Hey all. Thank you for watching my video. I understand many of you are upset about my useage of AI images. Please allow me to explain. I have studied mandarin 2 hours every day for almost 12 years and spent up to 7 hours a day making these videos for about 4 years (mostly research) all while having a job and somehow having a life. Although it doesnt seem like it, I treated this channel like a full time job for much of the past 4 years. I educate people for free on my own dime, frequently hiring editors to help me with video editing. I spend such a huge amount of time on these videos, spend my own money and get paid nothing for for it, all for the goal of educating people for free about a subject I have spent over a decade mastering simply because I love it. I simply want to continue providing high quality videos at a reasonable rate for you, without it eating into my life while I make nothing from it. I dont request anything from my viewers, but that they simply watch and enjoy what I have created. If you would like to contribute, please consider subscribing to my Patreon. www.patreon.com/DaveeyGDoesChinese
Nah f anyone else. AI is totally fine, your narration on this is awesome! Keep going. I would love to hear an in-depth version of the warring States period following by the raise of han. DONT STOP, UR WORK IS AMAZING !
Forget them, keep doing what you are doing man very few youtubers talk about the history of china dont quit because some people dont like a simple AI image
Thank you for making this video. The information was great so I could care less about the images being A.I. or not. Too bad the closed captions were wild but nothing you could do about that!
You can do whatever you want this your channel ignore anyone interfering and what's the problem with using air images it's perfect for the video at last most of the people hear come to learn not watch pictures
Youre insights are awesome and there are no images from the times being discussed so i dont care personally. I appreciate what you do and mostly listen to your videos at work anyways. Awesome work as always, keep at it chief
The Warring States Period is a really underrated period of Chinese division that is overshadowed by the more famous Three Kingdoms period. I'm glad that this period gets more attention nowadays.
I thought Warring state period is more popular and never heard of Three Kingdoms China (except Three Kingdoms of Korea lol), been following a manga called "Kingdom" which the story focuses on this Warring state period and its pretty good
@@BlackistedGod You've never heard of Romance of the Three Kingdoms? It's a Chinese epic and it's been dubbed as one of the 4 greatest Chinese literature classics of all time. In video games the Dynasty Warriors series made the Three Kingdoms popular for younger audiences.
Me too man.. the whole anime is just the kind of massive ancient warfare stuff I want to watch. A lot of over the top super strong generals. However what I love about it is the character development and also the huge huge emphasize on troop morale, logistics, manpower, politics, tactics and strategy.
AMAZING WORK. I LOVE Chinese history, unfortunatelly I am already a «little» too old to start learning Manderin. KEEP GOING. CONGRATULATIONS for your work.
I'm a Chilean, world history enthusiast, now becoming Sinology enthusiast. Slowly studying its history and language and also its ancient sages such as Kong Zi and Lao Zi. Thanks for this video.
A war is not "a number of battles". The Warring States period is not a war. There were hundreds of wars during the period, and as many peace agreements. Also, the Era of Disunity lasted longer; 475-221BCE 250 years. Era of Disunity was arguably 294-580CE, almost 300 years.
been following this manga Kingdom for couple years now which sets in Warring States Era i took this oppurtunity to learn more about this era and i landed here did learned a lot
I'm guessing it's just an easier workflow to edit the video when you can just wait for ai to generate specific photos you want than to look for every photo you want to use (I've edited some videos as a hobby and editing takes a surprisingly long time)
Yes, thanks for understanding. Video editing is thankless grunt work that takes up way too much time. I want to spend more time writing a script and researching as opposed to trawling through the internet, instead of finding copyright free high quality images that just so happen to miraculously be related by my exttemely niche interest. 5 seconds of watch time is about 5 minutes of work (research, script writing and most of all video editing)
Where can I find the map you are using in the video. Make a quick search, but I did not find even similar maps. p.s. There are several interesting facts that I learn for this period, which I did not know.
The video above this one in my feed was a documentary about a single NBA player that has yet to complete his second contract. It was five *hours* long. 😂
Warring States period in many ways is similar to Europe from 1400s to early 1800s. Small states coalescing into larger polities, dynamically changing alliances, constant warfare as politics by other means, rapid social development and reforms, rapid development in science and technology. Both periods ended in forced unification by dictators (Qin shi huang di and Napoleon), only to see it divide again soon afterwards. In Europe's case, the idea of a united Europe was seeded by Napoleon's rule (rule of law by Napoleonic code), and it has been revived in the form of European Union. (Does that make current EU European equivalent of Han dynasty?)
During the Warring States Period, iron tools began to be used in large quantities, and of course bronze weapons were also used in large quantities. In addition, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, various countries carried out political reforms, and conscription became very common.
Thank you for the content. I mostly listen, images (other than maps, which I like) aren't a major factor in my enjoyment. Those banging on the video creator for ai generated images can lay off that dead horse already.
I love the timelapse map, but the way it's used in the video just made it distracting to me 7:59 "Wait, the guy's named Wen of Wei, why do I see Quin making gains? and now Chu is expanding, is that Wei's dominion..." And it's even harder when one doesn't know Chinese pronunciation.
If you already cant distunguish between the words Wen, Wei, Qin and Chu then me saying it in Chinese isnt going to help you. You need to get your hearing checked. It honestly pisses me off when people get upset about the proncunciation of Chinese words in an English speaking video. If you want Chinese, go watch a video on bilibili. Dont come to RUclips and compain there are people speaking english. You arent even a chinese speaker, so what difference would it make to you?
@@daveeygdoeschinese ... All I criticised were the off-topic visuals, you saying something and the video showing something else. Granted, once I started ignoring the screen and just listened everything was clear, but that's hardly a good thing for a video. The mention of chinese was there only because pronunciation I'm not used to didn't help things, but I'm neither english nor chinese native speaker, so meaby I was being stupid and criticised pronunciation most of the audience had no problem understanding.
Short answer is no. The long answer: Spring and Autumn Period often gets mixed up with Warring States Period. Sun Tzu lived during the Spring and Autumn Period, he died just about 20 years before the Warring States Period officially started.
Excuse me sir The Middle East has already experienced Iron Age before the Chinese people experienced it and the Chinese were coming out of the late Bronze Age But iron was said to be found in the Yangtze Valley so some people were using bronze and also iron , almost different from the Middle East that almost everybody uses iron because of the Assyrian, Babylonian empire,Lydian empire, the 2 Jewish kingdoms and also surprisingly Egypt under the rule of the Nubian
Just do a little more research and find art from the Warring States Period or art depicting it from later times. Human art is so much more interesting.
Hwangha river basin and Yangze ruver basin is unapproachable, Zinryung mountain range that segregates tightly two different ethnic groups. The southern ethnic group is closely related with the westerly migrated Hunic group. The northerly group is closely related to Korean Juchen groups. The Han conquer, Liu Pang is believed a Hunic descendant. He defeated the northern dynasties along Hwangha river and subjugated Manchu Korean peninsula. His descendants further conquered the Northern Indochina and Vietnam. BC 200 - AD 600 Han period is the longest dynasty. The Han name is Hun. 15 ethnic groups have been in melting pot that produced the cultural, lingual ethnic group, Han people, modern the mainland 'Chinese'. The non- conforming groups, Hakka and Tiechu had migrated into Taiwan, and other south eastern countries. They are not true Chinese.
Bro, there is so many beautiful art pieces out there from games, history, books, studies, why on Earth would you go so low as to use AI art? I won't be able to support you if you keep doing that. It is cringe and too distracting. I'd rather look at the same real picture/paint/sculpture from a game/book/history/study for 10 minutes than see 1 or 10 AI images.
What's this agression all out of the sudden? Usage of artwork is up to creator to decide, and who cares if it's AI or not? The picture is supposed to represent certain things and a technique the picture has been made with does not matter. Everyone has his own preferences, likes and dislikes, but it's rare to see people to enforce their own tastes on others like you did in this comment. Chill man, what's the fuss all about?
@@dziku2222 If YOU don't care, than stfu. I care, and I'm not alone caring about whether AI art is used. Accuracy, you know, ACCURACY is important when talking/teaching/sharing history, so using AI art is the antithesis of being accurate or even giving the vibe that someone care about accuracy because AI is so awfully wrong and a gross distorsion of reality or rather more often simply fantasy. Also, I'm chill. My blood pressure hasn't change at all while writing my comments. So your gaslighting and disingenuous comment, tu peux te le fourrer dans l'cul!
My friend there actually isnt a dirth of pre existing content out there for such niche subjects. Historical images are very low quality and are limited. I know this because I actually make the videos. Please understand I spend an un godly amount of time entertaining and educating you for free. Allot of that time is spent trawling through the internet to find content that I can use in my videos. Then I need to worry about copyright where most of my videos end up getting demonitized.
@@daveeygdoeschinese Although I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, the fact that you think you are in a position to educate me seems very condescending. I'm mostly here to be entertained and hear different and new perspectives on things, to appreciate your understanding of history, and not to be educated per se. Now I get it, it takes time and hard work to make these videos. I myself worked on mods for video games, I created and maintained for some time a political "Facebook group" where I was commenting and analysing US/Canada politic and was bless enough to reach 20,000+ members before I got shadow banned (during 2021) and could get anymore members and lost all my reach. It required hard work, lots of research - I spent an ungodly amount of time researching, fact-checking every article I wrote. Yet the fact that the job is hard isn't an excuse to deviate from what is ethical. You are wrong when you say there's limited historical image or are mostly low quality. There's plenty of english, chinese, korean, vietnamese and japanese websites where you can find images from GAMES, books, personal artwork that can easily be found on DeviantArt or Artstation and many other similar websites. The images doesn't have to be historical per se, in the sense they were painted during the freaking Warring States bro lol That wasn't my point. There's plenty of pictures about excavations, archeological finds related to this era. As for copyright stuff, I also get it. There's what is called fair use and showing pictures falls into fair use 100% in the context of your videos. Not sure what time of issues you are encountering with copyright, but unless you are using long clips from movies or documentaries, you are not supposed to have issues. We could talk into specifics and figure it out together if you want. Now, and maybe more importantly, you do whatever the hell you want with your brand. I'm just criticizing what I'm disagreeing with and what makes me not want to be subscribe to your channel. In my view, using AI art just damage your brand and your credibility, it is amateurish and threaten to hinder your growth. You are smart and have potential, hence why I'm subscribed in the first place, and also I do not dislike AI (in art or writing) per se, but when it comes to history there's no ground for tolerance for this. So in anywho, you do you. I wish you the best of luck and to quickly find better ways/methods to produce your content.
Hey all. Thank you for watching my video. I understand many of you are upset about my useage of AI images. Please allow me to explain.
I have studied mandarin 2 hours every day for almost 12 years and spent up to 7 hours a day making these videos for about 4 years (mostly research) all while having a job and somehow having a life. Although it doesnt seem like it, I treated this channel like a full time job for much of the past 4 years.
I educate people for free on my own dime, frequently hiring editors to help me with video editing. I spend such a huge amount of time on these videos, spend my own money and get paid nothing for for it, all for the goal of educating people for free about a subject I have spent over a decade mastering simply because I love it.
I simply want to continue providing high quality videos at a reasonable rate for you, without it eating into my life while I make nothing from it.
I dont request anything from my viewers, but that they simply watch and enjoy what I have created.
If you would like to contribute, please consider subscribing to my Patreon. www.patreon.com/DaveeyGDoesChinese
Nah f anyone else. AI is totally fine, your narration on this is awesome! Keep going. I would love to hear an in-depth version of the warring States period following by the raise of han. DONT STOP, UR WORK IS AMAZING !
Forget them, keep doing what you are doing man very few youtubers talk about the history of china dont quit because some people dont like a simple AI image
Thank you for making this video. The information was great so I could care less about the images being A.I. or not. Too bad the closed captions were wild but nothing you could do about that!
You can do whatever you want this your channel ignore anyone interfering and what's the problem with using air images it's perfect for the video at last most of the people hear come to learn not watch pictures
Youre insights are awesome and there are no images from the times being discussed so i dont care personally. I appreciate what you do and mostly listen to your videos at work anyways. Awesome work as always, keep at it chief
The Warring States Period is a really underrated period of Chinese division that is overshadowed by the more famous Three Kingdoms period. I'm glad that this period gets more attention nowadays.
Yeah.
The Warring States era is much more interesting.
I thought Warring state period is more popular and never heard of Three Kingdoms China (except Three Kingdoms of Korea lol), been following a manga called "Kingdom" which the story focuses on this Warring state period and its pretty good
@@BlackistedGod You've never heard of Romance of the Three Kingdoms? It's a Chinese epic and it's been dubbed as one of the 4 greatest Chinese literature classics of all time.
In video games the Dynasty Warriors series made the Three Kingdoms popular for younger audiences.
五胡十六国也有趣。黑暗混乱血腥，应该符合你们这些外国人喜欢黑暗中世纪的口味。
@@BlackistedGod三国时期比战国出名的多，而且在东亚影响力很大，日本就拍摄过中国的三国题材电视剧电影，还制作了很多三国题材的游戏，比如三国无双，还有全面战争三国
Who’s here after watching Kingdom
Yeah me too! I love that manga.
@@daveeygdoeschinesewhat is your thought on Ravages of time?
Here
Me too man.. the whole anime is just the kind of massive ancient warfare stuff I want to watch. A lot of over the top super strong generals. However what I love about it is the character development and also the huge huge emphasize on troop morale, logistics, manpower, politics, tactics and strategy.
i got interested in the warring states period after watching the kingdom anime lol, thanks for the detailed video
Ayyyy exactly what I wanted. Lol especially with the kingdom manga.
Wow what a coincidence I was it as well while making this video. Great show
Is it good?
@@edwinvillalobos7159 top all time managa imo and one of the best animes. Great if you wanna learn about chinese history at the same time
Horse-faced riders, 6-7 fingers on each hand. Man those were really the times of myth and legend.
Haha yeah! 😂
And I just now noticed the helicopters. XD Good video anyway. Nicely done.
AMAZING WORK. I LOVE Chinese history, unfortunatelly I am already a «little» too old to start learning Manderin. KEEP GOING. CONGRATULATIONS for your work.
I'm a Chilean, world history enthusiast, now becoming Sinology enthusiast. Slowly studying its history and language and also its ancient sages such as Kong Zi and Lao Zi. Thanks for this video.
A war is not "a number of battles". The Warring States period is not a war. There were hundreds of wars during the period, and as many peace agreements.
Also, the Era of Disunity lasted longer; 475-221BCE 250 years. Era of Disunity was arguably 294-580CE, almost 300 years.
been following this manga Kingdom for couple years now which sets in Warring States Era i took this oppurtunity to learn more about this era and i landed here did learned a lot
The Warring States Period is much more interesting than the Three Kingdoms, but it is too complicated to translate
Yes, very true
Great video Sally
Need a television series of this period
I love these epic paintings
I'm guessing it's just an easier workflow to edit the video when you can just wait for ai to generate specific photos you want than to look for every photo you want to use (I've edited some videos as a hobby and editing takes a surprisingly long time)
Yes, thanks for understanding. Video editing is thankless grunt work that takes up way too much time. I want to spend more time writing a script and researching as opposed to trawling through the internet, instead of finding copyright free high quality images that just so happen to miraculously be related by my exttemely niche interest. 5 seconds of watch time is about 5 minutes of work (research, script writing and most of all video editing)
Bro mentioned the 100 Schools Of Thought in the first paragraph!
Where can I find the map you are using in the video. Make a quick search, but I did not find even similar maps.
p.s. There are several interesting facts that I learn for this period, which I did not know.
thank you for this work
Thanks!
The video above this one in my feed was a documentary about a single NBA player that has yet to complete his second contract. It was five *hours* long. 😂
is it just me, or the events from the anime/manga Kingdom are just the footnote of this vid? great vid tho👍
Warring States period in many ways is similar to Europe from 1400s to early 1800s. Small states coalescing into larger polities, dynamically changing alliances, constant warfare as politics by other means, rapid social development and reforms, rapid development in science and technology. Both periods ended in forced unification by dictators (Qin shi huang di and Napoleon), only to see it divide again soon afterwards.
In Europe's case, the idea of a united Europe was seeded by Napoleon's rule (rule of law by Napoleonic code), and it has been revived in the form of European Union. (Does that make current EU European equivalent of Han dynasty?)
here to understand historical events related to Princess Weiyoung series
I really liked it. Does any archeological evidence support these army sizes? They are so much bigger than any other bronze age army.
During the Warring States Period, iron tools began to be used in large quantities, and of course bronze weapons were also used in large quantities.
In addition, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, various countries carried out political reforms, and conscription became very common.
很多是夸张的说法，一个简单粗暴的计算方法就是全部除以5。当然也有统计口径不同的情况，但是当时各国兵力确实也很多
Thank you for the content. I mostly listen, images (other than maps, which I like) aren't a major factor in my enjoyment.
Those banging on the video creator for ai generated images can lay off that dead horse already.
I love the timelapse map, but the way it's used in the video just made it distracting to me
7:59 "Wait, the guy's named Wen of Wei, why do I see Quin making gains? and now Chu is expanding, is that Wei's dominion..."
And it's even harder when one doesn't know Chinese pronunciation.
If you already cant distunguish between the words Wen, Wei, Qin and Chu then me saying it in Chinese isnt going to help you. You need to get your hearing checked.
It honestly pisses me off when people get upset about the proncunciation of Chinese words in an English speaking video. If you want Chinese, go watch a video on bilibili. Dont come to RUclips and compain there are people speaking english. You arent even a chinese speaker, so what difference would it make to you?
@@daveeygdoeschinese ...
All I criticised were the off-topic visuals, you saying something and the video showing something else. Granted, once I started ignoring the screen and just listened everything was clear, but that's hardly a good thing for a video.
The mention of chinese was there only because pronunciation I'm not used to didn't help things, but I'm neither english nor chinese native speaker, so meaby I was being stupid and criticised pronunciation most of the audience had no problem understanding.
This is the era that sun tzu lived right?
Short answer is no.
The long answer:
Spring and Autumn Period often gets mixed up with Warring States Period. Sun Tzu lived during the Spring and Autumn Period, he died just about 20 years before the Warring States Period officially started.
What's the painting at 0:30?
Excuse me sir
The Middle East has already experienced Iron Age before the Chinese people experienced it and the Chinese were coming out of the late Bronze Age
But iron was said to be found in the Yangtze Valley so some people were using bronze and also iron , almost different from the Middle East that almost everybody uses iron because of the Assyrian, Babylonian empire,Lydian empire, the 2 Jewish kingdoms and also surprisingly Egypt under the rule of the Nubian
中东地区的文明没有文献记载也没有产生中国的诸子百家等璀璨的思想，另外当今中东地区的人和古代生活在这片区域的人看上去是完全不同的人，他们几乎没有任何联系，不知道我说的对不对，中国是唯一一个有大量史料古老且持续的文明至今任然充满活力，并且可以和全球霸主美国角力
what's the music used in the intro? from 0:00 to 3:40
Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs Soundtrack - Menu
In fact all the music is from that game
The Joe Dynasty.
those ai generated images are really disturbing
The kingdom anime is real story
The pictures generated by artificial intelligence are too inconsistent with the real history
Did you make another account RPGryphus just to write another comment in this style? xD Come on man.
Sorry my photographer and videographers time machine wasnt working, but we're working on it!
You don't know shit. 🤣
@@daveeygdoeschinese😂 My thoughts exactly. Like what are we talking about?
Just do a little more research and find art from the Warring States Period or art depicting it from later times. Human art is so much more interesting.
Use maps
? I did?
@@daveeygdoeschinese use it more. Use less ai stillsorts.
I appreciate Daveey's dedication to educating people about Chinese history - but these AI generated visuals are genuinely giving me cancer in the eyes
Look @dziku2222, another account of mine!
Hwangha river basin and Yangze ruver basin is unapproachable, Zinryung mountain range that segregates tightly two different ethnic groups.
The southern ethnic group is closely related with the westerly migrated Hunic group. The northerly group is closely related to Korean Juchen groups.
The Han conquer, Liu Pang is believed a Hunic descendant. He defeated the northern dynasties along Hwangha river and subjugated Manchu Korean peninsula. His descendants further conquered the Northern Indochina and Vietnam. BC 200 - AD 600 Han period is the longest dynasty.
The Han name is Hun. 15 ethnic groups have been in melting pot that produced the cultural, lingual ethnic group, Han people, modern the mainland 'Chinese'. The non- conforming groups, Hakka and Tiechu had migrated into Taiwan, and other south eastern countries. They are not true Chinese.
刘邦是匈奴的后代？？？你这个野史够狂野的
Bro, there is so many beautiful art pieces out there from games, history, books, studies, why on Earth would you go so low as to use AI art? I won't be able to support you if you keep doing that. It is cringe and too distracting. I'd rather look at the same real picture/paint/sculpture from a game/book/history/study for 10 minutes than see 1 or 10 AI images.
What's this agression all out of the sudden? Usage of artwork is up to creator to decide, and who cares if it's AI or not? The picture is supposed to represent certain things and a technique the picture has been made with does not matter. Everyone has his own preferences, likes and dislikes, but it's rare to see people to enforce their own tastes on others like you did in this comment. Chill man, what's the fuss all about?
@@dziku2222 If YOU don't care, than stfu. I care, and I'm not alone caring about whether AI art is used. Accuracy, you know, ACCURACY is important when talking/teaching/sharing history, so using AI art is the antithesis of being accurate or even giving the vibe that someone care about accuracy because AI is so awfully wrong and a gross distorsion of reality or rather more often simply fantasy.
Also, I'm chill. My blood pressure hasn't change at all while writing my comments. So your gaslighting and disingenuous comment, tu peux te le fourrer dans l'cul!
@@8qk67acq5 He surely sounded like it :P
My friend there actually isnt a dirth of pre existing content out there for such niche subjects. Historical images are very low quality and are limited. I know this because I actually make the videos.
Please understand I spend an un godly amount of time entertaining and educating you for free. Allot of that time is spent trawling through the internet to find content that I can use in my videos. Then I need to worry about copyright where most of my videos end up getting demonitized.
@@daveeygdoeschinese Although I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, the fact that you think you are in a position to educate me seems very condescending. I'm mostly here to be entertained and hear different and new perspectives on things, to appreciate your understanding of history, and not to be educated per se.
Now I get it, it takes time and hard work to make these videos. I myself worked on mods for video games, I created and maintained for some time a political "Facebook group" where I was commenting and analysing US/Canada politic and was bless enough to reach 20,000+ members before I got shadow banned (during 2021) and could get anymore members and lost all my reach.
It required hard work, lots of research - I spent an ungodly amount of time researching, fact-checking every article I wrote.
Yet the fact that the job is hard isn't an excuse to deviate from what is ethical. You are wrong when you say there's limited historical image or are mostly low quality. There's plenty of english, chinese, korean, vietnamese and japanese websites where you can find images from GAMES, books, personal artwork that can easily be found on DeviantArt or Artstation and many other similar websites. The images doesn't have to be historical per se, in the sense they were painted during the freaking Warring States bro lol That wasn't my point. There's plenty of pictures about excavations, archeological finds related to this era.
As for copyright stuff, I also get it. There's what is called fair use and showing pictures falls into fair use 100% in the context of your videos. Not sure what time of issues you are encountering with copyright, but unless you are using long clips from movies or documentaries, you are not supposed to have issues. We could talk into specifics and figure it out together if you want.
Now, and maybe more importantly, you do whatever the hell you want with your brand. I'm just criticizing what I'm disagreeing with and what makes me not want to be subscribe to your channel. In my view, using AI art just damage your brand and your credibility, it is amateurish and threaten to hinder your growth. You are smart and have potential, hence why I'm subscribed in the first place, and also I do not dislike AI (in art or writing) per se, but when it comes to history there's no ground for tolerance for this.
So in anywho, you do you. I wish you the best of luck and to quickly find better ways/methods to produce your content.