The First Photographs Ever Taken of China (1865-1871) by John Thomson; Anomalous Architecture!
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- Howdy ya’ll. Today we will dive into the Old World, browsing the incredible first images ever taken in China! These are dated to roughly 1865 through 1871, and these images are attributed to John Thomson, a pioneering 19th century photographer from Scotland. In the early 1860’s Thomson left behind a promising career in Scotland to head East, becoming the first to take detailed photographs of a vast majority of the Chinese landscape.
These iconic images became quintessential to the Western World gaining a better appreciation of The Far East. What you will see today is immense architecture, photographed for the first time; massive pagodas, as well as ancient locations with mysterious origins. We will also focus on the people of 1860’s China, their overall means for travel and work, as well as the beautifully constructed places of worship.
We will view the Great Wall of China, as well as numerous, isolated, island structures of massive proportions. My personal favorite, we will showcase the epic walls, as well as numerous other aspects, of Ancient Peking (Beijing). The implications of The Golden Horde, Tartary, and other northern Kingdoms and their influence on China will be weighed and, finally, we will view a cornucopia of marble structures from Ancient China.
All of this showcased in the very first photographs of China, taken in the mid 1860’s through the early 1870’s. Overall, these are some of the most incredible photographs I have come across in my last few months of research. I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas in the comments down below. Enjoy!
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seeing the people toil for survival with the most primitive tools whilst surrounded by those surreal wasteland landscapes, all those ruins and unimaginable giant things is insane.
This photo collection is a treasure and raises so much intrigue. Thank you for sharing them, Jared, and for your insights.
I was lucky to see an exhibition in Liverpool of John Thomsons plates, they were roughly full plate glass images. On the walls of the exhibition they had enlarged some of the images to roughly 7ft tall, the detail in the print was trully amazing infact I was so impressed with this exhibition that I decided to study wet plate photography and now use two half plate cameras from around the same time as John Thomsons. Apparently after taking his photos in China the plates were sent back to his studio in Hong Kong and then shipped to Liverpool. From what I found out about him he made his money from selling the images to publishers.
Thank you for the wonderful early pictIures of China. The country's history has not been shown to the west much. The cultural history is spectacular.
Not only the West... Chinese government hides it's own history from it's people.
They look so primitive.... In the ruins of Ancient Tartaraian Giants. Moa,s little ego couldn't handle it so he had everything destroyed . What a tragedy China becomes.
because they destroyed it all. The chinese people during their 'great leap forward' has some batshit insane idea that all of their cultural hertiage was a bad thing and was holding them back, so they destroyed all the old buildings, destroyed countless temples and historical artifacts, and burned ancient scolls en masse. That was right before mao caused the famine which killed 80 million of his people. Recently the government 'restored' many of the old buildings that had miraculously survived. how were they restored? by fucking demolishing them and building a cheaply made modern replica. There is no country with more disdain for their own history and culture than china.
I believe these are pictures taken by traveling westerners. I think, people (their friends etc) in the west saw these pictures first :)
The age of the camera gave us this historic insight.
And yes there are many ruins. But this shows the successive rulers and kingdoms. And how they mostly built over the top of each other. Or just simply left past rulers/empires building works to time and the elements.
However, when these pictures were taken, was a very poor time in Chinese history (especially for the common people). Famine etc had taken its toll too. And this, had been going on for a very long time.
Peace.
@@richardziegler9514 I don't think primitive is an appropriate word. Our ancestors (if you are also European) were weaving with coarse fibres while china already had silk for thousands of years.
Thank you for all your hard work. 🎉 it's amazing to see how we've been enslaved all over the world... and lied to about our past.
Yes, if you want the full enormity of the lies, pls watch a post by channel...."divine born angel"-Fall of metatron....also, another by chan...."Alive"-real biblical stories......your eyes n mind will be blown, and many gaps filled with "ahaa" truths....
Wonderful Collection ! We can enjoy old times of China. Thank you very much.
Thanks, Jared! Such an incredibly beautiful collection of photographs and so heartfully presented.
So Mao is the culprit for the destruction of the evidence that tells the truth about what was in that region. Anyone in history who has ever done this should be held up as one of the most despicables! And we should have a wall that pictures them and proclaims them to be as such. Every thing I looked at in these pictures was literally thousands of years old.
A child could see that.
So who was there building these structures in 7000 BC ?
most looking like they went through the same thing that the Egyptian pyramids went through.
Keep it going, we'll get to the bottom of it.
Great photos. Thanks for sharing.
That was amazing! Thank you for all your hard work. So many special photos, the temple on the island in the river was one of my favorites.
AYYYYYYY Grats one 100K Jarid!! More than deserved, next stop 1 million LETS GO. Amazing work, and awesome job getting it all translated. You are the man.
Gee golly it is so clear that at the 17:20 mark the sedan pic is shown with a building behind it and yet a pic of the exact same sedan is shown at the 9:10 mark with a whited out background. I didn't realize that photographers were able to WHITE OUT BACKGROUNDS. huh... Proof positive that they manipulated all of those pics we see of whited out skies and skylines in thousands of historical pics.
All comments are read and most welcomed! 📜😊
probably the developing rather than photography
@@iaindcosta You are a funny clown 🙃
@marcpaillette9569 how is that reply relevant?
Light is shone through the negative onto light sensitive paper in a dark room with a red light bulb so the developer can see what they are doing, pieces of card or paper can be held or waved in front of the sections that require less exposure.
Another person with the same negative can process the developing differently producing different results
@@marcpaillette9569 the only clown here, and quite a pompous one, seems to be you, revelling in its own ignorance.
Thank you so much for this post... I have an awareness of Tartaria of old. Now, look at 12:40 to see all the overgrowth... What was once a beautiful structure has not seen care in at least 100 years prior to the photo being taken. Also, the laborers all seem to be doing basic skills-type work. There is no unified force or structure to the workforce - they appear to be individuals or small groups acting out of a survivalist mode. To have produced the magnificent buildings, here shown in ruins, would have taken a unified workforce with unified purpose.
This was the image that struck me also. The Bronze Temple. So old, looks like not a single person has been there in years yet there it stands. Clearly they had a flourishing group there at one point but who knows when.
Looks like there's a cross on top of that temple...
Bless John for taking these. Utterly fascinating.
Beautiful photography. The architecture and engineering is amazing. The Chinese landscape is also breathtaking. The stone camels 🐪 were awesome 👏🏽 Thank you 🙏🏿 for you hard work.
Every time I see a picture where the sky is reflected in the water @ 2:42 it makes me think of .as above, so below … that which has been, will return again. Love your channel. Thank you 🙏🏼
Evil satanist saying.
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Love your channel, and what a treasure to see these photos.
You do good work, Jarid. I always feel full of questions and wonder after one of your videos.
Beautiful and fascinating pictures. Thanks for sharing them :)
You've got an example of early photo manipulation here, "The Sedan" photo at 9:21 is exactly the same as "The Sedan" photo at 17:17 but with the background and foreground still intact. Why would they erase so many details in the first photo?
The background looks look some modern European style mansion or church. It is possible that they want to remove the traces of “foreign influence”. I suppose the photo was taken in late 19th century in either areas near Shanghai or Beijing. People still wearing Manchurian clothes and hats, so it was still during the last moment of the Qing dynasty.
@@einsam_aber_frei The background building is NOT European influence. It is Tartarian architecture. The whole area was Tartar, there much be tons of remain from deliberate destrucions by Allied power. These photos are mainly showing more of nature and primitive lifestyle. Tartar became Quing, and by early 19C, it lost power and went under British and then Japanese rule.
Amazing find. Thank You
This was amazing, great work! 12 outa 10. 😃👏🏾👏🏾
Excellent information Thanks for sharing 👍
These poor people are so skinny, they look completely out of place there. Also, notice how few people are seen on these pictures. Where are the multitudes?
Great work as always, Jarid. Your channel is very unique.
there were not much population back then in china. The enormous number of people is only the result of Mao's Era.
That argument is always so ridiculous. You can find pictures of a „empty „ looking berlin from literally almost every day being posted.
Why? Good photographers go out early when the sun rises and they take their time to wait until the picture is clear. Oh man 🤦. They also look normally sized and healthy. Not anyone is obese like here. 90% of over 50 year olds are obese. Around half heavily obese
Late 1700s there were already over 300 million people in china
They don't look skinny to me
Because these photos were taken in remote mountainous areas, rarely visited natural landscapes, and abandoned palaces
Great video. Thanks!
Thank you for putting this together. I just subscribed! Cheers
Absolutely fascinating!! The more I dive in, the more my jaw hits the floor!!!!
Strange how there are so few, or in fact, no trees on the approach to Yung-lo's tomb
Great video! I watched it a second time muted with liquid drum and bass in the background and felt like I really went back in time. :)
Excellent! Thank you 🙏
Great work awesome research I appreciate your hard work brother!!
so many cleared out areas without trees or bushes , just stony slopes. And if there are trees they don't look very old accept some. The great wall seems to be in a great condition but the other buildings starts to get ruined and overgrown
That was emotional. Thank you!
Sedan picture at 9:20 and 17:15 are the same. Someone practicing photo editing?
Some of these are so incredible. Old, ancient. Temples out in the middle of nowhere overgrown but still standing, they feel like something out of a fairy tale.
I was having a pretty rough morning but this video fixed my head thanks.
The less narration, the better.
The "Sawyers" tickled my funny bone at 19:33, and the huge bell at 5:30 was amazing.
Thanks for presenting these.
These is a great archive of pictures. Thank you for sharing.
The history of Tartaria that I learned in the 80's is a little different but I can't find references on the web, only what I remember on one physical book in my possession. There's two possible origins for the name Tartaria. The first is one of the Greek names for the underworld, Tartarus. It may be a cognate for Tortoise. The Hindus and the Native Americans believe the earth is supported on the back of a Tortoise. One video I saw within the past few years showed that this turtle is North America, it showed a turtle overlayed on North America like paredeila. So, Tartaria is really an old word for the New World, or underworld. But it was a mystery as to where it was and that is why it is in different places on old maps. Another possible origin of the name Tartaria is the Tartars in Ukraine and also Tartar sauce. Tartar sauce, made from the horseradish root, was one of the strongest spices in traditional western European dishes. And the Tartars in Ukraine were silk road traders. So Tartaria may be another way of describing the Land of Spices, traded on the silk road, which could refer to all Asia. So, Tartaria wasn't really a place or civilization specifically, but was rather a Western term for mythical or legendary place that they didn't know much about and didn't know where it was. Thus, once Western sailors had encountered all the nations, Tartaria was removed from the maps and replaced with more local native place names.
12:04 is mind blowing how they built their stick pole structures on the sides of ancient stone structures.
Love your channels very very very interesting, im hungrey for more of our His story, hiya from Lancahire here 🎉❤
This was so cool. Thank you music guys
There's a theory that the great wall of China wasn't actually a wall meant to keep anything out, but was in fact a trade route between East and West.
That makes a lot of sense
It was the Silk Road itself; When you compare the maps of Both the road & the wall, they overlap each other perfectly.
thats a bullshit theory, with no evidence to support it so calling it a theory at all is a stretch. the wall doesnt reach as far as the west and it doesnt start in places where the trade routes start. makes zero sense..
no they dont, they dont even intersect. the silk road goes all the way to anatolia. it starts in southern china. the great wall is along the northern border, and doesnt come close to any trade route to the west.@iumCivis
@@SilentiumCivis There is no evidence of that. There are many starting points of the silk road, adn only one path approaches even a part of the wall (which is many sections, not one continuous wall across the whole border).
GREAT STUFF JARED
You should put "TARTARIA" in the title. This is the best channel for old buildings history around the world.
Check out My Lunch Break he has real good ones to.
😂WTF??? tartars created very few buildings..
These photographs were amazing. China's ancient buildings and history are incredible.
TY for such rare historical images and info. You’re a talented visual curator. May get more attn from algo but amazing. Tragic what no longer exists. @14:29 similar harness/oxen in old photos of (now) Russia.
8:36 check out the mens hands real close
What the heck?! 😮
Jarid thank you. Many of these places are possibly under water on account of the 3 gorges dam?
Love U, Bro. Thanks, from the heart, for so much
7:07 anyone else spot all the fleur-de-lis in the bottom left?
Good catch, it's also sewn into the silk jacket in following pic of the lady on the right. I found them in old pics of an 1800s children's hospital rooftop in Indianapolis too. Funny thing is the intricate ironwork around the roof was all dragons and such. So not new "American" hospital for crippled children, but a repurposed Chinese building apparently? This realm is so weird😊
Very Interesting talk and great pictures , inspirational
Hey Jared, that cannon @ 9:07 has a fasces wrap on the outside of its barrel, with a crank handle on back. Also, what appears to be an interchangeable part with multiple holes laying at base. Very amazing out of place photo that really adds a ton of questions as to what the heck those "cannons" did? 🤔 I think they're more building tool than weapon. Some kind of energy machine to transmutate? Like base pellets used today in injection molded manufacture, but way more advanced?
Hi. From right to left. A Gatling gun. The canister leaning on the tail is an ammo drum. Behind it is solid round shot. On the ground is the dismounted gun barrel and its carriage. There are 2 grapeshot bags. To the left front is a Congreve rocket setup. There is a rocket on the ramp and one on the ground... Look up these weapon systems.
That was fun to watch
I imagine myself living atop a pagota.
I answer all questions of origin with blank stares.
You may find this interesting l have read a book called “Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky” written 1854 my version published 1872. On page 84, describing Boone the author writes “He would have commanded a reluctance obedience, and gone out like a Tartar chief.” You can find this on line. Not sure what it really is referring to, but very intriguing.
REALLY AWESOME STUFF THANKS FOR SHARING
It is amazing the nonsense some people will present. Written Chinese go back the Shang Dynasty which is as old as 1800 BC. The Shang wrote about a previous Dynasty called the Xia but we do not have any writings from the Xia. 250 BC is already the Warring States period when the Zhou Dynasty Emperors were losing control over their feudal lords. That is why there were wars between feudal lords and hence you have the name "Warring States Periods." Tartar is a name given to the Mongols by Europeans. The Mongols are called Mongols by the Chinese and other people of the Far East. Tartars is what the Russians of the early Middle Ages called the Mongols. The Mongol principality that dominated the Russians belong to the Golden Horde. When Genghis Khan died his Mongol Empire was divided among his sons and the Golden Horde dominated the Russians for centuries. The Mongols are a nomadic people. Nomads like the Mongols do not build permanent structures. They live in tents or Yurts. Only sedimentary agriculturalists can achieve civilization. Civilizations build monumental structures. The narrator claims that permanent structures were built by Tartarians (implying Mongolians) would violate the fundamentals of anthropology. The fact some commentators actually believe in such nonsense mean a lot of people are incapable of simple reasoning. Before the Mongols lived in Mongolia there were other groups of nomadic tribes who lived in what Europeans call Mongolia. One of the more famous group is the Xiong Nu. The Xiong Nu were nomads who roamed the grassland of Mongolia about one thousand years before the Mongols showed up in Mongolia. The Xiong Nu existed during the Han Dynasty (220 BC - 210 AD). We know this because the Chinese, sedimentary agriculturalists, were able to build civilizations and create a written language. The Imperial Han historians wrote about the Xiong Nu. There have been many groups of nomadic people who lived in "Mongolia" before the Mongols appeared in 12th-13th century AD. It would be better if people actually tried to do some meaningful research first before they make fanciful claims that cannot be true. This type of irresponsible reporting compromise the respectability of CZcams as a source of meaningful information.
Many of the photographic images are known Imperial building in Beijing. Beijing means Northern Capital in Chinese or more properly Mandarin. So all of the structures presented are classic Han Chinese buildings. The pagodas are Chinese Buddhist version of Indian Stupas. What the video claim as a Mongolian Camel is a Bactrian Camel. Bactrian Camels have two humps and are used in Asia. Many Far East Asians use Bactrian Camels to transport goods. Mongolians, Xiong Nu, Chinese, and many ethnic groups of Central Asia used Bactrian Camels, not the single hump Dromedary Camels of Arabia.
While there are some horrendous inaccuracies overall I enjoyed the video. It is good to see some old photos of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty is the last Chinese Imperial Dynasty before being overthrown by the Chinese Republicans. After reading some of the comments I hope people will educate themselves before accepting everything that is presented. We know from many disciplines like anthropology that human society evolved in certain ways. If people will spend a little time learning about the history of America and other countries I think people would be more skeptical about the information we get from media.
Sometime after 16:00 I began noticing some very elongated or tall heads! Bound feet too... they were survivors and inheritors for sure.
Never ending talent..... Jarrid.... your king! This is excellent work, again and again and again......
If I had money my freind, but I have millions thanks.
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why 242 thumbs down? These are beautiful photographs of a civilization that honored their land. As did the native Americans.
Wow 😲 same thing all across the world. I'm starting to sway towards the millennial reign theory
I've been checking into it for a few weeks now and man jarid, I'm starting to sway in that direction. Thoughts!? Thank you for ALL YOU DO MY FRIEND AND GOD BLESS 🙏❤️✌️
Wow, Jarid , well done and you deserve the highest level of appreciation on this video
The building, you wrote wow in the picture on the cliff was incredible and obviously how was that built there and how did they get the materials in this time to build such a beautiful and large structure is the mystery
The picture of the river with the 2 land pieces coming down from the left is a photographers picture
The china bride, appears to have ash/charcoal on nose and mouth/chin and also on forehead Wonder what that is all about?
Thanks again for doing this ! 😊
To me it's obvious that there was a previous civilization. I watch a lot of these shows. I watch your show a lot and it's always amazing to me the size of some of these things. It's obvious to me that there is definitely a taller human back then or whatever life form, but there just seems to be no other explanation, especially with these large bowls. Large bells, the staircasings the megalithic blocks. Definitely something is being hidden or we just plain forgot
Amazing!
100k congrats.
Hey Jared. Wanted to tell you I was enjoying this video and there is a picture of that has been doctored. It’s with the 3 men carrying someone in the Chinese sedan chair and one man holding white cherry blossoms at 9:31 they’re seen again at 17:23 with a more in depth background. At first I thought it was 2 different settings and made me wonder how they had photoshopped it back then lol.
😏 14:30 great find Jarid! Excellent giant pic most won't catch!
Looks photoshopped….where’s the left leg? And why does background look different to foreground?
@@jayleo4554 Good eye! Seems ai has been cut n pasting our history since the beginning of history! 🤣
cannons were sounding devices to prevent ships from crashing into the coastlines. This fact is discussed in the book "Longitude" by Dava Sobel, and in the novel "Leaves of grass" by Walt Witman.
Gratz to 100k subs 👍
Your channel is awesome, the history the images and the questions all make for a great video. I don’t really know a lot about Chinese culture but, I’ve never seen Chinese or even a Buddha wearing a hat that the pope wears 5:44 at the base center carving of the “Ruins of a tall marble tower, Peking (Beijing)
Thank you, I’ve been saying the whole time that China did not build the Wall of China … that it was the Mongolian side.
Excellent vid Jared, need more early China pics, very hard to find. 9:49 is definitely a pic of either, the first and only ever miniature camel or the freakishly tallest Mongolian in history or the shortest person of a peoples that never existed, allegedly 🤔👌👍
Their poses are eerily similar to those we've been show of the American Civil War...
These beautiful buildings are obviously very old at the time these photos were taken, it seems like these people just moved in and didn’t upkeep anything or build anything new 🧐
I wonder what it looked like when these buildings were new.
How did they make those brass lions? Did they use molds?
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Nice!
Did I see what looked some railroad tracks in several of these photos? I know the photos are a bit blurred and scratched, but China just seemed such a mess. Thanks, Jarid.
Having lived in China from 1984 to 1994, I love these photos. There are some photos that are almost exact to the ones I took between 1984 to 1994, like some of the Beijing Arches, Summer Palace etc, but I have many similar photos of the three gorges & life in the outer provinces too. Sadly alot of the monastries & those Island Monastries have been destroyed. But the most amazing thing about these photos (& mine) is they do create that atmosphere of Zen. I remember when I lived in China you didn't have to go so far to snap that instant photo of Zen, China even today is magical. But these photos are truly magic & have that total Zen Atmosphere. You have to be close to the culture to experience it at every corner. Thank you, excluding your pseudo historical rantings about how ancient the countries historical past, you might have failed to understand the photos true timeless past. Cue: Timeless not in years, but as in Zen & timeless. Thanks for the time trip.
I lived in China from 2016 to 2019, and it's verrrrry different now. There is still the zenlike countryside, but the cities are a vertical concrete blob. I left in summer 2019 when a premonition warned me that it would be dangerous to stay, and it scared me so bad that I refused to sign a contract for another year. Then the disease hit in Wuhan and I recognized it. But I really miss China. I am constantly arguing with the part of me that wants to go back.
@@fusion9619 I left China permanently in 1994. I have a Chinese Interpreters Certificate. I lived in Wuhan 1985, near WIV. I have spent the last years from 2014 to 2019 helping Chinese Lawyers escape China. I read absolutely everything in Wuhan, from the death of Chan Hu PLA Virologist & Gene Splicer in 24/07/2019! To all the PLA ADE research they were doing from 2012 to 2016 alongside Fauci/Ecohealth Alliance GOF Research & all the Moderna FCS Patents. On the last day of my work 07/07/2019, my contacts in HK said I will never be able to fly back to Aust or NZ via China/HK ever again. Then the HK Democracy Movement warned me about a Sarscov virus was being prepared for them, to control them & the world as early as late July 2019 after Chan Hu died. But then It leaked in Wuchang, Wuhan 08/2019, I even have the first Wuhan Sarscov2 Infections map, 06/2020 showing the numbers were higher in Wuchang & nowhere near the wet market in Hankou in the north. I know everything about this bioweapon even in Chinese! This virus also killed my long term partner of 20yrs. So Sorry I don't miss China at all , I could never go back anyway. I know too much, the interpreters are the first ones they silence!!! I have now moved on, in a much happier space.
Thanks so much for your hard work! What's interesting to me is that most of the "ancient" mummies found are blond or red headed tall caucasian people.
Yes. True. But nobody actually wants to talk about that
Yellow Emperor, 5000 years ago, was the first Emperor of Middle Kingdom ( Western term is China ). To see the true of China, you need to read Chinese , and not too many Western people we able to read or speak Chinese, even today 2024. Ching Dynasty was the Tartar people who were long pony tail and force all Han Chinese to do the same. Ching Dynasty end in 1911. Maybe the Tunguska Explosion in Siberia was the last remaining Tartar in 1908. The Tartar took over China in 13th century and end before the 14th century and again came back again after Ming Dynasty. The Tartar were Mongol ( Magog ) Turk people. The Great Wall were built by different group Dynasty start by the Chin Emperor 0g 221 BC.
We don't still know who built the Great wall, neither when
Damn that’s some long exposure!
you're right about the great walls. They were built by the tartarians to protect against invaders from the south. As you mentioned, many of the gates open from the north. Also, check out the fortress outside of Weizhuang Village in Heijin City. This fortress was also built (I believe) by the tartarians
please don't tell me you bought into the tiktok conspiracy theories. they have been proven false everywhere. a simple google earth look disproves them. the photos don't show orientation. but i guess i shouldn't be surprised since there are flat earthers out there xD
Walls work better at keeping people in than out. The Great Wall of China wasn't for keeping Mongols out, although it could serve that function when needed, but rather to keep the Chinese in.
My friend... it seems to me that other civilizations have existed before us, because all over the world there are constructions that no one knows how to explain.
Great wall of China is really the Great wall of TARTARIA 😂 Chinese were the enemy and the cause of it being built - Look at the direction the War wall faces with the Defence slots
lmao tiktok conspiracy sure are funny
@@hzhang1228 Sure is correct to
@@QIKUGAMES-QIKU correct to flat earthers maybe. but people who can do a simple google earth search or basic history knowledge would be laughing their ass off
@hzhang1228 if you Look at many and any parts of each walkway you see it in many ways,Turrets are only on the Chinese side, I knew of this 20 years ago, Its social media that only just discovered this old fact
@@QIKUGAMES-QIKU i have been to the great wall, and have checked google maps, the crenellations clearly face the north. all the ancient villages are on the south side, as laborers and their families were moved to the walls to help build and provide incentive to defend the walls. there is no major ancient settlement near the north side of the wall, no economy or labor force to construct the wall. China's army was much more immobile and had the best siege weapons and engineers. China's northern neighbors have much more mobile armies. there is no logic or possibility for the wall to be constructed by the Mongols or Jurchens.
this "old fact" has been debunked, and was never recognized as a fact anywhere.
@FRESHboosters Do you happen to have old pictures of Philippines? If yes, do you happen to have links?
A reminder that most of that beautiful architecture would have been destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. And and of the beautiful nature would have been destroyed by CCP-led industrialization.
what is this at @7:19 that doesn't look anything like the temple or altar of heaven?
Is there a link to view these photos together?
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I wonder if any of these old structures still stand, I'm curious about the intricately carved and detailed Memorial arch and that giant bowl! Who was the arch memorializing?
The life before the photographs, the life depicted in the photographs - all amazing. Question??? Where do the dark-skinned Chinese live today?
Some people with dark skin live in the mountainous areas at the border of Shandong and Henan provinces, while others live in rural areas of Guangdong province
hey jarid i have a bunch of photos and links; missionaries are a great source of this kind of info from very early on in photography
Have noticed photo shopping existed already back then in the way of length of exposure of the images....9:28 and 17:19 are the same images but one have the house still in background whilst the other has it removed.....So, even back then we can modulate images. x
Same picture? 9:26 and 17:21
True, some of the buildings looks Mongolian is because the Ming did seek for help from the Khan's during the rebellions periods..eventually the Khan's becomes Qing Dynasty and during this era Peking city were also known as Khanbaliq name after the Khan
Great images. Thank you.
I always wonder how much culture & skills were lost throughout China, during the so called cultural revolution, & the horrendous famine that followed it?
I think that they lost a more than most have ever realised?
[20:40] A first glimpse of Sacred Golden island reminded me of Mont Saint-Michel of France.
Another good one))) Funny about the guy in the sedan, He obviously did not walk to much around. Whas he the guide or the man in control of the area, we can only guess.