The community looks so clean! Even holes on sneakers can be repaired ? This way of saving can reduce wastes and can also reduce the harm to environment. Love it!
Yeah it’s a nice place. Streets here are cleaned regularly. I was also surprised because the fabric isn’t the easiest to fix. He managed to put some kind of rubber inside and then sew it up. It definitely can help the environment by being this resourceful.
@@middlekingdomproductions Yes, I was thinking the Same thing; We throw everything Away in America, but a lot of places around the World; they find Ways to Repair and that provides Jobs to Repairmen, but also No need to Always be Buying So many things that we have Extra in the Closets in America but in the end don't use for a long time.
There were shoes repairing, umbrellas repairing, bags repairing, buckets repairing, cookwares repairing, zipper repairing men or women on street thirty years ago. Now you barely can see them in cities anymore. It’s so interesting to see it again. Thank you for sharing this.
The picture is neutral, but the background soundtrack is eerie and negative; The ship in the video is not a pirate ship, but a sea trade ship; China has developed superb shipbuilding and navigation technology in the early pre-Ming Dynasty (Ming Dynasty 1368~1644), far earlier than the earliest navigation in the West half a century. But the difference is: what China conducts with its neighboring countries is normal trade, while what the West conducts is colonization.
I completely Agree with You; that's Exactly What I think about LIFE, it's important to interact with the local People and talk to people; interact with the locals and your neighbors and know that We are ALL humans and have the Same human dreams, needs, and desires.
That ship is most likely a replica of one of the smaller ones from the Zheng He expeditions worldwide to Africa and such around the year 1400. Some people said Zheng He also sailed to America and arrived on the Oregon coast. This was way before Columbus time. There is a book titled 1421 that describes that. But the journey to Africa was multiple times through Southeast Asia, India and Arabia. The big ships are perhaps 10 times the size of Santa Maria of Columbus. More than 100 years before Columbus.
That's really interesting! thanks Charlie! sounds like they must have been massive ships! The only historic ship I visited was a replica of the golden Hinde in London. I think the ship in this video might have been bigger than that! I plan to go back in the daytime and see if it's possible to explore this ship more and find out more about it.
@@middlekingdomproductions Yes if that was the Zheng He replica it would have been in the actual shipyard where they were built (now a park) and that was only a scale model, the ships the Chinese built for that fleet that took Admiral Zheng to Africa and maybe beyond (which is open to speculation - the book by Gavin Menzies (1421) has been roundly trashed by "experts" but Chinese artefacts from that era have been found on far shores - the latest being a baby buddha in Australia.) were massive 3 or 4 times bigger than the Western boats of the same era and the actual fleet he commanded was huge. I'm also impressed that you are in shorts already... I should have worn mine today as it was warm out...
life in NYC is obviously different than life in Nanjing. and, the places in Nanjing that you show are different from when I lived there in 2017. right now NYC is experiencing truly dangerous air pollution from fires in Canada. that boat. tell me more about it. it is beautiful
I visited NYC once and enjoyed it. I hope your air quality improves soon. Chinese cities change quickly, but I often visit places less people know about. The boat is beautiful, I don’t know much about it but I think somebody posted a comment with interesting information about it 🙂
You asked for $15 and he gave you $27 and you still took it. You need to learn some bargaining skills from Chinese grandmas. Otherwise, street merchants would be licking their chops when they see you again. 😂
The art of shoe repairing is becoming increasingly rare in modern times. It is a dying trade and will likely disappear altogether when the current generation of shoe repairers retire or pass away.
these are old people, they are well know for being frugal. After these people die off, you will have a more or less Japanese like China, neat and tidy on the outside, depressive in the inside.
A Lot Cleaner than Hollywood Blvd in California USA, if you go to Hollywood - You would Smell Pee all over the place and See homeless people grouped by a Hotel Parking Lot, or next to it. I will never understand, and probably the Rest of the World would never understand how a nation that is always bragging about being the "best nation" or Supposedly the "Richest" nation in the World is So full of people with Wicked People, drug Addicts, homeless people; elderly people going hungry in order to Buy medicine, So many uninsured Citizens, and So Angry and miserable White females that are Not Happy even living in their Big Homes, driving expensive vehicles, but they Cannot be happy for a Second in their lives and pretend to make else around them as Miserable as they are.
