Explore a Remote Chinese Village in the Valleys of Guangxi
What’s life like on a remote Chinese village in Guangxi Province? Daily life in the valley of this small village, I walk around and compare east to west. School, work ethic, food, architecture, farming, religion, beliefs, caves, chickens and youth.
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This man is a real traveler, China is much more than Shanghai and Shenzhen. This man explored many different aspects of China and showed us the reality about China
Spot on
This is the real Chinese countryside. When I graduated from university more than ten years ago, I came to Shanghai. I was shocked by the modern city, but I still often miss the time I spent playing in the rice fields in the countryside when I was young.
I like your videos, good or bad, first tell the truth. Everything you do is more honest than most Western media.
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Oh man, watching this makes me so homesick. I was born and raised in Liuzhou, Guangxi, but both of my parents came from villages just like what's in your video and I did spent part of my childhood in these rural villages when I was very little. I missed back then when we have very limited electricity and the whole family had to sit around a fireplace and talk, and I was chasing with other kids out in the crop field, looking for berries in the wild... Thank you!
TheGreatest ShowStopper .Thankyou for sharing those memories, sometimes they seem so close and real, I think they make us all part of life, I think there’re very important.
i grew up in a large city in northern china but when i went to elementary school 22 years ago, we had outdoor toilets, much worse than the four toilets here in this video. in 1997 we got a new building with indoor toilets and several years ago that elementary school began to be equipped with a good playground, a soccer field and everything else. guangxi is among the poorest provinces in china and i am glad to see that even out there in the village they have tolerable facilities. the next generation will have something better. this is part of our culture: we can sacrifice for the next generation.
I am very touched by that, even the poorest village has a proper school, because we really care about our next generations
@ale xie they want a better life.
That school looked almost as good as my school from Ireland, in a first world country. In Ireland, I remember the toilets being much dirtier than what we're shown here. Ireland has more cobwebs and spiders. In Ireland the toilets are indoors, but we would have an outdoor shed that used to contain old toilets. In Ireland, our outdoor facilities was just concrete with chalk drawn hopscotch and a few other games. The chalk would have half gone though. We had a really nice massive gaelic football pitch but it would flood in Winter. Here they have a climbing frame with slides, super nice even concrete basketball court. It looks great. But yeah, in Ireland we have windows and stone walls about half a metre thick and heaters which they turn on about once a year. During covid, when windows were open, it would be hard to move your hands with numbness. In between every two classrooms was like a fireplace chimney thing where in the past kids used to bring in coal to heat the place up. So even when Ireland was third world, I think our architecture was more suited to the climate. Probably because our climate was less changeable. In ireland, we also had many prefabs. Which are single classroom shed type buildings. They were kinda cold.
Love this video Matt. I find people in Chinese villages very interesting. They always seem so generous and kind despite working so hard.
I think this applies to all villagers world wide
@@QLTD people in the villages know how to treat strangers well
try sneaking around a farm in the US! You'd probably get shot....after being told to go back to "fill in the blank"
@@adrianyik25 🤦so true
welcome to China
Sometimes when I close my eyes I can still hear the chirping of birds and crowing of rosters. I can hear the breeze and feel it on my face. I can smell the dirt and the freshness of the mountains. And for a brief moment I can see my grandmother cooking and my grandfather sharpen knives and tending to his tools. All of this is only a distance memory now. 😢😢😢
Tou Xiong , what a beautiful image you write about, it is something most have, but yours reminds me of a book I once read called Cider With Rosie. It was about life in a village in the countryside 100 110years ago, memories of life as it once was, we all have memories of our early lives, and sometimes can be very real.
You are fortunate to have the recall of what your senses were telling you, adding to your enjoyment of the memory.
I hope you're ok. Love China, it's so beautiful there!
7:35 The villager warmly invites you to try some fresh peanuts,saying they are free of Chemical fertilizer. What a nice guy!
Yea he was so nice.
Yes he was nice and also the other guy who asked him if he wanted him to leave his bike so he could come to his place later.
At the end of the video, the child's smile could melt one's heart.
:) I loved that, too. Many people only know China from glittery world of the 4 major cities. This is a good video. China has beautiful countryside, it still has to develop a lot but don't forget living quality is not only about what you own.
The baby is so cute. I would go just to see that. Beautiful video!
My heart melted as well can't lie lol
It’s a courageous person, you went to such a remote area. The Chinese countryside is an underdeveloped place, but the people there are very simple and hardworking. Like your vlog！ u r a cool guy！
My dad grew up in a village just like this one, but he's the only child among seven brothers who continued the scholarship towards college and eventually got out from the poverty. Now 40 yrs later, although he's got a two-store house and a certain job in Nanning, he could never forget those hard times that somehow changed his life... And our family, too. Really a good vid, brings up a lot of things my dad ever told me long ago!
This remote Chinese village doesn't look like it has lots of amenities but still it is far better developed than a typically remote village in other developing countries. It has cement road which is very smooth and without cracks, the village has proper school and people have cemented houses and not the thatched huts. Also people here seem to posses few of the necessities of modern life life. Overall Chinese government seems to have done an excellent job of providing at least basic necessities of modern life. Also the village doesn't look like very densely populated and the surrounding area is just excellent scenery. I'm sure a highway connecting some major city should not be more than 30-40 kms away from this area as highway construction is going on all over China at fast pace. Overall thanks for the video.
China implemented the village policy 10 years ago. Including cement roads, mobile networks, tap water
u read alot true things，i am an Chinese，3q
yes china is a developing country but the basic infrastructure is far better than other developing countries, thats why China is developing so fast. the poorest people can have a way out because they have electricity and internet and education.
老哥是中国人吧，这么了解
AS I know, the Chinese government has made every village yes every! have electricity, concrete roads, and telecommunication which is called 村村通. And but villages are disappearing in recent years because of urbanization.
This video is amazing. Even I am a Chinese, I feel it is so intersting. Thank you.
This BIGGEST SHIT HOLE on planet EARTH
@@AH-hi7jg glad you are not in China and never set your foot in China. China does not welcome you, scumbag!
Most of us Chinese have our rural home. That's not an investment in the village. buying house in villages are NOT allowed, especially to outside people. That's kind of protection for poor people to hold their property. Most young people are going out to big cities for jobs. Some of them buy apartments in the cities and live there while some of them will go back to village when they are getting old. This video is so great, it makes me thinking of my rural home. Thank you.
Thanks for the clarification
Good idea for not allowing to sell. Most will trade off to big developers if allowed and rural land will disappear.
Thank you for what you are doing. My eyes are opened
I was born in such a village from guilin guangxi . I remember that the roads to the village was muddy around rainy day.
A explaination to your surprise of the road. many years ago the government carried out a policy that cement road to every vallage. The reason is that as long as cement road is built, people have the ability to go inside and outside to promote the economic development
The most important is it is safe, you don't have to worry about someone coming out of nowhere rob you.
yeah but China is pretty safe anyways
@@andy.8444 I was once viciously attacked AND bitten by several mosquitoes in China, so that's debatable.
@@DELPHIIII 🤣😂😂 yeah, I guess you're right
@@andy.8444 I followed you on Instagram, you are super cool!
This is a very interesting video. I actually came from one of these villages in china.
I love the place and environment of the village. The village and its surrounding kind a have like a magical appearance on it.
Life is basic here....but the village is set in beautiful mountain scenery.
I love videos like this showing the REAL China and rural life where the people are simple, genuine and VERY hard working Thank you for sharing!!
This is the most empathetic and understanding travelogue I have ever seen. It places the most important of people, agricultural laborers, in the finest light.
Awesome! I love these videos Matt!
The best episode. Love it.
This is what i was looking for. Thank you. we need more of this kind
Fantastic video Matt...I really enjoyed the tour around the village! Take care!
Absolutely loved this video Matt please keep up the village life vlogs
Loved this type remote village country side..
'build a road if you want to get rich' it's hard learned lesson through generations
build road first if you want to get rich
要想富，先修路，少生孩子多种树
Actually it's quite amazing that you can understand his Chinese...
Love these vlogs Matt! Village life...not something you see on KZhead everyday. Thanks 😀👍🏻
Very poetic presentation of a particular place. A timeless example of a way of life. Thank you! JaYoe
Ah! Thanks for the early release KZhead! Great piece of journalism Matt! Loved this view of Chinese rural life. Yea, when I saw the drone shot of those beautiful farmed fields, it dawned in me that they were all likely the result of back-breaking work. That beautiful variety doesn't happen without it. Some news service should be paying you for the color stories you create! LoL
You are touching the hard core of China :-) We are not only Shanghai, Beijing and mega constructions but also this. Hope you can visit more places in China.
Great video, my friend! Very contemplative. Always love watching the rural areas of China.
6:29 The slogan written in the wall is "Built new houses,Movie into the new houses,work together and work harder to accomplished the gols of well-off society." 加油中国！
Loved this Vlog! Such an interesting place and the people are so nice too. Btw Matt, you are killing it with all the uploads recently, I am thoroughly entertained and cannot wait for the next episodes! JaYoe
Absolutely down to earth reporting. Truth n facts. 兄弟 jiayou加油👍👍
Matt, I like your videos a lot. Very personal, very sincere. Thumbs up!!
I LOVE this video. This is the part of China I find most appealing. You do a fantastic job of checking things out and being respectful of the locals. I'm sure you are a welcome guest.
Love the video. So informative.
Just another great documentary video !
Great video Matt! Food for thought.
I love this video. I think it is my favorite of all of yours that I have seen. Thank you for giving us this beautiful tour. The natural beauty there is amazing!!!
wow... great! glad you like it.
Thanks, I said it in the last video, stop and show us the villages on your tour and this amazing video shows up thanks again.
Great off the beaten track video...Jayoe
Good job! Enjoyed this video. Thank you Matt! Jiayoe
Interesting video about a Chinese village and how people in that Village live. Keep up the good work love the videos
Thank you very much for sharing your experience. My dad grew up in a village like this in Hunan province but the house he grew up in was built with mud and wood sticks.
So interesting, the people and the villages. The mountains are amazing!! So glad you're back!!!
Enjoy your vlogs Matt, Thanks from Florida
Amazing video ,amazing prospective!
Now that's a "Village Crawl" ! Something you won't see on a typical travel show. I really enjoy the perspective literally and figuratively. The pace of travel gives time to absorb something of how things work and fit together.
Very beautiful! So peaceful.
Great vid, liked the subtitles and info
Another good vlog from the outskirts of China. Had a flashback to 1991 when we rode out of Shanghai about 100kms and stayed in a little village called Jin Shan (金山） 加油！
Really like your smile and your way of presentation. You see the positive side of things with an open mind and describe the negative side of things without biased criticism and comparison. You are a positive and compassionate person. Keep up the good work 👍👍👍
lol, he does it cuz he is been paid by the CCP. the reality of things, is that the communist party is a highly dysfunctional machine, that makes people's life miserable.
so peaceful and heart warming
this past winter, i spent six months in the guangxi province learning chinese, so this video made me super nostalgic! your discussion about the cold really brought back memories lol, despite it never dipping below freezing, i was always cold during my stay and bundled up in multiple layers. still, i miss it a lot. there's something to be said for such a simple lifestyle - everyone i encountered was incredibly welcoming and i made some amazing friends. luckily i'll be heading back to china this fall, and i'll hopefully get back to guangxi sometime (maybe when it's a bit warmer), it's such a magical place. thank you for sharing your experience, really beautiful video as always!
I love this video. Need more vids like this :D
It is a very interesting video. I am also come from one of these villages in Guangxi. Thank you for this video, i am looking forward to going back my village in CNY long vocation.
Awesome rest stop, glad you took the member of the Jayoe Nation's offer!
these vids are so awesome!
Thank you for your video introducing Chinese village! This reminds me of our tradition and old culture! China is still developing country, we are working hard to develop our country!
You are one the realest people I’ve seen in a while
Thanks
Thank you for videoing your travels in China. Some places in the US are like this especially in the regions of the Appalachia. My father grew up in the Oregon Mts. In a house without electric and their plumbing was simply pipes running to the house from the nearest river.
This is very well done Mike. We share many similar perspectives
I've been to a very remote village in China ,too . I was surprised that in such areas it has 4G there . Great video~It's nice to see people in those areas are living a harmony life.
Very nice vlog! I find you incredibly open minded, nonjudgmental, and adaptive. Btw, I like how nice your monologue was, and the lessons from your dad
amazing scenery dude , thank you
Matt, one thing you don't understand that area why they don't put glass windows on. It is because the moisture. Too much rain, they have to keep the houses open to get ventilation. Otherwise there will be got mold all the time inside.
ahh ok ok
Great informative vlog Matt, that was a great talk on the Chinese farmer's life. That tree is Poinsettia tree. Keep safe and warm,,,,,JaYoe my friend.
love this
This is truly amazing. I am a Chinese and I currently live in Detroit. I get every word you are saying in this video. Very touching and emotional when you put yourself into a such pure and quite place.
Interesting Chinese rural village. Thanks for sharing.
it is beautiful~~~~~~~~~~nice jouney~
Hi JaYoe, this vid popped up at my page and I clicked it expecting some bashing comments as I normally will hear/see. And I got surprised. I teared up a little when you talked about the window and their living condition. I feel for them. I myself live in Guangzhou city, and my hometown is a small town in Hunan. I think I have experienced such hard condition when I was five or six, at my grandma's village before she passed away. My memories are foggy though. Even though the living condition was hard, I remember I had so much fun there. Thank you for bringing back some of my great memories. And thank you for being empathy and not bias. There are still lots of places like this in China and also around the world. I hope there are less conflict and more good work to be done for places like this. Sorry for my poor English. Peace and love!
Kath! thanks for the amazing comment. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts.
Thats how you coexist peacefully with the nature...very zen place...
Great video...some of my impressions exactly from when i was there 2012
I'm mesmerized by the quality of your China vlogs... The music and editing are so on point. This one actually had me tear up and left me in deep thoughts. My father came from a poor background in one of these remote villages in Guangxi Province but later managed to get a good job and migrated to the city. Being raised in the city, as a child I always felt ashamed of my father's "peasant background" and took my good life for granted. I prided myself in being a city girl and feared people would ever find out the truth behind my "less cultivated" father. I had been reluctant to return to that "not-so-aesthetically-refined" stone house that my father had grown up in (much like the one filmed in the vid but more run-down). Took me years to realize the incredible effort of my father in surviving the harsh living conditions (no electric lighting, broken rooftop that leaked, not enough food for 7 kids, had to walk 3 hours in mud to commute to school... etc. Life is way tougher back then in a Chinese village), who eventually transcended his social class by studying and working his ass off. This video just resonates with me and makes me want to go out and explore my father's home village - the place that made my father the person he is today. I also found people in Chinese villages naturally kinder and more welcoming than those in the cities but had unfortunately been too arrogant to have a good talk with them! I feel absolutely grateful for what I have now and definitely started to appreciate the natural beauty, the relaxing atmosphere and simplicity of the countryside. Thank you for inspiring me and showing people what life is like in a remote Chinese village! (Also, how things have improved these days! 5 years ago roads in my father's village were still muddy now they're all nice and clean.)
Hope you share this video with your story. I would love to expose others to it. Yes. I hope my daughter can distance herself from looking down on that type of life as well. It is really to be respected and appreciate as we are all so different but also the same
不要回来了，不欢迎了
随时欢迎你，虽然我不在广西，每个人年轻时都有傲慢的心理，及时改正是大善，祝你生活好运
thank you Matt. great video. I grew up in a village like this China. it is way way better than 10,20years ago. people are way happier now than then . if you went there in 2009,2010, you will cry seeing how poor ppl there. back then, we didn't have running water, electricity, phone signal, TV. trust me, it is getting better and bettet.
great stuff, keep up the good work! peace from Guangzhou.
Thank you for sharing this video. very interesting
Appreciate this video as this is the closest everyone will get to the 'Real China', and is beautiful.
These places are not villages. This places are farm land houses. You could see that the video did not show that people are living there -- even kids. The farmer sometimes word have to work for longer period and as a result will have to pass the night in this farmland house. This scenario also exist in Europe.
Nice video matt, me as a Malaysian chinese have stayed and worked in china at Zhuhai before. it was my desire to visit these villages but didnt make the time, this video gives me lots of good memories. TQVM will catch more of your videos
Good work. My hometown is a small poor village locates in east Guangxi, near the border to Guangdong. I was tired of these concrete houses, paddy field and green mountain until I watched your video. You have discovered so much details I get used to and never be aware of, which makes me re-understand my hometown. Thanks for sharing the beauty of a remote place that few people know.
Thank you for sharing this video! The village is beautiful and the people there are nice and friendly 🌹
I just went to Ling Qing village in southern China, like 30 minutes ago! 😎 well, that's how I felt, the reality, I'm still sitting behind my PC😕 awesome video thanks Matt
Excellent vid Matt...Need more like this...JaYoe
Love the opening footage and music!
My grandfather was born in this province (Kentan - GuangXi) before he followed his father to migrate to Indonesia at a very young age. He has a twins brother who is believed to kept living there with his mother. Sadly, my grandfather never got a chance to back and meet his family there until he passed away. As a grandson, I really wish to fulfill one of the biggest wishes of my grandfather to meet his family back in Kentan (Guang Xi) China. However, there is no clear information about the exact location, the only thing that we know is his mother's name and the surname of his brother (Lim/Lin). Hopefully, there will be a chance for me to visit there one day
希望有机会可以回来看看
Thank you for making this one. It is something I will never be able to see on my own. I prefer rural life myself, so I'm enjoying these last few episodes. I hope to see more like this. Big fan of your B-roll too,
I was born in a big city in China, but through your camera I am able to see the parts of China I would never have a chance to experience myself. So thank you for this!
Great video. Very interesting and unique content. Enjoying this whole section of videos. Stay safe and have a Merry Christmas and Happy NewYear and Chinese New Year when you take the break. You'll need to warm up after this series of cold stops. Brrrr
The mountains are so cool!
The family is preparing for Lunar Chinese New Year, village style
Hi first time watching and you got a new subscriber. Love how you talk about the struggles and everything else that they’re going through and still continue. Like you said in the West they’ll make fun of you and in the East is nothing but Support. Can’t wait to view your new and old videos.
I love your video, subscribed!
Just discovered your channel! I’ve enjoyed watching them so much! I’m Chinese from northern part of China , didn’t know how southern villages look like ! Thank you for sharing !
I think it must be going viral a little bit... this video is getting spread a lot... welcome and glad you like it!