Krisy o please do. It’s now one of the most modern cities in the world

I’m from there as well!

I'm from there, but nowadays sadly most of the older buildings and houses are no longer there.

Krisy o it’s not anything like it was. You’re going to be disappointed if you want to see anything of the old city. I saw the demolition of a lot of the old quarters in 1991. China has been mindless in its drive to modernize and much of its older buildings have been lost. The most egregious example is Mao’s ordering the destruction of the encircling wall and gates of old Beijing in 1951. It was a defining structure dating back to the Ming’s. And that destruction has continued to this day with only fragments of the old hutongs left here and there that now feel more like mini Disneylands. Hutongs were oasis of calm and repose and was the essential Beijing experience. It’s like going to New York and seeing skyscrapers. Beijing today feels like any big city with tall glass buildings with multilane freeways and neon signs. Without the old hutongs it’s no longer the Beijing that was lovingly written about in the past. It’s all gone. Same with most of China including Guangzhou and other cities in the south. You’re going to think you’re in Irvine California.

Same but my grear grandfather never told us anything about it, i am investigating by myself :(

还会讲粤语麽

Five years later, still love this video!

@@esther94619 aye

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Because, only Canton, and a few other shipping ports were created... So, chinese from Canton, either went to America, like California.. or for some, even longer journeys like... Into the UK, Liverpool.... and more. Trade and shipping was very strict then, cos this is what started the Boston Tea Party as well in New York. People fighting over the goods to be delivered.... in case it gets robbed, or in case it gets destroyed etc. My granma was from New Territories in HK. But my ancestor was a little bit further up the road, in Bo'an Dong Guan. This is my understanding. Mr Sun Yat Sen was also from Canton. (I think he was an academic, and his family was also wealthy, because of being a civil servant of sorts. So he become a medical person. He treated many of the poorer farmers, labourers. This is why in Seattle, and in Vancouver areas, you will see some of his monuments, and his legacies. And why Bruce Li was famous as well. Cos he was from a mixed-race family. The family name is Li.) As to why some people left their villages... and then some non-chinese went into China.. as labourers.. This was kind of due to British's trade issues... Cos some of those people were from the British Commonwealths as well. Not everybody inside of China, appreciates this aspect of history. Some people would literally spit and spat at you as well. Cos those were the shipping regions, which the country traded with. Some people will call you a traitor.. and a runaway dog. Remember to stay away from such people. Cos it is very dangerous these days for you to enter China, without connection.. or family there to speak for your behalf...

viridiana wong what’s stopping you?

@@crazyhorse3344 Maybe Coronavirus?

Where abouts in Canton do you live ?? Which looks like that ? Can you also explain what is the "Temple and Alter of Heaven" ?? I thought that was in Beijing.. and part of the Forbidden City.. or is that in Canton as well ?

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I think China is bigger than Beijing. It used to be off limit to their own people during the Imperial time no?

different parts? I'm from Malaysia, i never knew why our ancestors migrated.. my father said during times of hardship.

sarunghakan feng come back and visit. It’s now one of the most modern cities in the world!

According to the literature of the time, you could get your head cut off for almost nothing, like having short hair (for women), or being in a trade union. The Kuomintang was just killing people on a broad scale who were their allies! They really did the information blackout, too. In the west, we're still repeating wartime propaganda of the Kuomintang!

@@leonardpearlman4017 Both Kuomintang(Chinese nationalists) and Communist slaughtered a lot of Cantonese, in China the Cantonese people were strongly discriminated and never treated as their own people no matter which party it is since long time ago.

@@karlkun717 : No.... because, some people do not know that, "China", or "PRC" today, was not all a single boundary area or region either. The boundary, inside the boundary is many mini Kingdoms.. or nations... Nation of Nations. This is why, if you crossed over to someone else's land, then you would be killed. Cos Tang Code existed back then. A lot of people, do not know that, China has many regions... and people cannot just give up their land so easily.. The thing with the Westerners is that, they actually assume that the entire region, should, and ought to be the single state as well. What does that mean then ?? Erase your ancestors' history, land, and legacies ? Many chinese today, want this to be overwritten... and even if someone claims it, they refuse to accept this as well.. This is why many people rather die these days.. Cos justice no longer exists any more... KMT, was a Southern Army of sorts... Only Canton, was the shipping port, and trades... Nowhere else. Chaos, between different parties, with different interests occurred, fights started... and this is why it ended up with so many deaths... etc etc.... Even now, if you are Cantonese, and wants to "go back home", many people, will stop you. They would even verbally deny that you are so. Cos there is no justice system in place. And people tend to lie through their own teeths.. read random things online and assume it is so. Even when they have evidences etc.

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Chris Koay 56 ethnicities.

Yes, so why did the Han group try to get rid of other minorities, and still at it today ? The answer, because no Chinese emperor was Han, they were MAnchu, Mongols but never hans.

@@goognamgoognw6637 : Wrong. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Timeline_of_Chinese_History.jpg These are from old artefacts..... IF you acknowledge the current boundaries etc. I do think some had been misinterpreted in terms of texts.. But it is a good overall view. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_States_period#/media/File:EN-WarringStatesAll260BCE.jpg

me to

当时广州是中国工业产值第三大城市，人口第四大城市

没空调

现在也如此

1930 最好的年代 也是最差的年代

經濟上, 作爲自古海上絲綢之路的起點之一, 開阜多年, 廣州商業一直就較北方發達. 地理上, 處於南回歸綫附近, 天氣沒有北方寒冷, 廣東一直享有魚米之鄉之名, 生活物資要比北方豐盛. 政治上, 廣州人有兩句形容自己的政治地位, 山高皇帝遠, 上有政策, 下有對策. 雖然廣東遠離政治中心, 廣東人很難登上政治中心, 但是, 正因爲遠離政治中心, 廣州人有更多的自由空間去經營自己的灰色地帶, 更利於商業發展. 教育上, 一來開阜早, 廣州人有更多機會接觸外國的新鮮知識經驗, 二來在政治上絕緣, 廣州人在教育上更注重實際需要, 所以少了份迂腐, 多了務實. 雖説廣州不及上海, 那是因爲政治地位上, 和地域經濟圈上的問題, 但人文上, 北上廣深中, 歷史最悠遠的只有廣州, 比起西安這些古城, 底子上, 廣州或有不如, 但是本身廣東的住民, 就包含了五胡亂華和宋末遺民, 根正苗紅的漢族傳承, 裏子上未必輸.

Thank you appreciate the distinction between cities

Peking

Oh, it's a dream! You can live this dream TODAY, by just moving to Haiti! Is this what you want for China?

Many cultural relics and buildings, literatures, arts were totally destroyed by the mob. Good thing we have Western footages to thank for

@What' Ev Chinese people wouldn't eat culture when they are hungry and they wouldn't live in culture when they are homeless. You westerners want china to remain like a museum or a zoo to enjoy yourselves with this Chinese (strange and backward culture)

机场那群人个个穿鞋，已经属富人了，普通人根本一年四季不用穿鞋，冬天也不大冷，我小时候也习惯了不穿鞋，只有冬天穿一双凉鞋。

It kinda looks like India actually!

Yeah, I noticed that, too. Ouch. 😕

Yes, and?

I'd rather live in current China than the past, at least I don't have to be a mindless fellah

cause you are not chinese

no that China was never the true China. It was Qing empire by Manchu that ruled the majority of that country which was Han people. If you backtrack to Ming Dynasty, that was true good old China, the China thats in the hands of Han people, the China that would defeat the old Dutch so many times. Zheng zhilong, Zheng Chengong, If you do know these names.

So u mean the poor China was China? 😂 If like that I'm more prefer the modern China now

Don’t equate poor with China. Just because China has grown rich and modern doesn’t mean it’s no longer China.