Echoes of the past: bagpipes still played in Hong Kong 25 years after handover ended British rule
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The unmistakable shrill of bagpipes has been part of the Hong Kong soundscape since former British rulers introduced the Scottish woodwind instrument to the city in the late 1800s. Now, 25 years after Britain returned the former colony to China, bagpipes still feature at memorials and celebrations in the city.
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I am glad that they are embracing other customs and cultures. Nothing wrong with it. It is a fine instrument to learn.
Why is this not their culture too?
@@theironlemon_4156 its part of hong kong customs
It’s gross. They should revert to Asian customs
@@gondar6181 yeah we should stop eating mcdonalds and other western cuisines cause you said we should revert to it. matter of fact lets use swords instead of guns since the westerners technically invented it
The bagpipe survived it all. It still sounds extraordinary, piercing, noisy and marvellous.
Yes, it evokes Anglo Saxon superiority mindset and slaves hang over. While the slaves felt inferior and abandoned their own heritage and music instrument in favor of the master musical instrument. Real loser, 25 years and still getting a hang over with this musical instrument. Grow a spine please!
@doe sky based
There's nothing wrong with bagpipes. This musical instrument is majestic.
The people in Hong Kong will forever be welcome in Scotland, we haven't forgot you.
lol,u sure?
@@haziqhaziq5550 1000%, unlike our neighbours our immigrants are treated with respect whether they are legal or not and so they return that respect.
We also don't tolerate people that disrespect our culture, ever notice how unlike England, none of our Muslim citizens burn poppy's in the street, its because they know that we'll turn on them rapidly if they choose to take our kindness and throw it in our face.
These kinds of people are what keep cultures alive
Of course you would say that. It's your culture. I don't see Caucasians dressing like Asians and doing dances or using instruments 🤣🤣 It's your culture. You all will LOSE it if it was reversed
Lol what culture? Colonial culture?🤣🤣
@@humansarecrazybeing5730 still better than the communist up north
I mean they did started
the cultural revolution
Which should be called cultural destruction
@@humansarecrazybeing5730 exactly.... it's not even Hong Kong culture to begin with....
@@humansarecrazybeing5730 survival of the fittest , rule of nature.
Lovely video. I lived 27 years in Hong Kong. leaving in 2002. I helped to design and build the Mass Transit Railway.
Thank you for building one of the best rail system in the world and letting us enjoy it for so long. What a marvellous design!
Imagine staying in Hong Kong for a little bit and hear this one day and be like
“Wait is this china or Scotland?”
lol seems people will never understand British culture has been part of HK culture for decades
If playing bagpipes is considered colonial remnant than the entirety of HK culture is a colonial remnant : )
Hmmmm not even close stop trying to put british aesthetic on hk ik ur your proud that your country did this not cool but weird flex but go off
@@tatsuyaaikawa7185 Learn English and try to understand what I mean. British aesthetic has been incorporated to HK culture more multiple decades. Stop showing your ignorance :D
Wearing the skirt and playing the bagpipes is considered colonial remnant....then I suggest he should play the bagpipes with Chinese martial art costume like those wear by master "Wong Fei Hung"....and see what's the British people will say....
@Angie S lol it's more of a shame on you looking down to some cultures
@@val.t7487 They'd probably feel the same way Chinese feel seeing white people wear traditional Han Revivaliat clothing: flattered.
I will never forget the RHKPF playing Highland Cathedral at the lowering of the Governor’s Standard that took place on June 30, 1997. Sad times 😞
多謝！
End of an empire white boy
@@ab8588 I’m Asian
@@Anonymoususer44569Don't listen to the racist. They come in all shapes and forms - their main emotion is resentment and hatred.
I was sad on that day but now that I’m older and wiser, it was clearly the historically correct thing to do. Plus we still get to hear the bagpipes.
Don't understand why the negative comments about the bagpiper. All former colonies inherit something from their conquerors/colonisers. The English language itself has many words borrowed from French (from the Normans) and Norse (from the Vikings). At the start of Lee Kuan Yew's (Singapore's first Prime Minister) funeral procession, a lone Gurkha piper played 'Auld Lang Syne' from the top of the Istana (formerly the British Governor's residence).If an independent country like Singapore chooses to retain this British tradition, I don't see what the problem is with HK retaining it.
I see people getting annoyed by the kilt, saying they are fine with the bagpipes but the kilt being too much, have you ever seen what happens when you try to remove a kilt from someone and ban them from wearing it, it is highly not recommended. that is a war starter.
Is brits learned that the hard way😂😂😂 the Scots love their kilts too much
@@bigships think you mean the English the British are the Scottish, Welsh, northern Irish and English. Just thought I’d let you know 😊
@@bigshipsyou mean english? That was like 300 years ago anyways before the union in 1707
@@Britannic_Knight yeah I did
I hope he won't be criticized for being a "colonial remnant" or a culture different from Chinese tradition.
That's exactly what he is. He is an EMBARRASSMENT.
Already been criticized....somehow they fight for freedom but actually they prison themselves with coloniser's cultures or traditions.... These people have weird thinking...they just don't know what they want.
Destroying something because it is part of 'colonial history' is essentially destroying the unique identity of the local cultures and history. Oh wait, CCP did that and it's known as 'The Cultural revolution'.
@@RUTHLESSambition5 yeesh talking like that i could ask the same why your wearing western clothes, stealing our western culture. Cant you just agree on thay he likes the bagpipes without the colonial stigma.
@@bluefox6392 I live in America and my people helped develope ALL these products. We created the touch screen ect ect. They are in CHINA and not in the UK or America. Horrible rational
Yes, ending an era and keeping the tradition of past events. I love it.
@Angie S name a country which has never invaded. Not China that’s for sure.
@@VisulC True, it's whether they invade earlier or later: earlier and they'll get to assimilate the territory into their core and after a very long time people will treat it as part of their core, later and they'll probably not be able to erase what makes the territory and its identity before those memories cease to exist in the minds of the populace.
Hong-Kong is still brother of Australia New Zealand and Canada
Hhaha no ?
@chips1583 He's not wrong. Ever been to Vancouver?
Respect for this guy 🇬🇧🙌
Bagpipes and auld lang syne is just the best combination of an instrument and music can be
This is the overlooked positive legacy of colonialism. As bad as it is for those at the time, the lasting effects are the mixture of culture that would not have been possible otherwise. In an ideal world, India & Pakistan would have cricket without needing to be colonized, Hong Kong could have bagpipes etc. but overall we are so fortunate to live in a time where we can enjoy the benefits of sharing culture without the atrocities that go along with it. We’re one of the luckiest generations in the history of earth, crazy huh?
I think the trend of globalization in the past 200 years, though partly enabled through imperialism, would have led to the spread of cultures globally. I'd choose to look at the legacy of the freedom of press and speech, laissez faire business environment, and rule of law all from the British as "positive externalities" amongst a sea of dehumanizing policies and social prejudice.
People like you need to stop saying that the bagpipes are a legacy of British colonialism. This kind of talk is exactly what gives ammunition to the ignorant pro-China people to think bagpipes should be banned. The pipes have originated in Asia Minor a thousand years ago and it is fundamentally an Asian instrument. Many countries that were never colonialized still play it and it has nothing to do with imperialism or colonialism of any sort. The most you could say is that it was popularized by the Irish and the Scots in the contemporary context but even they have been the subject of English colonialism. It is not even technically a distinctively Western instrument per se by any stretch of the imagination so stop saying it is a product of colonialism to give the morons any pretext to ban it.
@@alvindurochermtl while I understand part of your comment, claiming they are an Asian instrument which has more relevance to China is nonsense. I’m aware that Scotland and Ireland don’t exclusively use them, but they are 100% a European instrument with the earliest “depiction” being Ancient Greece. I’m guessing you’re referring to the classic Anatolia claim, which is the incorrect instrument. The earliest bagpipe that’s ever been discovered is in Germany, and the British Isles has referenced them in the 14th century. They do not exist verifiably prior to this, and all the claims are STILL EUROPEAN.
If you’re talking about Brittany and Galicia as places who weren’t colonised but use bagpipes, you may want to read about the Brittonic Community. They are actually historically tied to Wales, and the original settlers of the British Isles.
So while I understand your concerns, China would have to essentially blacklist all British influence that is even applicable to their own country. They’d have to also get rid of the University of Hong Kong, HSBC, remove reference to Christianity, stop teaching the English language, override their law etc.
I know China has its problems but I don’t think even the CPC would go that far lol. I doubt China even understands the contextual difference between reference to Scotland, England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. They literally used Highland bagpipes at the handover ceremony!
No Hong Konger I’ve spoken to ever complained about being a British colony and instead complained endlessly about how they’re treated by China
@@Elghast as a Hong Konger, we complain endlessly about everything. Most people cannot name any specific thing that China did to them.
Big salute and my Dad was also from Gorkha army as a musician
Someday the British will return and free Hong Kong from communist China. We haven’t forgotten you. You are part of the commonwealth and always will be. China may rule for now, but they will never have the hearts of the Hong Kong people. Free HK!!!
Hong Kong was part of the oldest continuous civilization for thousands of years and it will remain part of the motherland. Colonial aggressions by racist colonialists won't be able to spread its poison in front of the great wall of steel forged by 1.4 billion compatriots.
@@AA-pz4pv Keep spreading you’re lies and communist propaganda. China shouldn’t fear America, believe me, it should fear the rise of the British empire because its coming mate. Unlike previous empires, the British empire dismantled, it never was broken. So many countries, to this day share a lot of love and affiliation with the U.K. and the Queen. The commonwealth is still alive and breathing. It’s like what China was, before its rise. It’s a sleeping dragon, or should I say a sleeping tiger, that will soon rise and free Hong Kong from being ruled by the iron fist in China. Than HK will be free to chose its own destiny. We love you Hong Kong #canzuk ✌️🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧✌️
Yes that would be great ! It would be great for Malaysia/ SG & HK to be under British rule again. Long live the Queen.
The 99 year lease was up and not renewed. Those who don’t want to be a part of China left Hong Kong in the 1990’s.
Was staying at my GF's studio around Prince Edward. Occasional one would hear a bag pipe been played in the distance on a Saturday morning which was really lovely to hear.
I feel so sorry for them. Born British, doomed to die as unfree slaves of the CPC.
How the small British empire could colonized so many big countries in the world ....????
OP navy
Scotland the brave. Iconic
Thank you and appreciate of the respectful response of the rights of Hong Kong peoples rights as effectively immediately.
I’m happy that we can share our culture with Hong Kong 🏴🤝🇭🇰
0:45 this is indian pipe band. not a british pipe band
I bet in the near future the communist party will ban that instrument
I wish!
@@AlbertXuY What's wrong with Bagpipes?
Based on what reason? They’re still using them and no plan to remove them.
You should check out Macau, their parades look like they’re lifted straight out of the Portuguese soldiers.
There’s nothing wrong with old traditions. The problem is when people try to appropriate colonial themes to lend legitimacy to their violent riots.
@@AlbertXuYwhy bro
@@LeInternetcockroachprobably because it's not chinese, as China is trying to purge Hong Kong of its culture and language.
Singapore Police Force Women Performing Bagpipes on every Ceremonies and National Day parade celebrations.
This Year 2022 Singapore 🇸🇬 National Day parade did show case performance of Singapore women Police Force Bagpipes performance with the marching in open Ceremony of the Guard of honour contigents.
i’m from singapore & didn’t know this 😮
Sound has the ability to control 🐇 It encourages the soldiers 🐇
Learning something new everyday I didn't know they had bagpipes in Hong Kong now I know
They started to play Chinese tunes with the bagpipes too. It’s actually a novel idea and I’m surprised someone actually bothered to adapt a score for bagpipes.
Oh yeah. It sounds really weird the first time I heard the HK Police Band play PLA songs with bagpipes. Weird and cool at the same time
I can see lot of our Indians in British Empire marching in hongkong 👍
yeah mee too🔥🔥🔥
Yes! I love bagpipes me!😃
I don’t see it lasting much longer in Hong Kong.
bagpipers should be at the protests
Proud British heritage in hong kongers
Please carry on this tradition.
Hong Kong 🇭🇰 🇬🇧🏴
The bagpipe exists only as a musical instrument in any country at any time. But I don't know if this Hong Konger wants to use the sad music of the bagpipes to miss the centuries-old scenery of the British Empire. If so, it would be very funny.
The real Hongkong!
Along with Rod Stewart's "If You Want My Body."
As a Scottish transvestite, this is cultural misappropriation. I am going to ask the UN to investigate this breach of human rights!
British* There is no Scottish as nationality
the best football club in scotland is irish remember that
@@SonkuHybridSaiyan scotland is a nation within the united kingdom it's just in a union with england
@@jeanmatthews3899 how
@@SonkuHybridSaiyan *sigh* Great Britain is an island, UK is several islands, on these islands are several nations (England, Scotland, Wales, [Northern] Ireland, etc.
It wouldn’t surprise me if China bans bagpipes altogether in HK.
British Hong Kong R. I. P.
If SNP gets what they want, bagpipes will not be British anymore.
anyone know the name of the song at the beginning?
Auld Lang Syne
@@gamerairborne101 thanks
@@jacksewe123 No Problem
And now Scotland won’t even be part of the UK much longer
Maybe not a certain separation
Scotland hasn't been independent for 317 years and I doubt that's gonna change any time soon
So this can be a news ... ...
one the brits fix priblems at the homeland, they will be back to free hong kong
I wonder how long it will survive. 😢
My school band is the only All malaysia school have piper school band
Victoria Institution (VI). My first encounter with bagpipes was on the Founder's Day. It's indeed a musical instrument that's majestic and commands attention.
I'm think is setapak high school
Maybe because the whites were not too kind to the locals in the past?
this is what they play in scotland
The amazing success of Hong Kong was entirely a result of western political economy (free market govt) se in a highly repressive Asian context. The 'pipes are just a tiny cultural artifact; ironically, best identified with Scotland, fighting their English captors. So really, the 'pipes are a finger in th eye of the colonizer who made Hong Kong the success that it is. Irony.
Western political system against a highly repressive…and poor…Asian context. Now that context is no longer poor and far less repressive than before, Hong Kong’s uniqueness has become obsolete.
Which is to say, those people in Hong Kong who pine for the past, don’t really understand what they want. All the colonial flags in the world won’t bring China back into poverty for a second round of exploitation.
Nice story by SCMP
It's hong kong and Scotland commom-law situation without China government involvement at all. Even Allen's that I can't see again I will honor of him as my husband's.
👍👍👍😭😭
Keep going
No guzheng?
Wait, where is the national security police??
女王马上给你居留权
Bagpipes aren't even originally Scottish. They first appeared in Anatolia. They then spread throughout Europe. So maybe its the bagpipes that have colonized the world.
So sad
imperial echoes
Based
We need bagpipes in more asian countries, like Indonesia, i hope bagpipe will be recognize soon.
So to British Commonwealth countries too.
Stockholm syndrome
Maybe weihaiwei?
Indonesian:
Memang udah diakui,cuman orang-orangnya aja yang gak tertarik main tas pipa.
English:
It's already been recognized,it's just the people are not interested playing bagpipes.
😢
When will our brothers and sisters in Hong Kong get over their colonizers? The stockholm syndrome is shocking
The Indian and Pakistani armies still make widespread use of highland pipes, with their own flair, and I love it
actually the bagpipe music is based from William Wallace Braveheart
You just made that up
🧢
It’s a very moving sound
Social credits: -10,000 points, because it's foreigner's culture, especially west.
Learn Scottish Beliefs & Practices through The Western World 🌎🌍
...and in came the gong!!
🏆👍
It’s song’s about Hong Kong rights of the independence starting the Hong Kong peoples journeys with Worldwide relationship’s to be continues with kindness friendly International treats Hong king as the motherland of Universe effectively immediately By The Ownership’s of Lands and Properties Worldwide. As well as, The Emperor’s rights return to Hing Kong as well.
People get the history of the bagpipes mixed up...has nothing to do with British Colonization....
It is suspected that the instrument was built ca. 2000 BC. originated in the region of India, Pakistan and Iran and then brought to the west by the expeditions of Alexander the Great. Bagpipes already existed in ancient Egypt and Turkey and spread throughout Europe in Roman times. In Belgium, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Galicia and Asturias (Spain) and Serbia and Albania they have become part of the culture over the centuries.
If you love the instrument then just play it no matter where you come from...just like playing the guitar or harp...It is a fine instrument to learn if you like the sound of the pipes.... nothing wrong with it.
ER, NOT EXACTLY 'NOTHING'.
南华早报想念他的主人了
How can you have
Bagpipes in china and hong kong
scoootish👍
facepalm
HELLO RELATIVE
Colonial Hangover
That's a pretty simplistic creative way of describing this.
Bro it's just bagpipes, there's nothing wrong with appreciating something from a culture from your colonizers
bagpipes are practically imported from north africa and iberia
the Scottish bagpipes are more famous because of scotland is part of the united kingdom
Lol colonial period hangover. Seems like some asian still thinks they are white 🤣🤣
It's SO PATHETIC. It's like people in India. What did the Britts do to these people.. Sheesh . It was highly highly effective. They WORSHIP the Britts and caucasians
Maybe he likes the sound and doesn’t think of it that deep
这些人都是贱人，奴才！
@@sko1beer look what he dresses when playing that
@@leo-ds8en he’s wearing a dress lol
colonial legecies were so dangeours that makes you think your own ethnic/blood peoples were inferior than your master and make them play a divide & rule policy. this video was exactly that hongkongers simply cant get over their mental colonization. same things happens with INDIA as well
Why on earth should we be thinking with our ethnicity? We are our own people and Hong Kong is its own culture separate from China. It is a hybrid of British and Chinese and engaging in the British does not mean they hate the Chinese or think it's inferior. Just like how I, as a Caribbean, should not be expected to feign affection for Africa solely because of race, Hong Kong people should not be expected to feign affection for China for the same reason.
We should be trying to move on from such racialist and ethnicist attitudes, not trying to resurrect them. If anything, you're the one with the inferiority complex if you can't comprehend that people can genuinely like cultures that aren't completely ancestral
@@jl63023 you as a carribbean doesn't have feign for africa cuz you might doesn't even know from which piece of land your ancestors were forced to migrate to carribbean for slavery. Also africa was an entire continent with diverse and different cultures, whereas china a nation dont know how did you compared both anyways. Also carribbean hardly use any native african languages other than English so culture of african ethnic peoples living in US carribbean and any other land during age if slavery literally lost their culture. Where as for Hong kong - china situation were very diff. Dont always compare every situation with each other it might looks same but its absolutely not.
@@Debarghaya_Mukherjee In my defense, I have seen people in prominent positions in my own region say similar remarks that "black people should reject colonial culture and restore African identity" by going all in and whatever African originated aspects remained. So, of course I imagined the situation would be somewhat similar but I guess I was mistaken with regard to the degree. But overall, it is still a case of hybridized culture. The parts of the British culture that have been accepted into HK culture will be their culture. 99 years of cultural separation doesn't go away and you can't just forcibly purge something that was essentially their culture for nearly a century. It would be wise to just accept that HK will never be (fully) Chinese culturally and will be its own unit from the mainland.
@@jl63023 Sure you’re right but didn’t we see Hong Kong protesters beat up those citizens who supported China. That’s not democracy or tolerance for others who see things differently.
Feeling of being enslaved....can't you shake that off.... it's not Hong Kong tradition to begin with....
But many HK people feel being enslaved by china.
@@MultiDivebomber That's the problem of their mindset....look at that guy wearing skirt and blowing the bagpipes... that's not the original culture or tradition of Hong Kong.... Those HK people that fight for freedom but they're the one who prison themselves for decades....
they are about to be enslaved by China
@@truthboom at least China won't put up board stating no Chinese people allowed to enter some of the parks....
@@val.t7487 The "Skirt" is called a Kilt worn by the Scots
How sad is this🤣🤣🤣 This is what Caucasian propaganda does... These people actually think they are British. I would be so embarrassed
Nah I’m pretty sure they just really like the funny looking instrument and absorbed it into their culture
No, listen and read before you make a dumb comment, and watch the whole video first.
Keep killing your own Hamite 😂
@@osama7639 Look at Ukraine 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 U people are turning on each other. I love it
@@thekhoifish0146 They were brainwashed. Kids taken from their family's and put in boarding schools. They did the same thing here to Indians kids here. We are just now seeing the horrors those kids went through
I think It was the British Raj not the British Empire by the looks of 0:45
A lot of Indian troops from the time of the Raj were posted in Hong Kong.
Looks like this may offend the HK NSL law very soon 😂😂 ccp may want it banned soon
Fake news. Only violent rioters and their financiers get their toys banned. Rest of us proudly respect our old traditions while moving forward.
keep on blowing for your master
1st of July, 2032 : bagpipes are a symbol of sedition and its usage can lead up to 5 years sentence down the mainland
呵呵呵
😂
very urgly indeed。。。
I’m surprise homie didn’t get arrested for playing “foreign influences “
Free Scotland!
Support western alliance to fight CCP!
Back to UK
Hong Kong is not British
Do you really have to wear the skilt though. 😅
I trust England should leased a state for 100 years like Hong Kong where china can rule exclusively having PLA style of military parade. Then it would be fair for both countries.
They already have, there's a Xhina town in every city in the UK ( every major city that is)
Need to ban and takeway the pipes, foreign interference
No need ban instruments but need to change the outfit
@@val.t7487 why tho it’s not hurting anyone
@@monglianland3410 it's hurting their own self value which they see it well...when we played a specific music instrument from the origin country, we doesn't need to use the origin clothes...what the musician have to perform is their skill in playing the instrument.
@@val.t7487 I mean stereotypes of Chinese kids playing piano is common and the piano originated from Italy and that doesn’t devalue there culture or practices just adds on to them we shouldn’t judge individuals chocies
@@monglianland3410 didn't my comment said it's ok to play the instrument but doesn't need to wear the instrument country origin clothes to perform it ... Let the world know, you're a different individual from different countries can perform the music instrument very well
China do not need another Shanghai, only Hker think mainland is changing the specialty of HK