The Poems of Zhang Zongchang (ft.

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  • Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025

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  • @wowmao
    @wowmao  Год назад +2375

    0:03 *he not hew, ffs
    i'm semi-literate myself

    • @kovachevkheidan
      @kovachevkheidan Год назад +175

      Jarvis, remove this man’s lips for making a minor spelling error.

    • @xqm98
      @xqm98 Год назад

      dummy idiot stoiped

    • @Sebir5y
      @Sebir5y Год назад +41

      Skill issue

    • @zlomeny
      @zlomeny Год назад +23

      only semi-literate

    • @1994CivicGLi
      @1994CivicGLi Год назад +35

      he is the descendant!!!

  • @AmirSatt
    @AmirSatt Год назад +3408

    Most sane Chinese warlord in any era

    • @angusyang5917
      @angusyang5917 Год назад +194

      Wait till you hear the other two based Zhangs, the "I killed my bitch and the entire city to feed my soldiers" Zhang Xun, and the "kill kill kill kill kill kill kill" Zhang Xianzhong

    • @lolasdm6959
      @lolasdm6959 Год назад +111

      @@angusyang5917 Don't forget Zhang Liao, who withstood a seige against 100,000 troops by sallying out with 800 calvary, forcing a demoralizing retreat on the enemy.

    • @EyePatchGuy88
      @EyePatchGuy88 Год назад +44

      ​@@lolasdm6959 Speaking of which, Zhang Fei took control of an entire town to serve as his base of operations to search for his sworn brother Liu Bei, ruling it under the threat of violence of anyone who disobeyed him.

    • @lolasdm6959
      @lolasdm6959 Год назад +49

      @@EyePatchGuy88 Zhang Fei is sadly pretty medicore amongst his Zhang peers.

    • @PrimalDirective
      @PrimalDirective Год назад +6

      Except at inciting mutiny and rebellion within his troops 🫡

  • @compatriot852
    @compatriot852 Год назад +4755

    China really does produce some of the world's finest intellectuals

  • @sashaokoh2344
    @sashaokoh2344 Год назад +1871

    Truly the Most Basest warlord, we should all aspire to be like him

    • @comlain2513
      @comlain2513 Год назад +23

      I will condescendingly say an ad hominem to gaslight you into thinking you're wrong

    • @moustachepig43
      @moustachepig43 Год назад +32

      Most Based Warlord

    • @ExcessOL
      @ExcessOL Год назад +12

      He's literally me frfr

    • @matijastanivukovic8744
      @matijastanivukovic8744 Год назад +9

      Is this an end for the basest warlord of China?

    • @derpeth2101
      @derpeth2101 Год назад +6

      He's literally me

  • @AntonBerglund88
    @AntonBerglund88 Год назад +2832

    so ahead of his time. If he was alive today Zoomers around the world would send him praises.

    • @Ozz2021
      @Ozz2021 Год назад +82

      I’d be one of them.

    • @muwus328
      @muwus328 Год назад +68

      Ah a fellow schizoid 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿

    • @tjgdddfcn
      @tjgdddfcn Год назад +91

      born in the wrong generation 😫

    • @Tabish_Nooristani
      @Tabish_Nooristani Год назад +24

      Def in Hasan Abis stream

    • @molanohouse
      @molanohouse Год назад +21

      He Top G of his era

  • @FullMetalZergling
    @FullMetalZergling Год назад +3481

    "From afar, Mount Tai looks blackish
    Narrow on top and wide at the bottom
    If you flipped it upside down
    It would be narrow at the bottom and wide on top"
    Unironically zoomer humor wtf. He was actually a century ahead of his time.

    • @ClownwardSpiral9889
      @ClownwardSpiral9889 Год назад +256

      游泰山(张宗昌)
      远看泰山黑糊糊,
      上头细来下头粗。
      如把泰山倒过来,
      下头细来上头粗。

    • @low_vibration
      @low_vibration Год назад

      Or the average zoomer is about as intelligent as a semi illiterate warlord

    • @crusaderkaiser2000
      @crusaderkaiser2000 Год назад +103

      He is my favorite warlord :)

    • @greekenderman2005
      @greekenderman2005 Год назад +35

      ​@@crusaderkaiser2000favourite*

    • @legendarynoodle2438
      @legendarynoodle2438 Год назад

      @greekendean2005 brit*sh detected 🤮

  • @connorwalters9223
    @connorwalters9223 Год назад +1636

    Zhang Zongchang travelled China in an armored train he had bought from some White Russian war criminals who were hiding in Mongolia. In one of the cars were the designated quarters for his 42 concubines, whom he could not be bothered to remember the names of, and so referred to them by numbers. He also killed so many people during his campaigns that he literally changed the Chinese language. Because every time he found a creative new way to execute someone, people came up with new euphemisms to describe it

    • @Rabbi-Jill-kews
      @Rabbi-Jill-kews Год назад +222

      Not even knowing your concubines names is the way to live, man…

    • @TheFalseShepphard
      @TheFalseShepphard Год назад +71

      ​@@Rabbi-Jill-kewsYeaah... sure

    • @kielbasamage
      @kielbasamage Год назад +3

      @@Rabbi-Jill-kewsthat like ratio is perfect…

    • @ananomalocaris1682
      @ananomalocaris1682 Год назад +104

      For the record, he also forgot his concubines numbers as well

    • @Freekymoho
      @Freekymoho Год назад +7

      What a chad

  • @whatzittooya9012
    @whatzittooya9012 Год назад +658

    No fucking way, that's my translation of the lightning poem I put on the internet like 5 years ago.
    To clarify, Zhang didn't literally say "get lit." He used a word that means "smoke," with the connotation of smoking opium. But I chose the translation that not only conveys the same meaning, but also makes the English wordplay 10 times better.

    • @fish-xg8mu
      @fish-xg8mu Год назад +61

      翻譯的很信達雅👍

    • @flyingstapler1241
      @flyingstapler1241 Год назад +28

      "Smoke" fits more because people often use it to refer to smoking weed. It's closer to the opium connotation. "Get lit" is more like getting drunk or having fun.

    • @alanovski.
      @alanovski. 8 месяцев назад +7

      yeah i understood that's what the translation was going for, nice one

    • @crimsonbaron4418
      @crimsonbaron4418 7 месяцев назад +16

      We got dogmeatian scholars over here

    • @Urdatorn
      @Urdatorn 7 месяцев назад +1

      Excellent work 👏

  • @BobBobby-ji4nm
    @BobBobby-ji4nm Год назад +907

    "when Chinese warlord Zhang Zongchang saw his first basketball game, he asked, “Why the hell are they fighting over a single ball? We’re the hosts. Are we seriously this poor?” He ordered every player be given a basketball"

    • @ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012
      @ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 Год назад +191

      And when he found out one of his officers is having affairs with his concubine he let them marry when he know they loved eachother

    • @tozarkt9805
      @tozarkt9805 Год назад +12

      Sources pls?

    • @finnguy1549
      @finnguy1549 Год назад

      @@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012based if true

    • @giantWario
      @giantWario Год назад +137

      @@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 I mean, when you have so many concubines that you can't even keep track of them, are you seriously gonna complain when one of your best officers wants to marry one of them? I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even remember who she was.

    • @liliya_aseeva
      @liliya_aseeva 6 месяцев назад +15

      This story about giving free balls is so common in Asia. It is in fact an old Persian story which travels around the Silk Road. We have some Turkic folk Hoca Nasreddin stories in former Soviet Central Asia which also tell this story. Just that time it was the jinn which could not comprehend people's funs.

  • @巫轟
    @巫轟 Год назад +729

    Fun fact, it did rain after three days. There is a long history of Confucian rainmaking rituals, which also include threatening the certain gods. Zhu Xi during the Song Dynasty also asked for rain in three days. Except he slept at the Temple and would sacrifice himself if it did not rain.

    • @lolasdm6959
      @lolasdm6959 Год назад +116

      There was a official who "tamed" a flooding river by mobolizing 3000 archers and shooting the "river god", and afterwhich the floods stopped.

    • @EyePatchGuy88
      @EyePatchGuy88 Год назад +1

      This virgin prostration to God vs the Chad threatening God.

    • @inserttapehere276
      @inserttapehere276 Год назад +93

      imagine being the sky god and some dude threatens to kill himself if you don’t make it rain

    • @vrrooooommmm123
      @vrrooooommmm123 Год назад +87

      ​@@inserttapehere276this what Ghandi did to the British

    • @vegeta_69420
      @vegeta_69420 Год назад +74

      @@inserttapehere276imagine being the sky god and forgetting to make it rain on day three, and all of a sudden your mom is filled with holes by mortal artillery.

  • @OffyDGG
    @OffyDGG Год назад +309

    Poem about bastards is a timeless classic of art, so much human experience captured in so few words, cuts right into reality, perfect

  • @user1029xspl8dy
    @user1029xspl8dy Год назад +715

    Why this poetic genius didn’t win the Nobel Prize for Literature is beyond me

    • @pepeokatze
      @pepeokatze Год назад

      Another victim of the w*stoid biased world order😔

    • @czarnikolaiiii1787
      @czarnikolaiiii1787 Год назад

      Liberal media censorship (it’s just a joke don’t take it too seriously lol.)

    • @nbewarwe
      @nbewarwe Год назад +41

      He lived during the 20s, a time when the Nobel Prize was heavily weighted towards white people because of racism.

    • @finnguy1549
      @finnguy1549 Год назад +7

      I mean he was a warlord

  • @theberserker6000
    @theberserker6000 Год назад +202

    About the last poem, the Dogmeat General did actually done all of what the poem said.
    The warlord and his people experienced a drought, so he decieded to destroy the temple of the Lightning God and threaten the God himself that if there is no rain in the next 5 days, he will shoot the sky.
    The next day, it rained for 2 weeks straight.

  • @officernealy
    @officernealy Год назад +569

    Schools are really out here teaching kids poetry from the likes of Shakespeare, Frost, Poe, & Dickinson because they're too afraid what kids could become learning the wisdom of Dogmeat General.

    • @rdrrr
      @rdrrr Год назад +80

      Betas always tryna keep Sigmas down

    • @msf2000
      @msf2000 Год назад

      Corrupt education system always hiding the truth from students 😤

  • @1994CivicGLi
    @1994CivicGLi Год назад +180

    I am convinced Zhang had access to 4chan.

    • @lolasdm6959
      @lolasdm6959 Год назад

      no, 4Chan exists because it had access to Zhang, whose in heaven banging god's mom.

    • @edibleandsentientautomobil5396
      @edibleandsentientautomobil5396 3 дня назад +1

      I don't think so, if he was a 4channer he wouldn't have had any concubines

  • @franklindapuss7990
    @franklindapuss7990 Год назад +378

    I think it would be epic, iconic and some would even say monumental if you made more videos like this, short little videos about random and eccentric characters from history just like this video which was incredibly good.

    • @bighillraft
      @bighillraft Год назад +11

      Bro gonna become MasterofRoflness but on weed instead of crack

    • @cloakedhornets6515
      @cloakedhornets6515 Год назад +11

      @@bighillraft I try to watch masterofroflness, but I can't keep up with all the text. This feels smoother though, maybe that's just me.

  • @ethanl5527
    @ethanl5527 Год назад +120

    "He usually travelled with a coffin planted atop a car during his campaigns; this was a typical way at the time to signify one's willingness to die in combat.
    Zhang publicly announced that he would come home in his coffin if he was defeated in battle. When his troops were forced back during one campaign he was true to his word-he was paraded through the streets, sitting in his coffin and waving to the cheering crowd."
    based warlord indeed

    • @therealSunTzu
      @therealSunTzu Год назад

      This man balls are probably bigger than family sized pizzas

  • @O.Reagano
    @O.Reagano Год назад +336

    His other nickname was "Three Don’t Knows", since he couldn't ever keep track of how much money, soldiers or concubines he had.
    Some other nicknames were "The General with three long legs" and "Great General of Justice and Might" (self-given)

    • @hankbarcelona7314
      @hankbarcelona7314 2 месяца назад

      "How much money you got? A lot
      How many b**ches you got? A lot
      How many people you shot? A lot
      How many times you got shot? A lot"

  • @thebutterflowers
    @thebutterflowers Год назад +66

    As a graphic designer, I really appreciate your style man.

  • @auxiliusm
    @auxiliusm Год назад +97

    Have his autobiography at home was an interesting dude, never expected Kraut to read his poems, truly a collab of all time

    • @frankvictorrood
      @frankvictorrood Год назад +9

      Kraut is such a bad lib RUclipsr.

    • @antlerbraum2881
      @antlerbraum2881 Год назад +2

      @@frankvictorroodWhat is “Bad Lib”? Is that like Mad Libs but filled out by a supervillain?

    • @frankvictorrood
      @frankvictorrood Год назад +9

      @@antlerbraum2881 A guy who selectively uses political science books instead of history books to justify certain western centric very implicit racist views

  • @APoleYouKnow
    @APoleYouKnow Год назад +224

    As far as poetry goes, this is actually relatable and easy to read. Tells you a lot about the person writing it as well.
    Honestly, this beats Robert Frost any day.

  • @banzaiperson
    @banzaiperson Год назад +132

    Zhang also got off basically scott-free on murdering one of the claimants to the Qing dynasty while he was exiled in Japan. The reason was because he was sleeping with one of his wives.

    • @lionheart6176
      @lionheart6176 Год назад +80

      Apparently his defense was that he was cleaning the rifle and then it went off on his own which just so happened to shoot him in the head.
      I could see where Alec Baldwin got his strategy

    • @lolasdm6959
      @lolasdm6959 Год назад +44

      Based fellow East Asians all bullying cope cringe Manchus

    • @Rabbi-Jill-kews
      @Rabbi-Jill-kews Год назад +13

      @@lionheart6176😂 this guy

  • @Apes_Together_Stronk
    @Apes_Together_Stronk Год назад +47

    Zhang was truly the epitome of chinese people in the 1900's,together with Sun Yat-Sen and Walter White

  • @Sagi.Baten.Kaitos
    @Sagi.Baten.Kaitos Год назад +141

    I am not at all surprised that Sam O Nella watches Wow_Mao. He IS a history/humor channel, after all

    • @imposteramogus2167
      @imposteramogus2167 Год назад +12

      Considering the fact his last video was 10 months ago I think he might have had this idea way before wow mao

    • @Sagi.Baten.Kaitos
      @Sagi.Baten.Kaitos Год назад +2

      @@imposteramogus2167 People are going to make comparisons regardless, so I thought I’d just join in

    • @imposteramogus2167
      @imposteramogus2167 Год назад

      @@Sagi.Baten.Kaitos fair enough

    • @robincray116
      @robincray116 Год назад

      ​@@imposteramogus2167Dogmeat general in YT goes further back than both of them.

  • @hh7426
    @hh7426 Год назад +75

    More people need to hear the story of Zhang Zongchang

  • @Brother_O4TS
    @Brother_O4TS Год назад +11

    I find it great that this was uploaded nearly two weeks before Sam o'Nella post his own video of this man

  • @angusyang5917
    @angusyang5917 Год назад +85

    Listening to his poems alone make me feel enlightened

  • @callmera0uf560
    @callmera0uf560 Год назад +650

    "untitled" has to be my favorite poem here, very profound and thought-provoking.

    • @nbewarwe
      @nbewarwe Год назад +69

      My favorite part is how he doesn't doubt that's his son. He just genuinely doesn't know which woman he fckd is his mother.

    • @Eltipoquevisteayer
      @Eltipoquevisteayer Год назад +24

      Tbh as a title Is very fitting

    • @sauviel6296
      @sauviel6296 Год назад +18

      Its his untitled son

  • @fematrailer
    @fematrailer Год назад +149

    I've written quite a bit of poetry, some of which has been published. From my perspective, I don’t think he's that bad. The first one, "Visiting Pengai Pavillion" is actually pretty good. Depending on how accurate this english translation is, I'd argue that it fits in quite well with some western modernist authors of the period and later. I've also always had a soft spot for creative blasphemy though, so I might just be seeing what I want to see.

    • @lolasdm6959
      @lolasdm6959 Год назад +50

      A true poet, his never had any education his entire life, he used to be a lumberjack.

    • @darkdwarf007
      @darkdwarf007 Год назад +38

      He was expressing his soul without any education for it, it that is not art's purest form then I don't know what is

  • @CrazyMagicHomelesGuy
    @CrazyMagicHomelesGuy Год назад +11

    0:54 Truly, prophetic

  • @What-thaW
    @What-thaW Год назад +64

    Can’t believe wow_mao was controlling Sam this whole time… it all makes sense now

  • @bigoof1105
    @bigoof1105 Год назад +69

    Ah yes, 72-Cannon Chang, also known as "Old Eighty-Six" along with "the general with three long legs".

    • @angusyang5917
      @angusyang5917 Год назад

      his pp was as long as 86 mexican silver dollars stacked up together

  • @FAIZAFEI
    @FAIZAFEI Год назад +28

    Some more of his poems
    《Pooping during snowy day 雪日大便》
    大雪紛紛下
    Big snow showering down,
    烏鴉啃樹皮
    Crows bite tree skins.
    風吹屁股冷
    Wind blow, my arse cold
    不如在屋裡
    Better go back to my house.
    《Laugh at liu-bang 笑劉邦》
    聽說項羽力拔山
    He heard xiang-yu have power to pick up entire mountain,
    嚇的劉邦就要竄
    It scared hell out of Liu-bang and make him run away.
    不是俺家小張良
    If it wasn't our little Zhang-liang,
    奶奶早以回沛縣
    Grandma would return to pei county already.
    《Snowy day 雪天》
    我們一起去尿尿
    Let's go pee together!
    你尿一條線
    You pee a line,
    我尿一個坑
    I pee a pit.

  • @lionheart6176
    @lionheart6176 Год назад +102

    Regarded by Time magazine as "The most based warlord of China" Even got to meet puyi and smoke with him.
    He also was known as 72 Cannon Zhang for bombarding the clouds with cannons until it rained.
    He was also known as the three don't knows
    Why was he called that?
    Because that was the answer to three simple questions How many troops do you have How much money you got and how many wives do you have

    • @litbace7205
      @litbace7205 Год назад +16

      How many troops you got - a lot
      How many money you got - a lot
      How many wives you got - a lot
      21savage might’ve inspired by him

    • @alfred7846
      @alfred7846 2 месяца назад +1

      not the most based warloed, the "basest" warlord

    • @lionheart6176
      @lionheart6176 2 месяца назад

      @@alfred7846 I guess that meant that he was the absolutely based

  • @justit1074
    @justit1074 Год назад +60

    truly a man worthy of governing a province as important as shandong, where my grandfather is from

  • @TheStickCollector
    @TheStickCollector Год назад +69

    Perfect
    We need more people like him

  • @violetvalentine999
    @violetvalentine999 Год назад +33

    love the art direction for this video! god, you're so good at drawing. my favorite content in your catalogue is wherever your art takes center stage. it must take you quite a long time to storyboard stuff like this, i don't know how you do it!
    make what makes you happy, you'll have an audience no matter what ^_^

  • @tompegorinno5141
    @tompegorinno5141 Год назад +5

    I am glad you used the Shanghai Tea House Jazz in the intro. Great choice of music, it's my personal favourite!

  • @flavor_text8757
    @flavor_text8757 Год назад +167

    I crazy how insane some of these people are for one of the worst civil wars in history

    • @Rabbi-Jill-kews
      @Rabbi-Jill-kews Год назад +15

      Bro that’s how things have been without exception

    • @MrAsianPie
      @MrAsianPie Год назад +40

      Shout out to cannibal General Butt Naked, who's now an evangelical preacher

    • @ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012
      @ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 Год назад +35

      @@MrAsianPie and general mosquito spray, who named himself that for the sake of making fun of general mosquito

    • @timwinterhalter5233
      @timwinterhalter5233 Год назад +31

      civil wars are generally speaking a moment for every Funny Gamer with Big Dreams in a country to begin their ultimate HOI4 larp

    • @neohyberboreantechnosteppe3185
      @neohyberboreantechnosteppe3185 Год назад +1

      ​@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012I haven't heard of that one, which war was it?

  • @feartheb33k33p3r
    @feartheb33k33p3r Год назад +20

    does this mean sam o'nella graduated from wow_mao academy?

  • @Leldy
    @Leldy Год назад +5

    The background jazz (shidaiqu) song is called The Old Tea House by Shanghai Shuffle

  • @thaneofwhiterun3562
    @thaneofwhiterun3562 Год назад +6

    I like how after threatening to destroy his temple and bomb his mother. The sky god oblidged and it started raining.

  • @therealpooperandpee-er
    @therealpooperandpee-er Год назад +128

    truly a man ahead of his time
    He was taken away from us too soon 😔

  • @howardcui7688
    @howardcui7688 Год назад +46

    wow mao revived sam O’nella it seems. Oh great Filipino, my next cigarette as a pure Han Chinese is dedicated to you.

    • @jdcsiahaan
      @jdcsiahaan Год назад +8

      you now must dedicate an ashtray pyramid to our Filipino Lord and Saviour, wow mao

    • @howardcui7688
      @howardcui7688 Год назад +5

      I shall build a Great Wall in honor of my ancestors!

  • @andreimoga7813
    @andreimoga7813 Год назад +20

    man invented 21st century humor in the 20th century

  • @odyssey5329
    @odyssey5329 Год назад +5

    i just realised that in the second poem, when the first guys hand pops out during ‘you tell me to do this’, it’s the voice from that one Chinese dude yelling (at I think a cat) while holding a cigarette

  • @flavor_text8757
    @flavor_text8757 Год назад +6

    I love these kraut mao uploads

  • @TheJohnlyh
    @TheJohnlyh 6 месяцев назад +6

    In his defense, the poem actually rhyme in mandarin.

  • @ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012
    @ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 Год назад +767

    Zang zhongchang said that he either win the battle or come home in a coffin, so he lose the battle and came home sitting in a coffin on top of a car while smoking a cigar.
    Truly a man of his word

    • @manooxi327
      @manooxi327 Год назад +44

      I think some Chinese warlord did the the same in the three kingdoms tales 😂

    • @manooxi327
      @manooxi327 Год назад +35

      Nah, the story is he would always carry a coffin with him to battle 😂 he was my fav character in dynasty warriors

    • @name-yn6vu
      @name-yn6vu Год назад +3

      @@manooxi327 Which warlord?

    • @manooxi327
      @manooxi327 Год назад +12

      @@name-yn6vu Yu Jin and his 3 types elementals trident 🔱 😤
      I was so proud when I figured it out all myself 😂

    • @OliverReinisch
      @OliverReinisch Год назад +12

      @@manooxi327 Firstly based pick for favourite Dynasty Warriors character. (Mine is Xiahou Yuan) But it was actually Pang De that was the one who apparently carried his own coffin to battle

  • @Gameinger16
    @Gameinger16 7 месяцев назад +3

    Learning about this guy was a trip, the warlord era was insane and i want to become fixated on it again now

  • @Finnboy-ml5jv
    @Finnboy-ml5jv Год назад +31

    I knew it would be the dogmeat general

  • @mr.pejoncrumbs2879
    @mr.pejoncrumbs2879 Год назад +29

    My favourite quote is from a Mongolian warlord ButuKhan where he says after sacking Baghdad "Ambabutubus" 😔

  • @oofnack
    @oofnack Год назад +3

    ngl this is so good I've watched this multiple times in the past 2 hours.

  • @mcdieunphilidor747
    @mcdieunphilidor747 Год назад +14

    Both you and Sam O Nella post about the Dogmeat General in the same month. Coincidence? I think not.

  • @pulsar2049
    @pulsar2049 Год назад +8

    Nietzsch + Li Bai + Heroin = This dude

  • @ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012
    @ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 Год назад +417

    Saying that the chinese warlord era was wild is an understatement

    • @Bigchungusohiogroyper
      @Bigchungusohiogroyper Год назад +45

      Ah yes, the era of gamers

    • @mercdutch3950
      @mercdutch3950 Год назад +38

      Chinese history in general was wild. Always has been.

    • @schizosamurai8840
      @schizosamurai8840 Год назад +19

      Which one, lmao

    • @EyePatchGuy88
      @EyePatchGuy88 Год назад +5

      ​@schizosamurai8840 I was just about to say, he'll need to narrow it down quite a lot.

    • @jmgonzales7701
      @jmgonzales7701 Год назад +2

      @@mercdutch3950 yeah since it was a long period of time

  • @harrisondansie9542
    @harrisondansie9542 Год назад +7

    Playing this on repeat in the background as I do another Shandong playthrough in Kaiserreich

  • @GnarlesGooter
    @GnarlesGooter Год назад +51

    Sam o' nella stole the thoughts of a true genius

  • @jackcooper1765
    @jackcooper1765 11 месяцев назад +1

    this video is criminally underappreciated in youtube this is beautiful in every sense of the word

  • @babyelephant4103
    @babyelephant4103 Год назад +3

    Song/music: The Old Tea House - John Huie

  • @abdullahdwi7849
    @abdullahdwi7849 8 месяцев назад +8

    he's really good at spotting the ovbious!

  • @jasonjohnson1824
    @jasonjohnson1824 Год назад +14

    SAM O'NELLA JUST MADA A VIDEO ON THIS WTF

  • @witekki
    @witekki Год назад +14

    Just came back to this vid from sam o'nella

  • @lionelgideom
    @lionelgideom Год назад +7

    Can’t relieve Sam O’Nella waited one year for this masterpiece

  • @yukaroj
    @yukaroj 11 месяцев назад +4

    If he wasn’t such a documented person, I would have no doubt that you completely made him up as a joke.

  • @theturnc0at
    @theturnc0at Год назад +7

    Glad to see Zhang's poetry get some attention! I'm a long-time fan of his work

  • @obama_0069
    @obama_0069 Год назад +39

    Sam onella copied the great wowmao

  • @BrainandLol
    @BrainandLol Год назад +8

    Kraut + Wow_mao really is the power couple we all need

  • @rgm96x49
    @rgm96x49 Год назад +33

    Absolute timeless art.

  • @thooterhooter
    @thooterhooter Год назад +25

    The moment god lit that cigarette someone walked dpast with a cigarette and I caught a whiff. The Wow_Mao universe is leaking into ours. The end is nigh.

  • @sm1522
    @sm1522 Год назад +6

    The collab I didn't know I needed to see

  • @valleyrover4958
    @valleyrover4958 Год назад +3

    I like the sorta 70's retro style of this video, very jazzy

  • @timoth4529
    @timoth4529 Год назад +3

    The kaut collab of the century

  • @hazedogrises
    @hazedogrises Год назад +6

    Poetry is a lot closer to photography than most people think. They're a lovely snapshot of someone's thoughts or perception at a certain moment in time. If our boy Zhang was a photographer he'd be taking pics half blazed with a 10 year old disposable camera he bought used.
    Also I want to get Poem about Bastards tattooed on my back so if anyone knows the most accurate original lettering throw it this way

    • @lagrangepoint9386
      @lagrangepoint9386 11 месяцев назад +2

      Sure, here you go.
      Traditional:
      你叫我去這樣幹,
      他叫我去那樣幹。
      真是一群大混蛋,
      全都混你媽的蛋。
      Simplified:
      你叫我去这样干,
      他叫我去那样干。
      真是一群大混蛋,
      全都混你妈的蛋。

  • @Jesse-fj8mn
    @Jesse-fj8mn Год назад +12

    bro sam be posting this bro

  • @sirnikkel6746
    @sirnikkel6746 Год назад +58

    Imagine if he had won instead of Mao

    • @maksym1001
      @maksym1001 Год назад +35

      wow_zhang

    • @voltageesq.
      @voltageesq. Год назад +10

      @@maksym1001 bang_zhang

    • @wafl423
      @wafl423 Год назад +6

      mao had pretty banger qoutes as well

    • @ieatmice751
      @ieatmice751 Год назад +11

      He sadly died long before mao ever came to prominence, over ten years before

    • @dunzhen
      @dunzhen Год назад

      Then China would probably be divided and really weak right now. The Eight Nation Alliance countries would be actively exploiting the countries possibly up until now still

  • @Gone_Postal
    @Gone_Postal 7 месяцев назад +4

    He really was a philosopher

  • @amon8562
    @amon8562 8 месяцев назад +3

    The absolute pinnacle of Chinese poetry

  • @AliEgemenB
    @AliEgemenB Год назад +5

    Shakespeare been real quite since this dropped

  • @keaganscott9808
    @keaganscott9808 Год назад +7

    “I’ll have cannons bombard your mom” has gotta be the hardest contender for “who said it? Enraged xbox live player or Chinese warlord” I have ever seen.

  • @DaisukeRikitsu
    @DaisukeRikitsu Год назад +2

    This is.... beautiful. I have never thought I would be blessed by poetry of this caliber.

  • @agimhoti3279
    @agimhoti3279 Год назад +9

    *what does a Pickle say to the other pickle?" "Toystory 3" -Zhang, the warlord

  • @beans00001
    @beans00001 Год назад +20

    Most intelligent philosopher since Diogenes

    • @lolasdm6959
      @lolasdm6959 Год назад +2

      Diogenes was write, we are just chickens

  • @hendlessfreedman4697
    @hendlessfreedman4697 Год назад +2

    Visiting Pengai Pavilion is just Al Purdy’s At The Quinte Hotel but a tenth of the length

  • @One_of_DC
    @One_of_DC 2 месяца назад +2

    Idk why nowadays I see those vids about Zhang, but there's actually another poem he made:
    Visiting Great Ming Lake
    Great Ming Lake, Ming Lake Great.
    There are toads in Lake.
    Whenever you poke it, it jumps.
    --------------------------------------
    Btw, my family name is also Zhang lol

  • @YourLifeWillForeverBeALie
    @YourLifeWillForeverBeALie Год назад +8

    Certified Bing Chilling Classic 🤙🏽

  • @IOverlord
    @IOverlord Год назад +6

    Oh how China had fallen. From chads like this to Winnie the Pooh.

  • @alexfong1
    @alexfong1 6 месяцев назад +2

    1:40 Chinese put family name before given name. Thus, the more accurate translation is:
    玉皇爷爷也姓张,
    The Jade Emperor(The emperor of all Taoism Gods) himself also surnamed Zhang
    为啥为难俺张宗昌?
    Why does he make life hard for me Zhang Zongchang?

  • @WiloPolis03
    @WiloPolis03 Год назад +3

    The presentation in this video is legitimately really stylish and well done, good job mr. mao

  • @dripmaster6973
    @dripmaster6973 Год назад +95

    How this channel is able sink to new lows amazes me

    • @IgneousExtrusive
      @IgneousExtrusive Год назад +34

      I don't know, I thought this had decent quality visuals, editing, and subject matter. Perhaps you take issue with the misspelling of "he" as "hew"?

    • @theghostofspookwagen4715
      @theghostofspookwagen4715 Год назад

      getting classified us army documents leaked by a schizo on your discord server does things to you

    • @CuongNguyen-eg1pu
      @CuongNguyen-eg1pu Год назад

      You tell wao_mao to do this
      You tell wao_mao to do that
      You are all bastard
      Go fuck your mother

  • @Polyglot-Thought
    @Polyglot-Thought Год назад +1

    I was having a terrible day and this made it much better 10/10 vidya

  • @randomyankee8923
    @randomyankee8923 Год назад +7

    Chiang-kai-Shek and Mao Zedong: fighting each other
    Him: *I B L E W U P Y O U R M O M*

    • @lolasdm6959
      @lolasdm6959 Год назад +1

      he blew up sky god's mom.
      Sky god is also iterally the emporer of the immortals

  • @connordlthegamer2980
    @connordlthegamer2980 Год назад +3

    Considering the upload date there is a possibility that this video inspired sam o'nella to make another return to youtube.

  • @OmegaCorsair
    @OmegaCorsair Год назад +5

    Truly He was a Chinese warlord of his time….

  • @potato3496
    @potato3496 Год назад +6

    cant wait to see sam o nella comments

  • @cpt.mystic_stirling
    @cpt.mystic_stirling Год назад +2

    The fact parrot always has a serious tone in his video talking about tge fundamentals of politics, importance of history, and then a new resume about narrating the dogmeat generals poems xD

  • @azravalencia4577
    @azravalencia4577 Год назад +14

    some maybe think this is just some plain poem made by semi illitirates (which it is), but i think its more than that. Its just give you impression how Zhang Jingoistic, curiosity, and his personal experience and why motives of him really just unpredictable.
    Trule the "basest" warlord in all of china.

  • @DenianWriter
    @DenianWriter Год назад +2

    love your artstyle

  • @Valdaishere
    @Valdaishere Год назад +5

    Confucius been quite since this banger dropped

  • @GordonSnowMachine
    @GordonSnowMachine Год назад +1

    Man the quality looks great, suits very well the man's wise words