Chinese Girl Takes me to her Village (I was speechless…) 🇨🇳
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In this video, my girlfriend takes me to a poetic and historical place in her hometown. What I saw there… just blew my mind!
Up in the mountain ranges of Fujian, China lies hundreds of giant communal homes, also known as Tulou. The Chinese word ‘tulou’ literally translates to ‘earth building’ which is what these structures are built from: earth (wood, stone and mud to be specific).
They were built spanning over many hundreds of years, starting from the 12th century. The Hakka people made a long and strenuous journey south, during turbulent times in the country in search of a peaceful refuge away from rival clans. To protect themselves, they built fortresses that doubles as homes, schools and everything else you would need to support a community. Walls up to two metres thick and twenty metres tall, these structures were impenetrable!
Today, many of them still stand tall as a testament to the resilience of the community who still reside there. However, it’s not all dandelions and rainbows… there are some darker turns to the story of living inside tulou, all these years later. Watch the video to find out!
Enjoy,
– Oli
#travel #tulou #china
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 – Introduction
1:04 – Journey up to Fujian’s mountains
5:11 – Tulou observation deck
6:20 – Local village lunch
7:47 – My first impression of inside the Tulou
10:30 – Wandering around the remote Tulou village
15:24 – Finding our hotel in the village
17:36 – What does upstairs of the Tulou look like?
19:01 – Meaningful chat with Tulou resident
20:03 – I met a fan!
20:54 – Trying the local snacks
22:03 – What do locals get up to in the morning?
23:50 – Tulou Wedding preparation
25:16 – The biggest Tulou ever to be built (Chengqi)
29:03 – Reflecting on my experience
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*Occasionally, subtitles are added for comedic effect only.*
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27 Comments
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– Did you know that such giant communal homes existed?! Do you think we've left something extremely valuable behind in our modern society?
This was very intresting content. I am planning my second visit to China, and I'd love to visit this area. I also liked your final question. I've thought about it myself in several other occasions.
Not so long ago. The American satellites took some pictures of the Tulou and reported that China built ICBM silos in that area. What a joke!😂 😂
Congratulaions you have a living tulou unlike others who show "abandoned" ones where only one or two old folks still hang around. Of course, it is the tulous that killed live action Disney's Mulan. Mulan a legendary figure was based in Northern China in the State of Wei in the Warring States period before China was unified by the Qin State i.e. before 256 BC during the Zhou Dynasty when there was feudalism. There were no tulous in Northern China so it is like watching Robin Hood in the woods of Paris, France. Chinese audience didn't go for that. It shows movie actors don't really know history despite having Liu Yifei, Jet Li, Gong Li and Donnie Yen in It.
I watched a documentary where a lot of tulou are unhabitable because they haven’t been taken care of.
the only 'comfort' I would badly miss living there would be the comfort of a warm home. I lived in a cold home, with Ice on the inside of my bedroom windows during the winter when I was a child and wouldn't want to go back to that at all.
Besides: you got a beautiful girlfriend 😍 ….. and if she isn´t she should be your girlfriend 😉😁
You not only show n try to be detailed about d interesting places you visited, you also talked about life sometimes. 👍
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Kinda like if you turned the Roman Coliseum into a tulou 🤷♂️
welcome back!
Wow, great to see you again! Thank you for all your vlogs during covid period and connecting me and my country while I couldn't see my families there in difficult times. ❤
From satellite, the US Defense Department used to accuse those Tulous as china missile silos 😂😂😂
Were you earn more money in China
Meigan cai （梅干菜） AKA mei cai, is a type of dry pickled Chinese mustard of the Hakka people from Huizhou, Guangdong province, China. Meigan cai is also used in the cuisine of Shaoxing (绍兴), Zhejiang province, China.
The pickle consists of a whole head of various varieties of Chinese mustards and cabbages (芥菜 (leaf mustard), 油菜 (rape), 白菜 (Chinese cabbage) that has undergone a process of drying, steaming, and salting. The vegetables are harvested and sun-dried until limp. They are then salted or brined, kneaded until the juices are exuded, and left to ferment in large clay urns for 15 to 20 days. The vegetable is then repeatedly steamed and dried until reddish brown in colour and highly fragrant.
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What a nice surprise happy to see you back in china. Are you planning to stay in china indefinitely. Looking forward to see more of these kinds of videos from you
I was here last year. Mind blowing historical structures. There are some with slanted timber supporting structures yet it is few hundred years old and still standing. The first stop where you buy tickets to enter the tulou area is to help to maintain roads and hill slopes, also to contribute towards the upkeep of tulous. The residents also try to earn some tourist dollars. Btw, those vegetables are plucked from farm and dried in sun anywhere. It is usually cooked with thin slices of pork.
Welcome back to China, Ollie the brit who was on the front page on new york times with his father.🎉
It’s amazing to discover such a beautiful and historic place – what a memorable experience! 🌟🏞
great to see you back here bro
Hey Oli, welcome back 👋
Wonder, do you speak & write Chinese now? 😅
Who knew he smoked? That real surprising smoking those rolled ones since hes a westerner no offense
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thailand please
It's beautiful there
I was very surprised to make the No. 1k 👍