In reality , China is truly an extraordinary nation full of great people , mutual help and so much historical sites Come on , you know it's TRUE Can't wait to visit China again Cheers With AWESOME love from North America
Taoist deities and sages are almost always depicted as residing in mist-filled mountains whether it's pop culture, movies or classic Chinese literature. Small wonder they would construct a temple there as homage.
You were feeling the Spiritual vibrations from a place where Spiritual Forces were practiced for thousands of years ( meditation/ prayers ) which creates a peaceful , harmonious, calm environment. The birds sing because they are happy each day !....😊😊😊
I appreciate watching Kirk's videos so much! There is an important lesson here for people to preserve their history rather than letting be destroyed by an angry mob. Whether it is a Taoist Temple or the Library in Alexandria, the monuments of the past are a gift to those who will come after us. Thank you, Kirk and Weifang.
Just reactivated my PayPal account in order to support your effort in helping children! Watched your video the entire day and got touched deeply by your attitude and loving heart! Thank you very much for what you have been doing!
Really beautiful place. I like the plain simpleness of the temple not to rich or gaudy a quiet place to commune and worship without distractions. Respect for the old lady it cannot be an easy life for her living alone there. Another place to try to visit when this blasted plague is over, it’s a good thing I’m planning to retire to Nanning as the must visit list is getting longer and longer. Thank you for sharing these beautiful places with us and keep them coming.👍👍👍
You're doing and living the life I wished to. I love a good historical and ancient place. It gives a strange but awesome feeling that's hard to explain. You felt it didn't you? You were out of words to explain it for a moment there.
Great video. I like seeing places like this which has a rich history. I hope that China will preserve this for others to witness the old way of life. 惠芳should remove her cap when she pray the gods for whatever she is praying for. Removing the hat gear is to show her respect to the gods. However, these gods are kind and understanding. I am sure that she will be forgiven.
Taoism and Buddhism are mostly similar, the ultimate teachings are similar, compassion and rightful way of life. Differences are spiritual cultivation, executions of spiritual power against the evils. For Taoism you get Priests, high level priests can do things no logics and science can accept while Buddhism you get monks using chanting and mantras. As a Taoist practitioner/disciple, I have witnessed things even my wife have doubts about but she's amazed with final results, the reason why I don't share much about the spiritual side with her. An amazing spiritual art which can be practiced only if you are chosen and the path is "undescribable". Gweilo60, the back of your hairs stood up? This is one strong temple, if you are in a dire situation, try to get help there, avoid those commercialized or urbanized temple................if you believe. Thank you for your efforts and great videos in bringing the west and east closer together.
When the Deities look out the windows, they don't see what you see. They see what you cannot see. " If nothing is done, nothing is left undone" I'll sleep well tonight with that in mind. Tq Sir.
This reminds me so much of the temple hidden up in Penang Hill (Bukit Bendera). In the ancient past, travelling monks would see a nice mountain that they thought would be great for meditation and would carve out living areas in the cliffs or natural caves. As time goes by, believers would go up the mountains to pray and perhaps build a shrine or even a whole temple (eg Shaolin temple)
Great that you show us some history....where we might not even have know......again I might never choose a site like these to live my life.....but surely wonder how n why people choose to make a temple for worship here 1_2 thousand years ago....🙄🕰️⌛ Greatly appreciated
Your Chinese marquis there says "Rongxian Duqiaoshan, Shizhai Town Nanshan Duhutouguan Shamao Peak, Sage Rock". The reviews are very few, but say things like, "Who goes, loses tickets, expensive, poor attitude, construction everywhere" with a 1 star rating. Rongxian was pretty well cut off from both G324 and G80 by highway construction, but is now accessible, as I'm sure you found out. I expect the restaurants we used to go to at the Duqiaoshan Northeast Entrance are closed for now, but we'll have to go check it out again.
Thanks for the images. There's a reason why certain sacred places are remote. Turning it into a tourist attraction would be mistake. Why disturbing the peace and quietness of a monk? A sacred place is not meant to be a touristic attraction. We need to hold respect for the sacred places in our planet. So I hope they preserve the place without ruining it, and its purpose and its meaning 🙏
Buddhist monks in Thailand live like this. They only eat 1 meal a day, do cleaning they meditate in the jungles or in caves and sometimes they will have gatherings of community to do their teachings.
Truly astounding, Kirk! I'm glad you got to breathe good air and hear the birds chirp. We could all meditate in Nature some more! Did you feel almost a kind of awe & calm reverence, even as an atheist? Just the staggering ~1700 yo difference between PrayerGround→Temple makes me wonder if there weren't already historical structures yet to be found. The Oldest Continuous Temple in the World that I know of is 樓觀台寺 (Lóuguāntáisì), where Lǎozi revealed the Eternal Dàodéjīng. 2621-3040 years old, starting with 周康王 King Kang. And that one has been everything from Prayer Ground to Observation Deck to House to Temple Complex - but always with consecration clearly understood. I disagree with SUPER MUM's rudeness, but I do agree that Kirk's use of the word 'god(s)' is a misnomer insofar as it doesn't map well to the Old _Native_ Chinese terminology itself. The issue is simple - while in English there's the less powerful usage _god(s)_ (used to translate 神) and the more powerful Singular Majuscular usage _God_ (used to translate 上帝), there's a clear ancient monotheistic distinction since before even this Prayer Ground Temple 2000 years ago (hard as it is to imagine!) between 上帝 and 神 - one that just isn't fairly presented in the collective English terms (G/g)od[s] when missionaries tried to subvert our teachings. We know it must have been the case since the Grand Sacrifice never idolized 上帝, even as late as post-qing Yuanshikai's Ceremony. This is why I translate 神 as Spirit, since Spirits serve 上帝 God (best term I can do in English unfortunately...). I agree with Kirk that Daoism (Daojia, Daojiao, &c) is Religion. Absolutely. At the very least since inception/foundation, even if not as obviously so today...
The Chinese ancestors built the first astronomy calendar system for agriculture and sustainable civilization about 10000 years ago. (It was called “science” by their West European students thousands of years later.) Eventually, the most concise summary of “astronomy, math and science” knowledge and experience 《周易ZHOUYI》（3000 years ago）,《老子LAOZI》(2600 years ago) and《道德经DAODEJING》(DAOISM, 2100 years ago) became the ONLY AND UNIQUE origin of human being’s philosophy ideas and religions.
The Chinese ancestors built the first astronomy calendar system for agriculture and sustainable civilization. (It was called “science” by their West European students 10000 years later.) Eventually, the most concise summary of “astronomy, math and science” knowledge and experience 《周易ZHOUYI》（3000 years ago）,《老子LAOZI》(2600 years ago) and《道德经DAODEJING》(DAOISM, 2100 years ago) became the ONLY AND UNIQUE origin of human being’s philosophy ideas and religions.
It's very devastating that the thousand years craving stones were damaged. I really want to know what's the thousands craving Dynasty poemps are about. I hope this place will soon be protected from the government.
The big one if not wrong is Thian Ie Wang Ta Tie / universal Lord or Yahue . The first ,woman with mirror is Da Yang Pu Sa is mood of God As Yin energy. If you go to tample. Please try and learn meditation. At list feel the vibration. Each God had different vibration. Try to notice the different Positive and negative energy. All God had Positive powerful energy. You had abilities of clairvoyant . If you success in meditation. You can hear Gods said to you. Try to vegetarian clean ur body and both of your palm first before start . When you can hear or see Gods with ur third eyes. You will understand the world so different 180 degree . What u know about China spiritual will change 180 degree. Dont waiting your live this time. perhaps next live you had no chance like this. Use it to dig more about live by start learn meditation.
Well, taoism is a religion. It got its deities, its heaven n hell, its do n dont. Its also a way of life, as in follow this path so that u could be healthy, success, peaceful, reach the tao, reach heaven, reincarnate into better life, etc. Heck, read dao de ching, chopped out the mystic parts, then its could be used as a guide in how to live healthy life.
It is a long tradition in China history. There are government certified and wild temples. Government certified ones might gain grants from the government. The wild ones, some are just businesses, while some are just for personal spiritual believes. Similar situation for Christian, catholic, Islam, etc. However, it has more now. There are many influential buildings that might be classified as historical heritage. Those ones function in both religious and historical way. Any repairing or change has to follow standard protocols and be paid by the government.
It it sad that some tourists (obviously Chinese tourists) scratched the wall with doodles. So lame. Many of us have no respect of our own culture & history.
Desecrate monument is not confined to the Chinese. It has been going on for hundreds or even thousands of years by all civilization. For example, someone painted Stonehenge at the Brecon National Park UK.
If such place discovered by the 2 thugs with motorcycle, 1) they will pollute the area with their bikes, then pretend they respect with camera show around the rundown section as prime focus, hypocritically claim the poor lady live without electricity and in poverty....oh yeah! The road isn't paved. 😅
Taoism doesn't have precepts like most other religions. Individual lineages may have certain rules you need to abide by but on the whole true Taoist living is about flowing with the moment. Doing this means being flexible and adaptable. It's generally left to the Taoist to determine themselves how to best do this at any given time. Likely Lao Tzu was vegetarian and never killed, Chung Tzu almost certainly ate meat but likely never killed anyone. Sun Tzu killed people. Wen Tzu was a master at governance so would at the very least indirectly killed people for maintenance of the state. Han Feizi was a practioner of Tyranny. All were Taoists following the Tao.
3:30, turn your view sideways. ☯️. Thanks for sharing! Would be a privilege to get to visit
Your life is much much wider than normal people. You experienced two lifes actually. Bless you.
In reality , China is truly an extraordinary nation full of great people , mutual help and so much historical sites
Come on , you know it's TRUE
Can't wait to visit China again
Cheers
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You lucky mate. You are looking at real living history. A window through time! remarkable video into China's past.
A uncomfortable place to stay for urbanites but the old lady is used to this way of life and she looks very alert, active and healthy.
Taoist deities and sages are almost always depicted as residing in mist-filled mountains whether it's pop culture, movies or classic Chinese literature. Small wonder they would construct a temple there as homage.
Thanks!
Awesome. Where the Taoist Immortals once lived,.
You were feeling the Spiritual vibrations from a place where Spiritual Forces were practiced for thousands of years ( meditation/ prayers ) which creates a peaceful , harmonious, calm environment. The birds sing because they are happy each day !....😊😊😊
I appreciate watching Kirk's videos so much! There is an important lesson here for people to preserve their history rather than letting be destroyed by an angry mob. Whether it is a Taoist Temple or the Library in Alexandria, the monuments of the past are a gift to those who will come after us. Thank you, Kirk and Weifang.
Just reactivated my PayPal account in order to support your effort in helping children! Watched your video the entire day and got touched deeply by your attitude and loving heart! Thank you very much for what you have been doing!
Thank you for taking us to this historic temple.
China - history and beauty everywhere.
Really beautiful place. I like the plain simpleness of the temple not to rich or gaudy a quiet place to commune and worship without distractions. Respect for the old lady it cannot be an easy life for her living alone there. Another place to try to visit when this blasted plague is over, it’s a good thing I’m planning to retire to Nanning as the must visit list is getting longer and longer. Thank you for sharing these beautiful places with us and keep them coming.👍👍👍
You're doing and living the life I wished to. I love a good historical and ancient place. It gives a strange but awesome feeling that's hard to explain. You felt it didn't you? You were out of words to explain it for a moment there.
Great find Gweilo. Very interesting monastery built beneath over hanging rocks of the mountain.
Amazing I cannot wait to visit here! I will be happy when travel reopens for China.
Love this video. Thank you for making it.
Great video. I like seeing places like this which has a rich history. I hope that China will preserve this for others to witness the old way of life. 惠芳should remove her cap when she pray the gods for whatever she is praying for. Removing the hat gear is to show her respect to the gods. However, these gods are kind and understanding. I am sure that she will be forgiven.
Always enjoy your video
I read that there are 31 official religions in China. A great video Gweilo.
Support, period.
I can live with green trees and birds under a mountain forever.
Wow😮😮 amazing
Nice for a weekend getaway. Thanks for showing us this place.
nice .....
4:50 The wordings within the beige color rectangle is dated as 癸卯 year, in the reign of 道光 emperor of the Qing dynasty. That would be the year 1843.
Good morning, happy Gweilo
I know what that God tablet writes. "Thy shall not drink too much beer."
gweilo: no way ~~~
Haahhaha.........guess is good to hide the beer......probably it touch 100k subscribers .......Anyways he's a freeman God says.😃😃💘
He is a master of the drunken Fist Taoist Kung fu.
Thanks for your nice video brother 👍 take care bye from milton Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
thanks for showing china's diversity amazing
I like the bird sounds.
Always amazing!
Interesting place...👍
Taoism and Buddhism are mostly similar, the ultimate teachings are similar, compassion and rightful way of life. Differences are spiritual cultivation, executions of spiritual power against the evils. For Taoism you get Priests, high level priests can do things no logics and science can accept while Buddhism you get monks using chanting and mantras. As a Taoist practitioner/disciple, I have witnessed things even my wife have doubts about but she's amazed with final results, the reason why I don't share much about the spiritual side with her. An amazing spiritual art which can be practiced only if you are chosen and the path is "undescribable".
Gweilo60, the back of your hairs stood up? This is one strong temple, if you are in a dire situation, try to get help there, avoid those commercialized or urbanized temple................if you believe.
Thank you for your efforts and great videos in bringing the west and east closer together.
4:55 It says, "Hello Gweilo, we've been waiting for you."
I thought it was directions to the beer store.
Adding a map is a great idea.
很引起注意的视频，谢谢
When the Deities look out the windows, they don't see what you see. They see what you cannot see.
" If nothing is done, nothing is left undone" I'll sleep well tonight with that in mind. Tq Sir.
This reminds me so much of the temple hidden up in Penang Hill (Bukit Bendera). In the ancient past, travelling monks would see a nice mountain that they thought would be great for meditation and would carve out living areas in the cliffs or natural caves. As time goes by, believers would go up the mountains to pray and perhaps build a shrine or even a whole temple (eg Shaolin temple)
Beautiful
What an interesting old place and I wanna visit!
Happy Spring Equinox!!! Mount Tai is venerated in the Taoist tradition at this time of year, the wood element and the colour green!!! :)
Serpentza, the snake says there are no birds in China.
That turd has no idea
He will probably say, the bird song is prerecorded before they became extinct.
That is so amazing i don't think you can find anything like that in the west anymore
Great that you show us some history....where we might not even have know......again I might never choose a site like these to live my life.....but surely wonder how n why people choose to make a temple for worship here 1_2 thousand years ago....🙄🕰️⌛ Greatly appreciated
Your Chinese marquis there says "Rongxian Duqiaoshan, Shizhai Town Nanshan Duhutouguan Shamao Peak, Sage Rock". The reviews are very few, but say things like, "Who goes, loses tickets, expensive, poor attitude, construction everywhere" with a 1 star rating.
Rongxian was pretty well cut off from both G324 and G80 by highway construction, but is now accessible, as I'm sure you found out.
I expect the restaurants we used to go to at the Duqiaoshan Northeast Entrance are closed for now, but we'll have to go check it out again.
Thanks for the images. There's a reason why certain sacred places are remote. Turning it into a tourist attraction would be mistake. Why disturbing the peace and quietness of a monk? A sacred place is not meant to be a touristic attraction. We need to hold respect for the sacred places in our planet. So I hope they preserve the place without ruining it, and its purpose and its meaning 🙏
Buddhist monks in Thailand live like this. They only eat 1 meal a day, do cleaning they meditate in the jungles or in caves and sometimes they will have gatherings of community to do their teachings.
👍👍👍👍
Thanks Qweilo.
Truly astounding, Kirk!
I'm glad you got to breathe good air and hear the birds chirp. We could all meditate in Nature some more!
Did you feel almost a kind of awe & calm reverence, even as an atheist?
Just the staggering ~1700 yo difference between PrayerGround→Temple makes me wonder if there weren't already historical structures yet to be found.
The Oldest Continuous Temple in the World that I know of is 樓觀台寺 (Lóuguāntáisì), where Lǎozi revealed the Eternal Dàodéjīng. 2621-3040 years old, starting with 周康王 King Kang.
And that one has been everything from Prayer Ground to Observation Deck to House to Temple Complex - but always with consecration clearly understood.
I disagree with SUPER MUM's rudeness, but I do agree that Kirk's use of the word 'god(s)' is a misnomer insofar as it doesn't map well to the Old _Native_ Chinese terminology itself.
The issue is simple - while in English there's the less powerful usage _god(s)_ (used to translate 神) and the more powerful Singular Majuscular usage _God_ (used to translate 上帝), there's a clear ancient monotheistic distinction since before even this Prayer Ground Temple 2000 years ago (hard as it is to imagine!) between 上帝 and 神 - one that just isn't fairly presented in the collective English terms (G/g)od[s] when missionaries tried to subvert our teachings.
We know it must have been the case since the Grand Sacrifice never idolized 上帝, even as late as post-qing Yuanshikai's Ceremony.
This is why I translate 神 as Spirit, since Spirits serve 上帝 God (best term I can do in English unfortunately...).
I agree with Kirk that Daoism (Daojia, Daojiao, &c) is Religion. Absolutely.
At the very least since inception/foundation, even if not as obviously so today...
The Chinese ancestors built the first astronomy calendar system for agriculture and sustainable civilization about 10000 years ago. (It was called “science” by their West European students thousands of years later.) Eventually, the most concise summary of “astronomy, math and science” knowledge and experience 《周易ZHOUYI》（3000 years ago）,《老子LAOZI》(2600 years ago) and《道德经DAODEJING》(DAOISM, 2100 years ago) became the ONLY AND UNIQUE origin of human being’s philosophy ideas and religions.
We should ask Winston, he is the best at reading and speaking Chinese😂😂😂😂😂
Bahahaha
Love yr vo
Very curious what kind of food do they eat on the mountain.
I like simple life
3:12 now, thats just funny....n creepy. Perhaps thats the reason its been a place of prayer since 2000 years ago.
Next day, the local villagers will say to you, what old lady? There hasn't been any one living there for decades.
TAOISM is based on the writings of Lao-tzu ( 6th century BC), advocating humility and religious piety...
The Chinese ancestors built the first astronomy calendar system for agriculture and sustainable civilization. (It was called “science” by their West European students 10000 years later.) Eventually, the most concise summary of “astronomy, math and science” knowledge and experience 《周易ZHOUYI》（3000 years ago）,《老子LAOZI》(2600 years ago) and《道德经DAODEJING》(DAOISM, 2100 years ago) became the ONLY AND UNIQUE origin of human being’s philosophy ideas and religions.
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It's very devastating that the thousand years craving stones were damaged. I really want to know what's the thousands craving Dynasty poemps are about. I hope this place will soon be protected from the government.
feel breathless? Check your heart and lung . I can hear your breath louder than before.
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take care!
Unfortunately, I think it has been graffitied as there is big letters written all over.
The God is looking at people's life through the round hole
your lovely wife speaking cantonese?
We pray Meng may be free.
Anybody know what dialect the old lady uses?
A sub-dialect of Cantonese.
She is like an Abbot, I don't think she likes to be disturb.
The big one if not wrong is Thian Ie Wang Ta Tie / universal Lord or Yahue .
The first ,woman with mirror is Da Yang Pu Sa is mood of God As Yin energy.
If you go to tample. Please try and learn meditation.
At list feel the vibration. Each God had different vibration. Try to notice the different Positive and negative energy.
All God had Positive powerful energy.
You had abilities of clairvoyant .
If you success in meditation. You can hear Gods said to you.
Try to vegetarian clean ur body and both of your palm first before start .
When you can hear or see Gods with ur third eyes.
You will understand the world so different 180 degree . What u know about China spiritual will change 180 degree.
Dont waiting your live this time. perhaps next live you had no chance like this.
Use it to dig more about live by start learn meditation.
Did She speaking Cantonese?
广西白话
2000!!!!!!!!
道可道 非常道
Cannot understand this guangxi dialect.
What a stupid comment
@@rickyhsu8474 Why so rude? I don't understand either. You understand?
Taoism is not a religion, nor philosophy, nor a way of life. If you name it, it is not Tao. It has neither beginning, nor end.
Well, taoism is a religion. It got its deities, its heaven n hell, its do n dont.
Its also a way of life, as in follow this path so that u could be healthy, success, peaceful, reach the tao, reach heaven, reincarnate into better life, etc.
Heck, read dao de ching, chopped out the mystic parts, then its could be used as a guide in how to live healthy life.
Perhaps the word you were looking for was "aura".
It looks like a place that has been in disrepair and abandoned (by the local authorities) for a long time - Far from being called a tourist attraction
It is a long tradition in China history. There are government certified and wild temples. Government certified ones might gain grants from the government. The wild ones, some are just businesses, while some are just for personal spiritual believes. Similar situation for Christian, catholic, Islam, etc. However, it has more now. There are many influential buildings that might be classified as historical heritage. Those ones function in both religious and historical way. Any repairing or change has to follow standard protocols and be paid by the government.
This is as old as the US history
US's history is less than 300 years.
Lol this is nearly 7 times of US history.
It it sad that some tourists (obviously Chinese tourists) scratched the wall with doodles. So lame. Many of us have no respect of our own culture & history.
Desecrate monument is not confined to the Chinese. It has been going on for hundreds or even thousands of years by all civilization. For example, someone painted Stonehenge at the Brecon National Park UK.
Duqiao Mountain Lingjing Temple Pilgrimage Scenic Area
If such place discovered by the 2 thugs with motorcycle, 1) they will pollute the area with their bikes, then pretend they respect with camera show around the rundown section as prime focus, hypocritically claim the poor lady live without electricity and in poverty....oh yeah! The road isn't paved. 😅
It is a mistake to call those figurines "GOD". They should be called "DEITY".
Monks eating meat?
Taoism doesn't have precepts like most other religions. Individual lineages may have certain rules you need to abide by but on the whole true Taoist living is about flowing with the moment. Doing this means being flexible and adaptable. It's generally left to the Taoist to determine themselves how to best do this at any given time. Likely Lao Tzu was vegetarian and never killed, Chung Tzu almost certainly ate meat but likely never killed anyone. Sun Tzu killed people. Wen Tzu was a master at governance so would at the very least indirectly killed people for maintenance of the state. Han Feizi was a practioner of Tyranny. All were Taoists following the Tao.