Looking China: Manchu culture in modern China 

i don't blame the manchu for the qing dynasty and china becoming "backwards" in the 20th century, in fact i think early qing had some of china's better rulers. however the manchu language and culture were put on the sacrificial altar when the manchu crossed shanhai pass into china. the manchu themselves said that china is meant to be a multiethnic empire and that manchu have just as much of a right as han chinese to rule the entirety of china. this idea was forced onto china on threat of death (along with the hotly debated queue hairstyle). so why is anyone surprised when the descendants of manchu turned out to have adopted mainstream chinese culture, which is largely han culture? i think the language and culture is worth preserving, but its demise shouldn't be anyone's surprise.

It was such an adventure making this film and learning about Manchu people in China. A big thank you to CGTN for featuring our film!

Tbh, you can find more Manchu culture and Manchus in Beijing.

That's it, non existing eagles and cutting paper? Didn't they have opera and theatre and music and sports and books and philosophy?

Manchu will always live. Their language probably on the brink of extinction. However they already abandon them even during the Qing era. In fact, like it narrated in the video, Manchu influences on todays Chinese culture runs deep. The Qing Dynasty remains one of the popular subject in Chinese pop culture, and the so called Chinese traditional clothes that knows troughout the world like qipao or cheongsam or changsan actually comes from Manchu origin. It's sad to see the Manchu language on the brink of extinction. But there will always be people who work to preserve that. And even if it died, the Manchu will still alive in some form. In fact, the modern Beijing dialect of the Mandarin language is the "new" Manchu language since it was the language that spoken by the Manchus during the Qing Dynasty while the Han especially in the South speaks Cantonese or Hokkian. So don't worry. Manchu will always live.

What about Manchu language, music and dance?

The so-called “Mandarin” that is wildly spoken today has strong influence from Manchu. Try talking to southern people in their native tongues, it’s like a foreign language

There is at least one singer who was a Manchurian princess.

I prefer voiceovers because the subtitles are too small to read .

I am Tamang but same like manchu , miou, wa , zhuang and tibetain ....

WTF! You still haven't found the purpose of anything.

Thank you for making this video about Manchu people and Manchu culture! As a person with Manchu heritage, I feel sad to loose my language and culture. The only connection I had with my Manchu background is some random things my grandma used to tell me.

Those shoes belonged to the concubines in the harem . Not the emperor .

So, the vampire dresses in popular culture are actually Manchurian traditional dress?

My mother's .40% Manchurian and Mongolian ancestry. They then interacted with south east and west Africans. Then came to the America's. I am Chumash, Taos Pueblo, Cahokia, Mayan, and Nazca. With more recent ancestry coming from Mexico and the US.

His shoes ? It is a girl shoes ! How can a chinese channel can allow such mistake !?

What about the language? Language is just as important or perhaps even more important aspect of any culture.

Many Manchurians along with other Chinese were used as live experimental objects by the Japanese military under Puyi's rule. And almost all the agricultural and industrial products were controlled by the Japanese and ship back to Japan. One of the reasons why their number becomes so small is slaughtering and starvation during the Japanese occupation.

This Manchu man has blue eyes. Interesting.

很高兴看见了一张视频长春市和满族艺术。记了我住在长春的时候很高兴，东北人是很友好的。

Chinese is not a race but a name given to a people with certain characteristics sharing a common culture, influenced by different cultures that, over time, added to it. Manchurian culture is one such influence. If you say, that today, paper cutting is not Chinese, I will be very surprised. Similarly if you say Confucianism is not Chinese, as some Koreans have claimed, I will be even more surprised. Korea, had, for some long time, been a part of China and so did Vietnam. They, too, had left their influence and brought with them much Chinese influence into their now separate cultures. The Philippines, too, used to be heavily influenced by China before the Spanish occupancy with several parts ruled by Chinese, but not China directly. Sulu had wanted to be directly a part of China but was rejected by the Qing Emperor who preferred it to be just a vassal state. The famous Chinese Tang poet, Li Bai, came from a place which was Chinese once but now a part of Russia. History has changed the boundary from one side of the river to the other. If we were to define Chinese as a race, it would have to be confined to the original Han people. Cantonese, Hokkien and even Shanghainese would have to be excluded, effectively the bulk of Chinese today, in fact. Today, they all called themselves Chinese.

I'm a han myself, but qing dynasty was one of longest dynasty in Chinese history. Manchu culture is so rich, it should be kept, preserved and live on.

this where mandarin comes from the language. All us side chinese dialects got conquered.

wow the first guy, they interview didn't have brown eyes like most chinese.

There are no more pure blood manchus anymore

I'm from Mongolia, I've been to China numerous times, but the big brother situation is too much for me, I would never visit China ever again.

Manchus were defeated by Japan and then England and then half ruled by Japanese. But Manchus ruled Chinese for almost 250 years, which put an end to Chinese civilization. At the time Manchus ruled Chinese, it was in fact Manchuria Empire, not Chinese Empire. But people tend to still call it China instead of Manchuria because Chinese are widely known in this world. Today, Manchuria is under China's rule and Russia's rule half by half. Manchu people do not have their own country today.

Mongolians had a bad impression of Manchus. Actually, they are our ancestors too.

Who gave you the confidence that Manchu represents the Northeast.

After Manchu Empire crumbled and pretty much erased themselves, new China was on bend to erase it more with vengeance. During new Mao china, Manchus had to adopt Chinese names, who had totally different language. Manchus were just too few to stand for themselves after big fall from grace. They were less than 1 in 1000.

Mongol empire, capital was at Beijing so mean mongol also Chinese but did different ethnic group!

Perhaps the training of eagles originally came from the ancient Egyptian worship of the falcon god Horus. 😊

I was in Changchun a few weeks ago and I've managed to meet a few Manchus. I even taught them some Manchu phrases, including "thank you" (baniha), to get them to keep in touch with their ancestral heritage. 😁

Musei Manju!

Thx, bro

song at 7:00 Once upon a time in America??

Manchu influenced the culture of the Han people. 满族文化影响了汉族文化。

Background music??

No more blood waiting ( to much headaches ) (UO)🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Title of beginning music?

The Qing was probably the most advanced of all the dynasties. And I loved their clothing.

Did anyone else find it trippy that the Manchu grandpa's eyes are blue?

At 06:20 it's romanian traditional music. LOL

Here, my ancestors were Manchu lol

To sum up: they were the first muslim-turkic nomadic people who came from northern side of asia. Now I understood why chinese translator in istanbul said that we were blood brothers of somewhere of china.

Better go home and sleep ! Why so stubborn care of it? My culture is yours and your culture is mine. You and I also on the same ship. If sink everyone will sink.

His shoes ? it is a women shoe

The difference between all these cultures that conquered other territories (Manchu people invading Han China, Turco-Mongol of the Mughals invading India etc.) is that they actually assimilate into the culture of the territory they conquered. The Manchu empire that would be the Qing Dynasty became more Chinese than Jurchen/Manchu, and the Mughal Empire became more Indian as their conquerors adapted and assimilated into the ways of the people that now live under their rule. It's not like colonizing countries like France, Britain or Spain who instead of assimilating into the culture they completely wanted to replace it with their own (Spain and Portugal have done this for pretty much forever but France and Britain would get into this whole gimmick of "replacing" culture later on). I guess that today it's just that there are many Manchu people but have become closer to the Hans, the culture that their ancestors assimilated into. Of course they brought with them some traditions, but if they fade away it's just a result of centuries of assimilation.

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这是沼泽开路用的 这些割人的稻草。

Hopefully someday, Manchuria, along with Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, will all gain independence and form their own nations. Manchuria will be allowed to teach the Manchu language to everyone.

real manchu would have unusual large nose

Dnt fought chinese people,we are also the lost brothers and sisters somewhere from china.Love china from north east India,Naga.

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CGTN why you used Japanese music from the Karate Kid films?.....lol

My great grandmother was a Manchu princess but I just classify as Chinese.

Their face looks the same in china..

i feel like the manchu language is going to end like hebrew language will die but gets revived

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Qing is not China. Qing is Korea. Qing Dynasty is Kim Dynasty.