Love your contents... As an overseas Chinese, this overwhelms me with so much pride. The diversity of our heritage is just so vast, even with modernity we still embraces traditions.

@leon3672

4 ай бұрын

There will be no embracing traditions in the future tho, if everyone below the age of 40 flee to the cities. Massive depopulation makes keeping all aspects of local culture alive very difficult. Not to mention the general shift in entertainment in recent years towards television, Tiktok...

@leon3672

4 ай бұрын

I am not blaming china though, its happening all over the world since Industrialization

@Zephyriia

4 ай бұрын

haha i was about to react to your first comment by saying how its happening everywhere too, but then I saw ur second comment lol. Funny how we are so prone to reacting so quickly on the internet lmao@@leon3672

@TeterPiago123

4 ай бұрын

@@leon3672 your point is reeally good, it's pretty sad that with this trend concentrated more in areas with more than people (just easter china generally) even the cultural traditions of the majority group is being lost :(

@TeterPiago123

4 ай бұрын

@@leon3672 modern life and media just strip us of the real world and traditions

Siming, you don't know how much this videos means to a lot of people like me who are't from China but are fascinated by it's culture and history. Thank you!

@normajidyabdulmajid4064

4 ай бұрын

I have got Chinese heritage in my blood, yet I'm a Malaysian who lives far away, me nevertheless, Iove your VDs very much. Thanks for the lovely & informative & also the inspiring postings. All the best for your future undertakings, for more adventurous living... 👍🫰✌️😎

@mikewong6815

3 ай бұрын

This video is so good on so many levels. Siming, you've done a superb job of story-telling 👍 This small community of people live close to nature what nature gives to them, they simply accept. Without having to consider. We who live in large urban centres have made lives which are complicated by a variety of things. Personally, as a young kid I moved from the same sort of farming setting to live in a bustling town but have made frequent trips back to the old country. Amazingly the similaries are striking in terms of how they relate to what surrounds them. Keep it up, Siming.

You know you are such an intelligent girl. I love your commentary, specially the part , where you said, the old chinese proverb of " better to travel 10000 miles than to read 10000 books!

@lmk-id2nr

4 ай бұрын

是读万卷书不如行万里路，不是不读书，是自己去亲身体会，不要一味在书上找答案。

Few people introduce the ethnic minorities living in the mountains of China to foreign countries. Even the Chinese people living in China know very little about these ethnic minorities. They live in a difficult environment, but they are always so hardworking and happy. ,thank you for your sharing!

@leahlee8291

4 ай бұрын

And have been supported so much by the central and local governments in poverty reduction schemes.

@ChaseYu

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@leahlee8291true, the poverty alleviation is the means to solve the problems. also, there’s a TV program called «No Poverty Land» which filmed by a Hong Kong local television station, 3 reasons so far.

@yapchatlam4433

4 ай бұрын

Good to see there are places on earth not influenced by western culture or Christianity.

9:03 - Four kilos of tangerines for ten yuan - That's about $2 Canadian, or 23 cents a pound. We haven't seen a price like that on oranges for about 40 years!

@leahlee8291

4 ай бұрын

That’s why Chinese people could live a happy life with a seemingly low income.

@minghu2278

2 сағат бұрын

So cheap Chinese products are very competative. Made in USA are hard to compete with made in USA.

One word for china “magnificent”

@chinaboss6683

3 ай бұрын

Brics. 😎

This travelogue format is at least as fascinating as your episodes featuring intellectual analysis. The spectacular scenery, along with the perspectives on the daily lives of the locals, provides a wonderful look into the real heart of China.

This is a much more interesting and fascinating intellectual quest, Siming Lan! The irrigation system of the terraced fields is brilliant! The people are so kind and generous. Your new approach is also brilliant. We all have so much to learn from each other! The nation state somtimes obscures the olden ways and peoples it was made from, the old ways of living and being. We have much to learn from the past, too. Thank you, Siming Lan!

Amazing video. Pictures speaks louder than words. No need to defend China with the amazing culture and beauty. The villages are very clean and people are happy. A result of a great government. The heart warming song speaks for all Asian culture of great respect for our parents.

🎉🎉 As a 4th generation overseas Chinese, seeing China's today & looking forward of its future makes me happy＆ proud. How I wish my grandparents were still around to witness the development and progress in China. Thanks for the videos. Please produce more to show the world, especially overseas Chinese, how their motherland is progressing, to know more about the culture & history of China. The ways western politicians & mainstream media demonizing china are so disgusting but their actions exposed their hypocrisy, racism & ugliness. 身為第四代海外華人，看到今天和未來的中國讓我/海外華人感動，感到驕傲，如果我的祖先還在他們一定感到快樂／驕傲, 謝謝你的視頻讓大家看到了解中國的發展和歷史文化，我們所接觸到西方政客和媒體，他們的中國報道和偏見太可惡了, 也讓世界看到他們的雙重標準和種族主義。🎉🎉

@Herr_Vorragender

4 ай бұрын

Lovely sentiment 😊 But what exactly do you mean when you say you feel proud? Maybe I'm getting you wrong. It could be that you have contributed to the general success of China. In that case, please by all means be proud and show it.

@jeffchailoo1505

4 ай бұрын

Well said..👍

@jeffchailoo1505

4 ай бұрын

I myself as a overseas Chinese...I do feel proud to see the development of China is getting very much better..and the living standards of their people are getting much better too.

@jeffchailoo1505

4 ай бұрын

​@@Herr_Vorragender中国人为自己的国家感到骄傲关你外人屁事....

@Herr_Vorragender

4 ай бұрын

@@jeffchailoo1505 No need to be rude. I am asking for a reason. Germans have no national pride. The words definition proves Germans to be right. But when so many people around the world claim to be proud to be a member of a nationality, then either I didn't understand something or "pride" is a superlative to simply emphasize a sentiment. Is it important? Yes. Because feeling proud about simply being a member of a nationality divides us whereas feeling love for a nation, culture or anything is uniting. National pride = us vs them. National love = even I as German can participate.

Thank you for showing the western audience the love and diversity of China, we unfortunately have never or will never be shown all of this if not for people like you. Thank you for breaking the narrative!

Thanks! 😊 Awesome episode !

@SimingLan

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Jeffrey!😊

Thanks!

I've learned so much about CHINA 🇨🇳, I've studied in western university (Dartmouth, Sanford, and MIT) biology physics, paleontology .3 PHD'S...! China has returned to the nation on Earth 🇨🇳 AGAIN 🇨🇳👍🇨🇳💪🇨🇳👏❤🇨🇳

Beautiful culture of Yunnan mountains Hani people there colorful clothing, fresh whole food, singing, music, smoking peace pipes and drinking... thanks for Nature beauty of China!

Reminds me of the nice C-drama... 'Meet Yourself' ❤ which was filmed in Yunnan 🥰

Such a heartwarming window into this community. It made me smile multiple times. Thank you for recording, editing, and sharing this.

16:58 Don't ever lose your heritage. It is part of the broader national cultural tapestry. Wow, the terraced landscape,😊 with two hens in the foreground, is so beautiful!

@SimingLan

3 ай бұрын

it is, isn't it?😊

I found myself teary eyed watching you sharing your life experiences

it's so touched. I am also crying when hearing the hani song as a daughter and as a mother of 3 kids.

Probably the best and most well-articulated "travel" video I have seen. Certainly intensified my desire to visit China. Thank you so much.

Understanding a bit about the political and financial strains that China is currently experiencing it is always good to remind people of China's rich heritage, and this was beautifully done! Important for each of us, regardless of our heritage, to remind ourselves often of where we came from! Thanks for this, Siming!

Thank you for another sensitive insight to rural China. Breathtaking!

I absolutely love this video!!! Well Done!!!! It's good to get acquainted with all Chinese people. There is a lot to learn from them.

Marvelous.... China benefits so much from your journalism. I would know nothing about China, but for your videos... thank you!

Finally, you are in Yunnan- really wanted you to visit and vlog. Thank you!

Though I do enjoy learning about the politics of China it was a very nice change of pace to see a video about the daily lives of regular people there! You seemed to also have had a good time with it so I would love see more videos like this in the future!

U r one of the most beautiful You Tuber l had come across. Your English is flawless n most importantly very clear. Many thanks for your beautiful videos. ❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍 From Malaysia with love.

a good heart echoes with a good heart, that's why you can find the kindess of the people and moved by their kindess

This video reminds my own home town Shanxi. It reminds me of how kind the people at home, and how pure is the everything there. Thank you! keep up making those good China videos, and show us those beautiful places in China.

Katherine’s journey east and your channel are the two best channels in understanding China.

I love this channel so much. I also got teary eyes watching.

It's so good to see these new contents. A fellow admirer from Nepal ❤🇳🇵 Also somehow I as well got teary eyed with her and had a different sense of connection with these people.😅😭

@yuyuan7204

4 ай бұрын

I remember that the railway between China and Nepal will be completed soon. Be sure to come and play. Many people from Tibet go to Sichuan to work and then go back to build their hometown, maybe you can do the same.

@saleenapoudel9743

4 ай бұрын

@@yuyuan7204 Yeah I really don't know how Nepal China borders and travels work but traveling to China is a dream of mine. I really look forward to it.

@SimingLan

3 ай бұрын

❤️😊

Full respect to Jianzhou!!!!!!!!!! And thank you for your in depth interaction with indigineous people ard the country!!! Yes, the love of people is the most touching thing , even more so than the breathtaking scenary!!

Siming, you make the best content about China that I know of!

The reason I know so much about China is.., 😅 I've had very close relationships with people who moved to USA from China, very well-off Chinese who have always lived in China, Chinese who are comfortable but not well-off, and also very poor Chinese people with very little. Their opinions about China are very different, and it's a complicated subject because things are changing so fast in China. Being white and from USA, I was often the butt of many a Chinese street vendor joke I didn't understand. Often times people would approach me and try to start conversations. But I mostly agree with the way your Grandfather explained China through his experience. To know what China was before the revolution, and to see how far it has progressed since is an amazing rise. As with many other countries, China had to free itself from the USA to lift its people up. Gain its sovereignty. Even if progress seemed slow sometimes.

@sustainablerenewableintegr8311

4 ай бұрын

China before the revolution was a brutal place to live in, at least from what I've learned from the Century of Humiliation and the Warlords Era that followed. China's comeback journey from the brink of hell is amazing in itself. Hopefully, modern China won't repeat the disastrous mistakes of the Qing Dynasty that brought about the Century of Humiliation. They've done well to realize the dangers of neoliberal economic policies early on and put into motion corrective actions to pivot away from over-relying on the real estate sector. No doubt such actions are quite painful to their economy now but TBH those pains are better than ending up fatally trapped like the UK (Sorry, Brits. Your govt really screwed all of you by doubling down on the failed policies that led to the current disastrous situation). Anyway, I hope China can resist the world of pain that has begun to pile up on them by the global banksters (via the Western government's unilateral punitive actions) for refusing to heed the latter's "advice" on bailing out the real estate sector. China's central govt has exciting surprises for those rural folks soon, as part of the corrective actions I mentioned earlier. I wish my govt has that kind of wisdom... Sigh...

@targetfootball7807

4 ай бұрын

@@sustainablerenewableintegr8311 Not only was progress slow in the early days after the revolution, but many policies set things in reverse and were harmful from time to time. They were trying to figure things out. What a great idea! A government that tries to figure things out! Really they needed to open up to the West because they needed foreign money to buy foreign resources. And the real estate thing was always going to be tricky. But then China doesn't have a huge slum problem anymore either. Most people that lived in the old crumbling parts of the cities didn't want to see their neighborhoods torn down because at least they knew how to survive there. Though they got a brand new apartment, they had to start all over with their businesses. But the big key to all of this is the government doesn't have to hold debt as a sacred thing. Government debt can simply be cancelled. Or it can be written down to what can be paid. China has always kept banking under public control. China doesn't have to borrow from wealthy bond holders to build infrastructure. The government doesn't have to pay interest. And too big to fail doesn't need to be a thing there. But it's tricky still, no matter what. Plus, China seems to have taken an anti corruption stance lately, which other governments never talk about at all. Corruption is protected by law in the USA.! Corporations are people and money is free speech in the U.S.! It's basically the difference between a real government and the fake ones of the west. But nothing's easy about trying to provide for a billion and a half people I suppose.

@BailelaVida

4 ай бұрын

Excellent discussion here..!

@tecklim1725

4 ай бұрын

❤​@@sustainablerenewableintegr8311

@Praetorian157A

3 ай бұрын

Right or wrong, the revolution totally broke the back of the “mandarins” and the inherent corruption which shackled the People. When the centre is weak, corruption abounds.

Thanks for showing us the results of your "probing curiosity"! Perhaps next you could expend that curiosity on the ethnic Korean and Russian minorities in China?

Yay! A new video 🎥🍿谢谢你啊Siming 🙏🏻🤩

This is so spiritual! I felt this on my bones! Long live the diverse Chinese people and culture! Long live China!

Thank you for this amazing video Siming! As one of the Chinese diaspora, you are helping me reconnect with my culture

Glad to see you again 😊❤

@SimingLan

3 ай бұрын

❤️😊

Awesome video! The drone shots were stunning! Aren't you happy that you came to the awakening moment when you finally found out what captured your heart? It did mine 😱 Having come across videos like this, I broke free from the outrageous lies told by the corporate media in the West. I look forward to being enlightened by more videos from you.

Siming, thanks so much for showing us such a beautiful side of China. Keep up your good work 。

Siming, I enjoyed many of your previous videos because they gave me nostalgia -- I shared your cultural and ideological struggles growing up. This one, though, is China's Peter Santenello in the making, a rite of passage if I may. Keep up the good work!

The textiles are so beautiful! They resemble the traditional costumes of some of the people in Himachal Pradesh 😊 The song of the children to their mother was also very beautiful 😊 I hope the people will have more prosperity and self-dependence 🙏

Interesting and beautiful.Thanks Siming. John Lampe,Perth,Western Australia.

That was a beautiful experience. Love it. Please keep up the great work. 👏🥰

Thanks for sharing, I like your videos and your naratives.

Siming, you will always be young if you travel so much with love in your heart.

Beautiful video. Thanks for sharing your feelings more vulnerably. So brilliantly talented, yet so humble? What a pleasure to live inside such a mind. Why not be 💯% comfortable with yourself along a magical journey🌱 I'm really happy to see China thriving, the next leader of the world, and we do want the spirit of kindness to win. I still hope 95-year-old Zhu Rongji would share all his insights with you🌏

@SimingLan

3 ай бұрын

Haha, thank you! slowly growing into that 💯🍵

@zetristan4525

3 ай бұрын

​@@SimingLanSiming, can you address one major concern for the future, about mass electronic surveillance linked to social credit system? As this system becomes run by AI, will it pressure society into a mechanical way of being? eg Since I'm independent-thinking and for kindness, respect and inner wellbeing for every experiencer, over explicit gains, national clout and GDP-contribution, people in future would no longer want to meet with me, because the cameras would pick it up and lower their social credit score - as calculated by the Machine? The concern is that all major countries will, in time, become beholden to this system, to keep up with each other's ability to power-project (and, of course, the leaders may selfishly relish having such control over you and me). You've ignored my suggestions to talk with PM 朱镕基, but he has the wisdom and humane engineer's mind to grok this.🌦️🦋

@zetristan4525

3 ай бұрын

@@SimingLan My (decent) reply was censored off!?

Whew! What a Dream, your site dropped onto my Laptop at 4am, so many things you initially talked about, about reading, and studying, I did, but then that was about Lichang, Peter Guillart, in the 30s-40s, before Mao, and, a matriarchal society, many other books of the extreme diversity of dress, be it of color, materials, stones, metals, was leading me to leave New Zealand and follow that pathway. Then! The Chenoble disaster happened, and my ex-partner asked me to go to help in Samiland, North Norway. The slaughtering of thousands of Reindeer, from Sesium-3. Around the world again! In the 80's I began studying Mandarin with a Singapore-born Chinese, raised by Jesuit Priests. 3 months into my mother passed on and I never completed it. What a circle. Seeing your video, rang the BELL. Travel, and, BE HERE NOW. Much love to You, ROBIN...........

Siming, you are such a deep thinker, you can't switch off. So much talent in one person. Thank you for showing us parts of China many Chinese know little of.

Thanks for taking me on your tour n inter-action w/ the local peoples. 👍👍👍👏👏👏❤️

Gotta admit I thoroughly enjoy your video, its refreshing gaining a different perspective and seeing the world through someone else's eyes.

云南很漂亮，昆明称之为春城，一年四季都有鲜花，是全国最大的鲜花市场，我也希望去看看，谢谢思明妹子。

Loved the video, you have ways with words, you should write a book if you haven't written one already. Your host's song made me emotional. Thank you.

Not only like your videos and music, but also your content…Look at China impartially with eyes without filters, I will always support you and wish you all the best ❤

@SimingLan

3 ай бұрын

Thank you❤️

"The Mountain is high & the Emperor is far away". What a Classic saying!!!

Thank you kindly for yet another lovely and very interesting video. What a wonderful way to be introduced to the marvels of China. Love the personal touch and hope that you keep it coming. It's inspiring. Also, I sincerely hope you don't abandon the socio-political-philosophical aspects of your personality. Because they are fascinating (as well) Keep up the good work!

You're amazing. And so is your country.

Greetings, fantastic to discover the cultural wealth of the great vast China.

Yes, it does feel like love. When you're there with nature, you open your heart and let the feeling arise, no commentaries and no judgement, just pure experience. Thanks for the trip, thanks for the video.

I lived in China and traveled to Yunnan, but didn't know about the Hani people and Honghe. Great video and thanks for the great insights! And yes, totally agree: people are so kind not because they're poor, but because they're simply warm-hearted and it's their culture. I believe it's also the collective culture that makes people be kind to each other and emphasize what you have in common even with a complete stranger.

Dear Siming. I am visiting China for the fifth time. Today I am in Xiamen. What a beautiful city and people. But the reason I am writing you is not about Xiamen but is to tell you that you just made me cry. I don’t know why but I am crying with you. One place I have heard so much but not been to is Yunnan. Hopefully I will be able to visit Yunnan and Xinjiang next summer. Keep up the good work. Thank you.

@SimingLan

2 ай бұрын

Hi, thank you for sharing this beautiful message :) So happy to hear you enjoyed Xiamen. Hope one day you visit Yunnan and don't forget to let me know what you see❤️

This has been for me the best "travel log" in a long time, I appreciate your ways of experiencing and documenting...I'm so touched by the beauty of the culture, the people and nature through your eyes, thank you for sharing

Really enjoy your videos. That you showed emotion in the face of beauty of the nature of your nation is to your great credit.

I love all your videos; I am touched by your smile and proud of you as Cantonese. You are much better than those with PhD degrees and only teach people how to win and how to gain an advantage.

So glad to see another of your wonderfully candid video essays. Thank you ❤

I have to give you a thumb up. I felt these folks are living in total harmony with nature. Thank you for your effort in making such a great video.

Very well made video. Beautiful mountains, beautiful water, beautiful people

There's no words to express how happy I am to know you went to my mom's province 🥹 Yunnan is quite a popular travel destination to chinese tourists but is still a bit unknown to foreigners and I'm so thrilled you decided to put the spotlight on this magnificent province ❤

thank you for sharing this beautiful place and people, greetings from an overseas chinese in aus :)

You are very good in telling a story. Thank you.

Beautiful birds flying freely at sea scenes here 🥰

Excellent video Siming. I enjoyed it very much! I have traveled to many villages in China and people there are very friendly. It's too bad I that can speak Chinese like you. Looking forward to see more videos from you.

去过云南，景色很美，人民淳朴善良，丽江那边也有很多哈尼族人生活在那里。你的视频不光拍出了美丽的风景，最让我感动的是拍出了你所看到和感知到的哈尼族人美丽的心灵。

Thank you for sharing. China has always fascinated me. So vast and how could one get bored 🤔 with such diversity of food, songs, stories, architecture, and environmental infrastructure. And I agree with you...people are kind not because of poverty but because they are...KIND HOSPITABLE, Uniquely genuine

First time visiting your channel and felt emotional! Thank you for showing us this side of China to all those outsiders, including myself. The irrigation system blew my mind! Superb video! Great articulation, video editing, everything is perfect!

you are the best! so insightful and deeply touching!!! this should be made mandatory watching for students!

So familar with everything in this video, I grew up in a similar town in Yunnan as well. Thanks for showing such beauty of my hometown to the world❤❤❤

The terraces are amazing- very beautiful and well tended to still. Hope this way of farming will,continue!

I love all the flavor which comes from this video, because of her respectful and exploring mindset to what you see things different from what you used to see. In a way, her trip to deep inside China must be her intellectual challenge toward unbiased truth of the world. Hope this author continues to produce more such quality documentaries as long as her health stay well.

What a beautiful place. I loved this video and learning more about another Chinese culture. Thanks for sharing. Warm wishes from the USA 🇺🇸

I have always loved Chinese culture. Greetings from Israel. I liked the Hani song in 12:40.

树花(Shu Hua) is a type of 地衣(lichen)，genus 扁枝衣屬(Evernia). Some of these Evernia lichens (grown on oak trees) are used in other cultures as perfume ingredients, and as medicinal ingredients for treating some respiratory problems and has some antioxidant and antimicrobial, with derived Evernic acids have potential to formulate into a new class of antibiotics.

This was so enjoyable and I like your philosophy on knowledge from travel. I understand how hard it could be to join in for a drink because the Hani people know how to drink. 😏

Great video, thank you so much! Jianzhou's performance was amazing as well.

Such an overwhelmingly touching and beautiful video on a unique Chinese culture I'd probably never experience otherwise.. atleast not for a while that is-- thank you.

Beautiful work, thank you Siming Lan.

@12:08 What a beautiful moving song - it moved me to tears....

Wonderful, thank you! Keep doing what you’re doing ❤

Love all your posts, pls do it weekly

A beautiful video Siming, one of the best ones! :)

Really nice video. Thank you for posting

Very Interesting geography information! Thank you for making and sharing this.

Great video! Good job! Keep it up! ❤

adore your thoughts, amazing well done just joined will love seeing your Travels

Love your channel and everything that you do and discuss.👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

Could you make videos about the Han ethnic group and its subgroups, as I have already researched a lot about the 56 ethnicities and I realize that the government grouped similar ethnicities into a single ethnic group, something that seems to have happened in the Han ethnic group, as the Ba-Shu Culture has difference to Yue, Hakka, Dongbei and Beijing Culture. These differences can even be quite profound as each region has unique cuisine, dialect, history and architecture. I see a lot of ignorance about the Han ethnicity in the media outside of China, they think that the Han are homogeneous like Koreans or Japanese, but this is almost impossible, anthropologically speaking, because of the number of 1 billion people and their extension and geographic distribution the size of the Europe. So I would appreciate how the Chinese government arrived at this 56 ethnicities and demystify this homogeneous ethnicity that many people think the Han ethnic group is.

@seekx2y556

4 ай бұрын

Maybe you should study the history of ancient China, about 2000 years ago, there was a great unified dynasty called Han that lasted for 300 or 400 years, and her people were later Han Chinese, which was not divided by blood, but by culture

such a beautiful place! Thank you.