【4K, 60Fps Colorized】Peking (Beijing) in 100 years ago, Ancient China (Around1910-1920)【AI Recovery】 

it's crazy how much of a difference a 100 years can be

And those people looking straight at you in the camera will never know someone in the future met their gaze through the screens

Fun fact: 100 years ago Chinese folks believed cameras to be soul capturing device due to how realistic the photos are. In most photos taken during late Qing dynasty, people can be seen avoiding eye contacts with the lens. This gentleman at 7:43 probably wanted to learn more about the camera without staring into the lens, a true adventurer indeed!

there is something extremely peaceful and fascinating about these old cities

The way everyones looking at the camera makes me feel like a time traveler

Does anyone else have this weird feeling about black and white movies, that they are just history and not "as real" whereas if they color them, it feels much more real?

Almost feels as if I was time travelling. What I can't wrap my head around is the fact people actually used to live and dress like this in this kind of society. You read it in books but actually seeing it in film makes it so unreal. Makes me feel closer to a time 100 years ago.

Saya Jawa tapi entah kenapa kalo melihat kehidupan masarakat China baik yg saya lihat di video ini entah itu cerita dulu atau modern hingga sekarang ini hati ini ko rasanya bergetar dan bertambah semangat dlm hidup ini.... serasa alam menyatu...!!!

7:44 he has no idea that someone from 100 years in the future is staring back at him judging his tree-hiding abilities

When you realize this is the closest thing we have to time travel...

I don't know how sharp the original video was, but this AI restoration is better than most CCTV footage of today. Thank you for this. I subscribed. Please make more videos of this kind.

This footage is amazing. 100 years old yet picture quality is quite good. I'm impressed by the added sound & music, which made me believe was really captured. The most memorable thing is the different ways people greeted each other. 5:18, 5:34, 5:49(goodbye), 6:03. Quite bizarre.

You realise just how different and real things are here when it's in colour. It almost feels like a movie.

People lived overall the same lifestyle as their predecessors for like thousand years... But everything changed, when 20th century attacked.

Such a fantastic video covering many aspects from Qing. You see retail, entertainment, religion was practiced, street vendors, the way people greets each other, the social hierachy, travel, the way they dress, funerals...

GÉNIAL, simplement génial, aucun autre mot ne me vient à l'esprit ! Merci beaucoup à l'auteur de ce magnifique vidéo. BRAVO !!!

I am from Beijing. The demolitions of the old city walls and gates during 60s ordered by government were such a tremendous lost.

This is very meaningful to me since my father was born in Beijing in 1925. I can now imagine the world he grew up in. Thank you for this colorized footage.

5:35 that whole greeting scene... It's so interesting to see that's how Chinese traditionally greeted each other, yet today, nobody does that anymore.

amazing! my great grandma lived in southern china in the early 1880s and moved to malaysia in the 1900s with her family

It has dawned on me that humans are curious creatures. Those who were starring at the camera were looking into the future. As I watch them in the past thru my smart phone connected to the wifi on a platform called RU-vid. It gave me chills...

This is the end of the Qing dynasty in 1909, not 1920 (republic of China，now this government is in Taiwan)

Thanks for sharing this. It is amazing to see history with improved visuals. Keep it going... JiaYou!

Thank you for uploading, that's a true treasure. ❤️👍

Just imagine if cams did exist 2000 years ago.

My mother’s family originally came from Peking and left (early 1900s) to settle in Central America. Part of me wonders if my ancestors are in this video and that I could be seeing them. And that fact brings me some joy and comfort.

感謝您花時間和心機和我們分享, 令我這一個對舊時代的生活有興趣和迷戀的人更容易進那時代的感覺

This is awesome! Keep up the good work!

Wow. So many feelings and thoughts watching this... This footage I'm guessing was shot prior to 1911, before the revolution against the Imperial Dynasty. And its eerie to watch in ways for me... because I'm guessing none of these people in the footage, especially the young, would have had any sense at this time as to how much upheaval. was on the way in their lifetimes. Any child you see in the video who may have lived a full life, will have lived through the 1911 revolution, the Warlords period, the Japanese invasion, the Chinese Civil war and the establishment of communist China... And I'm not going to lie... living through the Covid-19 outbreak and the unrest in North America these days has me wondering if we're just as much unaware of where the next decades here are going to go... and in a hundred years, a new generation will be watching our footage in 3D and feeling the same things about us... Thank you for sharing this video.

7:38 great camouflage, you are absolutely invisible. :3

這種歷史畫面真的很重要啊，感謝你的付出

你做得太棒了！感謝大感謝！！！😊😊😊👏👏👏👏👏

the way they bow to each other...I have NEVER seen that depicted in documentaries, dramas, etc. O.O

wow this is amazing my grandpa was born in 1907 in China, Guangzhou. He lived there until hes 40 and moved to Malaysia Sarawak and got married to my grandma (Iban).

Thank you for sharing this!!

This is very precious! Thank you for taking us back to Ancient China from 100 years ago! It is crazy to know that most if not all of these people in the video are no longer alive anymore. Such precious footage, life has changed so much in 100 years!

the whole greeting scene in front of the door was so fascinating!

The guy that's taking the video must have been thinking,, "hey I'm gonna post this on youtube 100 years from now"

Teleportation succeeded 👍🏻 Fantastic snippets, enjoyed every angle and view! How silly, they had no clue future us would be able to see them living! Thank you to the photographer and for these archives to be publicly posted, such treasure!!!

Everytime i watch a monochrome footage from the past, i always like to re-imagine the video in my head like when i was living in my childhood village (i'm 2004 tho). The smell of the air, the warmth of the morning sun, the sound of birds chirping, and the color, it shouldn't too far off. This video makes it easier for me to imagine it and feel it more real.

Crazy to think there was a time when the camera was so new, you can see people looking at it so curiously. They literally have never seen a camera before.

It's high quality restoration films like this that make you realize that the past, no matter how far back you go, is just the same as the world today. People haven't changed since the beginning of time except today we have baseball caps and automatic weapons. They may have had different beliefs and technology, but other than that, they act the same way as we do now.

Exquisite. It's really nice to see video of people in Beijing 80-100 years ago❤️ ❤️ ❤️

beautiful work, well done!

You literally don't see girls, only servants or women with lower status, because girls are taught to stay at home at the time. They seldom leave the house unless there are festivals.

Can't imagine how life is gonna be in 2120

Thank you for the wonderful video.

The reactions of the people seeing a camera is just amazing 1:57 and 2:45

Just imagine what it's going to be like in another century when people look back on our footage, massive amounts of high quality video and audio data, historian's are going to be completely overloaded.

"Lost in time, like tears in the rain"

Fascinating, loved watching this!

Amazing clip of old BeiJing. Thanks for sharing.

Truly fascinating. Imagine telling these people that the strange device they are looking at (the camera) will let people watch them from the palms of their hands 100 years in the future.

this has to be before 1920 because many of the men still have their manchurain braid Queue.

感谢素材收集和技术处理！👍🏼

I was literally smiling as i watched this, how beautiful the past can be. Truly mind blowing.

So fascinating how many different greetings they had for one another, each being so unique. Also I hella vibe with grandpa hiding behind that tree at 7:38 😂

5:19 The way people great each other was so humble. 5:50 They bowed again even when they said goodbye.

So cool! Great job!

相互作揖那段真有意思~ 感谢你的作品😊

This just reminds me how many wildly different lives billions of people have lived over the past century alone.

5:20 and 6:04 In 1920 the Chinese practiced no-touch greetings (no handshakes). 100 years later (2020), this practice has become popular again.

Absolutely fascinating !!

This is so dope. Thank you

100 yrs and it looks like a diff world.. just imagine how the world will look in 100yrs considering that changes are faster

it honestly felt like i was watching an ancient drama

非常好，謝謝分享！🙏👍🏼

2:38 It's like watch a movie. Nicely done and thanks for the unknown canadian who filmed it a century ago.

7:44 Ninja mode activate: "ha-ha foolish foreigner, now you can't see me"

The scene in the temple, I don't know why but I can watch it again and again and again. It's just fascinating. It's like watching a video from 1500 years ago. I wish more and more old videos like this would published out in good quality. This is literally gold and can teach us so much about each other culture.

Truly stunning video.

很感谢你让我重新认识了历史、 更进一步的了解他们

It’s fascinating how my ancestors could be one of these people.

Recently watched the Last Emperor again and man it's crazy how similar that movie is to this. They really got the end of the Qing dynasty down.

Magnifique, et très émouvant. Merci pour ce très beau travail. Je suis très heureux de voir des images de l'ancien Pékin, ancienne ville magnifique que j'ai parcourue en 2004 et 2007.

Respect to the Chinese culture. Everything is different, and they invented their own dishes, music, instruments, clothes, language and writing plus inversions that were introduced to the rest of the world. Fascinating. Greetings from Romania.

The way they greeted each other in 1909 is so fascinating! It's like 2 quick curtsies. I've never seen this practice depicted in fiction.

just imagine in another 100 years people will be watching a video of us now. lol. 2020 year of the coronavirus outbreak

I find the old ways of greeting between people so fascinating! What a different world we live in now!

Bellissimo video! Mi sono iscritto al vostro canale! Saluti dall'Italia!

It’s crazy having been to Beijing many times, I always try to imagine and picture what it must’ve been like 100 years ago in the city. So much looks the same (buildings and architecture) yet all so different. Seeing the hutongs not in the shadow of a skyscraper give a whole different image of the city. Would love to see more historic footage from other cities in China

I've always wondered ,what it would feel like to time travel and just observe how a particular time truly was. Now thanks to you a part of me is satisfied . Thank you , I feel honored to have seen this.

Amazing video. Thx

*_It was very nice to see old China, China has been my favorite since childhood, if I ever get a chance, I will definitely come to China once. : Lot's Of Love From India_* 🇮🇳

It’s crazy how many people are still wearing queues here, even after the end of Qing rule. I see some people saying this is actually from 1909, that seems a little more plausible.

Totally disconnected people. Somehow it's comforting. To not know about every small problem in the world.

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This is just... Absolutely beautiful. Words can only begin to comprehend the emotion that this restoration provides.

Thank you for the look back into history alone. The fact that it can be colorized is amazing. I suspect the actual colors might have been brighter. I pondered if the prosperous homeowner's door might have been red. I know very little about China.

This is really cool!!!

Thanks for sharing this.....just like a dream

This is fascinating. The difference that colour correction and fixing the frame rate makes, they feel so much more real, and that low-quality mist of time just dissolves away. Great work!

這部片實際時間可能更早期,1920-1929清朝已經結束好幾年了,但影片人物全都留辮子; 在另一部北京民俗樂隊街邊地攤推測時間為1927-1929裡面人物全沒辮子,較符合年代. 但兩部片子都非常珍貴,感謝修復.

Those simplicity lifestyle nature Architecture ...Love those

this is excellent work. i love these AI recovered videos. they make me feel as if i’m there. the original choppy, grainy, black and white moving pictures don’t do that for me.

I'm Asian. They all look so tan and dark. I know they didn't have sunscreen back then and people worked outside. This is why asian cultures value lighter skin, it means you were rich and didn't need to work and therefore higher in the caste system.

These people are somebody's great great grandfather and great great grandmother.

Fascinating. I would have loved narration, I had many questions on what I was watching and equal frustration.

Experiences like this make me realize how fortunate I am to have been born exactly when I was Old enough to appreciate the past, young enough to look forward to the future Thank you for keeping this here ❤

100 yrs. Isn't ancient, especially in China. Nice clips, good job.