The Hard Hat Show: Throw Away Temple

[annarboriter]

Yes, but foreigners have also destroyed many Chinese buildings!

[0112337]

This is so sad. Tearing up those old hutongs are like ripping out the heart out of Beijing. Tearing up the roots of an old tree.

So sad...

All real Beijingers feel a psychological connection with those hutongs.

[MrSarikuyi]

development in a place with such rich historical heritage is a tough choice...

[craitube]

most ppl grow up in bj, like me, had profound feelings on heritage buildings and hutongs, they r heart and soul of this great city, now more and more of these things r being torn down in bj, we feel sad and helpless, because we couldnt do anything about it. and the new generation of kids havnt even seen the real bj.

[eugee1000]

POR FAVOR NO LEAN ESTO (me obligaron)

el 13 de octubre de 1991

un niño llamado nick se tiro de un puente devido a problemas familiares

si ya leiste esto deves copiar y pegar

en otros 5 videos mas o si no

nick vendra por toda tu familia

haslo o moriran porfavor hasme caso

yo lo lei y lo hise & si es verdad

[scharferhund]

让世界看看中国的另一面其实没有什么不好的，中国本来就是个发展­中国家，中国的问题本身就很多，有什么好隐瞒的呢？

[hempadia]

How can the Chinese government be so mindless about heritage!!!!

[craitube]

because its CHINESE government.

[syrillee]

gouverment.................

[ironqqq]

I think they should tear down the hutongs.. tear down all of them! 折折折！

[theRod1995]

Why??? THe hutong region is nice!

[ironqqq]

because that is apparently what the government is doing.

[elvisyoung444]

i like the girl

[peng1110]

don't know... china has too much of these kinds...

[pukilupukster]

A true temple is built in the heart.

[michelleyang0625]

What a shame! It survived 600 years of ups and downs in the history, but destroyed by our generation during peace.

[Hz0]

这群他妈的兔崽子 ... 你就让他们败, 你就让他们"积德" ... 等这群兔崽子倒台那天，我当街儿去放鞭炮去 ...

[bear9922]

痛心！~

[WeRestWeRust]

WHY?Our country need to develop!

[miaoqiming]

Fuck off,you asshole!We Chinese people dislike westerner!

[Hz0]

那你他妈的还用洋文？操你妈的 ...

[ifrit1780]

We should preserve history, not tear it down!

[p2k17]

It's all corporate greed. Corrupt contractors and local officials.  People need to preserve these things, but once you get the corrupt developers linked with the corrupt local officials, history gets destroyed.

[adpny]

I hope that there are other old buildings being preserved. I would hate to think that global corporate interests are behind the knocking of some historic places just so new stores can be built in that spot.

[benoitcsirois]

So many of them.. whole center of Beijing old buildings!

[bostadecadastro]

Changes stirs up resistance, kinda of expected there would be someone complaining about it...

[dryadwrangler]

So you'd rather ugly cookie-cutter apartments be put up than ancient homes?

These people have nowhere to go, and will now be homeless. I think they have a right to "complain".

[capeboyxp]

poor temple, so far from heaven, so close to beijing

[wormite]

sad to see this. 600 fxxking years! 3 times of the US history. As a Chinese I feel hurt by this.

[eghed]

are thou realy care?

are thou realy care?

which the same as this temple so simple just like crap

the greatest buildings in beijing were destroid by the Eight-Power Allied Forces just years before

at least the forbidden city and other thousands great ancient building are still stand on the land of china

maybe they could be keeping in next 1000 years

if the country keeping resist aggression and not to be split and destoid

[tzhang2]

calm... please, we Chinese all know Westerners are hypocritical. It is sad to see some Chinese are picking it up too

[dryadwrangler]

We often are hypocritical, yes, but it is not right to blame people that weren't born at the time for the destruction of buildings.

[shiker99]

so fxxking appalling

[michael67394307]

where is my favorite Su Fei?? i think she is being a slacker lately. lol!

[Charlesokay]

too sad to see this happens, "New Beijing" shouldn't be like this. if it's the only way say NEW, i prefer an old Beijing

[LEE008iDiOT]

Whatever the Beijing "developers" put up next will be dirty in a year, boring in a week, and obsolete in a decade.

[shiker99]

true

[anndon]

wow.

[takerdust]

lol, the old man is wearing a fake Reebok Hat that been illegally made in a sweatshop.

[66QQ66]

yeah, you wear the authentic Reebok Hat make in legal sweatshop. You are definitely morally superior than him.

[takerdust]

At least its not stealing the name. Was more of an attack at the fake name brand industry than on the man. I purchased a few "fake items" before. Pirating clothing, cd's, and software, is a huge industry in Asia, Middle East, and Eastern Europe, and South America.

[guttersnipelu]

maybe the old man never know about reebok

but I know Asia，Africa and Latin America are always the sweatshops for western capitalist from The industrial revolution

[beth2977]

What a shame and a waste of a beautiful building. They should have saved it not knocked it down so no one can ever see it again.

[wupeide]

So tragic and so typical.

[alacuter]

This episode brought to my mind the book "The Source". Although it was written about Palestine, it was interesting to take a historical romp through the building and destroying of periods of civilization over many generations. Reminds me of what is happening in China these days.

That said, so much aesthetic character has been discarded as modern humans rush to build ever more quickly. And sadly, many contemporary buildings won't last long into the future. Not like our forefathers' structures.

[alacuter]

PS: Another great episode! It's really fascinating to learn about China!

[Wufnu]

This is sad. My Chinese teacher was telling us a few weeks ago how Beijing used to have sort of a labyrinth of alleyways between the housing structures and that it was famous for it. She also said that most of those unique things are gone now.

[gracefyo0]

how do you write Xie Fangde temple in Chinese?

[akeyking]

It's actually the Memorial Temple of Xie Fangde ——"谢枋得祠".

[sinopie]

do u think u know something?

u know nothing!

[jahhlle]

to sinopie: i open my mouth with an opinion, if you think you know better than me, prove it here. your comments like that completely dumbass and boring

[XuGuangping]

he is right!

[PoppyMonsterMunch]

That's really sad, they won't realise what a huge mistake they've made until all the old style buildings have been torn down. Such a shame.

[scasey1960]

This channel needs to post more videos.

[xbrndnx]

Wow thats sad that they are tearing such a place down just like that

[BrookerStooker]

Beijing will regret to tear down this temple!

Future Chinese will get one less things to remember!

[tmrbionic]

You can find starbuck in the Forbidden City. It is not surprise that a temple becomes a shopping mall.

[anozir]

Yeah, unfortunately this seems to be the sad state of affairs in China these days. If the Three Gorges flooding wasn't enough, acts like this certainly lowers my patriotism.

[BlackUniGryphon]

I'm gonna try to go there, and get some photos next week! ^_^

[trantrum]

If nothing else they should allow people to salvage whatever can be salvaged.

Better than a bonfire.

[XpiR3d]

Things must be sacrificed for progress.

The temple, to most, does not have great symbolic importance in our day and age.

Change is needed. If we kept everything the way it was, nothing would change.

[akeyking]

very stupid words.

it's not that we have kept "everything" but that we have almost demolished the whole civilization!

[icirobin]

refering to other comments, please, don't put the responsibility on foreigners for what China is doing to herself, in the name of its 5 thousand year civilization.

[icirobin]

Above all, thanks for reporting on this, which could have gone on, in the dark, without the world knowing it, or without giving future generations of Chinese citizens a bit of the knowledge and responsibility for proceeding this way for the sake of 'development' (we should say individual enrichment in most cases). And we are not even talking about the disrupted lives of those whose fate is closely linked to and incarnated into locations such as this temple, neighbourhood, and city...

[lovisaw]

I think that they probably would've done this 50 years ago if they'd had the money back then. Socialism and indeed social democracy doesn't or at least didn't lay much on historical/cultural value. Sweden also wrecked whole city-parts of elderly houses to make way for modern block of flats with plumbing and central heating. A big loss indeed, even if they weren't 600 years old. Might've been worth it though. Not saying that's the same thing as this though, of course.

[Rab1975bit]

Are they MAD?

Why are they tearing this temple down??!!

Can't they restore it instead? People should do something about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Cultural Revolution destroyed enough of our ancient history already! There's Not much left. PLEASE STOP!

They're gonna regret this in 20 years.

[yerk3]

It is sad how a government can be so intrusive to common people and yet bend over backwards for corporations, all while bulldozing irreplaceable historical monuments.

[gjanie]

This is what I hate about fucking developing country, how easily they disregard their heritage. They don't understand that what attracts most people is the ancient history, not the bloody cement building you see everywhere.

[Rab1975bit]

China is not a developing country. It's an old country with an ancient history that once was way more advanced than the Western world.

It was a sophisticatedly developed country before the European invasions and ruined us with their greed and arrogance. Just like what they did to India. They distorted our ancient values.

If it wasn't because of all the foreign invasions, China wouldn't have become communist, that during the Cultural Revolution that destroyed even more for "modernity".

[XpiR3d]

We are not destroying our buildings for you foreigners.

I'm sorry. Don't be so egotistic. The world does not revolve around you.

We are doing this to progress ourself as a country. Slowly getting rid of the ghettos and building decent buildings where future Chinese people can live.

Important-historical buildings with great symbolic representation will still be kept.

Keep in mind that China has a long history. We cannot keep everything and maintain it. Some things must be sacrificed.

[akeyking]

1,i'am not a "foreigner". but a chinese historian;

2,this film was not made to show that the chinese are destroying their buildings for foreigners, no body said that. your words is not logical at all. chinese are destroying their historical buildings, not for anybody, but for some guys to get dirty money!

3,as a historian on chinese ancient architecture, i can tell you clearly that this building is excactly a so-called "Important-historical buildings with great symbolic representation"!

[raven1234]

what a shame that they do that. The government have no concern about preserving our culture. But, oh well. Time is time, things doesn't stay forever. Think about it this way and we might feeling better about the unchangeable truth in this foreseeable future of China.

[lzen5]

I understand the underlying message there is that the property developer did not comply with the local legislation on preservation of historical buildings and whoever is responsible should be de-licensed. but the way the story was presented made it sound like the modern Chinese urban planning do not appreciate the beauty of Chinese history, which is true and sad really.

[Doodsjager]

Amen, brother.

[icirobin]

Who's egoistic?

I am not saying there is destruction (and development) for foreigners. I am saying don't BLAME foreigners if some things are destroyed for the sake of development in China.

Also, it might be a good idea to be careful when you say "you foreigners". Foreigners isn't one people, it is a lot a different people, just like the Chinese people. You are no different.

[peeklip]

As a trained archaeologist, I also find this sad. I had plans to visit Beijing in the near future perhaps if I come whats left of it will still be there.

[Rab1975bit]

Are they MAD?

Why are they tearing this temple down??!!

Can't they restore it instead? People should do something about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Cultural Revolution destroyed enough of our ancient history already! There's Not much left. PLEASE STOP!

They're gonna regret this in 20 years.