I Was So Shocked by Rural China.... 

Lovely old village and memories ❤

that's for real my childhood back to 1980s,i'm tearing.

The water wheel is particularly interesting. Ancient Chinese technology was incredibly advanced, 1000 years or more advanced from Europe. They used water wheels for power. They could mass produce as early as 250 BC - probably earlier. They had a very advanced understanding of gears & could convert the horizontal axis of rotation to a vertical axis. Thereby they could drive 8 grain grinders from 1 water wheel. At that time the Romans were still grinding corn manually. You will find that this technology was confined to the cities, & mainly used by projects initiated by the emperor. I'm always amused that the Chinese worked out that they could use straw & reed to make personal rain wear over 2,000 years ago & still used it in rural areas until recently when synthetic fabrics became available.. Europe worked out it could be used to keep houses dry (thatch) since time immemorial, but never made rain wear. So our outdoor workers just got cold & wet for thousands of years, whereas the wise Chinese stayed warm & dry.

China 🇨🇳 likes to preserve old things, they don't destroy it, this shows how & from where to where they've come

I cannot help but noticed that Barret looks well cared for by his wife. Marriage seems to be good for him. Jia you to this couple.

Going back in time. Down memory lane. Remembering my grandparents. They migrated from Moyan or Meizhou to the paradise island of Mauritius. They had these old ways of doing things. Shoemaking and making candies and rice crispies.

It's very interesting.

I spent my childhood in a small village in Jiangsu China and this video brings back my childhood vividly. Appreciate it very much to make this available in RU-vid.

Hello Mister Lee Barrett, always good see you doing well.

Easily the place of my choice. Love the atmosphere there, the people, the simple life and the view

Keep the traditional style of village alive.

I've never heard of Puffa Puffa Rice. Only Rice Krispies. I had a Walkman (cassette) though. Clumsy Jason. It's so important to keep the tradition of arts and craft. One of my treasured items I bought last time I went to China many many years ago was a small translucent bottle. The artist used a stick-thin brush, inserted it into the small mouth of the bottle and painted the inside, and also wrote some words. Beautiful and painstakingly done.

I like it. This is truly Chinese. It reminds me of my childhood.

That cassettes radio is GOLD

China love their culture, history, and leaders. ❤

Beautiful, very lively traditional village experience...

Hey Boss👀! Awesome Video. Thanks For Sharing. Have Fun👋

I grew up with cassettes. My parents had a bunch of Chinese songs that my grandfather had recorded, and we’d listen to them whenever we went out for Sunday drives on our car's cassette deck. This is a great video that shows rural China with a level of immersion and sincerity that all should see 😊

Used to have those candy in Malaysia, unfortunately can't find them anymore. We called it tin ting tong. Love them.

The Chinese are friendly people

Great vlog! It is interesting comparing this to the vlog you took us to the town you grew up in England a few days back. It's fascinating that when you were back to your brith place, you probably did not notice a lot of differences in way of living. The peole you met in Jiangxi though, had seen so much changes in front of their eyes in a just a few decades.

Nice vid Lee. Good to see you both out and about, not just promoting cars and batteries but also the small towns and cities and culture.

Cool area

Marvellous!!!

每个人都有童真和美好的童年

Love the traditional architectures! 😍

Lol! Can't help laughing while seeing you rolling the traditional rice puffing machine.

When I think of cassette, I feel my little finger hurting.

Push forward all-round rural vitalization

Incredible good theme video shooting from "Barrett Channel". Sincerely thanks.

A lot of traditional foods and snacks I used to eat when I was a kid in Hong Kong. Very nostalgic indeed. Thank you Lee for sharing this precious video 🙏👍

I have been to that village several years old in the winter. That is not too far from my hometown, in JiangXi province.

I love visiting Chinese villages, so rustic and full of charms and characters!

If there’s pop corn, there’s pop rice. And yes I used to own a Cassette tape recorder.

Amazing looking village!! Definitely adding it to my list of places to see in my travels!!

Wonderful living museums. Better tourist attraction than Disney land. I don't think any western countries have such living museums. I went to something similar in Guilin and they had also a printing press, I got a picture that they printed as a souvenir.

Very reminiscent to my childhood too, and I'm a 90s baby.

Im old enough to remember 😂

I really like your videos, so interesting. these crafts men really remind me of the 80's, when my dad took me to those markets. I was so happy there

When I was young,my family had most of these, this is a very traditional house.

Sadly I remember cassettes and even prior technology XD

we had those candies tuk tuk in Singapore in the 1990s... gone now

It is gteat to see you again🎉🎉🎉

像是回到以前，不禁泪眼汪汪❤

Great to see Jason there too!

Jason: "Meanwhile... In America..." 😂

You are together with Jason hamburger King, 👍👍👍

Sharp today is now under Foxconn 😊😊😊

7:16 seems you did better than Jason there😂😂

那台旧电视里播放的好像是84版的射雕英雄传，看到洪七公😂

nice video

I not only remember tape recorders but how wonderful it was to get rid of the "hiss" & needle damage from gramophones, especially before plastic records. Trouble is when the tape sticks & unravels from the spool. Still used them to record music & instruments which are only occasionally performed on radio until I got a pc about 20 years ago. It's quite nostalgic for me.

wonderful

Beautiful village Sir ❤❤❤

China elevates villagers income, and help preserved traditional ancient style living cultures, and boosting cultures rich tourism

👏👏👏👍

When all China was imitating those commercial ancient towns, Huangling did a great job!

more videos like this, please

This place is a popular tourist attraction. It is about on par Furong ancient town and Phoenix ancient town (both in Hunan province) and the Miao ancient town in Guizhou province. I have not been to all but I will certainly visit in near future.

Really enjoy your video

A beautiful Chinese village with creative people.

Still have cassette tapes with music of my teenage years in the 60's & 70's. Also have reel to reel tape of this period. Saved them for the future generations.

Definitely remember most of the food snakes and tech like radio and TV. Remember especially the hard candy that you chip off.

That sticky rice at 4:45 is what the Japanese call as "mochi"

Oh my Gosh please.

Great to go back in time

🎉🎉🎉

China is very beautiful even in rural area

Love it

I remember 3" reel to reel on a Philips battery powered tape recorder long before the cassette.

争取第一个赞！！！！！❤❤❤❤❤

LOL, the best part of the video is when the villager is politely trying to disarm Lee of the meat cleaver while he's just happily talking away to the camera and eating the rice krispie. I recommend you put down the knife with the handle towards the host before continuing... and also, never let Jason do anything with a knife!

Those old things are worth billions of USD (because USD is toilet paper) 😅😅😅

i want to visit there too

Grew up with 8 TRACK TAPES, followed by cassettes, CD, and DVD! First time I flew, it was on PAN AM 747 before deregulation with excellent service. Started driving when gas was about 40 cents per gallon plus reward stamps, of course, full service with window cleaning and engine oil check. Video was shot using SUPER 8 films, and we used to stop for pedestrians. Oh, the good old days!

Mr burger king?😁

beautiful village！

Thanks Chinese government supporting young generation going back to countryside. Lots of young generation quit their higher paying job. Transfer the village into tourism industry. Lots of villages people ❤✊🏻👊🏻🇨🇳💪🏻🥂🍾👏🏻👍🥃🍷🍺become over night millionaires. These old people out dated jobs. The new young generation don’t doings theses kind jobs.1800’s 1900’s I’m talking about the years.

Cassettes! My grandmother was illiterate. She would record cassettes instead of writing letters and send them family abroad.

八零后，这些是小时候的记忆。感谢！

That place is the Yilong Wharf of Genshin Impact

Please learn to speak the local language. Overcome the mental barrier of difficulty. It's all in the mindset. When you are able to communicate like a local, it'll be a big big advantage and inclusive living in China.

Glad in the era of modernity, China is preserving their traditional heritage.

I see 漢堡王Jason

Puff rice been around for years and still is today

8 track

eat the rice Popcorn with milk!!! that is heaven.

My cassette collections are long gone, my cd collections are no longer played, everything is played from solid state storage now

when I was young I can always see someone on street pop the pop corn.

Lee, I hope you can also visit Hakka settlement in Ganzhou😊 anytime soon

I still have a great Onkyo cassette double deck to digitize cassette tapes.

谢谢你，你的视频没有阴间过滤镜。👍

Bon, 爆米花, children carried raw rice or dried cake, waiting in line for their turn🎉 Young liked to carried that junk cassetter showing off on street😅 过年啦, watching neighbor making 宁波汤圆 using 磨子😊 满满的记忆.

I have seen the movie on the TV in the background..

Puffa Puffa Rice... Brown sugar version of rice pop XD

😂你敢玩爆米花炸弹？小时候我最怕这个了，压力越来越大🎉

Shame the UK didn't do the same, I'm in Kent which used to have lots of mills and hop farms, they are now houses. Your Amstrad is Alan Sugar's first electronics company.

Manufacturing plastic flowers is what started Li Ka Shing on his way to be a billionaire.

Can't wait to travel to China for now since it's visa free for my country.

这是我的故乡，我的童年江西上饶人