China’s last cave people 

If only you knew how the government works in China, you would know conservation isn’t their specialty...

I Wish for that to be true but it's not

No government should spent millions to built roads through mountainous region to help only a few people. They will never do that in the U.S. As for the culture and history, its only since the 1940s when China was chaotic during WW2. 24 families Miao tribe where trying to hide form bandits, not the entire tribe. From what I understand is that these people were offered housing in lower areas where the infrastructure is already in place.

+k.m. The people who live there are preserving the village, the government doesn't need to do it.

Hard to because the land is a national park.. cant be build for tourism it for self sustain habitat for wild animal and forest

My first thought was their community should build a few small bed and breakfast, but then they would have to deal with tourists lol

I thought the same thing. It looks great.

Ikr its pretty

@@krimmer66 and the tourists will ruin the cleanliness

It is so easy to romanticized things when we don't have to do it ourselves hey! Would any of you like to live there with your family and kids?

Is this RU-vid channel just Chinese propaganda or something 🤔

@@OHOE1 yes

@@shogunguy Yup chinese government is what the villain corporation in sci-fi futuristic series/movies look like.

@@shogunguy muslims can all go back to saudi arabia and stay there forever

@@HAYAOLEONE wow bro very racist

Well said

This lifestyle aint for everyone if you can't reset your brain don't do it. But for me it wouldnt be a problem

Snakes bug etc.

Some people love romanticizing living in poor in countryside when in reality its a very hard life.

@Kurogane -sensei How about surviving a nuclear blast?

Yes I'm the famous cave lady from Brooklyn Australia. Where I put my tent in a hollow incase the huge rock might fall and every day it crosses your mind there maybe an Earth Quake, Where you would not survive. I now live in a unit,but still miss my cave life.

@@bethymears2648 lol there is brooklyn in australia. :DD

@@sortof3337 yes about 2 hours from Sydney.

Imagine what those chinese in cave eat!! Humans flesh

@@sortof3337 It's in New South Wales, Australia.

Their lives have a high probability of becoming worse if they leave that cave

Don't forget the noise and smell of a city, they would find that extremely hard to tolerate when they have only known accessible clean fresh air and the sounds of natural serenity, peacefull calm and quietitude, and a space to call their own.

Move from a cave village with no job to a city with no job... seems like a pretty sticky choice to me.

Anything that cost you your peace is too expensive

Plus where he said the government promised them one thing but they gave something else might not be such a big deal in our eyes but it shows they don't trust the government and they feel like they are being tricked and going to get their home taken away with no returning it incase they regret their decision.

They WANT to live a better life. Not everyone needs to live in a cave.

@@user-nr1ze8bg9c But they want to live in the cave and refuse to leave, which seem pretty cool. I would love to visit there.

JaejoongPrincess Well it's definitely cool if thier village could become a tourist attraction. But the fact is China have too many these kind of tourist attraction, so this one can't be very popular. Sadly they can only choose one of them,higher life quality or stay in cave. ╮(╯▽╰)╭

a communist country will always be a communist

@@user-nr1ze8bg9c the cave will have automatic shelter so pretty much you allready have a nice dry, cool place to take shelter from storms and wind

The government doesn't want to "help build their economy." It wants to control them so they won't go rogue and develop their own economy. But, yes, if they get too many tourists, it will destroy what they have.

Yes, that is why they want tourists, to destroy their home.

Sitou Dien yeah

diane9247 - that's your biased western perspective. What do you mean "go rogue" and "build their own economy"? They already do that. Perhaps you don't know that China's economy is only communist in name, in reality it's closer to socio-capitalism.

Sitou Dien wisest comment

They look rich compared to real poor people.

But they can only grow corn lol

@Brandon G says Brandon who probably eats McDonalds on a weekly basis. Farming is not a new concept sis! Millions of people live on farming by either choice or due to poverty. Regardless... You still need to pay taxes. So even if the "elite" have this huge conspiracy and you "learn" to live off the land, since its the brand new concept... you still have to pay them taxes for living / cultivating a piece of land, especially if you purchased it.

@Brandon G Sure Jan

In the city there's no land you can live off.

Thanks for being honest and not lying about that

Tell the truth

Wow incredibly brave thank you for your honesty.

Also the rooster sound

Resembles West Virginia

.... Neeeeerd

I was about to comment til I saw urs ... you spoke my mind 😌

@Jinyuan LI ... geeeeeeek

@Jinyuan LI looooool

Yeah dwarfs. Like in OSRS when you go in the mines under edgeville and ice mountain.

Old comment, but what can he teach that will be applicable in an industrialised world? The most I can think of is how to live a minimalistic lifestyle.

@@Name-ej3px humility for 1

@@SonnyHoood That's next to impossible to teach. And, let's be honest, nobody bothers listening to others teaching values. If instilling values were easy, the world would be a much better place.

@@Name-ej3px true most people just want to talk, without actually listening

they choose to live like that... hermits

Other than a lack of high paying jobs, these people are probably healthier than their city dwelling counterparts. It's a paradise that place.

Jimbo Rock Living there means leaving modern healthcare and accessibility to convince clean water. It is rare to see those people have higher average life expectancy than urban population.

These people are what we used to be years and years ago~ if they are happy leave the the heck alone~ if they wanna move let em~ do NOT force or impose your ideas and beliefs on them~ that is how the Native Americans lost their homes and culture. Don't be so arrogant to think YOUR life is any better than their life. They are NOT hermits and even if they were~ why does that bother you? Typical extrovert thinking.

Sanitation, basic services, utilities and availability of resources?

*rooster

@@beatnik6806 chicken*

Dog

Chickens are actually have the closest DNA to the T-Rex. If you don't believe me, look it up!

A random baby crying loudly

Only difference is, skills can be nurtured, and while getting used to a cave lifestyle in a fully naturalistic environment grows on you, one can't run from the fact that it's unhealthy to live tribal and cut off from the world like that. And that takes a toll on anyone mentally, especially while comprehending that there are available alternatives. This is I'm sure it's complicated but to me it sounds like there's anxiety more than anything, they wouldn't move in because of the way the houses were built, yeah right.. how minimalist of you

People need to connect people, a lot of them. Constantly. We all belong interconnected. Enjoy your cave, make the best out of it..

Dog alpha the government isn’t

Dog alpha That isn’t really old culture but ok

They were probably forced into those caves by Mao

Nothing to see here hur dur! when was Mao born and when does it say these people moved into that cave

Nothing to see here so you call me an idiot and say I haven’t done any research then in a paragraph that contradicts itself “there has been definite answer for when the village was built because of how less information online” go on to say that the village was built before the communist revolution yet the villagers say they built it in 1949 why would they lie they won’t move because of inadequate alternative housing the government is offering so you can fuck off you pleb

Yes, a rather heavy physical toll to most of us. However, I once travelled to such place, some aboriginals chose to live out make more money, most chose to stay in mountains. They see differently, that we live in a contaminated world, overfed ourselves with industrial feed and getting cancer all sorts bizarre sickness and are simply physically impotent. Well, I can't live their way but they do make a good point.

Yeah yeah, sure you hate China. China has many problems, you know what, it's not yours. No one force you to live in China. You are free to move to Israel live with Jews or Gaza or wherever the hell of desert you wish. Leave China and Chinese problem to us. It's not yours. I don't think China likes you either. However from your bitter words against China and its gouvernment I suspect you care, and it's pure sourness. If that's the case, I feel very sorry for you.

You know kid, 20 years back I was like you, you are just young and fresh and you have ideas and are angry. It's not bad how you feel, it's good. I give you a piece of advice, you should go and live somewhere else for at least 10 years, go to work, pay taxes, get a mortgage and raise a kid ot two (not like a student), then you would understand what real stress is in life and how it works. I live in Europe, other family members are in US, I think you should try one or two of these places and do what I said, I won't recommend you to go to Israel (it's desert, dangerous, women forces carrying automatic weapons on street, it's not funny, been there). To practice your democratic idea you better choose Europe like France, or US, better for you. You know China is not a perfect place to live but it's improving. Democracy is just cocaine, and we just increase our dosage by the day. One day you will understand.

Because I thought it like you 20 years ago, I made my choice and built my life and had my family... Now I am working for Chinese and going back to China very often and see it's changing. I am not at the point to give up all my built up life and assets go back to China to restart from zero. But one day as my wife sais (she's European), if it goes really too bad here: islamization, shrinking social warefare, strikes, etc... we will be gone. I just hope it won't come soon. Forget about socialism, capitalism, blablabla. It's rule or been ruled, only matters if its works or it's melting down. I really hope you can move to Europe or US, living in it, it will really help you to understand. It was great, it was like paradise back in 90s, even unemployed people receive social house like a villa, but these days are long gone, and people don't even talk about future anymore like phobia. I don't need you to believe me, but please come and see by yourself.

Exactly ! And most importantly, they would have taken to opportunity to move away as soon as they could have ! But they choose to stay. I know they have hardships, but they also have a certain quality of life, otherwise they wouldn’t prefer staying where they are

I thought so too

Same here

Right?

The first minute I thougt it was a minature

Looks like a toy??

I guess it is also due to the lack of fertile soil and land that they have limited choice .

@@mike.p.1400 chill

@@derpdude42 Chill.

@@saarinenj1 chill.

@@mike.p.1400 chill the fk out m8

chickens are monsters 😂

Chickens were once dinosaurs Respect the chicken

@@justcloggedthetoilet dinosaurs are made up

@@Corrosion37 If dinosaurs are made up... ARE CHICKENS MADE UP?!?!????!

@@justcloggedthetoilet yeah but chickens are right in front of us. What evidence do we have of dinosaurs. Made up history to hide our real past.

This isn't the first time I've seen you lol Kim bald un

ahahhahaha kim bald un

Supreme leader, please free my father from full day labour prison

yeah but as the guy says at 2:45, tourism really helps them make money and the tourism has really dried up in recent years. and lets not forget youre talking about Americans, 50% of those who could or would want to travel there wouldnt walk the 2 and a half hours to get to the village, another 25% of those wouldnt make the hike without a guide

lololol so true, their village would suddenly have profit but a lot of litter to clean up from tourists; the gov would have to come in to regulate the tourists

It's only haunting because of the echo

It feels so depressing when you don't hear any humans (aside from the one giving an interview) and only animal sounds

@@MrDumb4u For you maybe. I'd be quite happy hearing just animal sounds. The sound of people would depress me.

allen liu They said they want a road.

After seeing how they planted that corn, probably some farming lessons as well.

@@Bulsh1tMan yeah lol

@@yagowon8322 The corrupt government will only build the road once they clear these guys out and build their own hotels and tourist attractions.

@@animewatch4213 its all because benefits, the government wont give the road free or sth

Cities are terrible somtimes

I live in city, but i can hear rooster crowing wvery morning :p

Meh it depends what you prefer, nothing wrong with pretending you'd enjoy a boring life in the village.

Umm that rooster crowing in that cave day and night. No thanks.

Your boss barking? 😂

There was a cataclysmic event when the earths magnetic poles "jumped", it exposes us to radiation from the sun, that's why people moved into caves, to seek shelter, we were never really cave people just like these people probably spend the day outside, not in the cave. For ancient humans it was probably the other way around, they could only leave the cave at night.

@@user-hr2zy7ct8h you just debunk my childhood mystery

@@Polymerata There's still plenty of mysteries. They are just now finding remains of huge civilizations in the rain forests and finally admitting ancient cilizations are a lot older than what the ignorant history books report. For example there are some accurate ancient maps of the globe but they are only accurate if you match them to the time they were drawn. Lots of ridiculous claims such as the pyramids were built just 2000 years ago never made any sense whatsoever and are finally being rejected and explored.

@@user-hr2zy7ct8h the Amazon?

@@Polymerata Yeah we're starting to unravel things like civilizations in the Amazonas rainforests now. 2018 they found mega structures thanks to satellite scans. Whenever technology makes us able to provide proof of alternate theories about some ancient civilizations which make much more sense than the history books, we will find ourselfs drowning in new discoveries. For example once drone/remote control robot technology moves further, we can just smuggle a camera into ancient sites that have obvious underground structures which have been blocked off and never officially been investigated. Here's an article from 2018 about the Amazonas discovery: Analysis of satellite images and drone footage has revealed an extensive, pre-Colombian settlement dating back to 1250‒1500 A.D. At their height, as many as one million people may have lived in these settlements, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. “Many parts of the Americas now thought of as pristine forest are really abandoned gardens,” Christopher Fisher, a Colorado State University archaeologist who was not associated with the study, told the Wall Street Journal. “When you are on the ground, you cannot really see the landscape. You need a bird’s-eye view.” The last part is kind of cringey because a lot of the "discoveries" we made recently and will make in the future which we "cannot really see" have year old youtube videos about them so in reality the ignorance has other causes. There are countless ancient mega structures that archeologists and history books pretend were created by nature.

Exactly

until one day

The cave may be better than the houses- protects from typhoon storms and from tigers ! :)

That would be an incredibly expensive project for about 50 residents. It would be like 2 million spent for each resident

@@thetimelapseguy8 but wouldnt the govt want the development of the area to attract more people to live their? Or at least make the economic sector strive there? Nobody wants overcrowded cities.

@@mau345 It is a national park. Why would they want to attract more people to live there? And what kind of economy sector could strive there, if there only live 50 people, which would pay back for the cost of roads etc? They wont earn in a lifetime what it costs to build even a quarter of the road. Roads are unbelievable costly.

You’re asking the important questions.

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Everyone knows who farted haha

Keith Good now CCP government have built some electricity and internet wires in to that place so they can have electricity and wifi.

i like how you mentioned: stress from things we are used to dealing with.. There are people who want to live simply and independently, but being born in a time and place where we need job, rent, check our documents, check the news for covid, what new bs is government want from us to do. Very confusing and spiritually degrading if you ask me. People often tell me just to ignore it, there is nothing i can do about it, huh? I dont think positivity should mean ignorance, rather appreciation, gratitude, generosity, humbleness. It feels like point of life in these times is to get hypnotised and forget about yourself, youth, emotions, dreams - and just do what you are "supposed to".

@@liltunturi1251 Let's go deep into the untouched giant forests in Russia where you could spend lifetimes never coming across anyone and just start a little settlement.

@@TrollProductionsMC I sometimes dream about going to remote places in Siberian taiga, or Kavkaz mountains at Georgian border. Seeing untouched nature scenery

Nothing depresssing about this as it is a community which works

@@shutup3039 They manage, they have been able to stay like this for decades. But maybe being used to the same happenings, nothing changing can be truly depressing

Exactly!

They are just not used to city life, but imagine they have to walk 2 and a half hour to get to a hospital if sick, buying things like electronics and materials would be a nightmare.

@@Dumb-Comment Yeah, since their porverty condition, they cannot handle those bills. Sadly enough

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They would be miserable every day

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Honestly it doesn't look like it'll survive for long even without relocation given that their crops aren't growing, in poverty, lack of education, people moving to the big city and so on.

@@neurofiedyamato8763 feel bad for those kids. Imagine them growing up like that without knowing the REAL world outside.

@@sushitrash-dj9vq and yet some ungrateful brats on the comment section who thinks carrying heavy loads for 2 hours on a mountain is easy dont want them to leave cuz "their lifestyle is carefree and better than the city"

No. The Chinese government will keep their eyes on this village to ensure they will not be overuled

I'd have to put the bird cage outside~!

You get used to it really. Being from the city I actually found it comical to hear the rooster calling every morning when I'd be in rural Vietnam visiting the in laws.

I used to live in a village. I love the rooster's sound. It's a sound for me to wake up and smell the fresh air. City life is worse compared to a village life. Yet, majority of people want to go live the city life even though it's much more stressful.

I wouldnt want to be the guy keeping chickens there. I would have the Peacocks

@Jamie idk tbh ngl fam

It's also because he is of miao/hmong tribe. Mixing accent and language can disrupt the tone. He is in fact speaking mandarin but still communicating in a miao/hmong stucture

How does It look beautiful. It looks pitiful

Grass is always greener on the other side.

Fisher Lam Don't lie and like your own comment it's pathetic. (This was the wrong comment I meant to click on another one.)

For me, It is easy to go there. it is no need to lie. Meanwhile, I never like my own comments.

You are not welcome we don't t have fish 😛

yea i think people visiting just to stay a day or two will bring more money in than farming.

Me too. Already screenshot the homestay number..😊

neafluffpandie I'll go with you. I don't speak Chinese though

Yes please do so

Come on ppl. I don't think they need any tourist over there. They just need peace. How would you feel if i bring tourist in your house???

DARK ENERGY it’s a beautiful country being destroyed by the CCP.

Nathan Denault how is it being destroyed?

Lawrence Wong If you call destroying over 5,000 years of culture in just half a decade good leadership, I don’t know how to help you. What’s left of actual Chinese culture now that the CCP has had its way with things? The Chinese wear Western clothing, shake hands as a greeting instead of bowing, govern themselves with and ideology invented by a German, their marching style is copied off of the Prussian Stechschritt, their military uniforms are based off of the USSR, all of their modernized buildings are built in western fashion, and they don’t even follow their great leader Mao Zedong’s teachings anymore. Chairman Deng threw Mao’s ideology out the window. China is in many ways more capitalist than The West. That’s why China is the world’s biggest polluter. Party bosses and corrupt CEO’s rule China. All of China’s previous emperors are spinning in their graves. Chairman Mao probably would be too. However in his case, he would be rolling in a glass box.

Peoples Liberation Army Read my reply to Lawrence down below.

Nathan Denault A country of 5000 years that never seen a united country or its countrymen.A country that was plagued by invaders,diseases and corruption.A country of 5000 years has seen its best years under the CCP.This is a know fact.So basically you want Chinese people go back to traditional clothing and other things.Are you not aware that females never seen any type of rights in 5000 years until Mao changed that?Theirs many countries that copied each other and this isn’t a new concept.The Europeans copied China’s concept of warfare.Nazi scientists used Ancient Chinese methods of rockets to create the V1/V2 rockets.Yes Chinese leaders still bow and do traditional things but the progress of China is unprecedented than any country of the 21 century.Lifting more people of of poverty than the Europeans could even handle of their own.

They wanted a better life

They barely have any food to eat.

The grass always looks greener on the other side.

Watch the video again he said life is very hard in the cave

Not a bad way to live if able to do it at home. I love working at home and hope to be able to do it the rest of my days. Offices full of toxic personalities, cold and flu, and food microwaved in hot almost melted plastic is just not nice.

But If you work hard, you might get promoted to a bigger cave!

I feel attacked.

That would be true if they made everything they use themselves but it doesn't look like it

Not much of a choice in China.

Yeah meaningful like never have hope of know what using an iphone is like, no dream of travel around the world, dont know how far have the world developed, cant even find a doctor for simple illness, wake up and work everyday just to filled hunger dont even have time to enjoy life, they need to clean the cave and bring water and all the government job becuz they dont pay tax and have the system their....no goal, no dream, no proper education, no science, yeah very meaningful, its like live inside a rock.

Real deal They are kinda living inside a rock- XD

There is nothing that the Government can do if the villagers refuse to relocate . So , how do you expect the Govt. to eradicate poverty by 2020. Do you think any western government can do any better ??

@@kimtan1278 especially the U.S.

@@_A_Ong are you kidding me?

@@huiqiuchuang7012 It was not a Joke to me, so, I am not kidding.

At least the Chinese government tries, at the contrary of à lot of others countries.

More like extreme poverty, but I get it harder to write a headline with that.

Thats a spot of pure nature. They are people living far of the "civilization" So the government should cut down the trees, flatten the mountains and build roads. I am sure China is able to build a big modern city there with all the comfortable stuff in just a few years, but better not!

@@PhoenlxA nah man they are focusing on keeping their trees, search up China's great green wall.

By the way as they said in this video. they are the people who refuse to join the anti poverty program and leave the mountain. U can't blame Chinas government for not forcing them.

@@PhoenlxA hmm yeah.. poverty by choice is a thing and some fake it too for extra money.

Lol you must be some fat white American or Aussie

@Kate A just a regular youtube keyboard warrior

but they did, you should look at the same village now...

They know they are going to move in free homes connected with electricity, heat, wifi, hospital , school and more incomes?

Joanna I am down it looks fun 😜😜😉😉😉😁😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣

Shaun Ragan how?

The officials don't think very ethically, as we can see.

Watch “why do americans live in china” on asian boss’ channel (:

Shame that mao destroyed most of it...

@@hrvatskibricks7745 shame that you talk like an idiot

@@hrvatskibricks7745 lol, poor China gave the West silk and gunpowder, and received back communism. This is the worst trade deal in history.

It Miao ethic group people in china

@Jamie I know, right! Despite the cities, a whole lot of people live like this around the world.

I think you are just trying to live the moment and your fantasy.. ..not thinking about the cold reality✌✌

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