It would be great if the public opinion in this world was not controlled by certain international organizations. I hope that people all over the world can understand each other's culture. The inability of human beings to unite is the biggest mistake of human beings. When we face unknown threats from outer space, if we still don't know how to unite, then human beings will pay a heavy price. Therefore, it is the biggest regret of human beings that some countries are currently provoking regional conflicts to maintain their own advantages.
Fun fact, Southern Chinese have a word for themselves “Tong-Yen”, refers to the Tang Dynasty. Much like the Japanese call themselves “Ni-Pon”. The same “Tong”, is still the word used for China Town, “Tong-Yen-Gai”.
The chinese believed in the existance of the Yellow Emperor. Meanwhile, Rober Chambers wrote a book called The King in Yellow, about a monarch who is a manifestation of Hastur, an eldritch being. Interesting...
nah, why nobody talks about Zhu Yuanzhang AKA Emperor Hongwu. He defeated the Mongols, under the Mongol's ruling Han Chinese are almost completely divided into to different ethnic groups. He united Han Chinese, Han is the majority in China, without him, this group will break into multiple and which definitely will lead to more civil wars.
@ are we looking at this through hindsight or a modern perspective on values? Other rulers to include Qing Gaozong also had their moments. Let’s take for example Qing Gaozong having the largest corruption ever in imperial Chinese history (I.e. Heshen). Not endorsing his particular methods, but Ming Taizu and others in his shoes did more to start a dynasty whereas Qing Gaozong’s reign was the bridge in which his dynasty finally collapsed.
In the minds of most Chinese people, the only recognized "one emperor through the ages" is Qin Shihuang. There are also three other candidates, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty Li Shimin, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, and Emperor Gaozu of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang. The remaining other emperors are ranked among these four emperors. Behind, behind is Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin， Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty， Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty， Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian ，etc. This is the mainstream view in China (there have been hundreds of emperors in Chinese history, and these are generally recognized. Genghis Khan is not a Chinese emperor, and the Mongolian Empire did not integrate Chinese Han culture)
Another point of knowledge is that the Chinese now call themselves "descendants of Yan and Huang", which means the descendants of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor (actually there is another one named Chi You, who lost to the Yellow Emperor, but he still has descendants to this day). Huangdi and Yandi were also brothers, but because they were not dynasties at that time, they were tribal leaders. In the subsequent Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, since no more dynasty records have been found, we only know that there were such emperors, and very little about their deeds has been discovered. Therefore, when Chinese people evaluate the achievements of emperors, they generally do not include them. But starting from Qin Shihuang
I appreciate the things you do on this channel I learned a lot about my ancestors I'm an American that only has 0.6% Chinese on the last of my bloodline but I would love to learn a lot more what would you recommend
Hey im Hrishi of Tai ahom dynasty that rule nearly 600 years that deafted mughals 17 times in row , i am from Assam,india🇮🇳 my dyanaty came from yannun china provicene 🇨🇳 of mong mao kingdom So i want to more about my dynasty & vist yannun once in my life to see my ancestors Is all the tai groups belongs to ming dynasty?? Idk about the history of other tai groups except mine tai group After coming to assam we lost our language & change the religion to hindu but never lost our tradition we still believe in old customs & some situations still taught tai language here but i study in english medium school so unable to learn the tai language If any other tai group of yannun see my comment "Khuptang boikom nangkham 🙏" is it correct?
Awesome video! It would be great to have the script uploaded instead of the auto-generated subtitles so important names and events are displayed correctly.
Suggested emperors: Han Wudi, Han Wendi, Han Guangwu, Wu Zetian, Song Taizu, Song Shenzong, Kublai Khan, Yongle Emperor, Hongzhi Emperor, Hongwu Emperor, Qianlong Emperor
@@tc2334 To be continued: Tang history is written by those traditional scholars at that time which are unreliable. You can't cite one reliable source that proves your claim but come to say she was not great but most sources say otherwise. China has long history of painting men as heroes ignoring their amount of cruelty. Just like how china presents history's biggest mass killer Mao as national hero. Yeh If there were no camera, the world would never know his true face. Chinese historians would paint him like true hero who made China great just like how u calling those oppressers as great. A great ruler is one who bring peace and empower it's people and not oppresses and kills them to showcase his power. Okay she is not a great ruler for u but she is a great ruler according to most reliable sources because she brought peace and empowered all of its people without bias unlike other Chinese emperor whose aim was mostly to oppress and rule. And Tang dynasty became largely prosperous because of Wu zetian's contribution. This is written in British encyclopedia. Now prove them wrong? If u don't know all of this, then it means u have been either reading wrong history all this time Or u never read it. And I know many Chinese from various platforms who say she was a great ruler. So ur argument that most do not agree becomes invalid. It also means that u never read history written by credible writer or u are not good at history or trying to reinterpret it to suit ur agenda. And don't run away from argument.
No, the Yellow Emperor was not an alien, or from any other planets. He was a scientist from Year 2300 in the future who travelled back in time in a time machine that looks like long spaceship. The uniform he wears is yellow, same as the machine painting, from the same company.
I can overlook the mistakes in the historical facts. The complexity of Chinese civilization takes infinite time and effort to comprehend and draw the synthesis. I appreciate the interesting introduction. I also respect his relative objectiveness compared to his older colleague on this channel.
But at her time, she made mass murder to Li dynasty and ministers who loyal to Tang dynasty also, and At her times, she lost Control of Northeast territories to Balhae and Silla refused to pay tribute also, But yeah she did accomplish to prosper the lives of common peoples but in Strategic views and Imperial authority, minus in there , so no greatest when compare other Emperors
It's great that you are running a channel on Chinese history. However, your timeline in the beginning 10 seconds is wrong. The three kingdom period didn't last 300 years. There was the East and West Jin dynasty and then the "Sixteen Kingdoms" period. This is a very obvious and fundamental mistake and hope you can fix this going forward.
- Han Gaozu/Liu Bang isn't as easy as you said. On paper, he was weak and pretty much naive but he was actually a real scheming and in no better ways to say it, an utter scheming bastard. So before he started to rebel, he was a simple constable and was bringing a bunch of prisoners to build the mausoleum for Qin Shihuang but as he was taking a break, the prisoners escaped and by law, he would be executed next for letting the prisoners break free. He then released the remaining prisoners that didn't flee and they became a band and took up an empty fort at Mount Mangdang in Henan. He schemed his way thru by acting blur and pitiful all the time to become the sole power that could rival Xiang Yu. Even after Xiang Yu's death, he didn't stop scheming either as after the Han dynasty was established, he had most of his nation builder leaders killed and one most notorious event was when he schemed soo hard to have his grand marshal of the nation, Han Xin, violently assassinated and had his entire family killed. Yes, he's one of China's greatest emperors but it's not that simple on his character. - Kangxi and Qianlong are both considered the best Qing emperors out there or one of the few greatest emperors of all time for China. Kangxi stabilized the country thru more laxed legal system for the Han population and massively promote cultural acceptance for both sides and instead of promoting just Manchu/Jurchen members of staff in the Forbidden City, he did it too with Han ministers which made more and more Han Chinese willingly to serve the system abeit he too faced tons of opposition against his rule cuz, I mean, he's Manchu ruling against Han Chinese population. However, he's known to always been rather relaxed on such underground groups despite multiple records stating that they're often tried to take his life but he still let them off. Qianlong was another great emperor that he actually expanded the country by quite alot by entering into Ugyhur, Kazahks and even unified Mongolia under Qing rule. However, that did bankrupt the treasury due to his extravagant wars but at its heyday, Qianlong was a real great leader that forwarded what Kangxi was doing and he voluntarily abdicate to his son after holding power for 61 years just so he could not "outshine his grandfather" who he thought was the ultimate emperor of China and the success Kangxi had built.
Where is Wu Zetian? She undoubtedly deserves to be in top 5. She was the pioneer of meritocracy based system in China and many of her policies are still being practiced in China today. She was badly tainted by confucious scholars of her time but she was really a great ruler.
Women have been tainted evil throughout Chinese history. She wasn't the first to experience this. Confucious inflicted evil inside Chinese minds and this was evident in all successive dynasties. Wu could have easily been China's #1 ruler if she had received the same level of support from her court as earlier rulers. She was a ruler of a supreme caliber but men were too envious of her.
Women have been tainted evil throughout Chinese history. She wasn't the first to experience this. Confucious inflicted evil inside Chinese minds and this was evident in all successive dynasties. Wu could have easily been China's #1 ruler if she had received the same level of support from her court as earlier rulers. She was a ruler of a supreme caliber but men were too envious of her.
Wu Zetian was a great emperor and the only female emperor in Chinese history. However, China has too many emperors. The emperor had hundreds of people. Among them, she is not ranked at the forefront, only ranked between 20-30.This is the current mainstream view in China. Ranking among the top 30 emperors among hundreds of emperors is already very impressive.
@@alexk5772 I don't agree wd u. I've read abt her well. She is easily among the top 5 great emperors considering the important works she did that made her empire so prosperous and peaceful. Not to mention, She broke gender stereotypes abt women at the time by lifting them to a position equal to men. Chinese views are mostly shaped by her distorted history written by confucian scholars at the time which I also understand why many chinese thinks that. It will take time to change that view.
@@badmashdogesh3939 I am Chinese and I should know the emperor of China better than you. I'm somewhat interested in these too. The rankings I'm talking about are just the mainstream views in China. The evaluation of Wu Zetian is still very high. As for the improvement of women's status you mentioned, it actually only had an effect during her reign, and then returned to its original state. In the Song Dynasty, the situation became even more serious. In fact, Qin Shihuang also did this kind of thing. But you also know that due to the constraints of Confucianism, the status of women in ancient China has never been very good. Merits that do not affect future generations are of little use. The improvement of the status of Chinese women only changed after the 18th century.
12:21 I enjoy watching your video until you mentioned Shen Yun. I heard they're hired by Falun Gong where the girls had to dance tirelessly and none stop with little pay. It's true?
No that is not true. The New York Times came out with a hit piece against Shen Yun, probably at the behest of the Chinese communist party. My co host Jared is an MC for Shen Yun and I have been a supporter and promoter for Shen Yun for many years. We support the show because we believe they are doing great work to revive traditional Chinese performing arts and culture. As for the accusations, it is a world class arts company, so of course the standard is very high and the training is hard, a "journalist" can easily spin that how they want to. NYT only interviewed people who left Shen Yun with negative stories and ignored the large number of people with positive stories about their time in the company. Even one guy who was interviewed who said mostly positive and a few negative things, said to us afterwards that the New York Times only used the negative stuff he said in the article and ignored the positive. You can check out our video on Shen Yun on our channel for our take
Overall your list was good. But I would replace Kangxi with either Kublai Khan or King Da Yu of Xia. Kangxi just benefitted greatly from having a well-established dynasty thanks to his father, grandfather, and great uncles hard work. He was also blessed with good health which resulted in the long-term rule. Kublai Khan unified all of china after many years of civil war among the warlords and led to the beginning of the dominance of the mongolian Empire which allowed China to expand greatly in territorial conquest. Da Yu, also known as Yu the great, is famous for controlling floods which saved many lives and increased in crop yields. Although he is likely to be more of a mythical ruler like the Yellow Emperor as there are not enough evidence to suggest his actual existence. Based on the findings that was left behind, he is said to be one of the most benevolent rulers in history and is now considered to be a water deity.
i and so many volunteers in museums in Shaanxi province would argue that Emperor Qin was good. Under his rule it was the true 法治社会。Also the burying his concubines part is wrong information. We all know he rejected human sacrifice. I personally went to his mausoleum, and there is no human sacrifices on site. There are only thousands of life size pottery figures, posing as their jobs to keep him entertained in the afterlife. (such as singers, dancers, acrobats, boat rowers, etc)
Sorry to interrupt but, Birth place of Buddha was Nepal not India . Buddha only get enlightenment in Indian place under tree while meditating . As a nepali citizen , We all read about Buddha from school age.
Hi there, I don't think we said in the video that the Buddha was born in India. We did say Buddhism spread from India to China, which is true. Nepal is a beautiful country.
The map of China that you used at the start of the video is brazenly incorrect. It includes the SOVEREIGN states of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikstan WITHIN China’s territory and undermines their independence. This should be amended at once and a public apology should be issued
Do you know any other RUclipsrs that could be considered your equivalent in other cultures? Covering Language, History, Mythology & more. Ex. Learn Japanese Now, Learn Greek Now, etc.
As the only empress in Chinese history, Wu Zetian's historical status and influence are indisputable. However, without her identity as a woman, her achievements as an emperor would not place her among the top ten. Wu Zetian did not have unique and far-reaching political accomplishments.
What a stupid way to end a video. Communism itself did not destroy Chinese culture, Mao and the hardline faction did, which the Communist party sees today as a mistake. In fact, I would consider Deng Xiaoping as one of China's greatest leaders ever.
Remember Tang dynasty king tang taizong was brutally defeated by Tibetan empire king called songsten gampo. He captured the then Chinese capital Chang An for sometime. And king lishimin ran away further east of China. During that time Tibetan were superpower in central n east Asia.
@@aliciazhang1ty Wu Zetian was good. She wasn’t great. The most outstanding thing about her was that she was a woman, but if we’re just looking at accomplishments…She didn’t accomplish anything on the scale of the ones I listed. Not even close.
@@tc2334 Its opposite. Those u named are good but not great. Wu reformed education. She pioneered the meritocracy based system by electing capable officials in the court entirely through their merit irrespective of their background. Brought equality to men and women. Women enjoyed unprecedented freedom and say in political matters that never been seen before or since. She was also successful in expanding her empire to central Asia which no other previous emperors were successful. They are some of her great accomplishments. You seem to know know nothing.
@@aliciazhang1ty Qianlong, Han Wudi, and Yuan Shizu also did expanded borders into the western regions (and Han Wudi was before her) and all five of them reformed education and three of the five championed meritocracy. 😂 Women having “unprecedented freedom” doesn’t automatically make her better an overall better emperor than the five I mentioned. You’re way overstating her and you clearly know absolutely nothing about any other emperor *except* her. 😂 Go read a book…or several.
Wrong info on this one. Han Gaozu. Liu Bang is NOT a smart nor good person. Hes a conman. Just so happended that he's family bought a captain position for him in his village, but he bullied his way to get things done. And juat happend that the Qin Empsror is recruiting soldiers to quell rebels, and its nearby his village. He was made into a leader of a group of soldiers consists of his bully friends in the village. He also forced recruitment of able men in the village to help him to fight the rebels. As the story goes, and later he became a lord, he also doesn't show any leadership nor capabilities to to lead or fight wars. He even look down on his greatest general, Han Xin. He is the sole person single handedly safe Liu Bang and conquer the whole China from the famous warlord Xiang Yu. Without Han Xin, there is no Han Dynasty. When he unified China, he killed Han Xin and his other loyal generals that followed his since the beginning. He also stole Qin strategist Li Si's works on legal system, and claimed as his. It was Li Si, the person who single handedly drafted the whole legal system for Qin Shi Huang. So basically, he just stole all the works from Qin to rule. That's it. So he's a conman who did nothing. No contributions whatsoever to the Dynasty.
Thank you. I love chinese people and culture.
China welcome you anytime!
It would be great if the public opinion in this world was not controlled by certain international organizations. I hope that people all over the world can understand each other's culture. The inability of human beings to unite is the biggest mistake of human beings. When we face unknown threats from outer space, if we still don't know how to unite, then human beings will pay a heavy price. Therefore, it is the biggest regret of human beings that some countries are currently provoking regional conflicts to maintain their own advantages.
But the chinese people don't like you
just beware that this channel is actually operated by an anti-chinese cult
Great video, you are good at it.
Fun fact, Southern Chinese have a word for themselves “Tong-Yen”, refers to the Tang Dynasty. Much like the Japanese call themselves “Ni-Pon”. The same “Tong”, is still the word used for China Town, “Tong-Yen-Gai”.
Where have you been? I've been waiting for a channel like yours. Just subscribed. Hello from Mobile Alabama USA
The chinese believed in the existance of the Yellow Emperor. Meanwhile, Rober Chambers wrote a book called The King in Yellow, about a monarch who is a manifestation of Hastur, an eldritch being.
Interesting...
Hi from France ! I love China, thanks so much for your vidéos ❤
nah, why nobody talks about Zhu Yuanzhang AKA Emperor Hongwu.
He defeated the Mongols, under the Mongol's ruling Han Chinese are almost completely divided into to different ethnic groups. He united Han Chinese, Han is the majority in China, without him, this group will break into multiple and which definitely will lead to more civil wars.
Right on the money about Ming Taizu!
Well, he was pretty cruel when he was king to the government officials, he was kind but his actions did lead to late ming being extremely bad
@ are we looking at this through hindsight or a modern perspective on values? Other rulers to include Qing Gaozong also had their moments. Let’s take for example Qing Gaozong having the largest corruption ever in imperial Chinese history (I.e. Heshen). Not endorsing his particular methods, but Ming Taizu and others in his shoes did more to start a dynasty whereas Qing Gaozong’s reign was the bridge in which his dynasty finally collapsed.
In the minds of most Chinese people, the only recognized "one emperor through the ages" is Qin Shihuang.
There are also three other candidates,
Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty Li Shimin,
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che,
and Emperor Gaozu of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang.
The remaining other emperors are ranked among these four emperors.
Behind, behind is Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin，
Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty，
Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty，
Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian ，etc.
This is the mainstream view in China (there have been hundreds of emperors in Chinese history, and these are generally recognized. Genghis Khan is not a Chinese emperor, and the Mongolian Empire did not integrate Chinese Han culture)
Another point of knowledge is that the Chinese now call themselves "descendants of Yan and Huang", which means the descendants of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor (actually there is another one named Chi You, who lost to the Yellow Emperor, but he still has descendants to this day). Huangdi and Yandi were also brothers, but because they were not dynasties at that time, they were tribal leaders. In the subsequent Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, since no more dynasty records have been found, we only know that there were such emperors, and very little about their deeds has been discovered. Therefore, when Chinese people evaluate the achievements of emperors, they generally do not include them. But starting from Qin Shihuang
Zhu Yuanzhang is Ming Taizu not Ming Gaozu
宋仁宗呢 ？
黃帝是黃河流域文明領袖，炎帝是長江文明領袖。兩者都是中華民族祖先。
@@foodparadise5792我觉得秦皇汉武，唐宗明祖，再加个宋祖。这几位是独一档的。再次一档的人数不少，所以没有一一列出，只列出了几位比较有代表性的。
I appreciate the things you do on this channel I learned a lot about my ancestors I'm an American that only has 0.6% Chinese on the last of my bloodline but I would love to learn a lot more what would you recommend
Hey im Hrishi of Tai ahom dynasty that rule nearly 600 years that deafted mughals 17 times in row , i am from Assam,india🇮🇳 my dyanaty came from yannun china provicene 🇨🇳 of mong mao kingdom
So i want to more about my dynasty & vist yannun once in my life to see my ancestors
Is all the tai groups belongs to ming dynasty?? Idk about the history of other tai groups except mine tai group
After coming to assam we lost our language & change the religion to hindu but never lost our tradition we still believe in old customs & some situations still taught tai language here but i study in english medium school so unable to learn the tai language
If any other tai group of yannun see my comment
"Khuptang boikom nangkham 🙏" is it correct?
Awesome video! It would be great to have the script uploaded instead of the auto-generated subtitles so important names and events are displayed correctly.
Love the video. Can you also please make an in depth video about The Three Kingdoms era too
Suggested emperors: Han Wudi, Han Wendi, Han Guangwu, Wu Zetian, Song Taizu, Song Shenzong, Kublai Khan, Yongle Emperor, Hongzhi Emperor, Hongwu Emperor, Qianlong Emperor
You wrote my comment before I could write my comment. 👏
@@tc2334 To be continued:
Tang history is written by those traditional scholars at that time which are unreliable. You can't cite one reliable source that proves your claim but come to say she was not great but most sources say otherwise.
China has long history of painting men as heroes ignoring their amount of cruelty. Just like how china presents history's biggest mass killer Mao as national hero. Yeh If there were no camera, the world would never know his true face. Chinese historians would paint him like true hero who made China great just like how u calling those oppressers as great. A great ruler is one who bring peace and empower it's people and not oppresses and kills them to showcase his power.
Okay she is not a great ruler for u but she is a great ruler according to most reliable sources because she brought peace and empowered all of its people without bias unlike other Chinese emperor whose aim was mostly to oppress and rule.
And Tang dynasty became largely prosperous because of Wu zetian's contribution. This is written in British encyclopedia. Now prove them wrong?
If u don't know all of this, then it means u have been either reading wrong history all this time Or u never read it. And I know many Chinese from various platforms who say she was a great ruler. So ur argument that most do not agree becomes invalid. It also means that u never read history written by credible writer or u are not good at history or trying to reinterpret it to suit ur agenda.
And don't run away from argument.
No, the Yellow Emperor was not an alien, or from any other planets. He was a scientist from Year 2300 in the future who travelled back in time in a time machine that looks like long spaceship. The uniform he wears is yellow, same as the machine painting, from the same company.
FYI...the Han-Chu wars was said to be the inspiration behind the design for the Chinese Chess game.
Your list didn’t have Yu the first emperor of Xia, the only Chinese emperor recognised with the epithet “the great”
maybe there can be a part 2...
He is my grandfather?!
Han Dynasty
1. Wu
2. Gaozu
3. Guang Wu
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Sui Dynasty
1. Wen
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Tang Dynasty
1. Taizong
2. Wu Zetian
3. Xuanzong
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Song Dynasty
1. Taizu
2. Taizong
3. Renzong
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Ming Dynasty
1. Yongle
2. Hongwu
3. Hongzhi
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Qing Dynasty
1. Kangxi
2. Yongzheng
3. Qianlong
"Will you create an introduction video about Journey to the West? Recently, there is a popular game called Black Myth: Wukong."
0:03 did anyone notice that both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are provinces of China?
They should use the Qing dynasty map😅
@@JonathanLee-qf8pd maybe or maybe they could have used Tang dynasty map or even the Yuan dynasty map that didn't even control the Western Regions.
You must have been a reincarnation of a man from ancient China. 😂 Keep this up!
I can overlook the mistakes in the historical facts. The complexity of Chinese civilization takes infinite time and effort to comprehend and draw the synthesis. I appreciate the interesting introduction. I also respect his relative objectiveness compared to his older colleague on this channel.
I appreciate the history lessons I'm hoping shen Yun will come to the Boston area in the not too distant future thanks again
Shen Yun is slave labour.
So incredible!!!!
0:02 What... is this map?
Where's Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan?
Mfs got annexed by China
Where's my guy Han Wudi in here? He's the one who really made the Han Dynasty great.
How could the one and only female emperor not make the list? That alone is accomplishment in itself.
wasn't she maniacle? and ruthless?
All man emperors were ruthless, but they made the list@@breadman5048
But at her time, she made mass murder to Li dynasty and ministers who loyal to Tang dynasty also, and At her times, she lost Control of Northeast territories to Balhae and Silla refused to pay tribute also,
But yeah she did accomplish to prosper the lives of common peoples but in Strategic views and Imperial authority, minus in there , so no greatest when compare other Emperors
@@emperoroak7331 he literally mentioned and said that the second emperor was ruthless too. So he should have included her too.
@@bogdanafilonich33 no , I just only replied back to commenter above , not video owner
It's great that you are running a channel on Chinese history. However, your timeline in the beginning 10 seconds is wrong. The three kingdom period didn't last 300 years. There was the East and West Jin dynasty and then the "Sixteen Kingdoms" period. This is a very obvious and fundamental mistake and hope you can fix this going forward.
Love ancient China.
Hongwu, the founder of Ming Dynasty, shold appear in this list, or maybe a continuation list.
Yeah, maybe in part two
- Han Gaozu/Liu Bang isn't as easy as you said. On paper, he was weak and pretty much naive but he was actually a real scheming and in no better ways to say it, an utter scheming bastard. So before he started to rebel, he was a simple constable and was bringing a bunch of prisoners to build the mausoleum for Qin Shihuang but as he was taking a break, the prisoners escaped and by law, he would be executed next for letting the prisoners break free. He then released the remaining prisoners that didn't flee and they became a band and took up an empty fort at Mount Mangdang in Henan. He schemed his way thru by acting blur and pitiful all the time to become the sole power that could rival Xiang Yu. Even after Xiang Yu's death, he didn't stop scheming either as after the Han dynasty was established, he had most of his nation builder leaders killed and one most notorious event was when he schemed soo hard to have his grand marshal of the nation, Han Xin, violently assassinated and had his entire family killed. Yes, he's one of China's greatest emperors but it's not that simple on his character.
- Kangxi and Qianlong are both considered the best Qing emperors out there or one of the few greatest emperors of all time for China. Kangxi stabilized the country thru more laxed legal system for the Han population and massively promote cultural acceptance for both sides and instead of promoting just Manchu/Jurchen members of staff in the Forbidden City, he did it too with Han ministers which made more and more Han Chinese willingly to serve the system abeit he too faced tons of opposition against his rule cuz, I mean, he's Manchu ruling against Han Chinese population. However, he's known to always been rather relaxed on such underground groups despite multiple records stating that they're often tried to take his life but he still let them off. Qianlong was another great emperor that he actually expanded the country by quite alot by entering into Ugyhur, Kazahks and even unified Mongolia under Qing rule. However, that did bankrupt the treasury due to his extravagant wars but at its heyday, Qianlong was a real great leader that forwarded what Kangxi was doing and he voluntarily abdicate to his son after holding power for 61 years just so he could not "outshine his grandfather" who he thought was the ultimate emperor of China and the success Kangxi had built.
could Yongle of the Ming be another possible candidate for a great emperor?
Yes I agree
Where is Wu Zetian? She undoubtedly deserves to be in top 5. She was the pioneer of meritocracy based system in China and many of her policies are still being practiced in China today. She was badly tainted by confucious scholars of her time but she was really a great ruler.
Women have been tainted evil throughout Chinese history. She wasn't the first to experience this. Confucious inflicted evil inside Chinese minds and this was evident in all successive dynasties. Wu could have easily been China's #1 ruler if she had received the same level of support from her court as earlier rulers. She was a ruler of a supreme caliber but men were too envious of her.
Women have been tainted evil throughout Chinese history. She wasn't the first to experience this. Confucious inflicted evil inside Chinese minds and this was evident in all successive dynasties. Wu could have easily been China's #1 ruler if she had received the same level of support from her court as earlier rulers. She was a ruler of a supreme caliber but men were too envious of her.
Wu Zetian was a great emperor and the only female emperor in Chinese history. However, China has too many emperors. The emperor had hundreds of people. Among them, she is not ranked at the forefront, only ranked between 20-30.This is the current mainstream view in China. Ranking among the top 30 emperors among hundreds of emperors is already very impressive.
@@alexk5772 I don't agree wd u. I've read abt her well. She is easily among the top 5 great emperors considering the important works she did that made her empire so prosperous and peaceful. Not to mention, She broke gender stereotypes abt women at the time by lifting them to a position equal to men.
Chinese views are mostly shaped by her distorted history written by confucian scholars at the time which I also understand why many chinese thinks that. It will take time to change that view.
@@badmashdogesh3939 I am Chinese and I should know the emperor of China better than you. I'm somewhat interested in these too. The rankings I'm talking about are just the mainstream views in China. The evaluation of Wu Zetian is still very high. As for the improvement of women's status you mentioned, it actually only had an effect during her reign, and then returned to its original state. In the Song Dynasty, the situation became even more serious. In fact, Qin Shihuang also did this kind of thing. But you also know that due to the constraints of Confucianism, the status of women in ancient China has never been very good. Merits that do not affect future generations are of little use. The improvement of the status of Chinese women only changed after the 18th century.
Please talk about Han Wen Di and Han Jing Di of 文景之治 too.
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Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan got absorbed lol.
在中国，排名应该是：秦始皇-嬴政，汉武帝-刘彻，唐太宗-李世民，明太祖-朱元璋
1秦始
2汉武
4隋文
3唐太
5商汤/洪武/康熙
Very bountiful, A marvelous harvest
8:11 The war with Goguryeo, not korea, korean stolen the name or title and built their own country, not inherited.
最后一个应该换成朱元璋，康熙是满洲人的皇帝，不是中国的。
康熙是老北京人。。。就是中国的
@@tc2334cope harder manchu wannabe
最后一个是溥仪
12:21 I enjoy watching your video until you mentioned Shen Yun. I heard they're hired by Falun Gong where the girls had to dance tirelessly and none stop with little pay. It's true?
No that is not true. The New York Times came out with a hit piece against Shen Yun, probably at the behest of the Chinese communist party. My co host Jared is an MC for Shen Yun and I have been a supporter and promoter for Shen Yun for many years. We support the show because we believe they are doing great work to revive traditional Chinese performing arts and culture. As for the accusations, it is a world class arts company, so of course the standard is very high and the training is hard, a "journalist" can easily spin that how they want to. NYT only interviewed people who left Shen Yun with negative stories and ignored the large number of people with positive stories about their time in the company. Even one guy who was interviewed who said mostly positive and a few negative things, said to us afterwards that the New York Times only used the negative stuff he said in the article and ignored the positive. You can check out our video on Shen Yun on our channel for our take
Time stamps please! Ben you da man
Overall your list was good. But I would replace Kangxi with either Kublai Khan or King Da Yu of Xia. Kangxi just benefitted greatly from having a well-established dynasty thanks to his father, grandfather, and great uncles hard work. He was also blessed with good health which resulted in the long-term rule.
Kublai Khan unified all of china after many years of civil war among the warlords and led to the beginning of the dominance of the mongolian Empire which allowed China to expand greatly in territorial conquest.
Da Yu, also known as Yu the great, is famous for controlling floods which saved many lives and increased in crop yields. Although he is likely to be more of a mythical ruler like the Yellow Emperor as there are not enough evidence to suggest his actual existence. Based on the findings that was left behind, he is said to be one of the most benevolent rulers in history and is now considered to be a water deity.
why didnt hanwudi,hongwudi,yongledi and yongzhengdi make it into the list
Will we get a WORST emperor list and where will Yuan Shu be on it? :D
i and so many volunteers in museums in Shaanxi province would argue that Emperor Qin was good. Under his rule it was the true 法治社会。Also the burying his concubines part is wrong information. We all know he rejected human sacrifice. I personally went to his mausoleum, and there is no human sacrifices on site. There are only thousands of life size pottery figures, posing as their jobs to keep him entertained in the afterlife. (such as singers, dancers, acrobats, boat rowers, etc)
Sorry to interrupt but, Birth place of Buddha was Nepal not India . Buddha only get enlightenment in Indian place under tree while meditating . As a nepali citizen , We all read about Buddha from school age.
Hi there, I don't think we said in the video that the Buddha was born in India. We did say Buddhism spread from India to China, which is true. Nepal is a beautiful country.
@@learnchinesenow thanks for your reply. As a regular viewer I support you
But Buddha was Indian
This video was brought to you by the Central Intelligence Agency
If it was, they haven’t paid, maybe we should invoice them?
The map of China that you used at the start of the video is brazenly incorrect. It includes the SOVEREIGN states of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikstan WITHIN China’s territory and undermines their independence. This should be amended at once and a public apology should be issued
Do you know any other RUclipsrs that could be considered your equivalent in other cultures? Covering Language, History, Mythology & more.
Ex. Learn Japanese Now, Learn Greek Now, etc.
kangxi is my fav, Tang is fav period of china, look at emperor Xị Jing Ping now, everyone starves !!!
How about 武則天？Thanks in advance :)
Maybe in part two…
As the only empress in Chinese history, Wu Zetian's historical status and influence are indisputable. However, without her identity as a woman, her achievements as an emperor would not place her among the top ten. Wu Zetian did not have unique and far-reaching political accomplishments.
Would you do a video on The Huizong Emperor?
把康熙换下，朱元璋排上去就差不多了
但人家并不是汉族
So the Yellow Emperor was a descendant of Noah!!
Yellow emperor came before Noah
@@learnchinesenow Maybe he was half human and half angel then!!
Hahaha...Yellow emperor is 1000 years before Noah...no country in the world can beat China with 5000 years of history.
Your information on qin shi Huang is not accurate.
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Oh come on, kangxi? Where is Zhu Yuanzhang who saved China from the mongolians and Zhudi who sponsored Zheng He's voyages? You are ignorant
What a stupid way to end a video. Communism itself did not destroy Chinese culture, Mao and the hardline faction did, which the Communist party sees today as a mistake.
In fact, I would consider Deng Xiaoping as one of China's greatest leaders ever.
不错，把台湾也归到了中国的版图里
han gaozu? i beg to differ🤔
Well Manchu kings werent Chinese emperior at all
Ok video, at least not putting the word "Turkish" in every sentence like some other creators.
(Turkish as in kerkut Turksmen or kurdish)
why is EMPEROR Xi Jin the PIG not included?
没有朱元璋你选什么？
看了幾個視頻才知原來是法輪功贊助。
武则天很聪明. 你应该包括他的...
作为中国历史上唯一的皇后，武则天的历史地位和影响力是毋庸置疑的。然而，如果没有她的女性身份，她作为皇帝的成就不会让她跻身前十。武则天没有独特而深远的政治成就。
WUZETIAN!!!!!
秦皇汉武 唐宗宋祖 + 皇帝
Remember Tang dynasty king tang taizong was brutally defeated by Tibetan empire king called songsten gampo. He captured the then Chinese capital Chang An for sometime. And king lishimin ran away further east of China. During that time Tibetan were superpower in central n east Asia.
看到最后才发现是个邪教的频道。。尾巴藏得好深。
This is a anti communist video 😂😂
you mean anti fact. 2 second in and they could not even get the map of China correct. LUL
Always
5 is such a short list, but this was pretty good. If we could add another five, I’d put: Qianlong, Zhu Di, Yuan Shizu, Han Wudi, and maybe Nurhachi.
努尔哈赤不如皇太极，努尔哈赤自己的心态还是个酋长，甚至算不上一个合格的封建地方领主（军阀），他儿子皇太极直接把满清打造为了一个封建化的地方政权，后来直接入关，算是厉害的人物。
Wu Zetian is more deserving than any of these clowns.
@@aliciazhang1ty Wu Zetian was good. She wasn’t great. The most outstanding thing about her was that she was a woman, but if we’re just looking at accomplishments…She didn’t accomplish anything on the scale of the ones I listed. Not even close.
@@tc2334 Its opposite. Those u named are good but not great. Wu reformed education. She pioneered the meritocracy based system by electing capable officials in the court entirely through their merit irrespective of their background. Brought equality to men and women. Women enjoyed unprecedented freedom and say in political matters that never been seen before or since. She was also successful in expanding her empire to central Asia which no other previous emperors were successful. They are some of her great accomplishments. You seem to know know nothing.
@@aliciazhang1ty Qianlong, Han Wudi, and Yuan Shizu also did expanded borders into the western regions (and Han Wudi was before her) and all five of them reformed education and three of the five championed meritocracy. 😂 Women having “unprecedented freedom” doesn’t automatically make her better an overall better emperor than the five I mentioned.
You’re way overstating her and you clearly know absolutely nothing about any other emperor *except* her. 😂 Go read a book…or several.
Wrong info on this one.
Han Gaozu.
Liu Bang is NOT a smart nor good person. Hes a conman. Just so happended that he's family bought a captain position for him in his village, but he bullied his way to get things done. And juat happend that the Qin Empsror is recruiting soldiers to quell rebels, and its nearby his village. He was made into a leader of a group of soldiers consists of his bully friends in the village. He also forced recruitment of able men in the village to help him to fight the rebels.
As the story goes, and later he became a lord, he also doesn't show any leadership nor capabilities to to lead or fight wars. He even look down on his greatest general, Han Xin. He is the sole person single handedly safe Liu Bang and conquer the whole China from the famous warlord Xiang Yu. Without Han Xin, there is no Han Dynasty.
When he unified China, he killed Han Xin and his other loyal generals that followed his since the beginning. He also stole Qin strategist Li Si's works on legal system, and claimed as his. It was Li Si, the person who single handedly drafted the whole legal system for Qin Shi Huang.
So basically, he just stole all the works from Qin to rule. That's it. So he's a conman who did nothing. No contributions whatsoever to the Dynasty.
The Yellow Emperor doesn't count because he isn't real.
前四个是中国的皇帝，最后一个是鞑靼人的酋长
汉高祖入选，不如武帝入榜
刘邦收拢了一个四分五裂的破烂摊子，这其中的艰辛怕是只有创过业的人才能体会，何况还遇到一个勇力千古无二的项羽，直到临死前还在平叛，没什么阅历的小年轻都佩服刘彻的武功，刘彻是打出了中国版图基本盘，但代价是他自己都看不下去了，要是了解那个时期历史状况，相信你会对刘彻的崇拜打个折扣的，而且匈奴是在其一百多年后才彻底解决的，刘彻和他太爷比最多算个高级点的败家子罢了。
如果这是你自己理解的排名，你对中国历史了解的水平超过百分九十的中国人了。