could they even imagine that 100 years later people are watching them on youtube.. haha

It's been a week now .. I put this clip on repeat and turn the speakers on ..I sleep so peacefully listening to it .. none of these people are present now but even after 100 years we are seeing what their lives used to be .. I wish I could more of such old videos..these are gems and must be preserved

Today, we're lucky to see these old clips filmed by western foreigners in China, in this case a German, as well as Chinese photographers. Old films like these are very fragile and who knows how many have been improperly stored and have since disintegrated?

I‘m Chinese . Thank you so much for uploading this precious video, this is really awesome.

Cool to see the humility and thoughtfulness in the average person. The modern world needs those things.

My girlfriend is a Chinese citizen of Mongolian descent. I went with her to inner Mongolia. It's really beautiful and amazing. It's like time has stood still. Very little, if anything has changed.

Greetings from Mongolia. Thanks for the rare video..

I absolutely LOVE the old clips. Thank you for sharing!! Ah.. I wish there is a time machine and I could go back to hundreds or even thousands of years and travel around the world! :) Was my college major in history?! No, I so wish though.

Great gift for humanity. Thank you and your family for keeping all these records about human kind.

it is a memory recalling those younger days. May God bless you always to be in your best health MichaelRogge

Well dressed, clean, nice haircuts, huge farms, markets and festivals! Obviously they weren't poor.

The round shape huts made of felt are still in use in Mongolia and known as GHUR. meaning home/

My grandpa was born in 1921 in Beijing. He told me that he always had 60 dumplings in Qianmen( the front gate of Beijing).

Absolutely amazing and priceless footage!! Thank you so much!!

old Beijing looks so peaceful

WOW! This means a lot to a beijinger, watching what life was like in Beijing near a century ago really brings a new perspective. To think how short my existence will be compared to the history really puts me in awe..

Soft contrast , fully grayscale tone , clear detail , excellent film quality.

How precious these are!

videos like these are a precious heritage for human kind

That time Mongol and China both were under Manchu rule. Manchu and China is 2 different. So, you know. If I see the ladies head jewelers, they are Uzemchin Mongol tribe. Seems like mostly filmed in inner Mongol. That time both Mongols were together.

我喜欢这老视频！还有声音，我听到我能听懂的语言。这是一个我没有出生的时代。这很珍贵，这是一代人真实的记忆，和他们生活过的城市。我认为这是有意义的。我喜欢中国。以前的中国，现在的中国，我都喜欢。

It is so immersive watching these videos with traditional Chinese music.

These days we accumulate things and want everything we don’t need. But are stress to the core and not healthy.... simplicity is always to me is the best thing for mankind. I hope we will come to realize that one day🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Great footages. Thanks for your uploads 👍👍

oh oh,,thans for shareing ,Mr MichaelRogge

Thank you. Very valuable footage. Interesting to see how the horse was tied to replace new shoes.

Inner Mongolia looked exactly the same summer 2019

I like the music and like the way this is presented, no commentary, just a few words for reach scene. This let's the viewers more easily form their own views.

The first footage shows us a wild wild east.

Those bicycles from the film reminds me of a fun fact. Many older generations of local Beijing people, just like my grandma who is 87 years old this year, are still calling bicycles “洋车”, which means “western vehicles”. Dang, miss the old days.

This is very valuable,thanks for uploading!

The Mongolian steppe people live such a beautiful and pure nomadic life enriched with custom and tradition. Horses and falconry...need I say more?

It has changed so much , since the time I was there in the 1990's !

不知道是否可以转载？博主老爷爷真棒 感谢您分享这么多历史影像 太珍贵了！祝您长寿健康！

Thank you for preserving the history. A great work

Many thanks Michael Rogge for the video ! I wish you all the best.

Thank you for saving these beautiful priceless memorry

My favorite channel on KZfaq right now.

How good music you catch!

It's an amazing journey to the past of Inner Mongolia and Beijing nearly a hundred years ago.

这影片太珍贵了，没有被拆的老北京城

Huge thanks for sharing these amazing videos with us!!!God bless you!!!💓👍🙏❤

真有趣。老北京真漂亮。原来大家那时候真划龙舟，也说加油

Thanks for showing us this.

Thank you very much for sharing this video, very precious and invaluable

Days in the world. Each era has its on glory, nostalgic time, disaster and downturn. Question is how can we make the present be a good memory to be remember. By ourself and others

This like Time travel👍👍👍

谢谢你保留了这么多 以前的中国的影像，真是很好的素材，让我们知道中国发展的不容易，多灾多难的中国，让我们更加珍惜现在的发展环境，中国一定会富强起来的。

omg looked so beautiful back then

I live in Beijing now, it looks different but people act pretty much the same as in this video

Thank you for putting this video on youtube

Thank you for the sharing! Love these documentary films!

When the world was still magical..

Nice! Good that you have saved this video. I like that it's peaceful with clean air.

感谢分享，太珍贵了

當年青年小夥子的髮型真帥！

When I watched the film I got very shocked. Qing dynasty (Manchu) had turned the old china into a real deep shit. The original old china was Han and the china most glorious day was described by Marco Polo during 1266.

We went through a lot that's why we are so great!

Thank you so much ! From a peking girl

Couldn’t find the 9 dash line (over south China sea) on that map!!!

Thank you so much for these wonderful films !!

In the course of your travels, did you ever by chance run into John de Francis? He was a scholar traveling in the same places at the same time that you were there. Later he wrote Chinese language texts. He was the director of the Chinese language program at the University of Hawaii in the 1960s.

Thank you for your series of marvelous clips - I would also recommend Jeff Quitney's channel in case you have note sen it, it has some good movies on old China

谢谢，非常宝贵的视频

В тумане прошлого пытаюсь разглядеть, свои былые лица. Извилист и запутан путь веков, и времени песок над ним пылится.

I am very sorry that Eastern societies, which could have been a center for a strong spirituality, have preferred to "evolve" by rejecting and destroying what they have been. Of naturalism, of mysticism, very little remains, perhaps only Mongolia. China and Japan could drive the spiritual rebirth of modern man, instead they wanted to create urban agglomerations and very small tourist routes that are only attractions for the inexperienced. This magnificent civilization, of asia, has a lot to teach, and with this video I also feel the scent of what pre-industrialized society meant. Magnificent. I would give every part of me to be able to live this reality. The houses, the landscapes, the rural life, still, motionless, the wayfarers, those who stopped in the houses to ask for rest and hot dishes, how wonderful, I have goosebumps.

The hair style of young man in the end of film is popular now in China. The fashion appears repeatedly.

Thank you Mr. Rogge. I think the dragon festival where at the end of this film must be filmed in GuangDong.

古代的人文學造詣是真的非常高！

Спасибо за видео,

Thank you so much for share this video.

past history of China can be summarised as bitter circles of involution after Sui dynasty, I read like more than 1000 first hand historical materials in Chinese since my primary-school inspiration on traditional art,history and culture, the more I get in touch with the old Middle Kingdom the more amazement and frustration I got, maybe I am still way too young to be able appreciate the distant past of my country with true calmness and wisdom.

the background music is perfect

3.35 just bought the same lampshades off Amazon 19.99 a pair. They saw the future alright.

Very rare historical film. Thank you!

At this time, my mother's grandfather was selling tea in Beijing. Business was good, and there was a courtyard (the best house at that time).

love the chinese people and their deep history... with respect from france.

Amazing footage

Man, I wish they kept the old Beijing walls, there's just no forts as gigantic as them

I love that in Mongolia they live for the most part in the same way,

There wasn't an audio effect at all in video during the time or before WWII. So the sounds we heard today is fixed or rigged by the later uploader. Life in Mongolia was self-sufficient. And now I understand why Arabia horse is the best... LOLOL..Mongolia horse is just OKEY... LOLOL... from the video.

Old China had some of the most Beautiful Buildings. They've all been knocked down and destroyed Forever. I find it very sad.

Beautiful customs and costume from a lost time. The Chinese people have much to admire, rich history and a lavish culture. I wish the still enjoyed the freedom they once had.

Fascinating film about the Mongolian Steppes from the early 20th century. I noticed there was a scene called the Rice Sacrifice. The Mongolians in the film are on horseback. They live in tents. They are clearly a highly mobile people. They are nomads. Nomads do not have agriculture. Rice is a staple crop for many Far-East Asian cultures. It needs a lot of water to grow. So how does a nomadic people who herd animals for a living get rice? The Mongolian Steppes are notorious for their arid climate. Not enough water to do agriculture. Agriculture is required for humans to build civilization. The Mongolian people do not have agriculture and cannot build civilization. The Mongolian Steppes are hot during the day but freezing at night. How do they get rice for a Rice Sacrifice? In the early 13th century AD the Mongols became a significant force on the Mongolian Steppes after Chinghis Khan unified the 10 or more independent Mongol tribes. They had been raiding their agriculturalist, sedentary neighbors for food and other goods for many years. That would be the sedentary, rice growers known as the Chinese. Is that how Mongolians in this film got their rice for their Rice Sacrifice? The conflict between highly mobile warrior-like nomads and sedentary agriculturists have been going on since the dawn of civilization all over the world.

Awesome video

No TV no traffic no mall no phone no processed food..etc We are now a completely new species

excellent channel thank you for posting

You should say from Mongolia to China officially.

Wrong title! China and Mongolia were both under Qing (Manchu daicin) rule. So it should be Qing: Mongolia and China. Mongolia and China were seperate.

感谢！！！

Good old video Thanks

Nice film. By the way, its title should be "The old Mongolia and China before WW II". These two countries were and are independent.

Anything that show authentic historical footages has my vote. Much appreciate the Western technology back then in preserving these valuable footages. Notice how people didn’t live in boxes like we do

所以现在流行的发型是近百年前的了，哈哈哈

Great footage of old China. Thanks, Dan Seto, Chinese Canadian Roots TV.

Letter writer... interesting... thank you for sharing this...

Thanks for sharing.

11:59 左边小伙子的头型还是挺Fashion的

Mọi người có biết ! Người quay phim giờ ơ đâu không?

Through the video, I realized that Beijing had long been threatened by the dust storm. Glad that it has been significantly improved due to the three North project. With the manufacturing power China has today, the government can find ways to build canals to the desert areas in the future and improve.