This is how my ancestors lived. My grandfather was a little boy when this video was shot. Everyone had a very hard life back then. I always loved to hear him tell me stories about his life, and now he is almost 90. The world has modernized very fast, almost too fast. Thank you for your video.

@repent.sinner

2 жыл бұрын

Hope your Grandpa is still alive, tell him Jesus Christ is God and the only way to eternal life, Jesus is the savior and the 1 true God, Buddha cant save him.

@Nn.65juk

2 жыл бұрын

@@repent.sinner you are making fear. Religions only do That. Makes me feel akward.

@repent.sinner

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nn.65juk shows your being convicted, you feel uncomfortable your living not right.

@lihwak9181

2 жыл бұрын

@@repent.sinner you're illiterate about china's religious makeup

@repent.sinner

2 жыл бұрын

@@lihwak9181 how many born again Christians in china? Far less than 1%

作为土生土长的成都人第一次看到了成都在1940年的样子和当时的人的生活，非常感谢作者上传如此珍贵的视频资料

@jintaoren6755

4 жыл бұрын

语音是现代的， 后期加进去的。

@joezhang7125

4 жыл бұрын

你爷爷 奶奶 应该见过吧

@scotttao1782

2 жыл бұрын

4:25 那段一家人吃饭的视频里的对话是粤语，哈哈

@user-wg8rd7zx5d

2 жыл бұрын

@@scotttao1782 nice catch

@realchinese9834

Жыл бұрын

@@scotttao1782 这个家庭应该是住在成都的广东银。。

As a person from chengdu all i can say is, 2019 chengdu has changed so much, even when compared to chengdu in 2011 when this video was posted, it has really, changed alot, but it still doesn't change the fact that this video makes me feel at home even if it was from a time long ago from the present. Some structures in the video are actually still present in chengdu and you can visit them yourselves, for example, the bridge shown at 4:37 and 4:44 is in 都江堰, the town where the qingchen mountains are situated, you can still walk on that bridge, not exactly in chengdu, it is an hours drive from chengdu but still near chengdu non the less.

@michaelijsbrand

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your reminiscences

@0MVR_0

4 жыл бұрын

This is the AnLan Bridge, built during the construction of the DuJiangYan 都江堰 weir works by LiBing 李冰 governor of newly conquered Shu 蜀 (SiChuan) from the ancient state of Qin 秦国 (for which China is claimed to be named after) on the Min River 岷江 that feeds into the ChengDu plain. The bridge itself has been rebuilt more than once, yet the earthworks of the location are thousands of years old and are still in use. The structure of DuJiangYan 都江堰 is noted to be the world's most labor intensive hydrological project, as mountains were drilled through using heat treatment of fire and water in an age before gunpowder, further still, a cleaver system of splitting the river into two parts of varying depths to cause a change in flow rate lead to debris floating into the 'outer partition' so that people could receive relatively clean water. Most individuals, even experts, refer to the aqueducts or Great canal further east for examples of human impact on estuaries, few know of the small bridge show four and a half minutes in. The video contribution of this curation is greatly appreciated.

@michaelijsbrand

4 жыл бұрын

@@0MVR_0 Thanks very much. I have added your valuable info to the description.

@commishork8436

4 жыл бұрын

@@0MVR_0 安澜索桥

@hamburgermcgrath3493

3 жыл бұрын

I lived in Chengdu from 2010 and 2019. I miss 2010 Chengdu....was an amazing place with the shaokao everywhere and unpredictability. 2019 Chengdu is bad in comparison. Just a soulless mega city.

what a wonderful and meaningful life you live documenting so many places! Love the video, thanks for sharing

Thank you for uploading those movies from China's past. They're brilliant and you are doing a brilliant job. Thanks.

@CaeserTseng Indeed most of prewar documentaries were without live sound nor exact information on its precise location, so I added it

Thank you so much for putting the video on youtube. Chengdu is my hometown. The video brings so many memories back and also shows me what Chengdu was alike many decades before I was born. The Cantonese dialect was not a good idea, it makes me doublt if all the clips were genuinely shot in Chengdu. Neverthless, great video and thank you for your effort.

Love this! I always harp back to the old days. A gentle pace by stream side and vegetation, on foot, is preferable for me. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you Michael for sharing these clips. God bless you.

Thank you so much for your precious films. Life at that time was peaceful. I wish I had been there. China always stays deeply in my heart. I feel that I used to live there in my previous incarnation.

@diamantemine5493

3 жыл бұрын

i dont think china would be too peaceful in 1940

@elliot905

3 жыл бұрын

it were dark times for china , people suffered a lot from japan and other foreign countries . that didnt show in those documentairies . western media...always have been that way .

Thank you very much, these footages are priceless.

omg i never know my hometown was looks like this. This is amazing for me. Thank you post this video here.

@nicolas87cool

3 жыл бұрын

Shows how ignorant todays chinese have become

It's so special to see what my grandparents' life looks like,thank you for sharing this great video.

I love watching old clips like this, thanks for sharing. The changes really are profound, but that's to be expected in any country over such a time frame I guess. What's really interesting is to see the small things that are still the same. In Hainan they still use those hand held weighing scales in the fresh food markets, and the medicine shops, herbs are still stored in row after row of shoe box sized wooden drawers, that medicine shop could have been anywhere in Hainan today. It looks like they drove on the left hand side of the road back then?

Thank you for uploading this golden video, it’s so precious for me as a Chinese people from Chengdu.

this is amazing. it's amazing how things change through time, when you realize most of the people in this have turned to dust and that they would never have imagined what the very place they have lived in would turn out 70 some years later, and for us watching this, we could also only resort to our imagination to fill in the rest of their world back then. we will never meet in time or in space, except through this footage, which lasts through time, albeit in an incomplete and cut-out manner. It makes me feel humbled and also encouraged because I know my time will have its end too and that generations after me will continue to live on in a whole new world that I can never experience nor imagine within the limitation of my time. Amazing stuff!

@benthekeeshond545

4 жыл бұрын

Max, Hopefully without a major war. A major war with modern weapons is indeed a genuine world war. If that happens, the destructions will be near-total and I wonder what % of the human race will survive to rejuvenate our great human civilization. The force of world destruction is in the hands of a few people and we continue hoping that they are sensible individuals.

Thanks for sharing. That’s amazing to seeI what my city looked liked 80 years ago. I can tell even my mom and dad have never seen this! But it looks like we still keep the same lifestyle as shown in this video, I mean chill, tea...and smoking. That’s awesome!

very precious clip,thx for.sharing

Lol, I'm from Chengdu. I like this video! It gives me a feeling of home :D People in the film were speaking the same dialect we use today in Chengdu :D I think time doesn't change many things, it only build up more modern facilities, but people in Chengdu are living the same kind of laid-back lifestyle LoL :D

@dx7631

6 жыл бұрын

My pastor also left Chengdu with the KMT then to the US in the 50s and I immediately picked up on the tone shift of his Sichuan Hua. There's literature from Sichuan University on the topic.

@jabberjunkie7203

4 жыл бұрын

那就好撒。成都话就是非常好听哟！

@vanphanthai7492

4 жыл бұрын

Chengdu= thành đô. It's a my favourite song

@eugene7145

4 жыл бұрын

But they are speaking Cantonese... Chengdu doesn't speak Cantonese now.

@Ava-ks4fg

4 жыл бұрын

视频里面说那两句究竟是什么意思？“优梨过”？

Very meaningful clips were included in this video. Water mill, waterwheel, cow cultivating land, rickshaw, bamboo craftsman, making ceramic……all these are valueable scenes.

Great video, thanks for sharing. The lady at dinner is quite elegant and beautiful.

very precious video. thanks for sharing.

Thanks a million!

@ralphzwang . Well, that Cantonese accent is due to the fact that no original sounds were recorded and I had to add one of a Cantonese source. As to Youku I have tried in vain to upload clips on Chinese clip sides, but they are all in Chinese which I do not understand.

@EvenYang91

4 жыл бұрын

MichaelRogge hi there thanks for the precious footage . Would you mind if I repost them on Chinese platform e.g youku and tiktok? I think netizen there would be fond of it ..

@prouddogmum

4 жыл бұрын

Even Yang you should, it’s not his video he just collects archives

It's priceless. Thanks for posting!

Excellent video, Michael! Thank you very much.

Great capture of life at that time. Thanks very much. Dan Seto, Chinese Canadian Roots TV.

really thanks for sharing this!

Thanks for the upload.

appreciating for your work, let us know more history than thousands of words.

thanks，this is precious，i love watching this kind of films

This video is precious! Love it

感谢作者提供如此让人感到温暖的历史画面

@_traditionalchinese.....363

9 күн бұрын

被赤化後 與 被赤化前 鮮明的對比 多_謝...唔_該...請.

OMG！！！ 4:39--The Dujiangyan Irrigation Project..which still works to benefit people today..More than 2000 years history..

I love this channel and visit it every day

Thanks for sharing the nostalgia.

Thank You so much for This Historical Films Protection..!!!!! As a writer , Language Studies Student I really appreciate You..!!!!! Sandun Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Seeing people working diligently and in such a clever manner really impresses.

Thx a lot for this amazing film! The editing is really skilful! May I ask how did you get those footages? If it's possible, may I have the name of the original film or some other clips of Chengdu back to that time? Thx a lot mate!

很珍贵的影像资料

Wonderful 👏 video...please about guillin

@From88China88Chengdu Thank you for your explanation.

My city, be proud of Chengdu, thank you so much for this video.

非常感谢作者！

@_traditionalchinese.....363

9 күн бұрын

你是被赤化之後的 ， 被赤化後 與 被赤化前 鮮明的對比 多_謝...唔_該...請.

An era filled with hardships for the Chinese people, yet so beautiful in a special way.

Simply simply amazing

of course it doesn’t matter which you shooted or not. Anyway i’m your fun and always appreciate you to share your treasure. Thanks a lot.

I’m from Chengdu, so excited to see this precious video 👍

It makes me homesicking after watching. Are these footage taken from a film?

Thank you very much for the precious video. Let us know how our ancestors lived.

Good Video.Coulf see how Chengdu transform to what it is today.I was visited Chengdu in 2013.What a difference now.I was really amaze to see the Global Mall it was really2 huge.Took a fast train to DuyjianYang beautiful place.Suprise there was Mosque.

From the KZread Suggestions besides your video, there is a video call "People of Western China" uploaded by felixlamour. It said that the place is called Chengdu.

Thank you always valuable videos, sir. Just as I thought, this is not you shooted because it’s too old for your age right ?

I appreciated it. It’s been six years since I left Chengdu. Never shall I leave the place that I love, never shall they go from my heart, even though my eyes are somewhere else. 父母在，不远游，远游必有方。

Amazing ! Thanks

What interesting scenery and the.people with their rickshaws. Most of the older people's are all gone, and some of the young people in their 80's, 90's. The live a long time over there Thanks

great video

Thank you MichaelRogge.chengdu is my hometown.I was born in here 1983.This is the I watch video about chengdu in 1940.

im from chengdu. glad to see the old chengdu. thank you

这里是我出生的地方！感动啊！谢谢上传！my homeland thanks for upload!

When I went to Chengdu it was an amazing, varied and frightening how large it is. Stood at the top of a tower with similar towers stretching to the horizon in all directions. It was like Megacity One.

Very happy to watching this. even my grandmother never seeing this

Interesting video of Chengdu. Amazing how far China has come in a mere two generations.

@realchinese9834

Жыл бұрын

Yes, China become much worser, in terms of moral..

@MichaelRogge Sir, I also upload clips but I never check if someone has already put them on youtube or not. I tell you there is another version because I think that version can give you more information about this clip. Please don't mind.

感谢🙏作者

看到了都江堰

The daily lives of people. Nice video.

厉害了，很罕见的记录！

Thank you, interesting.

珍贵的影像资料啊💾

Awesome, farmers, regular persons ...having huge fenced homes goats on the roof, smiles, hard work.

Too precious. Life of people in different industries. Thank you. But why i heard a sentence of cantonese"你要呢個呀"？

People talked in Cantonese in meal scenes, those should not be in Chengdu. Appreciate your uploading!! So meaningful, I read Dujiangyan in textbooks now here. It’s amazing! Bless you and take care

感谢！！！让我看到我们大四川的曾经的面貌。

谢谢，很难找到这些。

Hello, watch the olden days is very interesting, subscribe from Malaysia 🇲🇾,thank very much

@albertsamtam Thanks for your info. I'll await other viewers opinions. I'm not aware that 9.39 was taken in Hong Kong. In fact the footage was taken in 'Western China' Would that include Hong Kong?

I have a friend that is from Chengdu , I think I will forward this to her. This film is priceless. Where did you acquire it?

@tonykklam1 No, it is from prewar footage. I added sound and effects.

说实话，生活比我想象的要好，每个人面色都不错，不愧是天府之国

@c90111

4 жыл бұрын

黑白的能看出面色 你真他娘的是个人才

@haoyuanwang374

4 жыл бұрын

@@c90111 指精神状态

That's the Anlong Suspension Bridge at Dujiangyan

旧中国人的脸上写满了朴实，感谢大师上传！这个频道真有意义。

I find Dujiangyan, the brige above min river is stanstill,so interesting

Thank you, Michael. As a fellow “Old China Hand” I love the Chinese people and their culture.

I can guarantee that this is Chengdu. I am growing here, the folk customs in the lens. I can feel the traces left in the time when I was a child, the cattle, the streams on the farmland, the wheelbarrow, the ground rice, the craftsmanship of the craftsmen, I also saw the Fu River. The ancient city wall (which has been demolished) is the iron bridge on Dujiangyan (still in existence). After an earth-shaking change in the 1980s, Chengdu is now a beautiful modern city with more culture and more people.

@fanli5440

4 жыл бұрын

王比武 是的，我小的时候都看到这些事长大。我58年生于成都，90年来美国。这些都是我小时间看到的，好亲切！！！

@user-uw4pc9pn4e

4 жыл бұрын

@@fanli5440 哈哈，老乡你好。

@MichaelRogge Michael, the family eating together at 4.33 are speaking Cantonese. I am from Hong Kong. And I have to thank you for your old films. They are very precious and let us know & see the old Hong Kong, (also other asian countries)

@dx7631

6 жыл бұрын

There's Hakka families in Sichuan. My grandparents spoke fluent Cantonese. Google Loudai.

I assume that all the sounds were added later as cameras at the time didn't record sound?

2:24是都江堰的南桥吗？后面的吊桥我记得，变化不大。可惜南桥边那座老茶楼颓了，那是我心中天下第一的品茶之处！

Amazing

很多古建筑，😍

@CaeserTseng Hi ,chengdu is my hometown,and the panda's hometown.Actually,this video is true.There is a river named Min River which is the source of the Yangtze River（Long River） in the video.

What a trip through the past!

4:42 this bridge is still there in Dujiangyan. 这个都江堰的吊桥现在还在，去都江堰景区耍的朋友可以走一走。

Thank you. May i have the name of that film? I failed to search for its name online.

beautiful, natural, eternal design of way of life

this is what my past life looks like , thank you

a lot of the video appears to be filmed in nearby Dujiangyan 都江堰

My Father-in-Law was in China during WWII, and he spend time stationed there...many of the video images are captured in images he has. I will show him this. He turned 97 this past October.

Gostei mas o ruído na cidade eh em inglês ????

@hkpegasus01 I didn't know. Anyhow mine is edited, of better quality and with a different soundtrack. So I do hope that it still serves a purpose. In general I check first if a clip exists based on the same obsolete film.