Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, the tomb of the Hongwu Emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang (the first Ming emperor), Nanjing, begun 1381 A conversation with Dr. Kristen Brennan and Dr. Beth Harris
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@dumoulin113 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure this channel is my favourite on KZfaq for this year. Smarthistory #1!!!
@persontimr50523 жыл бұрын
These videos could be muted and I could still hear the intro music and the great ASMR narrators.
@tsm10133 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous structure. colors are trippin' me out maaaan. Thank u China
@stasiugaska28383 жыл бұрын
I’m so glad you are not afraid to talk about other cultures than only western. I’m art history student and most of my professors and colleagues are just so Eurocentric...
@steaminglobster3 жыл бұрын
Wow, the quality of the photography is supreme! It is thrill to see Smarthistory on China! Well done, bravo! Thanks and Happy Chinese New Year!
@marthavillegas62503 жыл бұрын
You are right, great videos! As always Thank you!
@septube263 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thank you for taking me on this journey of discovery.
@Mark-fv8vt3 жыл бұрын
4:40 - "She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion, wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.…" Great stuff as always SMARTHISTORY!
@lewhensilvar35213 жыл бұрын
What are you referring to?
@Mark-fv8vt3 жыл бұрын
@@lewhensilvar3521 Always wondered what the Babylonian paintings looked like, maybe they looked something like the Ming Emperors with their belts and flowing hats.
@lewhensilvar35213 жыл бұрын
Why was the camel considered a power animal? Also, please, more videos on Chinese art and architecture
@______-mz3vk3 жыл бұрын
Camels are not native to the Nanjing area, obviously, they are a associated with the Silk Road. As a result, they quickly became symbols of prosperity in China and were often depicted in art, along with other animals like horses. horses and camels in China : depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/trade/horcamae.html Bactrian camel tomb figure : www.ashmolean.org/camel-tang-dynasty Bactrian camel in jade : asianreviewofbooks.com/content/ships-of-the-silk-road-the-bactrian-camel-in-chinese-jade-by-angus-forsyth/
@Sasha09277 ай бұрын
There was (unsurprisingly) a lot to learn in this one! Small mind-blown moment when Nanjing and Beijing were explained - I didn't know that. Bixi's are amazing. I wonder if they inspired Terry Pratchett at all in his Discworld series. I also enjoyed hearing about the various animals and soldiers along the spirit path. Kinda fun to wonder what would line mine if I had one. 🙃 I'm also curious what they believe the emperor would need protection from in the afterlife... Another very interesting video. ❤
@muhammedsalihsefiloglu65163 жыл бұрын
please keep going on these videos about Chinese culture
@bromance_y3 жыл бұрын
yess first comment! I LOVE your videos!!!
@purplepunch49042 ай бұрын
Beautiful
@monkeygraborange3 жыл бұрын
It's stunning to think of the literally billions of people who were worked to death over countless centuries to extol the benevolent virtues of forgotten bureaucrats.
@qus.96173 жыл бұрын
Don't forget colonialism. Once they had the means and the power they just wrecked havoc on the rest of the world. Depressing stuff. Like German colonies in South America bought up all the land of the Maya and made them slaves to the farms they tended to for thousands of years. Then they only paid them in their own currency meaning they get the money back anyway when the Maya people purchases goods from their monopolised German shops. Or breaking treaties after treaties against very peaceful indian tribes to very hostile indian tribes. Be a good tribe, still be in the firing range and have your entire villaged razed, raped and butchered. Makes no difference. Even cooperating Christianised tribes with their own lands were forced off their prosperous towns and corralled into reservations. It was all a political farce that gained the Americans near the entirety of North America with Canada right up the seventies still trying to snuff out their Tribal remnants through forced boarding schools where children suffered so many abuses at the hands of their teachers. Great wall wasn't built to extol benevolent virtues. The grand canal (longest artificial river system in the world) wasn't built to extol benevolent egos. The great northern hydraulic ditch of Hebei wasn't built to extol benevolent virtues. The two artificial forrested belts of the northern border wasn't grown to extol benevolent virtues. I think it is not enough to say that the amount of organisation, investment and manpower was simply only to stroke the ego of bureaucrats. Today living standards are almost unprecedented. At least half of the world has enough disposable income to at least afford shelter, education and money set aside for recreational purposes. Human population has exploded going from a relatively flat line to an almost 90 degree angle shoot up. Only very recently in history did the human population even make it into the single digit billion figure. Today there is a far greater gap between the rich and the poor. The rich seem to be getting richer despite the quality of life improving. I am concerned about this. Confucian and Taoist governments preferred to have low taxes to the individual or the family household system. To the point that state monopolies of salt and iron were implemented after much debate in order to ensure the state coffers would not be empty. Taoist and Confucian were at their basic tenants anti-war, anti-expansionism and laissez faire economics. That's not to say they weren't big hypocrites in that regard. Historically buddhist countries should have been the most peaceloving nations on earth. Instead Buddhism as an institute cosied up to the regimes, military dictators and monarchies and acted as a crucial lever of power in Southeast Asia(warring between Buddhism kingdoms), Japan, India, Sri-Lanka and China (Tibet). Religion and politics in China blended with different ideas being copied and co-opted by other groups such as Taoism, Ying-Yang and Buddhism borrowing from each other. Folk religion and Ying-Yang absorbed by Taoism. School of Agriculture being absorbed by Confucians and Legalists. Confucians in-turn taking in Legalist doctrines. One example being the real-politik elements of Legalism never going away even after the fall of pro-legalist regimes such as the Qin dynasty. Deregulation of the empire at times (Qing) also meant that urgent money, cash and military response when required would not be available.
@MrMayorqw3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Just one note, I believe you switched wen (civil) and wu (martial/military), which you glossed as 'military' and 'civil', respectively.
@nm98572 жыл бұрын
I'm interested to know more about @3:31 (sacrificial hallway) and the historical time/dynasty it is associated with.
@bookofdust3 жыл бұрын
Any more comment on the reconstructed roof, when it was done and why?
@mariep.cichon80063 жыл бұрын
what did they sacrifice?
@mdstanton18133 жыл бұрын
'All of his virtues were listed here'. I'd have a bloody stumpy stele
@clumsydad71582 жыл бұрын
Mind blown
@ChiefRxcka4 ай бұрын
Holy sheesh! Chinese history is incredible.
@chrisk56515 ай бұрын
The Yongle emperor moved the capital back to Beijing!