A real eye opener for many overseas Chinese . You videos and visits to all these places are so amazing. Thank you so much Yan for bringing all these traditions to us.

I am totally blown away! People are still continue the traditional celebration started hundreds of years ago. Again, it is the human spirit, people get together to fight the invaders, no planning, everyone just do their part. People are so friendly offering food for strangers...Thanks for bringing to us these traditions. Hope they will continue.

I’m an American, who’s a Sinophile. I admire your travel videos. 谢谢你

As a foreigner (from Scotland) living in China, I'm very happy to have found your channel.

Thank you for giving us a glimpse of these traditions. They give us an insight to similarities and linkage to the traditions practised in Malaysia.

I'm Chinese Malaysian and my grandfather was from Hainan Island but Putien was also my ancestors' village before the end of Southern Song dynasty, which was about 700 to 800 years ago! My surname is Long 龙 and I had read the history of the Long Clan whereby they had migrated to Hainan Island as soldiers during almost the end of Southern Song dynasty. I also read before that even these days during Ching Ming, some Long Clan members will travel to Putien to pay respect to their ancestors.

@marshallchua

7 ай бұрын

So are the people of teochew

Loving your videos, I knew China had a tremendous amount of traditions, but see so many of them through your videos is really an eye opener! I can't wait to visit China!

This is so interesting. You are doing a wonderful job, Yan by documenting these traditional culture practices of the people in China. I really enjoy watching your videos.

I’m really loving this Fujian series. Particularly all the different celebrations. You are doing such a great job.

@littlechineseeverywhere

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@kenglangmaipa8410

11 ай бұрын

Yes this gal doing great job in exploring different cultures and traditions and showcasing it to outside world which otherwise wouldn't have been known to others outside their country. It is really interesting to watch different Chinese traditions in her KZread videos. Good job Yan. We have never known before such beautiful Chinese traditional celebrations.

Hi from Las Vegas! Happen by chance to see your channel and I am going to watch all your videos. China has such beautiful traditions. You should be very proud of having a living record of unseen China 🇨🇳

Your videos really give us a look at real Chinese people, something we never really see here in the West. I have subscribed because you make such fascinating videos. I hope you have a Wonderful New Year too.

I love to watch this. So many cultures with such rich traditions. I weep for the things we have lost here in the west. Nothing even close to these rich traditions that are important to the human spirit, the things that truly keep us happy.

@Frost_Trow

Жыл бұрын

I dont well with tears when I'm watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade that's for sure lol

your channel is amazing. you deserve lot more subscribers.

哇！感谢博主拍摄了我的家乡莆田，作为一个土生土长的莆田人，我必须骄傲的告诉你，莆田这座文献名邦保留了全国最多的传统非遗文化，在我们莆田有这么一句话，“你叫我们早上六点起床追明星没人会去，但是叫我们六点抬菩萨三点我们就起床不睡都行！”相信博主在莆田应该感受到了我们莆田人对于神明的炙热

@I_am_your_father2024

9 ай бұрын

阿里 里核

@yoonglingoon6670

3 ай бұрын

I just met a friend from Anxi, Fujian, he said the same thing 👍🏻🥰🙏🏻😁

Ms Yan, at the end of your video, you unconsciously said you feel so proud to be a Chinese. You touch my heart. I have the same feelings as you. I also feel so proud to be a Chinese especially with the rise of China and I am an overseas Fui Chiew Hakka Chinese living in Southeast Asia.

@raygan777able

Жыл бұрын

Why unconsciously? Lol. I think it's intentional. I'm proud to be a Chinese too even though I was not born there.

Thanks Yan for showing us 仙游! So excited to see the place of my ancestor's origin. You might be the one and only youtuber that can show us the smaller towns in China. 感恩🙏

Being ethnic Chinese myself, residing in the US, but originally from Malaysia, it is an eye opener to see from your eyes, the myriad of Chinese cultures and traditions from all over China. It does certainly make me proud of being Chinese. Thanks so much for exposing all the wonderful things from China to the rest of the world. Hopefully, that will help diminish all the ignorance and bigotry and make this world a better place for everyone.

Your videos give me a peep into the unique cultures in my forefathers' land. Really enjoyed myself. Thanks, Yan. Keep up the good work!

Yan, you are doing such a great job visiting these towns and showing the world how Chinese traditional festivities are celebrated and preserved! I am so impressed. Thank you. 👍👺☮️❤️

Amazing grand scale celebrations! People of faith are unpretentious - open and caring and often willingly sharing their believe outwardly. That the tradition has managed to maintain its existence to this modern age of high rise buildings , digital cameras and drone technology speaks volume of the peoples' undying faith. Great video footage and narration. Thanks for sharing.

Chinese people are amazing. Thank you for documenting this. I think it's important for us in the West to see what China is really like, compared to the propaganda we're spoon-fed.

While I lived in China, I was able to see a similar tradition to the bench lanterns in a village in the township of 缙云 in 浙江丽水. It's a little different though, and I think even more fun! The village's dragon was about 140 meters long (they said it can get to be over 200!) and had a huge head and tail made from paper. The men assemble in the village square, and play a game where the head of the dragon must be caught by the tail. It's very chaotic, and took so long the men had to take a couple smoke breaks. After the head is caught, the dragon sets off for the temple, and then parades through the village while people shoot off fireworks. However, the tail is always trying to pull the head backwards, so sometimes the dragon will pass by your house and be pulled back multiple times! Each time you shoot fireworks off again. To top it all off, there's performances in the village hall and a night market in the square where everyone's made goodies and are selling them to their neighbors. That was one of my favorite memories of China, and perhaps my life. It made me understand so much more about Chinese culture and why the countryside is so important for retaining tradition. So thankful to my student that invited me that year.

Thanks for showing us the various celebrations held in China...It’s an eye opener for us Chinese born out of China. Gong Xi Fa Cai! Proud to be a Chinese too!

As usual again an excellent docu. I felt your pride and your belonging throughout this episode. I watched it with great intent and with a big smile. This is the true china with its everyday Chinese people that are bonded together by centuries of traditions and self worth. I was fortunate to experience their hospitality and gratefulness in my travels to China. Loved it, thanks Yan for your excellent work.

Me too proud to be Chinese though not able to speak the language cause at a certain period indonesian government didn't permit it, but deep in my heart I still do it. Thanks Yan to share it with us.

for those of us that know China from what s on the news (i'm Romanian btw), you really are making a case for how big and diverse China really is. good job! very good indeed.

I've been binge watching your videos, so little is known about mainland China abroad it’s really fascinating. Cheers from Argentina!

@miaomiaochan

Жыл бұрын

What those on the outside too often forget is that China is far more than its government and politics. The people of China are not any different from you and I in what matters most.

Lovely video and great to see so many invitations for dinner. When I went to China in 2019, we were invited out for a meal every day for a month, by different people.

The scale of logistics to organize,time manage to the minutae is absolutely astounding.Kudos to the clean-up teams after each procession pass-by. TQ aYan,sumptuous footage into a China we all know by heart but visually forgotten.

Fascinating China. So many provinces, people, traditions and cultures. Thank you, Little Chinese, for sharing. 🥰

Big shout out "Proud to be Chinese" from Zurich.

You mentioned “you feel proud to be Chinese” and i think you should absolutely! I think you have a great channel. Its very enjoyable to watch. Hope you proper with what you are doing.

Yan, once again you opened my mind to China - very rich in culture. I'm Chinese Australian originally from Malaysia. Like you said, you are proud to be Chinese. The people there are so friendly and accommodating. I have never been to China. Is it possible for you to organise a tour? I you have done China proud and those of us living overseas proud too. Well done, Yan.

Yan..Another great video. As a foreign born overseas Chinese with Fujian roots. It’s an eye opening to know Fujian traditions over the ages. Please continue to enlighten all overseas Chinese from different perspective other than the modern cities or new technologies. 🎉🎉🎉❤❤

I'm really enjoying your videos Yan! Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing from your perspective. Many of us who are not Chinese would not get to see many of these traditions, but more importantly, not get to experience, understand or appreciate them as much as someone who is Chinese. Love it!

Wow...learned so much from your videos. Even though I 'm Chinese , I didn't even get to experience so many cultures . Again thanks Yan

I want to make it clear that I love these videos and really deeply appreciate your sharing them with us!! 🙇‍♀️💗

Such friendly and generous Putien folks

@Zerpentsa6598

Жыл бұрын

Heng hwa nang.

@oyoter9ox

Жыл бұрын

@@Zerpentsa6598 Thanks for the info I have a few Heng Hwa friends and they operate bicycle shop in Malaysia

Thank you Yan for introducing Chinese culture and traditions to the world. I hope more Chinese KZreadrs will follow your lead and show the authentic China to the whole world.❤

I am from Indonesia. This is my grandmother's hometown. She used to go back once a year with her friends but now she is too old and can't travel anymore. She loved it everytime she traveled back home.

A wonderful look into such a rich culture, tradition, and beautiful people! 💕🦚🍇🐲

We have been watching all of your videos and just want to let you know what a great job you are doing. So interesting to see different parts of China and learn about the country. You have a lovely manner and style! Keep it going :)

Love your videos Yan. You have the spirit of the adventurer\explorer and it's wonderful to see all the places you go.

Thank You,,You have showed us everything about this months celebration their in China,, New follower and subscriber here,,, No skipping of adds Ms Yan,,,

That’s why China is a great civilization. This is what brings people together.

Another great video Yan. Its interesting to watch real Fujian Chinese tradition rarely seen by those of us outside of China. Thank you.

Thank you again for showing us the culture from different regions. Cheers and adventure on!

Excellent videos. Super like.

Ich hatte durch Zufall ihren Kanal entdeckt und bin total begeistert. China ist so ein phantastisches Land mit so vielen wunderschönen Orten. Ohne ihre Arbeit wäre es mir nicht möglich diese Einblicke zu bekommen. Vielen Dank 💐!Ich freue mich weitete Videos von ihnen zu sehen. Herzliche ❤Grüße aus Deutschland

You are ACE in recording the vast variety of chinese culture. it is so pretty and gets longer as it winds its way through city...what a CELEBRATION

I like the way you join in with the locals wherever you go. You take your energy and sunny personality with you and people respond to you. ☀

You have been the true ambassador of China, your videos is very informative and inspiring. Thank you

Wow! What a mesmerising tradition! Seeing all those people celebrating I just felt a pure joy coming out of screen. Amazing video, I’m glad you film these type of things you can’t see anywhere else.

another eye opening video how the chinese take their culture so seriously. very interesting to see the various traditions they have to celebrate the new year. Just shared your video again, hope it will help to bring in more subscribers.

Your videos are among the very high quality ones in KZread. Thank you for showing the world all these unique places that very few tourists know about. I send you warm greetings from my country Malaysia.

Its really enjoyable to see the natural beauty of places and its people. Thank you for sharing your world. This is how we can come together as a world civilization, learn about each other, and grow, rather than the hateful rhetoric in the world today.

So glad to follow you from Malaysia Trip to my hometown Fujian! Thanks for sharing the tradition and places that I have never known.

@Zerpentsa6598

Жыл бұрын

Fujian, as you probably know, is not a town but a province. Putian is both a prefecture level city as well as as a prefecture in Fujian, meaning it's one level below a province but one above a county. You need to be precise where in Putian your folks came from.

@peiyuhuang4015

Жыл бұрын

@@Zerpentsa6598 I am from Xiamen!

I would really like to move to these beautiful villages. I am in love with China. If I had to leave France Paris I would go to China too well

Yan you are such a capable film maker. Usual it will take a mini bus load of film crew to produce such a movie, not including those editors in the studio. Good job.

Thank you so v much for sharing, this was awesome to see - Jan, England.

My grandfather came from Putien, thank you for the videos of Putien ☺

I'm loving your video and I really enjoyed watching the Latern Parade. It's amazing! Thanks for sharing with us. Big LIKE from me. Greeting from Singapore.

I will never go to these beautiful country side, so thank you Yan for taking me there. Beautiful people beautiful culture. So friendly and kind, truly a hidden gem. THX

As always, wonderful to see your videos.👍👍😀😀

谢谢Yan，带给我们不一样的元宵节庆典仪式，还有板凳圈灯，真的很特别。👍🙏❤️

I'm Malaysian Chinese Heng Hua and my late grandad was from Putien. Loving the content

Joyous and fascinating 😍😍😍👍👍👍 Big Thank you!!!!

This is a fantastic video, thank you for sharing, I would love to experience this Lantern festival.👍👍

Thanks for filming this. This was the land of my ancestors.

Its a big city n they still up keep its traditions. Well done. Yes m proud to be Chinese from Malaysia. Tq for sharing. The people are so warm.

I just like to say thank you you’ve really opened my eyes and I love it.🇬🇧❤️

This was incredible to see. The decorations are lovely and the people are all so nice. I subscribed.

Absolutely love your channel. I am glad to see old traditions are still alive.

absolutely stunning and beautiful. thank you SOOOO much for sharing. I would never see this in my lifetime except for your work and posting on the internet

Excellent video, Yan. It's a real eye opener too. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for your effort and time M'am Yan for bringing this spectacular event in China to our living room,,You're such a deligent person.

Never ending surprises!! Fun to watch. Thanks

Wow! What a wonderful celebration! Thank you for showing me this.

That was fascinating! Thanks so much for sharing this celebration.

Wonderful work with your drone! Thank you very much for this unique visit to China.

Really like most of your recent CNY celebration video. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing. Another great video

Fantastic Channel ! Just discovered it and already loveit ;) thanks for all this precious and energetic videos ☺️

Great video from you Yan . Thank you. We like the culture celebration in Putien. Looking forward to see more from you.

Couldn't rave more for the quality of your videos, thanks to you Yan, you brought such an eye opening videos to such traditions. Love it!

My mum fondly recalled her Henghua (Putianese) neighbours when she was young. A lot of them returned to China after 1965. I am surpised there are no tyres or bicycles incorporated in the parade! Just joking. (Henghua people were well known in Malaya for their profession as trishaw pullers. Later the Chinese Kapitans banned trishaw due to its inhumane nature and they shifted to bicycle, wheel and automotive industry).

@Zerpentsa6598

Жыл бұрын

Actually most of the Henghua people in SE Asia in the motor trade went out from Jiangdou which is nearer Fuqing. Most were descended from Wang Yanqing who founded the village during the Ming dynasty. He was originally from Nan'an but for some reason, the people of Jiangdou spoke Henghua dialect from Putien.

@bernardlokman5442

Жыл бұрын

@@Zerpentsa6598 Interesting. Back then during the change from tang to song, putian region was a part of quanzhou proper. I believe the synthesis of putien language is the layer of old quanzhou on top of fuzhou. Taken, during that time a lot of changes happened. Also need to consider the great evacuation where people might not necessarily return to their original coastal lands. People do also talk about the difference between hokchew and hokchia.

@Zerpentsa6598

Жыл бұрын

You meant, of course, rickshaws, or jinrickisha, which were 2 wheeled cabs pulled by a man. These were not banned, and were seen in places like Penang until the early 1950s. The early rickshaw pullers were Fuzhou migrants who spoke Hockchia and Hockchiu dialects, as well as Henghua migrants. As relatively late comers, they were forced into this niche labour market. The Henghua, led by Ong Ban Koh and Ong Ban Bee later went into bicycle repairs and motor trade. One of my uncles was a rickshaw puller who later went on to found a prosperous company in the Rochor area of Singapore. One of his fares was an English man who started to kick his back shouting as he did, "Faster, faster...". Such was the treatment meted out by the British to the Chinese. Trishaws, as you know have 3 wheels, and are still used mainly for the tourist trade, again, in places like Penang. Also, I think it's an over simplification to assert that Henghua or Xinghua dialect is a hybrid formed from other Min Nan dialects. There are Henghua people who trace it to migrants from northern China during the Three Kingdom period.

@bernardlokman5442

Жыл бұрын

@@Zerpentsa6598 I believe it was banned in north Sumatra in early 1900s by the Tjong brothers. Yeah I meant rickshaws. Sorry. However to claim ancestry hailing from three kingdoms era…. Actually regions like Putian was non existent until early Tang, as well as Minnan regions unless you meant they were from Fuzhou proper. The earlier settlement close to Putian started around 60 years earlier than Quanzhou in around 300 AD. You can read more in paper titled Chinese Colonization of Fukien by Hans Bielenstein. The language substrate was also shared by minnan language. Similar to Quanzhou the early migration started from the north around the coast instead of latter from the west through the mountain rivers. However these people were mostly farmers and peasants. To claim ancestry from the three kingdoms is not impossible but a big claim as family names were adopted, taken and borrowed very often throughout times, eg a Lee and a Tan of one village would probably would be more related than another Lee in a village 50km away. A lot of Chinese like to claim their ancestry far back but a lot of these regions were not fully sinicised until Tang dynasty. I would take the ‘three kingdoms’ lineage with high skepticism. If fuzhounese, it would be slightly more plausible. A lot of them were just the zhonghua nationalist movement from early 1900s where every second person try to claim lineage from the ‘great han’. As per mentioned, pre minnan substrate would likely be there, but pre minnan subtrate would probably be present in quanzhou minnan too. A lot of diaspora to Guangdong came through Fuzhou and Putien, hence it is easier to observe the evolution of Puxian tongue, taken that influence comes here and there from various times and places. However we do overestimate our predecessors’ literacy and their ability to accurately record lineage throughout centuries. It took one massacre and two generations in Indonesia for more than half of their Chinese to abandon their lineage and Chinese identity. Same like Peranakans claiming Zheng He origin, most are myths and make believe and the few who really do have it could not be bothered to claim it as most would have fully assimilated to Malay culture.

love all ypour videos like you are so very good at this. very informative you do yuour homework and we all appreciate the effort you put in and put it together so nicely you were born to do this wow sincerely never stop ..best ive seen ..❤❤

Great video! Thanks for sharing, I've only ever celebrated Lantern Festival in large cities so it's nice to see the difference between my experience and that in rural China ❤

Lovely that families & clans & communities all come together to make this a tremendous celebration! YES, WOW!

Oh my god how beautiful all these ceremonies are . Thanks for showing us this side of China ❤

Thank you for showing us such beauty!!!!

Your filming and editing and coverage is better than CGTN

Thank you again is all I can said. I really enjoy watching it. Please keep reporting

People were just so focused recording the iron fireworks than just simply enjoying the spectacle itself! Love your videos, absolutely unique!

Dragon Bench Lantern Parade?! 🧐 An eye-opening discovery for me🤓

I am falling in love with China, thank you for such a wonderful channel. 💕

Hi Yan, i really enjoyed your latest video as it is good to see how different regions celebrate Chinese New Year.

Thank you for the great video and commentary. It really is a celebration that started on collaboration for common defence.

I really enjoy your videos thanks for sharing such interesting things :) keep on keeping on!

I think the best part is they are treating her like one of theirs instead of as tourists. That's an experience you cannot get as non-Chinese people..