China‘s VENICE, the Water Town of China 🇨🇳 | S2, EP54 

Wow, 101 years old. I hope your father can enjoy a healthy and long life in his later years.

Merry Christmas 🎄

😮

祝福你

May you and your father stay happy and healthy.

As you said, people are humble and welcoming( Don's ask me how I know, I live in Guizhou province.

Welcome to come to China again if you have the opportunity.

I think it's other way around, I think video games came last than this town

The fog is horrible, though, I couldn't live like that

its only in winter, its same in many places around the world@@ctr289

​@@ctr289Well, it's natural fog, better than city's air pollution, at least like the cities here in Indonesia

It's much better than Venice in my opinion. Venice doesn't have mountains and forests. And this city is much older than Venice too.

Agreed. Seems like most RU-vidrs are posting Chinese propaganda - pro and against. It's nice to see a video showing a place that I assure you most foreigners have never heard of.

Thank you so much!! 🥰

Chinese people are warm and hospitable, no matter where you come from. So when we go to another country, we feel a little uncomfortable and miss our own country very much. I live in Germany now, and people here are generally indifferent. When you go to a restaurant and you don't speak German, sometimes the staff doesn't even want to say a word and just throws you the menu and walks away. They won't even smile. On the contrary, the Chinese believe that treating guests as a city will attract repeat customers.

i helps being a girl. of course, ifva boy and single, maybe.

China's streets, whether in cities or remote rural areas, are kept very clean. China's infrastructure level far exceeds that of most developed countries. However, due to China's implementation of a socialist system, Western media have ideological biases against socialism and therefore have been spreading misinformation to Westerners. Rumors are often used to slander China. Every foreigner who travels to China will find that he has been deceived by the Western media.

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no it just gets worse

​@@drunkoctopus6769And unwanted sour grapes 🍇 showed up here

lived in china for 5years in 3 different cities... best time of my life...

@@gorkie6998 and in the mean time Chinas fleet of over 12,000 fishing / dredging ships are destroying our oceans stealing fish from every country they can sneak into and blunder . but hay at least u had a good time

"C'est un vrai délice" 的中文含义是"这真是一种美好享受（通常指美味）"，英文是"It's a real delight."

5000美元要吃遍中国的美国小哥失败了😂

I wanted to eat that beef dish (21:03) when it popped up on my screen lol

那不是葡萄酒，是高度白酒泡的玫瑰花酒，桃花酒。还有糯米发酵的米酒😊

I conquere, simple & clesr English

Welcome to travel to China! Welcome to book your itinerary with me!🤗

欢迎🎉

非常欢迎🎉来中国玩

Welcome to travel to China! Welcome to book your itinerary with me! 🤗

欢迎🎉

中国欢迎你

you can find such place in more souther & wester of China, different veiw inbetween south and north, west and east. in north, the view is more magnificent; south is more graceful & misted

Thank you!! :)

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Exactly true!

@gabaghoul__ exactly. Most that are commenting know nothing about historical heritage preservation in China. Yeah, there are dozens, maybe hundreds of nice looking historical towns in China that they constantly post online. But for such a massive country with such a rich history there should be thousands of preserved historical sites.

Had they not gone through the Cultural Revolution, they would have been able to preserve much much more. At least some of China's rich history survives

you have literally no idea how wrong you are. China destroyed practically every trace of its heritage in the period 1949-1990. Practically everything your see of the supposed 'ancient' China today was reconstructed in modern materials in the last 20 years. Even much of the famous Great Wall are modern reconstructions.

@@mrplease66 Plenty of historic Chinese artefacts still exist - China is a civilization that directly stretches back 3000 years Afterall. Yes sections of the Great Wall, especially the touristic attraction around Tianjin required intense reconstructive works, but that is because the wall is also centuries old in a freezing climate that was not maintained for centuries under the Qing either. That does not make it a facsimile reproduction. And many sections of the Great wall are still in bad condition, the structure is gigantic and in places made of weak adobe. Where the wall continued to be useful for defense, like the Shanhai Pass, it is extremely well preserved from history.

Please do!

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warm welcome❤

Hope you khow the real reason why they are always lying about China

I think. What you see may also be part of China. They are just photos from decades ago. Their purpose is to compete. In order to compete, they will not hesitate to lie and use photos from decades ago to deceive you. Our country has indeed brought a lot of benefits to the people because of its development over the past 20 years. The most important thing is that our Chinese culture teaches us to learn good things, replace bad things, and learn etiquette, justice and integrity. This is what enables us to develop so fast and let the West have things.

the ccp govt defintely has done a lot. this little ancient town is in rural guizhou province. guizhou province has been known as THE POOREST CHINESE PROVINCE for centuries due to its very rugged terrains and no easy access to the outside world. and rural guizhou is absolutely the poorest of them all in china. i am from taiwan. my grandparents moved from guangzhou to guizhou province with chinese nationalist govt's munition factory during ww2. my grandfather's income was considered good at the time bc he was an university chemist and adviser for that munition factory. yet my father kept telling me how difficulties his childhood was in guizhou province during ww2. can't think of what kind of hardships average guizhou natives had to endure back then. in year 2000, my father visited guiyang city from taiwan for the first time to look for his childhood place. after the trip, he told us guiyang city and guizhou province were still quite poor. in 2019, i accompanied my father to guizhou for his 2nd visit. my father told me guizhou in 2019 was totally unrecognizable from 19 yrs ago. i suppose chinese govt must have done a miracle in guizhou in the past 20 yrs. then i checked some internet info about guizhou. in the past 20 yrs, chinese govt has built thousands of miles of mountain highways, high speed rails, super tunnels, super bridges to connect all the little towns and cities in guizhou province. ( 80 out of 100 tallest mega-bridges in the world are in this province). all those mega-projects were not just expensive, but faced world class engineering difficulties. without infrastructure transformations, guizhou province must be as poor as before.....

Don’t get caught up in US China politics, it’s just a distraction

Is it possible that what they are showing you are photos or videos from decades ago? Some time ago, I saw that the mainstream media in the United States were still deceiving Americans with video pictures of Chinese cities from 20 years ago. Needless to say, BBC, CNN, all Dark fake videos and fake news are just to make Westerners feel good about themselves. As for what China is really like, no one knows except those foreigners who work and study in China.😂

This is Zhou Shen's hometown? Wow, I love Zhou Shen's singing!

More charming than Venice 🤡🤡🤡

lol. That is nonsense. Venice is way more historically significant with all those palaces and churches.

We are just a few thousands generations apart, all cousins :)

Yes, we are all brothers and sisters. But look at U$. They just want to be big brother even though they were born after China and many other countries. To be big brother and to control everyone. Anyone that don't listen to his order to benefits him is considered against him and he will treat his brothers and sisters as enemy.

Hi, I have not been to Zhenyuan but much thanks to your rather educational and informative food vlog. Get to view the nooks and corners of this rustic town with the pulse of the local inhabitants, culture ,food and its historical infrastructure of the oriental "Venice of China". Kudos to your great effort to share this and have a safe and memorable adventure in your travels moving forward . God bless🙏

We Chinese have a very famous saying. Long live the great unity of the people of the world，You are welcome to come to China as a guest when you have time. I can host you if you are lucky.

China's streets, whether in cities or remote rural areas, are kept very clean. China's infrastructure level far exceeds that of most developed countries. However, due to China's implementation of a socialist system, Western media have ideological biases against socialism and therefore have been spreading misinformation to Westerners. Rumors are often used to slander China. Every foreigner who travels to China will find that he has been deceived by the Western media.

It's truly a gem though not a hidden one. Zhenyuan is widely recognized one of the best ancient town in China. As you know, we have thousands of them across China and Zhenyuan is always rated among the TOP 5.

And me😂😂😂😂😂😂

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When it is cold outside, why are you not wearing your nice winter beanie? It's winter ☃️❄️

I wouldn't say that. Venice is a very special place.

Walk Eat channel has walking tour of this town at night, I think. I was so impressed by that night view so I remembered this town s name

she's NOT saying it's a replica or comparison purpose, it's that SHE's introducing this to foreign audience and the only reference point we have is Venice, which most westerners know about, so the video Headline is to get westerner viewers to click and watch, because we have no idea china has a 'Venice' style waterway town.

I agree. Zhenyuan is very famous among Chinese travellers and it's never been called China's Venice. She used the term China's Venice just as a convinient way to make Westerners understand what it's really like. Though I don't think the vibe of Zhenyuan is anything like Venice. Maybe Zhouzhuang, which is around Shanghai, is more like a venice type water town. @@kaleeysmith8801

你们两的观点都没错😂自己找个心理平衡点

​@@kaleeysmith8801I actually agree with both of you😅

The people who started building these houses hundreds of years ago, no one knew what Venice was.

Thank you!! 🥰

This town is not Fenghuang Cheng, though

Fenghuang is in Hunan province, while Zhenyuan is in Guizhou province.

Fenghuang is more popular than this town due to a famous book called 围城. People in the City wanna to walk out, while people outside this city wants to walk in.