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[sichimura]

Why now going back???? That is not China Culture maybe??

You people don't know what is yours!!!!

[Kraljsvinja]

LONG LIFE TO ORIGINAL CHINESE CULTURE, WHICH IS 5000 YEARS OLD! I LOVE CHINESE HISTORY AND CHINESE EMPERORS-SHEN NONG, HUANG DI, FU XI, AND MANY OTHERS! :))))

[turkmuslim4ever]

where do the han dynasty believe in? if they believed in 1 god then i found my roots lol XD i knew we had something in common with chinese lol

[McLarensupporter]

Most Chinese culture is dead due to the Cultural Revolution, some still survives in Hong Kong and Taiwan but Japan is the guardian and epitome of Chinese culture.

[willcreep]

@McLarensupporter can you explain your point? why japan is the successor of chinese culture? i guess japanese are originally from china or korea....

[Yonaguni10000]

This should be a national patriotic song for China that replaces the old communist oriented ones like Without Communist There Will Be No New China, The East is Red, etc. This song more accurately reflects post Olympics China, its culture, its direction, its potential, and its national spirit

[sharrysh]

Good Idea!

[willcreep]

@sharrysh no, not a good idea. this song is too nationalism, or more accurately, it's too biased toward han chinese...that will cause other minority groups feel bad and cause more problem in xinjiang or somewhere else....but i really think we need change the communism rhythm...and also change the flag sometime because the red flag is western ideology and we need a flag that can represent our nation rather than shit like soviet ideology

[kll1161]

@Yonaguni10000 I agree. I mean, the national anthem is supposed to represent the people, its culture and its society. Yet the current chinese national anthem uses western instruments and does not accurately reflect traditional chinese culture. Furthermore, like you implied, the current anthem reeks of propaganda.

China needs a cultural RESTORATION to bring back traditional chinese culture. Modernisation does not equal westernisation, like what a lot of China is going through.

[TaiGekTou]

@kll1161 That will not happen. China is dead, has been since year 1644. The whole point of the communists and Mao's ideas, and everything that they fought for were to destroy the Chinese culture, in the name of westerinzation and adopting western philosophies. I think they have succeeded, China is now dead and unless you're a historian or professor in cultural studies, not a single soul knows what "Chinese culture" represents. As strange as it may sound, Japan is the new China.

[F0reseer]

@TaiGekTou I kind of agree with you. But Japan isn't exactly the "new China." It bears only a changed resemblance to the Tang Dynasty. Looking deeper into Japan, there is very little China at its core, but a lot of China in the periphery. You have to peel the onion. But then again, there is also very little China at modern China's core.

[ForwardIntent]

@F0reseer so whats in japan's core that bares little china? can you name 10 things in traditional japanese culture that wasn't influenced by china or korea?

[F0reseer]

@ForwardIntent influence doesn't mean replace. the Japanese language for example is influenced by Chinese, but is nothing remotely like Chinese grammatically, phonologically, or lexically. It's also less "things" but overall sensibility. the Spirit, if you will, of Japanese people is very different from that of the Chinese. Shinto, while incorporates Buddhism, has no equivalent in China. China has no phallic deities. Bushido is uniquely Japanese, etc. etc.

[ForwardIntent]

@F0reseer oh, i see, so none haha

[iMisogynist]

@ForwardIntent Do you have more Shuai Jiao videos?

[ForwardIntent]

@iMisogynist how you know about my shuai jiao vids

[TaiGekTou]

@F0reseer You look like you know about Japan, but it is apparent that you know nothing about China.

[F0reseer]

@TaiGekTou How is it "apparent?" What exactly did I say that you can use to accuse me of knowing "nothing" about China? Enlighten me. Quote me, if you will. I will than respond by laughing, followed by an unassailable rebuttal....but mostly just laughing.

[TaiGekTou]

@F0reseer I mean no disrespect, so please be civil with your comments. First you compared Japanese with Chinese languages. Did you know that Chinese is a family of different languages, and only within these languages are dialects that may or may not be somewhat mutually intelligible? They are just as different in grammar, phonology and lexicon. The 吳 variety of Chinese is a pitch accented language, very much like Japanese. Other languages have similarities in lexicon and grammar.

[F0reseer]

@TaiGekTou Of course I know Chinese is family of different languages. They're called Sinitic languages, a subbranch of the Sino-Tibetan Language Family. However, all the Sinitic languages are closely related, like all the Romance languages are. Your language comparisons are off base. Sub-saharan African languages are tonal, so is Mandarin, so is Vietnamese, so is Thai. But NONE of these languages have a genetic relationship.

[F0reseer]

@TaiGekTou All the Sinitic languages are analytical and have SVO word order, lack inflection. Japanese, on the other hand, is agglutinative, has SOV word order, and highly inflected. Shangai dialects are lexically, phonologically, and grammatically MUCH closer to the rest of Sinitic languages than Japanese is. 吳 is not strictly a pitch accented language. It's fundamentally tonal, but in sentences, when spoken, tone sandhi's are formed rather than restrictive tones. Mandarin itself has this too.

[TaiGekTou]

@F0reseer Of course it is. But you said "nothing remotely". Quoting dead books but you missed out the fact the Chinese languages are generally considered SVO but not always according to. But now you're comparing Mandarin and the 吳 languages as if they are the same. A few Japanese are not afraid to say that ancient China is their cultural father, and here you are a foreigner seemingly trying to make Japan the origin of the world. I am exarggerating, but I think you'll understand.

[F0reseer]

@TaiGekTou all Chinese languages are SVO. There are no exceptions. Mandarin and Wu are the same, they're both Sino-Tibetan. I was simply pointing out your flaw in comparing Japanese, an unrelated language to a Sinitic language simply based on the category of pitch accent. I've only been "seemingly trying to" emphasize the fundamental foreignness of Japanese culture. How does alienating a culture equate to elevating a culture? And what makes you think I'm a "foreigner?"

[F0reseer]

Japanese language REALLY is "nothing remotely" close to any Chinese language. They are as different as Finnish is from Latin. The thing they have in common is called The East Asian Sprachbund, which is a result of influence, not relativity.

[TaiGekTou]

@F0reseer But I do not disagree that Japan has their original things. But of all things, you bring up Shinto and Bushido. And then, it's ninja and samurai, am I right? Forgive me for saying this, but these are things that very young anime fans of non-Japanese will tell me.

[F0reseer]

@TaiGekTou If I had wanted to bring up ninjas and samurais (although nothing quite like samurais ever existed in China's long history), don't you think I would have already. I'm not talking about superficial things. Shinto and Bushido are uniquely Japonic. The religiosity of Shinto is not found in any form in China. It is in fact one of the MOST categorically ABORIGINAL things that indubitably belong solely to the ancient Jomon and Yayoi cultures that started Japan.

[F0reseer]

@TaiGekTou I'm an anthropologist, not an anime fan.

[Alusnovalotus]

ok.... so anyway, traditional dress should be brought back. Han and tang and manchu for outsiders like me.

I love the huge court and scholar robes of the past.... maybe that's what we;ll wear again in the fututre like in star wars/

[acatisfinetoowut]

It's great to see certain aspects of ACTUAL Chinese culture starting to come back. A lot more people are wearing Hanfus now, but still...many people mistaken the Qipao as the traditional dress. The Royal Court culture of the Tang dynasty needs to be brought back. Nowadays, if you want to experience Tang dynasty culture, you need to go to Japan! Ugh! And the traditional Confuscious culture needs to be taken more seriously.

[occeo]

So true! Han-centric Chinese admire Japan's traditional culture :]

[kll1161]

@acatisfinetoowut Exactly, I agree with you. Also, a lot of people think modernisation is westernisation. It isn't. You can still modernise and progress as a society yet restore and retain your traditional culture at the same time. The qipao and tangzhuang is ugly yes. Hanfu is way better.

Music is western, national anthem uses western instruments, clothing is western, architecture is western, etc. So sad, we need to reintegrate traditional chinese culture back to the modern age.

[F0reseer]

@kll1161 I agree with you too. I think importing western culture is necessary. I admire western culture a lot. It's got a lot of good things. Nothing wrong with making use of good things. Cultures are in some ways universal. One can appreciate all of them. However, clothes, instruments, architecture, are superficial things. I live in America. I can tell you China isn't one bit western. At its heart, it's very much Eastern.

[F0reseer]

@kll1161 It's a good thing to revive ancient Chinese traditions. In fact, the West has been importing Chinese culture for decades. There are so many white people in the US who have immersed themselves into Chinese philosophy, religion, and culture.

[stimsWonderland]

great while we are at it can we direct massive manpower to refurbish the great wall again? you know that is definitely a national pastime conscription for manual labor etc oh and also the pla should use bronze ge and war chariots how bout it hmm?

[karma999]

They are talking about bringing a lost, beautiful part of the Chinese culture back, not any bad part such as the abuse of manpower you talked about!

[Bloodlovefreak]

Northern Song dynasty was also a great period of Chinese development.

[Bloodlovefreak]

Japan learned of the water wheel from the Chinese you idiot!

[dukemam]

0:28 that's Japanese invention dude. don't abuse any non-related pictures.

[saint666]

you mean the waterwheel? Many cultures had the same invention. Japan imported many aspects of their culture from China.

[dukemam]

I know but I think thats Japanese invention

[TheCentralasian]

The only think japanese invented were robots, and I think this is not bad)

[perdakim]

Hans Chinese can never be free. They are forever slave of Great Manchu people. They still use the

the spoken language (Mandarin ) forced on them by the Great Manchu Emperors.

[phoenixlament8]

indeed but where is Manchuria now? It's fused into the blood and psyche of the Chinese nation.

Another culture into the melting pot of "Chinse culture" just like the Mongols. History makes fools of us all.

[xuantzi]

LOL mandarin is manchurian ? lol manchurian is nomad barbarian , who losed culture by han culture manchu culture now is only rest the cloth !!! lol manchu stupid!! inferior , minority people. PCCh is killing manchu people and i think you don't now anythings STUPID Etnic! Slave ? LOL loser

[saint666]

the kimchi gook is a Korean.  Real Manchus don't give a shit like this insecure insect. Manchus and Hans are working to build a stronger empire along with other ethnics that's shared the same land for thousands of years. Don't let this silla slave fool you.

[xuantzi]

saint666

yOU ARE STUPID..

SHUT UP IGNORANT

AND TURKISH = BARBARIAN.....

[saint666]

you should take your own advice. And you're right about turks.

[xuantzi]

manchu = barbarian !

stupid

minority

han slave ?

LOL

qing dinasty is the most worse diansty of china,and the single culture of manchu that rest is qipao....

LOL GREAT MANCHU ? BARBARIAN people nomad go back to siberia your animal !

[rottenzombie27]

@perdakim

You are on crack my friend. Mandarin is NOT a Manchu language.

here's a quote from wiki:

"Manchu is a Tungusic language spoken in Northeast China; it used to be the language of the Manchu, though now most Manchus speak Mandarin Chinese and there are fewer than 70 native speakers of Manchu out of a total of nearly 10 million ethnic Manchus."

So yea. You = pwned.

[SBTailand]

Beautiful~

Check out the Hanfu（Chinese Traditional Costume) Vedio in my vedio~~

Also Beautiful~ both male and female~

[BADAWYY]

Nice...I hope chinese people will be free again sometime.

[blueprophet9]

That's a lot of material to wear for southern tempature.

[khalidshou]

一生中至少穿一次漢服，偶要至少穿一次。

[Dawasyna]

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