The old China before WW2: From Mongolia to Beijing. 

could they even imagine that 100 years later people are watching them on youtube.. haha

Today, we're lucky to see these old clips filmed by western foreigners in China, in this case a German, as well as Chinese photographers. Old films like these are very fragile and who knows how many have been improperly stored and have since disintegrated?

It's been a week now .. I put this clip on repeat and turn the speakers on ..I sleep so peacefully listening to it .. none of these people are present now but even after 100 years we are seeing what their lives used to be .. I wish I could more of such old videos..these are gems and must be preserved

Cool to see the humility and thoughtfulness in the average person. The modern world needs those things.

I‘m Chinese . Thank you so much for uploading this precious video, this is really awesome.

I absolutely LOVE the old clips. Thank you for sharing!! Ah.. I wish there is a time machine and I could go back to hundreds or even thousands of years and travel around the world! :) Was my college major in history?! No, I so wish though.

Absolutely amazing and priceless footage!! Thank you so much!!

My girlfriend is a Chinese citizen of Mongolian descent. I went with her to inner Mongolia. It's really beautiful and amazing. It's like time has stood still. Very little, if anything has changed.

it is a memory recalling those younger days. May God bless you always to be in your best health MichaelRogge

Great gift for humanity. Thank you and your family for keeping all these records about human kind.

Well dressed, clean, nice haircuts, huge farms, markets and festivals! Obviously they weren't poor.

Greetings from Mongolia. Thanks for the rare video..

oh oh,,thans for shareing ,Mr MichaelRogge

old Beijing looks so peaceful

Many thanks Michael Rogge for the video ! I wish you all the best.

Thank you for preserving the history. A great work

Thank you for saving these beautiful priceless memorry

Thank you very much for sharing this video, very precious and invaluable

This is very valuable,thanks for uploading!

Huge thanks for sharing these amazing videos with us!!!God bless you!!!💓👍🙏❤

The round shape huts made of felt are still in use in Mongolia and known as GHUR. meaning home/

videos like these are a precious heritage for human kind

Great footages. Thanks for your uploads 👍👍

Thank you. Very valuable footage. Interesting to see how the horse was tied to replace new shoes.

Thank you so much for these wonderful films !!

My favorite channel on RU-vid right now.

My grandpa was born in 1921 in Beijing. He told me that he always had 60 dumplings in Qianmen( the front gate of Beijing).

Thank you for the sharing! Love these documentary films!

Soft contrast , fully grayscale tone , clear detail , excellent film quality.

How precious these are!

Inner Mongolia looked exactly the same summer 2019

I like the music and like the way this is presented, no commentary, just a few words for reach scene. This let's the viewers more easily form their own views.

Thank you for putting this video on youtube

WOW! This means a lot to a beijinger, watching what life was like in Beijing near a century ago really brings a new perspective. To think how short my existence will be compared to the history really puts me in awe..

How good music you catch!

Nice! Good that you have saved this video. I like that it's peaceful with clean air.

Thank you so much for share this video.

excellent channel thank you for posting

The first footage shows us a wild wild east.

Amazing footage

Very rare historical film. Thank you!

It is so immersive watching these videos with traditional Chinese music.

Thanks for showing us this.

我喜欢这老视频！还有声音，我听到我能听懂的语言。这是一个我没有出生的时代。这很珍贵，这是一代人真实的记忆，和他们生活过的城市。我认为这是有意义的。我喜欢中国。以前的中国，现在的中国，我都喜欢。

This like Time travel👍👍👍

It has changed so much , since the time I was there in the 1990's !

That time Mongol and China both were under Manchu rule. Manchu and China is 2 different. So, you know. If I see the ladies head jewelers, they are Uzemchin Mongol tribe. Seems like mostly filmed in inner Mongol. That time both Mongols were together.

谢谢，非常宝贵的视频

Amazing footage...

These days we accumulate things and want everything we don’t need. But are stress to the core and not healthy.... simplicity is always to me is the best thing for mankind. I hope we will come to realize that one day🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

É extraordinário seus vídeos.Estou fascinada.

Thank you for your series of marvelous clips - I would also recommend Jeff Quitney's channel in case you have note sen it, it has some good movies on old China

Letter writer... interesting... thank you for sharing this...

Those bicycles from the film reminds me of a fun fact. Many older generations of local Beijing people, just like my grandma who is 87 years old this year, are still calling bicycles “洋车”, which means “western vehicles”. Dang, miss the old days.

omg looked so beautiful back then

感谢分享，太珍贵了

Awesome video

这影片太珍贵了，没有被拆的老北京城

Thanks for sharing.

the background music is perfect

It's an amazing journey to the past of Inner Mongolia and Beijing nearly a hundred years ago.

Good old video Thanks

tnx nice film

very nice film, thanks

感谢！！！

當年青年小夥子的髮型真帥！

不知道是否可以转载？博主老爷爷真棒 感谢您分享这么多历史影像 太珍贵了！祝您长寿健康！

big changes from then ! good video

真有趣。老北京真漂亮。原来大家那时候真划龙舟，也说加油

very precious

@ 01.50 , I saw something similar at home-base last week

thanks for your viedo~

Great footage of old China. Thanks, Dan Seto, Chinese Canadian Roots TV.

Спасибо за видео,

太珍贵了，感谢您

very good video

I live in Beijing now, it looks different but people act pretty much the same as in this video

Good job.

Thank you so much ! From a peking girl

Thank you Mr. Rogge. I think the dragon festival where at the end of this film must be filmed in GuangDong.

The Mongolian steppe people live such a beautiful and pure nomadic life enriched with custom and tradition. Horses and falconry...need I say more?

Thank you for sharing. Great views of life. I wonder how many of the religious art works/temples still remain...

谢谢你保留了这么多 以前的中国的影像，真是很好的素材，让我们知道中国发展的不容易，多灾多难的中国，让我们更加珍惜现在的发展环境，中国一定会富强起来的。

Days in the world. Each era has its on glory, nostalgic time, disaster and downturn. Question is how can we make the present be a good memory to be remember. By ourself and others

珍贵的影像！

Sehr wertvolle historische Aufnahmen

When the world was still magical..

古代的人文學造詣是真的非常高！

Couldn’t find the 9 dash line (over south China sea) on that map!!!

great!

I love that in Mongolia they live for the most part in the same way,

In the course of your travels, did you ever by chance run into John de Francis? He was a scholar traveling in the same places at the same time that you were there. Later he wrote Chinese language texts. He was the director of the Chinese language program at the University of Hawaii in the 1960s.

past history of China can be summarised as bitter circles of involution after Sui dynasty, I read like more than 1000 first hand historical materials in Chinese since my primary-school inspiration on traditional art,history and culture, the more I get in touch with the old Middle Kingdom the more amazement and frustration I got, maybe I am still way too young to be able appreciate the distant past of my country with true calmness and wisdom.

very rare video!

Nice

I am very sorry that Eastern societies, which could have been a center for a strong spirituality, have preferred to "evolve" by rejecting and destroying what they have been. Of naturalism, of mysticism, very little remains, perhaps only Mongolia. China and Japan could drive the spiritual rebirth of modern man, instead they wanted to create urban agglomerations and very small tourist routes that are only attractions for the inexperienced. This magnificent civilization, of asia, has a lot to teach, and with this video I also feel the scent of what pre-industrialized society meant. Magnificent. I would give every part of me to be able to live this reality. The houses, the landscapes, the rural life, still, motionless, the wayfarers, those who stopped in the houses to ask for rest and hot dishes, how wonderful, I have goosebumps.

At this time, my mother's grandfather was selling tea in Beijing. Business was good, and there was a courtyard (the best house at that time).

Vídeos preciosos, jóias raras.

Beautiful customs and costume from a lost time. The Chinese people have much to admire, rich history and a lavish culture. I wish the still enjoyed the freedom they once had.

love the chinese people and their deep history... with respect from france.