarati2239 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@theasianboy315 and the civil war, the cultural revolution, the famines, diseases and floods in no particular order.

    • @theasianboy315
      @theasianboy315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@akosbarati2239 Basically the nature loves him more than other beings

    • @sicccstudios6595
      @sicccstudios6595 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      And the brutal Japanese occupation during the war

    • @iceseic
      @iceseic 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      How much do you think life expectancy was in China?

  • @iuinshine5213
    @iuinshine5213 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's amazing how a video could make you feel as if you were there!! Thank you so much for this amazing content!! I can't wait to see more.

  • @MJofLakelandX
    @MJofLakelandX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Little did we knew,, TH-cam was the time machine we all was waiting for

  • @doccastro
    @doccastro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    This is the closest we get for time travel, it's like being there watching them and they watching you for wearing a weird clothing and holding a weird contraption.

    • @wangluwei538
      @wangluwei538 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wow, so true

    • @youxarexmyxsunshine
      @youxarexmyxsunshine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wonder if the one child policy exist back then. There are more males.

    • @taejo4975
      @taejo4975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@youxarexmyxsunshine This is the Qing Dynasty, not CCP or ROC which were very Westernised. Qing Dynasty never care for those, the major thing that was forced on the people here, male specifically is the haircut, those are not Chinese haircut but Manchurian (Closer to Mongol than Han Chinese), actual Chinese that truly ruled the realm was Ming Dynasty, the one before Qing.

    • @ninamartin1084
      @ninamartin1084 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@youxarexmyxsunshine Females were all at home - hard to walk on bound feet

    • @sophiewang362
      @sophiewang362 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@youxarexmyxsunshine typical patriarchal mindset back then, women walking outside on the street are frowned upon, and they belong to the domestic sphere

  • @marugi3113
    @marugi3113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Good Job! I love watching videos like this, it's amazing, thank you!

  • @idylledoll
    @idylledoll 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    It's unfathomable to compare how insanely wealthy the Imperial families were while the rest of the country was destitute.

    • @LUIS-ox1bv
      @LUIS-ox1bv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No, it just wasn't, " insanely wealthy," Imperial families and the rest being destitute masses. Your perception of the reality of China during this period is flawed. You also had the gentry who owned land, the merchants, and the scholar gentry, who lived pretty comfortably. Ch'ing Dynasty China was beset with many problems, not the least were devasting wars, especially during the 19th century which not only weakened China, but made, what was once an affluent country, into a poor, backward nation.

  • @Lovejazz01
    @Lovejazz01 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing work! I I love the beginning that shows the original film and morphs into the finished product( then morphs back to the original at the end) ! Thank you for your great work!

  • @AdrianLabs
    @AdrianLabs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I love all these kind of videos, its the closest we may get to a time machine in our lifetime, thanks for your work!

  • @Cecilia-
    @Cecilia- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you for putting the time and effort in for these short films. I love it. I'm an ABC and I find these videos educational.

  • @囉森Locen-GuWay
    @囉森Locen-GuWay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    謝謝你能讓我們好好回憶這些攝影機前的歷史段落

  • @GolfExcellence
    @GolfExcellence 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this look into the past! Excellent video grateful for the post.

  • @MrJamesdryable
    @MrJamesdryable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I like how they start looking where the camera's looking. That innate human instinct to notice what is being looked at by someone else because it's probably important.

    • @blastermaster5039
      @blastermaster5039 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dont forget that a caucasian/canadian(perhaps anglo or french) is holding the camera and recording. And considerin the time line, the mere presence of someone so far removed to both looks and race mingling around and doing god knows what really does draw attention.

    • @MrJamesdryable
      @MrJamesdryable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blastermaster5039 True.

  • @HugoBrown
    @HugoBrown 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This is amazing, I love seeing these kind's of video's with people from another era in this case 100yrs ago, gives us glimpse into what life was like and what they looked like. I look at the workman and makes me wonder what they would think of modern china in 2020
    I'm definitely subscribing can't wait to see more

  • @aryalstark7020
    @aryalstark7020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I never know that I can have chance to look at a video from 100 yrs ago in China. Thank you so much. My respect!

  • @Nicole-rf5vs
    @Nicole-rf5vs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are incredible, it's great to see the videos in color and aside from that untouched footage great job

  • @MarianaLP1594
    @MarianaLP1594 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Es increíble poder ver cómo China era hace más de cien años.
    El vídeo está increíble, me encantaría poder haber visto en carne propia todo eso que nos muestras en el vídeo.
    Pd: es genial como le pones color y sonido a estas preciosas grabaciones.

  • @JustinY.
    @JustinY. ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Absolutely incredible. TH-cam really is the closest thing we have to time travel.

    • @XfromDarkHorse
      @XfromDarkHorse ปีที่แล้ว

      What are you doing here? I thought you don't like history.

    • @zlaikqamvs8280
      @zlaikqamvs8280 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bing chilling

  • @thisjourneycalledlife5957
    @thisjourneycalledlife5957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was incredible! I love looking back in time

  • @wcf4831
    @wcf4831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    精彩!多謝你無私的分享!

  • @christopherclarke3022
    @christopherclarke3022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I wonder if any of these long-departed folk ever imagined in100 years on the world would be staring at them and in color as they did staring at movie camera?
    Probably not I would think.

    • @mockngbrdy
      @mockngbrdy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      On a screen in the palm of our hands

    • @athayphom3551
      @athayphom3551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      absolutely not

    • @Etelvinicius
      @Etelvinicius 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You have an English sounding name but you make many grammar mistakes I'd not consider native. Where are you originally from?

    • @christopherclarke3022
      @christopherclarke3022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Etelvinicius Thank you for pointing out the grammatical errors I suffer from dyslexia somedays worse than others and fail to see what should have been obvious errors.

    • @Etelvinicius
      @Etelvinicius 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@christopherclarke3022 Interesting! Thank you for your reply. My advice to you would be to break your sentences down into small chunks. After you finish writing, you can read it again to see if it sounds smooth. It has helped me to write better. Everybody makes mistakes, but the important thing is to improve every day. 😁

  • @Kimchi_Studios
    @Kimchi_Studios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    These videos are so incredible. RIP to those who have passed.

    • @Kimchi_Studios
      @Kimchi_Studios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Krishnendu Nath There's always that 1 guy who lives to 212 years old

    • @Kimchi_Studios
      @Kimchi_Studios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Krishnendu Nath I am 4000 years old

    • @charmander777
      @charmander777 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      they're all in hades right now, awaiting judgement day

  • @dreamdancer84
    @dreamdancer84 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your videos are such a treasure!!! Would love to watch more of them

  • @letmegus333
    @letmegus333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    真心感謝您的努力讓我們更清楚地看到先人的形影

  • @GameplayUploaded
    @GameplayUploaded 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    If God permits me to time travel, I would visit each era and record everything. Learn about their culture, lifestyle and livelihood. Imagine making a vlog out from the past.

    • @svenefouuuuu5352
      @svenefouuuuu5352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same! My first trip were the romans and the greek then China and japan

    • @jasonnguyen6273
      @jasonnguyen6273 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      me too

    • @SwoteOffical
      @SwoteOffical 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One day, Someone will say the same of our time. And will want to know everything not recorded.
      “ it takes a blind man to see”
      -John knock

    • @waynetrieu1069
      @waynetrieu1069 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My idea similar to yours but in dream instead. That sounds fantasy , right? :)

    • @Pauldjreadman
      @Pauldjreadman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      From what I can gather the only way that would happen if there was a way not effect everything after the time you went to.

  • @itsmeiamb
    @itsmeiamb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So interesting to watch , thank you

  • @lugonzalez8489
    @lugonzalez8489 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your work is amazing, thank you!

  • @rogerychen
    @rogerychen 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this. I enjoyed every moment

  • @canto_v12
    @canto_v12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The Republic of China was established in 1911 and the last Qing emperor abdicated in 1912, so depending on which year, this may or may not actually be "Qing Dyansty China." Just picking nits...awesome production!

    • @tadamichikuribayashi2869
      @tadamichikuribayashi2869 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Looking at how every man we see still wears a queue, I think it's still is before Puyi's abdication

    • @slavish_superiority
      @slavish_superiority ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Kulis at the bottom of society still had pigtails until the end of the 1920s. Many people above the middle class and intellectuals have cut queue since 1900,even including the princes (王爷) of the Qing Dynasty royal family, such as ZaiTao (载涛)

  • @tomshih6401
    @tomshih6401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    太完美了,這些上色後的清末影片,彷彿看到自己的祖先,還留著辮子呢,在那個朝代裡,配樂也很棒~

    • @lucasanonimo1070
      @lucasanonimo1070 ปีที่แล้ว

      認為很多清代音樂都受到了西方音樂的影響。 如果看明代的簡單變奏,節奏就變了。

  • @FredericBiondi
    @FredericBiondi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great work. Thanks a lot for that!

  • @AnyDayNow360
    @AnyDayNow360 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is amazing. Thanks for sharing this restoration version. I particularly enjoyed watching their faces at the technology they were watching (as it filmed them). It's something, for the most part, that we take for granted because we are saturated with these advancements on a regular basis.

  • @yy-ww8ke
    @yy-ww8ke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    很珍贵的影像,加了色彩之后更有带入感,穿越了,感谢分享

  • @withgoddess8029
    @withgoddess8029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    This looks like a very very hard life they were living. ☹️

    • @deepikadiaries5306
      @deepikadiaries5306 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      100 years back things were same all over the world..My grand parents from India lived the same life

    • @dongkaili787
      @dongkaili787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Deepika ಕಾಸರಗೋಡು Diaries India and China were the same back then, but Europe and North America had finished 2nd industrial revolution and people’s living standard were far ahead of China and India.

    • @jasonhuang6078
      @jasonhuang6078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The incompetence of the Manchus who were ruling China back then made -people live in poverty. Their ugly clothing and hairstyles were also forced by the Manchus who destroyed true Chinese culture.

    • @zebraimage
      @zebraimage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Right in the middle of the "Humiliation of a Century".

    • @rockerdrake
      @rockerdrake 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was not too different elsewhere in the world for common people

  • @NicholasPackwood
    @NicholasPackwood 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So beautiful. Thank you!

  • @user-tn4ww9vo7j
    @user-tn4ww9vo7j 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing !! Thank you for sharing this

  • @leizhou9855
    @leizhou9855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The screen is like a time machine through which we look at each other with people from 100 years ago

  • @user-su8lj2gc2d
    @user-su8lj2gc2d 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    每次看到这样的视频感觉真的好神奇,一百多年前的样子!就像,时光穿越一样!

  • @yanglin4726
    @yanglin4726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    这视频还原的确实很不错了,开眼啊哈哈,清晰度还这么高。就是琴声太大了老哥,这视频带声听听当时声音也挺好的,不加背景音也行

  • @Petepeatpeet
    @Petepeatpeet 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is extremely cool. Well done!!

  • @sh0hsh0h
    @sh0hsh0h 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    this video is gorgeous with coloring

  • @lizyliz970
    @lizyliz970 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    See the huge changes China had been through in just 100 years.

    • @KT-vs6cy
      @KT-vs6cy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Not in 100 yrs, it was the same if not worse just back 20 yrs. All the foreign countries invested in china to make what it is right now.

    • @adlerzwei
      @adlerzwei 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Every country on earth was different 100 years ago.

    • @lizyliz970
      @lizyliz970 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@KT-vs6cy You know nothing about China. Foot binding, opium addiction, illiteracy, extreme superstition, chasing away 8 countries occupying China, take back Hong Kong and Macau, produce nuclear weapon all by itself, space shuttle and satellites, world fastest computer, 5G, etc. No countries in the world had done more changes and advancement than China.

    • @Ynotnow9900
      @Ynotnow9900 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@lizyliz970 I heard china invented water and oxygen

    • @700gsteak
      @700gsteak 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@Ynotnow9900 well youre dumb if you believe that. lol

  • @Neyobe
    @Neyobe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much for this video. Very interesting

  • @Jenura01
    @Jenura01 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Truly amazing work. Thank you.

  • @moistandsquishy9925
    @moistandsquishy9925 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This is the Wong Fei-hung era..

  • @TwitchCronos100
    @TwitchCronos100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    over 100 years ago, living in those conditions and they still get along better with eachtother than the unrealistic dream of a diverse west in 2020.

  • @Anna_and_Tiger
    @Anna_and_Tiger 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍👍Good video, really enjoyed this peak into the past. Thanks for sharing it.

  • @acey8616
    @acey8616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    这些珍贵的画面。。看到就是收获!谢谢博主

  • @m8inho
    @m8inho 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    You rarely see people smiling in this film, life was so hard back then.

    • @charmander777
      @charmander777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      it was hard for pretty much everyone.

    • @theoduval1408
      @theoduval1408 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@charmander777 lol

    • @lenij8271
      @lenij8271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Life is still hard in China, 15 hours work a day or something like that

    • @jaderhe
      @jaderhe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lenij8271 lying!

    • @lenij8271
      @lenij8271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jaderhe i heard u all work 12 hours a day

  • @wakakaforever007
    @wakakaforever007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I watched with tears in my eyes. Thanks for uploading and wonder if there is any footage about food they ate at those days.

    • @leonardkorn2347
      @leonardkorn2347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and to think that everybody in the video had already died a long time ago by now..

  • @manuella6297
    @manuella6297 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful pictures, thank you!

  • @Allen-bz8xm
    @Allen-bz8xm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Truly amazing video! A beautiful insight into a different world

  • @yumouwei2661
    @yumouwei2661 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Took me a while to realize it's not AI Colonized China 1912

  • @birreboi
    @birreboi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy faces, smiling faces, sad faces, some bewildered and curious looks at the camera - life in China back then. Amazing stuff! Also sorta mind blowing knowing that all those people (probably) would have passed away by now - even a young baby.

  • @CajunPride777
    @CajunPride777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really cool to be able to look back in time. Love these old videos thanks for sharing..

  • @taohuang6535
    @taohuang6535 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    7:08 “你唔好阻住睇唔到人影相呀”

    • @envyliao
      @envyliao 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      是的,是广东话,而且还是比较古老的粤语,现在粤西还是这种口音,并不是标准的现在的广府粤语

  • @acanadianwoodworker
    @acanadianwoodworker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    7:34 the guy in the rickshaw with the fan: "No paparazzi, please"

  • @drisellataylor7391
    @drisellataylor7391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much. very interesting. Amazing source of information

  • @ericknguyen4123
    @ericknguyen4123 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This clip blew my mind. Thanks for sharing.

  • @kawings
    @kawings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    in 1912 people stare at the cameraman due to curiosity. in 2012 people shy away from cameraman being afraid they might be implicated with any scandal

  • @brickmission6621
    @brickmission6621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Please make more I love this

  • @ahmadbakrizubir
    @ahmadbakrizubir 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    very good AI works! appreciate the effort!

  • @GraceJMJ
    @GraceJMJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for making this video. It is so fascinating to see. I have watched so many dramas about Ancient China. But this watching is so different. Like traveled into the past and see the real ancient China.

  • @Versac3e
    @Versac3e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    im addicted to watching how people lived in the past. Not just for fun, but its so interesting to see the cultural differences and how differentley people seemed to behave. Also the patterns you see, its fascinating. I always picture myself in a past scenario and how i would fit in. It may only be 100+ plus years but its so cool to see. My dream would be to have access to recordings of 1700, 1600, even all the way down to 1200 europe. we are the same as them, they are just in another time. Thats the most fascinating thing that stands out to me,

    • @amypagekaviani5661
      @amypagekaviani5661 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I would like to visit the Native Americans before the Europeans came!

  • @dueknee
    @dueknee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I just love their genuine curiosity when they stare at the cam.

  • @leonchal
    @leonchal 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for making an introduction to the video, that’s cool.

  • @Abebe345
    @Abebe345 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating on many levels. Thank you!

  • @hardygriff
    @hardygriff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It’s fascinating to see how mystified people were by cameras back then. If they only knew what we have now just a hundred years later.

  • @X1GenKaneShiroX
    @X1GenKaneShiroX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Some of these people probably had witnessed the Taiping Rebellion, Second Opium War, Tongzhi Emperor, and the Boxer Rebellion.

  • @mrfong8122
    @mrfong8122 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so cool ty!!!

  • @VickieV1333
    @VickieV1333 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    These are truly a gift, thank you.

  • @summersnow7296
    @summersnow7296 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    China has gone through hundreds of years of abject poverty. What they have achieved in recent decades is nothing less than a miracle.

    • @hnys7976
      @hnys7976 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was at this time the richest country in the world and was that way for a while.

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      105 years later
      th-cam.com/video/1cC-j4_NtvE/w-d-xo.html

    • @Passportsandprofits
      @Passportsandprofits 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MrHoppers002 you call 108 years of free labor natural progression?

    • @Passportsandprofits
      @Passportsandprofits 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MrHoppers002 slavery

    • @bobbates7493
      @bobbates7493 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Passportsandprofits We are living in a modern slavery right now if you think about it. Still working for the elites all bunched in cubicles getting paid just enough to survive but not enough to become an elite. Work hard and be a good employee but if the owner doesn't like you you're out

  • @user-ry6cb2vr2p
    @user-ry6cb2vr2p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    It's crazy to think that basically everyone in this video is dead

    • @NightcorEDM
      @NightcorEDM 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Never thought of it

    • @adrijenie4105
      @adrijenie4105 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@goognamgoognw6637 well boomer will disconnect with real life soon too, amirite ? lolz

    • @surreygeorge11
      @surreygeorge11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In 100 years, everybody commenting will be dead too.

    • @marktrail8624
      @marktrail8624 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Owi.. wow you are so insightful. All these old videos have commenters like you. Tell us something new or profound to seperate yourself from the idiots.

    • @user-ry6cb2vr2p
      @user-ry6cb2vr2p 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@marktrail8624 wow, half these replies are of people saying the same thing.. please say something to be original..

  • @MariaAlvarez-sm8bv
    @MariaAlvarez-sm8bv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great and interesting video!

  • @tank70g
    @tank70g 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this. Its so surreal

  • @shaleoryan7678
    @shaleoryan7678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Every shot in the clip like a painting.

  • @blackdeckbox
    @blackdeckbox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    4:21 random white man coming through.

    • @thomasscream4179
      @thomasscream4179 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@goognamgoognw6637 Literally credited to Albert Khan, but you stay your sinophobic self.

    • @karlchen9745
      @karlchen9745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      goognam goognws shut the fuck up you don’t have a clue as to how Chinese people think, don’t just generalise something that’s constantly put out there by the media. Why don’t you visit China to see what’s it’s true or like?

    • @milinlim5211
      @milinlim5211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@goognamgoognw6637 go away.

    • @ZhuGeLiang6969
      @ZhuGeLiang6969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@goognamgoognw6637 ooh how pity your mother,, to have such fool and ignorsnt child like you..
      pity your mother..

    • @pinkegg3179
      @pinkegg3179 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@goognamgoognw6637 I see your comment from another video like this. you seem to enjoy leaving snarky comments. I would like you to take a moment and think about how leaving snarky comments could possibly add positive values to your life. (the answer is, it couldn't). and then think about why you still do it.
      hope you can find a way to enjoy bringing positivity to other people's lives. you would be a much happier person. have a good day and best of luck to you

  • @aerospacer994
    @aerospacer994 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I watched several similar videos, it is clear that a lot more can be done in terms of improving old recordings. It is noticeable that artifacts often appear that are present in only one frame - I think that they can be easily removed by comparing with two adjacent frames. Other improvements to the original recordings can be made using a similar approach.Thanks for your work and wish you success in improving!

  • @mistayuto
    @mistayuto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing! This is quite remarkable. I enjoy your renastered videos. Thank you and keep up the great work!

  • @chika4275
    @chika4275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    All i see is faces! just so many faces that are no longer with us on earth! Amazing!

  • @user-ti7rr7wv5h
    @user-ti7rr7wv5h 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    根据泺源门,仁丹和有人怀抱大蒜来看应该是北方城市,据查能在这一时期达到这一人流量和商业的应该是济南,济南今日有泺源大街,泺源门以前也有的,后来被拆除了

    • @user-yp4fq1rk5o
      @user-yp4fq1rk5o 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      小时候推过那样的独轮车,真的很难推.非常费力.

    • @comeonecapybara
      @comeonecapybara 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      唉,很多東西作為歷史的古物,拆了就真的什麼文化跟過去就都沒有了。

    • @user-ou3zz8ts3p
      @user-ou3zz8ts3p 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      一看到泺源门,我也认为是济南。

    • @nr2urh5
      @nr2urh5 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      那就有趣了,視頻中能聽到明顯的廣東話

    • @user-ou3zz8ts3p
      @user-ou3zz8ts3p 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nr2urh5 影片可能不同地方拍的,影片后半部分推车的老汉给孩子说:走开走开。十分明显的北方话,你确定全都是广东话?

  • @joanneswift8074
    @joanneswift8074 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing !!! ❤️

  • @georgew194
    @georgew194 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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