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  • Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025

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  • @IamNorthwind
    @IamNorthwind Год назад +2

    I’ve just found you and am very pleased. So far, I’ve already shared several of your videos in my private Facebook group for my Kung fu students. You provide a wonderful soft 101 approach, in layman’s terms- of sometimes troublesome topics for KF teachers in the west. Thank you and keep up the great work!

  • @atruv2089
    @atruv2089 8 лет назад +20

    4:14 so that's where those lines from the Korean flag came from!

  • @Peripatetic45
    @Peripatetic45 8 лет назад +8

    Yes, please, more on Taoism, but please bear in mind that, as Lao Zi said (paraphrasing) 'That which can be spoken is not the true Tao.' ;)

  • @TuckerRadio00
    @TuckerRadio00 7 лет назад +1

    I love this video. The Yin Yang symbol has always been stuck with me ever since I was I little kid. Now I'm a teenager and I'm still interested by this symbol to this very day. You've explained this perfectly.

  • @comradeharley
    @comradeharley 8 лет назад +34

    I would definitely enjoy an interview / hearing more!

    • @wareflorida
      @wareflorida 8 лет назад +1

      +1 I agree. Interesting video, a "part 2" would be great.

  • @recklessroges
    @recklessroges 8 лет назад +1

    I sense a perfect balance of Yin and Yang in this video. Thank you Ben.

  • @이케추쿠디꼬
    @이케추쿠디꼬 8 лет назад +9

    I love these types of videos!

  • @richardfila
    @richardfila 8 лет назад +1

    Great new style of video Ben! The thought structures behind these cultural elements are significant in comprehending the language. Keep it up!

  • @nurulmaru
    @nurulmaru 6 лет назад

    Very good Channel! I am enjoying it very much. I study Japanese and it is helping me to understand certain ideas. Very helpful and thank you very much from Brazil.

  • @user-cz8gi2om3n
    @user-cz8gi2om3n 8 лет назад +1

    More on this topic, yes please! All my friends here in Taiwan say that their English is not good enough to explain it in detail.

  • @shanghainoon7829
    @shanghainoon7829 8 лет назад +39

    *Not sure how it's sexist, both sides have always been equal halves lol.*

    • @learnchinesenow
      @learnchinesenow  8 лет назад +14

      Well yeah it isn't sexist, but some westerners have interpreted it that way

    • @StefanLorde
      @StefanLorde 8 лет назад +2

      Maybe they're just looking to stir conflict...

    • @aaliadoesanarchy6277
      @aaliadoesanarchy6277 6 лет назад +1

      Not true. They are unified but not equal according to confucianism, but they are equal according to daoism.

    • @aaliadoesanarchy6277
      @aaliadoesanarchy6277 6 лет назад

      @@StefanLorde dude, read history. The symbol was used to justify sexism in ancient china.

    • @ServantofMathias
      @ServantofMathias 5 лет назад +1

      ☯🇨🇳

  • @KyleMillerPHONEHOME1
    @KyleMillerPHONEHOME1 8 лет назад +1

    Can spend a whole life time trying to fully understand something. I liked how you exampled your palm. Also can use inhale exhale. Draw hands in with inhalation gather yin. Vise versa. But like you said. There is a yin wuth in yang and a yang with in yin. I think more time you spend doing something with experience should help you understand the feeling. General concept of yin yang. Thanks for the vid! please do more on traditional culture art and philosophy more! Please!

  • @tehninjadude
    @tehninjadude 8 лет назад +1

    Definitely get an expert on, that's a great idea!
    Also, you should do a video on Confucius and Confucianism, to complement this one. I'm gonna echo the sentiment of some other commenters and say I really like your traditional Chinese culture videos.

  • @robertlvlien9649
    @robertlvlien9649 8 лет назад

    From those trigrams and hexagrams it seems like where the data coding got inspiration from. Maybe also physics and chemics and matth you also can find paralells. Interesting

  • @mavadim
    @mavadim 8 лет назад

    I find this very interesting, it's concept along with 5 elements applies to so many things.

  • @kekirs14
    @kekirs14 6 лет назад

    I LOVE THIS VIDEO. I WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YIN AND YANG. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

  • @orchidcolors
    @orchidcolors 8 лет назад

    This was most fascinating, and I would really love to hear more about it from an expert, or maybe several experts. Even if you can't interview anyone, thank you for sharing what you did share.

  • @JariSatta
    @JariSatta 8 лет назад +3

    A feature of the Feminine is to live in the now, and
    search for Love. Yin
    A Feature of the Masculine is his purpose, and search
    for freedom. Yang

  • @kysersoze739
    @kysersoze739 8 лет назад

    Great video! hope you can continue doing these type of videos where we also learn a lot about Chinese culture

  • @VickyTran-l6e
    @VickyTran-l6e Год назад +1

    Love learning please 🙏 continue❤❤❤

  • @roxanaphyllis
    @roxanaphyllis 8 лет назад

    This is very interesting! I, myself , as a Chinese couldn't explain this topic... Well done! X

  • @fridaywithmateobonus2477
    @fridaywithmateobonus2477 2 года назад

    I believe the first person to draw this symbol may have been influenced by the moon ... during certain phases, it is easy to see on a clear morning before sunrise

  • @pi.mace10
    @pi.mace10 8 лет назад

    yes! an interview would be amazing

  • @sopekookie7
    @sopekookie7 8 лет назад

    Yes please. I've always wanted to learn more about it xx

  • @ApteraEV2024
    @ApteraEV2024 2 года назад

    I love it, I read Tao When I was Teen)) Shaolin martial artist after that)) Thanks for sharing that intro! Subbed&&))

  • @zenleohart6084
    @zenleohart6084 7 лет назад

    Even more info would be great, especially about reading deeper into the original 8 trigrams. Apparently divination books are not the way to go with those, but rather it seems as though one should meditate on each individual trigram to gain better insight. As for how to go about that I'm not sure. Perhaps having an expert on either yin and yang or Bagua trigrams (or both) would be quite useful.

  • @thrillhouse4151
    @thrillhouse4151 8 лет назад

    Proton = Yang. Neutron = Yin. Electron = Qi. The Octet rule of elements corresponds to the Bagua. And every atom is a configuration of yin and yang.

  • @narashikamaru0
    @narashikamaru0 7 лет назад +1

    i love these topics

  • @xx2ndLookxx
    @xx2ndLookxx 8 лет назад

    Id like to hear a little more about this..

  • @h.hickenanaduk8622
    @h.hickenanaduk8622 9 месяцев назад

    Rising and falling express no contention in their presence. It's not light and dark, as these are static. Energy is either rising of falling. In terms of the Tao, this awareness is important to one's reaction to the flow. I have heard a thousand voices speak, but the Tao remains silent. I have seen a thousand speakers explaining, but the Tao remains active. Which is knowledge?

  • @Kali23Yuga
    @Kali23Yuga 8 лет назад

    Would love to know more. I also know that in China they had alchemy, just as in the West, but don't know in what ways they differ.

  • @VulcanTrekkie45
    @VulcanTrekkie45 8 лет назад

    So starting with just Yin and Yang, we've got explanations for waterbending and airbending. I'm assuming earth and fire are a bit more complicated.

  • @jungkooksbeautifulvoice7326
    @jungkooksbeautifulvoice7326 8 лет назад

    This is such an interesting topic!! I loved this video!!

  • @richiesd1
    @richiesd1 8 лет назад

    Love your videos. Anymore deeper?
    Do you teach Chinese as a profession?

  • @taoren8430
    @taoren8430 8 лет назад

    Yin yang is absolutely means the balance and harmony between dark and Light ,good and evil in the world and if there's light"good" then there's shadow"evil"
    Any way that's what I know
    And liked the video its really good

  • @biskitboyz
    @biskitboyz 8 лет назад

    Would love to see more about it, please!

  • @emiliocovarrubias5640
    @emiliocovarrubias5640 8 лет назад

    Hi... I am really intrested in explore further about this topic, so it'd be nice that you intervew someone. As well as if you could add some links please... Please 😀😀👍🏽

  • @MultiJojp
    @MultiJojp 8 лет назад

    My Chinese name actually contains 阳 (Yang), so I was a bit nervous at first if it was alright to have a "male" element in my same since I am a female, but as far as people have told me, it's perfectly fine!

  • @diphyllum8180
    @diphyllum8180 8 лет назад

    Baguazhang doesn't actually have 64 changes, and probably isn't actually derived from the I-Ching. Cheng Tinghua built up a system of correspondences but the historicity is dubious and it looks like it was mostly his invention. Anyway, there aren't 64 palm changes in Bagua... each style of Bagua has 8 palm changes (though the founder of the art taught a different set of 8 to each of his disciples). In Cheng's style of bagua there's a 64 palm series, but not all styles of Bagua have that, and as I said, Cheng was the one pushing the idea that it was related to the I-Ching so that makes sense.

    • @benhedgesvlogs
      @benhedgesvlogs 8 лет назад +2

      the book I read about Ba Gua must have been that style.

    • @diphyllum8180
      @diphyllum8180 8 лет назад

      Ben Hedges When I started practicing these martial arts, your description of them was pretty much what I was expecting. The reality was somewhat different but also awesome. It can sometimes be hard to separate reality from hype, and it's currently a contentious matter the extent to which Chinese martial arts actually relate to ancient philosophy, qigong, etc. I'd like them to, but the evidence prior to marketing materials in the 20th century is disappointingly lacking

  • @thedude1904
    @thedude1904 8 лет назад

    Recommendations for apps on news in China?

  • @jimjerry3469
    @jimjerry3469 8 лет назад

    Can you do a video on Daojiao vs Daojia?

  • @JunkerVlog
    @JunkerVlog 8 лет назад

    I'd love to hear more about it.
    Get a Taoist to interview

  • @marcelsalome36
    @marcelsalome36 4 года назад

    In the Teaching of spirit .teaching of truth and teaching of life , it's said that everything in Universe was created in Yin and Yang ( positive energy and negative energy or vibrations ) , and it's says that both Yin and Yang are totally independent of each other but in the same time compliments each other in the evolutian of human life in Universe . and we can see this duality but in the same time a Ones in our daily life in positive and negative in our thinking . Feeling . Actions . Deeds etc . It's says in the book of " The Psyche or Mighty Power of Thoughts " by Billy Meier , that our thinking must be brought to an harmonization of Yin and Yang , and that always we should consider and positive and negative in our thoughts but the negative must be observed and not let to manifest in phisycal reality , and to have a balanced thinking in ( NEUTRAL POSITIVE THINKING) because we need to consider both polarities other wise if we consider only positive this can be manifesting in negative vibration or energies . More at Figu.org or www.futureofmankind.co.uk/Billy_Meier/Spirit_Teaching

  • @h.hickenanaduk8622
    @h.hickenanaduk8622 9 месяцев назад

    The One is the outer circle which is the Universe outside the field of Energy and beyond the veil of causality known as Heaven. The two are Yin and Yang - not polarities which are static but motions toward and away, rising and falling. In real life, there are no opposites, only contrasts - is the opposite of love hate or indifference. The Chi, the third element, is the line between the Yin and Yang which provides the space for movement which flows between Yin and Yang and gives balance to those within the Tao.
    To fall outside the Tao is to be beat up or drained by the flow. You have freewill to change your position on the line and to pierce the stream in different ways. The ripples you make may change their size, but you will never leave the stream of warm impermanence.
    Learn to dance gracefully in the center for Peace is not the absence of resistance, but the acceptance of it. If you can marry acceptance and resistance, peace all around will be your dowry. Accept resistance - resist acceptance.

  • @antonymichiru
    @antonymichiru 8 лет назад +1

    Hello Ben and always thank you for your interesting lessons! I would like to know more about the formal chinese greeting 請多多關照 that apparently seems to be the japanese translation of 宜しくお願いします (yoroshiku onegai shimasu). It seems there are chinese who don't use this expression (they said it is too formal) while some taiwanese that think this is a very good phrase when you meet someone for the first time :) you lived in China Mainland and Taiwan so I would like to know your opinion :) 謝謝

    • @siufusiu270
      @siufusiu270 2 года назад

      We say 請多多關照 in Cantonese. I haven't heard of this phrase in Mandarin. Btw, it feels a bit strange to hear the suggestion that it may be a translation from Japanese. The Japanese language is in some way influenced by Chinese and China has a much longer history than Japan.

  • @Ven2x
    @Ven2x 7 лет назад +4

    Did anybody get an ad with a person trying to learn Chinese? No just me? Ok

  • @JamesJrSy-cv7me
    @JamesJrSy-cv7me 5 лет назад

    Yin/yang
    - In/Yo in Nihonggo
    - Um/yang in Hangul
    Examples from the scientific field:
    Newton's third Law of Motion
    Law of gravity
    Law of Supply and Demand
    Flexors and extensors
    Anterior and posterior

  • @guyontheinternet3285
    @guyontheinternet3285 4 года назад

    2:29 I like ya cut g I like ya cut g I like ya cut g I like ya cut g I like ya cut g

  • @WryAun
    @WryAun 8 лет назад

    More would be super cool!

  • @Happyandhealthy96
    @Happyandhealthy96 8 лет назад

    yes i love it! would love an expert interview! :)

  • @danieljanowski3312
    @danieljanowski3312 8 лет назад

    Hey, could someone explain to me, what's the difference in pronunciation between pinyin's 'n' and 'ng'? Just like here, with yin yang; I can hear the difference when it's said by english speakers while they're not speaking chinese, they pronounce it just like it would be pronounced in english, but not really when someone speaks chinese.

    • @JayFolipurba
      @JayFolipurba 8 лет назад

      I think it might be the dialect. In southern Chinese they tend to juggle around some consonants which makes it hard to cope at first. In school chinese it should be a clearer line between 'n' and 'ng'. At least imo

    • @supanontra
      @supanontra 8 лет назад

      Many Chinese dialects don't have the 'ng' sound, so they pronounce it the same as 'n' when they speak standard Chinese (with accent). The same goes for the sh - s, ch - c, and zh - j sounds (from my experience they have trouble with sh, ch, zh).
      I remember the difference like this: 'ang' is pronounced just like in English, deep in the through.
      'an' is pounced higher up in the mouth. Chinese people told me to "smile" and open my mouth wide when I say it.

    • @dogedoge4062
      @dogedoge4062 8 лет назад

      most chinese have the 'ng' sound...

  • @kylethechild3942
    @kylethechild3942 8 лет назад

    Wouldn't yáng mean the sun, and yīn means the wind or clouds?

    • @learnchinesenow
      @learnchinesenow  8 лет назад +3

      Well yes the sun is Yang (it's called 太陽), cloudy days are referred to as 陰天

    • @jose280714
      @jose280714 8 лет назад

      Can we get a more in depth video about this?

    • @ThanhTruc-uz9bc
      @ThanhTruc-uz9bc 6 лет назад

      Nothing is purely yin or yang; it is always a matter of comparison. Yin and yang are interdependent. Even though yin and yang are opposites, one has no meaning without the other. For example:
      - male and female: male is yang, female is Yin
      - mother and son: mother is Yang, son is Yin

  • @thihachi
    @thihachi 4 года назад +3

    I was waiting for the men clip with yin personality

    • @gmtwj-fye7898
      @gmtwj-fye7898 3 года назад

      lolololololololololololololololol

  • @asimqadri2009
    @asimqadri2009 7 лет назад

    Concise and complete

  • @narashikamaru0
    @narashikamaru0 7 лет назад

    i don't understand this :
    the back of the body is yang so that's because the back is stronger than the front so when he hits the back of his hand he said that it is hurt so this is " yin" how ?
    doesn't the back means yang ?

  • @TheRairvine
    @TheRairvine Год назад

    Read the wind between words

  • @nikwind2283
    @nikwind2283 8 лет назад

    Hi Ben, I have been watching your videos for awhile. I am wondering is it harder for you to go to China nowadays due to having a channel? has it changed at all? I know some of your friends have channels that are political . just wondering .

  • @cassiekane6455
    @cassiekane6455 3 года назад +1

    i love this

  • @SocraTetris
    @SocraTetris Год назад

    6y old debate, but the interpretation as sexist comes from interacting with Feminism and Existentialism as philosophies. Trying to assert that male or female have different, inherent "essence" or purpose that cannot be ethically deviated from. Rather than saying men and women are free agents, and may create for themselves their definition of value or purpose without the need for social or religious approval.
    While this aspect of the idea was used in Confucian social structures to entrenches men as superior to women in the relationship of husbands and wives, from a daoist perspective, the two materials cause each other. It is a singular essence that changes between two states over time. It is expressly not the Dao, the singular, permanent essence of the physical/spiritual world as a whole.

  • @gaborkomuves6768
    @gaborkomuves6768 11 месяцев назад

    I am a bit confused, the back of the body is yang but the back of the hand is yin!.. In my humble opinion, the back of the hand is yang too, no offense

  • @BaffleTube
    @BaffleTube 8 лет назад

    Yes more please 🙏🏻

  • @the_random12345
    @the_random12345 2 года назад

    4:36 that's a naruto reference

  • @petershort6886
    @petershort6886 8 лет назад

    Enlighting video!

  • @tealouie
    @tealouie 8 лет назад

    I vote for interviewing experts on toaist topics. Also lol @ the ying yang protestor haha

  • @SirenPandaSabo
    @SirenPandaSabo 8 лет назад

    That was interesting to watch ^^

  • @zxj9638
    @zxj9638 Год назад

    1 and 0,the basic element of the universe.

  • @supanontra
    @supanontra 8 лет назад +1

    I actually prefer the simplified versions of 阴 and 阳 with the moon and the sun in it...Anyone who agrees?

    • @learnchinesenow
      @learnchinesenow  8 лет назад +1

      The simplified ones also contain meaning relates to the characters, but not as deep as the original meanings

    • @HowTosWare
      @HowTosWare 7 лет назад

      yin and yang means two aspect of one thing, taoist believe that all the things are changing all the time.
      the time when it changes to yin is just the time it start change to yang. in general speaking, everything was moving and changing, there is no static thing in the world, just like budda says in chinese "过去心不可得,现在心不可得,未来心不可得" which means "In the past, the heart can not be obtained, now the heart can not get, the future heart can not get", the reason why we can not get our heart is our heart are changing all the time just like a movie made up by many continuous pictures, so in fact movie does not exist. for another example, TV can show many image,dose that mean the images which tv shows really exist? so we say "空不异色,色不异空,空即是色,色即是空”,"心物一元" ,“何其自性,能生万法”,and so on , i cant translate that into english,the only way to understand that is to learn chinese by yourself。there's one thing i believe "Combination of Western science and Chinese culture you will know the world better".

    • @HelderGriff
      @HelderGriff 6 лет назад

      David Jacob it's hegelian dialectics

  • @glisero4043
    @glisero4043 8 лет назад

    For some reason I have always thought Yin was the light and Yang was the dark.

    • @JayFolipurba
      @JayFolipurba 8 лет назад

      Most people are confused about that. But they didn't really make it clear in the first place. And sometimes it doesn't really matter, because each contains the other and you should always have both.

    • @supanontra
      @supanontra 8 лет назад

      I remember it with the word for sun: 太阳 (Tai yang). The simplified character even contains the sun radical on the right. 太 means extremely. So the word for sun literally translates to "extremely bright".

  • @popsis15
    @popsis15 8 лет назад

    I wanted this video so bad!

  • @LuisGustavo-wq5fu
    @LuisGustavo-wq5fu 8 лет назад

    cool video!!!!

  • @boyfat6349
    @boyfat6349 6 лет назад

    不得不说你很厉害,居然去研究《易经》。我也喜欢它,中华文化源于《易经》。

  • @y.1198
    @y.1198 6 лет назад

    Well i heard that, the white with the black button is the evil in a good and the dark side with the white button is the good in a evil..But i don’t know..

  • @ausssan555
    @ausssan555 4 года назад

    This is why we see a ying and yang when neji does 64 palms 😂 but great video on my spiritual path wanted it grip better understanding of yin and yang

  • @danzwku
    @danzwku 8 лет назад

    man i was expecting a vide of a man of yin haha should have posted something

  • @LEEVHOLT
    @LEEVHOLT 6 лет назад +1

    EIGHT TRIGRAMS 64 PALMS! :D

  • @aithne1457
    @aithne1457 10 месяцев назад

    Don’t forget about xihe the Chinese goddess of the SUNS so yin and yang is more like energy 😊

  • @thedude1904
    @thedude1904 8 лет назад +3

    Thanks Ben! I want to know if there are black people in China. Dumb question but I'm serious. I can't picture blacks in China speaking Chinese. Interesting

    • @이케추쿠디꼬
      @이케추쿠디꼬 8 лет назад

      Of course! Why wouldn't there be?

    • @이케추쿠디꼬
      @이케추쿠디꼬 8 лет назад +4

      I am black and I speak Chinese with my Chinese friends all of the time. There are all types of people everywhere

    • @alexguan1611
      @alexguan1611 8 лет назад +2

      Yes there are! There are many black people in China. I've been to Guangzhou City in Guangdong province, and some parts of it are dominated by black communities. Many of them are actually doing business, like the one black guy I met there. In fact, many large sports team (soccer, basketball) pay a huge sum for black people to play for there team due to their larger, stronger physique compared to the locals.

  • @adrianzondervan6521
    @adrianzondervan6521 8 лет назад

    I think the back of the body should be Yin and the front Yang

  • @GaGa51194
    @GaGa51194 8 лет назад +1

    There's this term called 「陰陽眼」 [yīnyáng yǎn] which refers to the eyes which are able to see spirits (or ghosts or whatever). 😄
    However, some people refer to them as 「天眼」[tiān yǎn] (pretty sure they're the same).

  • @mkt1037
    @mkt1037 5 лет назад

    That should be a emoji

  • @jessetimber1388
    @jessetimber1388 Год назад

    Yin = 0 Yang = 1 bagua is 3 Digi binary which is 000 001 010 011 100 101 110 111 when you time 8 x 8 = 64 just like the computer go by 8 bit 16 bit 32 bit 64 bit , its also referring the positive and negative force which is semiconductor p and n also the newest research came out the same images of taichi Researchers at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with Danilo Zia and Fabio Sciarrino from the Sapienza University of Rome, recently demonstrated a novel technique that allows the visualization of the wave function of two entangled photons, the elementary particles that constitute light, in real-time

  • @KSSR132
    @KSSR132 Год назад

    "There have been some pretty evil men in the world"
    😢😮

  • @i1shickeystojanovic
    @i1shickeystojanovic 8 лет назад

    more on 64 Hexagrams

  • @bowmanc.7439
    @bowmanc.7439 8 лет назад

    All human are mostly Yang, only ghosts with no bodies , zombies, certain items that connect hell and people born on the yin hour of yin day of yin month of yin year are pure yin. Female just have more yin than male.
    And some legends state all human have 3 yang "Fire" on the shoulders and head, female's fire are weaker. A ghost must extinguish the 3 fires before it can harm human.
    Good looking female and male(yes, ancient Chinese people mostly consider feminine men good looking, most still do now, just look at how girls react to K-pop stars) are considered to be slightly more Yin than others, so being yin is actually a good thing if you never meet a ghost.
    In summery, all human are roughly 50% yin and 50% yang, some are 40:60(good looking), some are 60:40(naturally stronger). But the only impact of this believe have on female is that the believers would consider female to be generally more good looking than male but require protection.

  • @Canadian_MamaBear
    @Canadian_MamaBear 5 лет назад

    My cat has a yin yang on her paw!

  • @marcus.the.younger
    @marcus.the.younger 5 лет назад

    8 palm trigram??
    Thats the basic Hyuga stuff..
    Way to go Naruto...

  • @noahpeng1689
    @noahpeng1689 Год назад

    Just like binary, Yin and Yang are 0 and 1, Tai Chi is the origin of the universe.

  • @lordkenten4136
    @lordkenten4136 5 лет назад

    You should of showed Moa instead of hitler

  • @Johanneslol11
    @Johanneslol11 8 лет назад

    Hes i would love That !!!:D

  • @1blackaura
    @1blackaura 8 лет назад

    please do tell more from an expert.

  • @lemonboi99
    @lemonboi99 5 лет назад

    Your saying yang wrong, it should ryhme with tong or bong. Not tang sang. Please get it right if you try and educate people on RUclips

  • @talkstospiders
    @talkstospiders 5 лет назад

    Yea interview an expert

  • @universe627
    @universe627 6 лет назад

    you speak Chinese well hahhhhh

  • @atreespirit969
    @atreespirit969 7 лет назад +2

    一本正经的胡说八道……

  • @sharicecarty6140
    @sharicecarty6140 8 лет назад

    Try to interview an expert

  • @bennychow2505
    @bennychow2505 7 лет назад

    noobs im from china