CHINA’S HUNTER-GATHERERS: where are they now? 🦌 中国的狩猎民族现在的生活怎么样？🌲

Did you know that some of China’s 50+ ethnic minorities were nomadic hunter-gatherers all the way up until the mid-1900s? 🦌 Some of the older generation of Oroqens in Heilongijang and Inner Mongolia experienced the transition from a roaming life in the forest to a settled life in villages, and we met a few of them deep in the mountain villages near the Russian border 🌲 We learned not only about their traditional culture and ways of life, but also about the lives of the Oroqen people today. Come meet this very tiny and fascinating population of people on China’s northeast frontier! 🌞
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[@kats_journey_east]

Thanks for watching everyone, make sure to follow on instagram too @ Kats_journey_east 🌻 The last installment of the Stories from Northeast China series is finally done! I have been updating a bit out of order lately since Wei accidentally deleted half a day’s worth of footage interacting with people at Shi Ba Zhan which was really devastating since I lost all my conversations with kids and middle-aged adults, which was a critical part of this video😭😭😭😭😭 Losing that footage made this video a challenge to edit so it was posted a lot later than it should have been. Hope you guys like it anyway, we met some really fascinating people and we would like to visit Heilongjiang again in the winter and see the snow if we can fit it in our itinerary! ❄️ 🦌 How do I get such stable footage even while biking and walking? 📷 amzn.to/45rObZy She's waterproof, shoots in 4K, and is very tiny and portable, perfect for recording an action-packed day without the fuss of a fancy complex setup 👽This is an affiliate link, so I will receive a small commission if you buy a product through the link👽

[@james.yang.]

要罚Wei 跪洗衣板吗？谢谢，可以跟着你的镜头，难得看到很多中国各地的风土人情

[@kats_journey_east]

@James Yang 我想，真的是太气人了！！😭😡

[@wolfgang_scholl]

Kids say the darndest things! What a loss...Wei will have to cook for you for the rest of his life!

[@james.yang.]

@@kats_journey_east 👍 还是原谅他一次吧😁

[@Stoneitful]

where did you get your Chinese drivers license ??

[@dokingjonson6173]

真是中国少有的视频类型，自媒体的一股清流啊，能深入各民族边远地区探索民生民居，太难得了。

[@fziyi]

真的很讚，博主是個人文底蘊濃厚的人，很棒的環境工作者

[@JS-xc8ku]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@alfredoxu7926]

政府资助吧，每句话都是感谢政府的隆恩，假自媒体。

[@kumoo5367]

@@alfredoxu7926 你资助资助我呗，要不然我都提不起劲骂你

[@楊子華-x2y]

@@alfredoxu7926 🗡🧠

[@oxvendivil442]

Minority culture is not disappearing, it is just changing its form and modernizing, taking elements from others like han, similar to how han culture has changed and modernized and adopted parts of other cultures as well be it chinese minority culture or foreign western culture, everything changes overtime and nobody should be sad of those changes, preserve the good parts of one's culture and create new things to add to one's culture.

[@kailinfu4177]

Hear hear

[@ck.youtube]

Well said !

[@estherloh3210]

Totally agreed with you.

[@alexdeng2418]

揚棄

[@zjchen6323]

Big agree！In China we had a saying 取其精华，弃其糟粕（Take the essence and discard the dregs）。

[@JM-cw9ev]

so touching to see these minority people happily living their simple life out there.

[@alexoolau]

These people are integrated into mainstream economy better than any other hunter-gatherers people in the world. Reason is that they have the largest brain volume in the world, which helps them to learn new skills better. Like Warren Buffett said, good athletes make coaches look better. Well these model minorities certainly make governments look better.

[@中国杨]

@@alexoolau it’s a bi-directional relationship between people and the government

[@dans.7651]

@@alexoolau "model minority"? What arrogant nonsense.

[@KSMrK]

Talking about minority group, most of our thai chinese ancestors in Thailand come from the south province called Chaochou.I have personally visited my relatives there twice.It really gives me great feeling of having chinese ancestors.

[@hangtuah888]

It is actually Shantou from the Guangzhou Province. I am also from that region and the majority of Thai Chinese are Teochew and they are mostly engaged in rice milling. The region is famous for it beef noodle and porridge.

[@wangpaochen8569]

l too have relatives of Thai Chinese from my maternal grandparents side. My mother (GOD rest her soul) used to speak to her two eldest sisters(deceased) in Thai language. Those were the days. My maternal grandad had relatives in Thailand too. But after they passed on when my mom was a young girl, the connection stopped. My paternal grandparents has relatives in Fujian. If only l could trace my genealogy??? That would be awesome!!!

[@marcolam1167]

It’s called Chaozhou (潮州)in Guangdong province，my hometown. Most of the families there have relatives in Thailand,including mine.

[@ZenHornWhale]

People in Shantou or Chaozhou are mostly Han Chinese.

[@hangtuah888]

@@ZenHornWhale Absolutely and they can't be considered minority but just a dialect.

[@haojiang2928]

对于少数民族文化的消亡和保存，我有时总是会有一些矛盾的情感。也许，希望保持事物的永恒不变是人的感性向往; 然而，事物的迭代，更替和消亡才是客观的发展。或许，这些少数民族的文化最终会失去生命力，消失在历史的长河里，我们可以在彻底失去它们之前做的就是尽量详细的记录下来，让它们成为我们民族记忆的一部分而不被忘却。或许少数民族以独立的形态最后会消失，但他们在融合中也得到了永生。毕竟，这一过程在中华大地上已经进行了千年，它还将继续下去。

[@luochenyu7953]

其实汉族很多文化也在消亡，我是吴语区的，现在大部分小孩已经不会说我们的方言了

[@pluto-mq5to]

这是没办法的事，整个人类历史发展过程，多少文化因为不适应性而消失，即使是现在的汉文化和几百年前的也千差万别了

[@林北-v9v]

是现代化了。 汉族的传统文化不也全都消失了吗

[@G107nationalroad]

不進化就會真正的滅亡

[@relaxwhc]

If you think China is a peaceful nation, raise your hand 🙋✋🔥

[@Ateshtesh]

OMG you really reaaaally are everywhere xDDDDD

[@Ateshtesh]

@DSki Dski I don't think you know more than Lawrence Wilkerson. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3escounoMmKsLc That is really the CIA way to attack other countries, just check what did USA in Latinamerica at 70's. And if you are a really expert about Xinjiang, why are not you in the tribunal showing to the expert what real happens there instead this girl? kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3TXgJuVbMSnetE Well, maybe the people who have to defend Xinjiang are not as good as you. In that case, can you provide me the evidence that you have? I would love to see it. Kisses!

[@ionetwofarq1673]

@DSki Dski how bout you show us the truth instead of sitting behind a screen

[@imslimgeek]

there's no such thing as peace for humanity

[@怀旧电视剧-w5t]

怎么哪里都能看见你呀😁😁😁

[@RespectOthers1]

You did a sterling job capturing everything you wanted in this video. Thanks for showing us this lesser known ethnic group and great to know them Han-ifying has been largely positive. :D

[@小肉肉-f4u]

Can you read me Can you read me? 霍元甲主題曲 kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6rJn2R6lr6Ue6s

[@RespectOthers1]

@@小肉肉-f4u Why not watch the original?…it’s a million times better! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJaXfGOoqL2KmNk

[@darkenergy9893]

绿草苍苍，白雾茫茫， 有位佳人，在水一方。 绿草萋萋，白雾迷离， 有位佳人，靠水而居。 我愿逆流而上， 依偎在她身旁。 无奈前有险滩， 道路又远又长。 我愿顺流而下， 找寻她的方向。 却见依稀仿佛， 她在水的中央。 我愿逆流而上， 与她轻言细语。 无奈前有险滩， 道路曲折无已。 我愿顺流而下， 找寻她的足迹。 却见仿佛依稀， 她在水中伫立。 绿草苍苍，白雾茫茫， 有位佳人，在水一方。

[@darkenergy9893]

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[@RespectOthers1]

@@darkenergy9893 You might like this too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6KmZoxqebCogKM

[@davepsk7334]

Pretty educational and interesting. You really have a knack for interesting things like this. Salute! You know what's funny? I just saw an artical talking about history of red indians of the American continent. They did find evidence that suggests the Indians there are related to the chinese mainland. Ofcourse all this was around 600 bc or ad. Very long time ago. This video you showed us can relate very much to that finding as we can see that their original houses were just like the American Indians, the canoes just the same, the ornaments they wear is the same. Now I'm wondering if these guys were the colonies of Red Indians then. Even the language sound almost the same. Wonderful video again as usual Katherine the great.

[@kats_journey_east]

That’s the impression I got too, that maybe they are related , since didn’t the native Americans reach via the land bridge from Russia ? And oroqens are in Russia too. The elderly lady midway through the video said she visited the Russian side when she was younger . The oroqens there speak the same language and have the same traditions

[@baikeren]

@@kats_journey_east 看电影里印第安人通灵治病。我就想 这不就跳大神么~哈哈哈哈

[@wangpaochen8569]

Dont forget back in those days, BC, the land Mass(Map) of earth was not exactly the same as now, with earthquakes shifted the land Masses all around, just look at the Japanese archipelago shape, it looked like the breakaway from the East Coast of China n Korea. N according to Kyoto museum of the Emperor's ancestors, they were Koreans originally. The Natives of Hokkaido, the Ainu, looked similar to the Natives of the Siberia, according to Wikipedia, there were Russian Ainu n they are related to the Hokkaido Ainu in the Kamchatka Peninsular! Very interesting to see how human evolved from the same regions.

[@dexterdr.7020]

I personally believe that indigenous people in North and South America originally came from Asia because 1) they more or less share some appearance features of Mongolian people, especially the Inuit people. when I was a kid and I saw a documentary about Inuit people on TV I wondered how come there be Asian people in North America. 2) Mongolian people have been hunting and migrating since like forever ago, and a very very long time ago East Siberia and nowadays Alaska were connected by a "land bridge". it's possible they migrated from Asia to North America and then to the south.

[@leo-po5gp]

@@kats_journey_east Because the area north of Heilongjiang also belong to china before, including sakhalin island and Lake Baikal. It was taken away by Russia through inequality agreement, so the Oroqen were artificially divided into two countries.

[@siqhishsqqqshsi6958]

some of their cultural elements resembles some groups of native americans. it could be there is cultural continuation all the way from siberia to alaska and canada, after all, it is likely native american were originally from asia. also it could be the way of living that make them similar to some of the hunter and gather native american groups. the other group evenks are more well known to the tourists since they are the reindeer herders. also both oroqen and evenks can also be found in Russia Siberia too

[@imslimgeek]

native americans did come from north asia, both culturally and genetically. however, as far as i know, oroqens and native americans are slightly more in common in culture than in blood.

[@Zerpentsa6598]

Thank you both for this video giving us some insight into to the culture of these ethnic minorities in China. Significantly, it is not the government which is directly trying to destroy their culture, as is claimed by some western politicians and media. Unfortunately, cultural dilution and eventual loss happens as assimilation, modernisation and migration take place. Good to see the government is making the schools teach the their own languages. Hope the young generation will continue to use them.

[@donaldlineker6140]

Where are they now in Americas?

[@Alternativewayforlife]

One of the main reason for government to settled nomadic indigenous people is the massive land that company industry and government wants from the indigenous all over the world , no matter from mining to wood resources, to farm to produce foods and medical plants for the giant capitalist market . Think about the exchange , to build houses for them , and the massive natural resources in their traditional territory

[@zzsw7z]

​@@AlternativewayforlifeYou are wrong. In fact, in this area and many areas in China, logging of all virgin forests is not allowed, and there are many forest rangers patrolling. If you are found to be illegally logging or poaching, you will be fined, and in serious cases, you will be fined. Being arrested and prosecuted is common sense in China today.

[@michael-k]

Wow Kat, you're actually documenting their last generation of actual hunter gatherers. And their old photos are rare insights of life decades ago, I enjoyed this episode alot. Thanks.

[@dindhostdind7805]

谢谢Katherine 和 先生，与众多youtuber不同的是，你们是在真正的传播和记录中国各民族的文化，你的视频深深地吸引着我。谢谢你的付出和真诚！ 我用一个 big THANKS 来表达我的敬意！❤

[@cong4085]

中国政府在保护少数民族文化上面真是不遗余力，中国的汉族从文化上从来都不是单一的，从几千年以来汉族都是在做民族融合，文化上融各个民族的精华来丰富汉文化，所以现在的中国都是以汉文化为主体，多民族文化共融的状态，从历史的演进来看，中国的文化，一直会无限的融合，不像国外和台湾天天讲什么多元文化，多元文化如果收到破坏性的冲击，国家最终面临的是分裂，中国文化的历史演变过程就是不断的民族融合，这种融合不是一朝一夕的，是慢慢演进的。就像大浪淘沙。

[@cong4085]

@王全真 你听说过百越这个词，在福建江西这一带，汉代时就这些地方就有百族，何况整个南方地区，历史的进程中这些民族融合和灭亡了，形成了现在的少数主体民族，在古代汉文化的影响太强大

[@MrTioung111]

For choosing to do videos that tell other peoples' stories (and not to center on yourself like so many others do), 非常感谢。

[@wangpaochen8569]

I agree, It's history, interesting educational n refreshing to see n learn abt the different ethnic groups n Thanks to the Chinese Govt, building new housings for all these poor ethnic groups in remote areas of vast China. . Thanks Katherine n Wei.🙏 Keep more coming, pse. Yiayou👍🇨🇳. Ps: Dont mind it being longer that 15 mins, its so interesting to be too short n abrupt.

[@michaelgec3344]

Katherine, another nice information video, keep up the good work. As you know I live in China, twelve years now. My Chinese wife is minority "Jon". I experience all what you get to experience many times a year. After living here for so long it's just like home. Not much about culture surprises me any more, god I love it. Now business it seems I am shock everyday

[@pluto-mq5to]

so i guess u should know how evil the west propaganda is

[@evechurchill424]

Just found your channel. Very interesting indeed. I was shocked to learn what the Oroqen couple have to say "chinese govt are good to us", how is that even possible? This is not what western folks in the US and UK have been told! I am truly envious of the chinese people living such a free life. Thank you, ...this has opened my eyes.

[@achtungbaby2009]

keep believing in your truthful wholesome western media. good for gullible & daft people like you.

[@hanshaofa3758]

China Government policies are always protecting the minorities ethic groups for many years! The media in the west are controlled by billionaires . Those billionaires do not want to tell the truth. ( Why? You may try to find some answers by yourself...)

[@yujieayiya9112]

@@achtungbaby2009 你在阴阳怪气什么呀？没看懂层主的意思瞎回复……有够无语……

[@qjtvaddict]

The Chinese cleaned up the drugs

[@lingsuowangt2039]

Actually, I am very jealous of minority students. They can earn extra points in exams, which means they can put in less effort to attend better schools

[@採菊绚麗]

谢谢妳的分享. 谢谢妳让我们多了解,看懂,读懂中国的故事！虽然是疫情期间, 但我们可以看得到中国清零政策是把人的安全与命放在第一位,中国人民的生活还是一天比一天好, 老白姓的日常生活与笑容说了他们中国生活是多么的有多意义与幸福！太好了！

[@FantasyZeroMecha]

可惜，算法不会把这个视频推荐给那些对中国有偏见的人，信息技术发达的今天，人们却无法相互理解，这个世界注定更加割裂。

[@gardeningingodlovingfamily7776]

Awesome 👍!! It was nice learning about that the Oroqen lived Awesome 👍!! It was nice learning about just like my family, the Cherokee Indians, we're also part Asian.

[@overvelmingjesus5746]

Really appreciate Kath's effort, you are literally turning into a Chinese folk culture expert, I just learned from Wikipedia that Oroqen people only have a population of less than 10k, hope the remaining Oroqen people can preserve their culture and language in a long term. On a side note, the scenery around these Oroqen villages is just breathtaking, looking forward to your next video.

[@kats_journey_east]

Yeah they’re a really tiny group , according to the people we spoke with in the two villages we visited , their population never really expanded very much because of lack of medical care and limited resources and their lifestyle in general didn’t really suit huge groups of people

[@jasonzheng1983]

美国对印地安人才是种族灭绝

[@laws5801]

This is the first video that I see the Oroqen minority. Very educational.

[@klkho3713]

Thanks kath, I'm learning more and more about China's ethnic minority through your videos. 🌹🌹

[@clarencehubert4370]

The name Oroqen itself is quite well known among certain generations of Han Chinese people, as one of their folk songs, called The Brave Oroqen, made it into the textbook of the elementary school music class.

[@jiedeng3583]

i can sing....

[@hkding7102]

Another well done video. Very Informative and it looks really remote. Reminded me of the red Indians living in US. Once again 👍👍👏👏

[@tonyeclau]

Most interesting! The totem pole reminds me of the North American natives. Now I can see why they share similar DNA to the Asians.

[@Dovid2000]

I liked how the woman explained in minutes 4:10 the three dangerous animals in the forest, according to their order, with the first named being the most dangerous. Your documentation of this ethnic minority in China is very precious.

[@冯先生-t4e]

第一名野猪，二熊，三老虎！

[@pbasswil]

Fascinating! I'd love to hear the reactions of indigenous North American people, to these cultures (Oroqen and Ewenki) with their birch bark canoes, teepees, dried skins, etc etc. It hardly seems possible that such things developed separately on both continents, and didn't travel over the Bering Straits. It's too bad the migrations happened so long ago that it's impossible to trace connections between the respective language groups. But how did the canoes & teepees remain so comparable, after so many thousands of years?? ~8^o

[@edukid1984]

I was under the impression that academics now agree the first human settlers in North America came from the Far East side millennia ago by crossing the Bering Straits during a previous ice age?

[@pbasswil]

@@edukid1984 As far as I know no one seriously doubts that migration. My wording may have been ambiguous; I was trying to underline how weird it is that since that crossing (so long ago that the languages now show little if any similarities), _other_ cultural stuff like the canoes and teepees stayed astonishingly similar - it boggles the mind.

[@edukid1984]

@@pbasswil I think that has much to do with whether there was strong external imperatives that led to the evolution of craftsmanship and tool-making, and the intensity of trade and exchange of ideas with other cultures.

[@pbasswil]

@@edukid1984 I get what you're saying, but there are similar physical & climate conditions on many other locations on Earth; but it's just between these indigenous cultures in Asia and North America that the teepees and canoes show such _gob-smacking_ similarities. Yet there's been no cultural interaction (that we know of) between continents for probably thousands of years until modern times.

[@HeresMyView]

@pbasswil, I'm amazed that they lived in teepees like the Red Indians of North America. I'm pretty sure using DNA testing, link can be established to determine if they share a common ancestry.

[@faner5302]

I just loved to watch it so much. It is not long enough. Although I am a Han people, I love and aporeciate the culture of many ethnic groups in China, the authenticity and uniqueness in them. They make me love my country more.

[@NIKJAPAN]

what a great insight about the minority group of Oregon people. Thanks for sharing. Love it.

[@ashethebostonterrier4918]

这个太有意思了。我以前都不知道。谢谢解放军给他们建房子。以前生活太苦了。虽然很多文化消失了，这也是人类文明进化的必经之路。

[@leesgtk8969]

Katherine, I wish there are more westerners like you and all those who are enjoying their lives in China to help the world understand China better and make it a more peaceful place

[@johanqian1858]

she has an advantage of being able to speak Chinese very very well

[@emyuan8hs]

@DSki Dski 赶紧回到真实的世界吧，少看一些假新闻，虚幻中你只能迷失自己，客观真实的了解这个世界、西方、美国、还有中国

[@pluto-mq5to]

@DSki Dski a fxxking brainwashed product by west propaganda

[@ck.youtube]

China is a already a peaceful place. It's a shame that many evil-minded westerners and governments try all the tricks they have to turn China into another Syria or Iraq or Libya or Ukraine.

[@frankfleming1103]

@DSki Dski your brain is full of shit

[@sarahlee104]

What an informative video! I have never heard of Oroqen people before today. Learning so much from your videos!

[@julianzhu0099]

This video is so eye-opening! Thanks for sharing the beautiful culture!

[@thetreekeeper143]

They're such a cute couple. They laugh together which is an indication of great affection for each other. What a fantastic video. Thank you for this video and in educating the world on this group.

[@keawewong6110]

"Mountain spirit tree, please make my girlfriend less annoying" 😂 Wei, you are soooo gonna be sleeping on the couch for the rest of the year!

[@kats_journey_east]

Lmao

[@kats_journey_east]

Yeah, that comment didn’t age well after he lost half of my shi ba zhan footage😡

[@Dunewarrior00]

@@kats_journey_east Oh no! Well I hope he made it up to you somehow! Thank you for making these videos.

[@jalliew]

@@kats_journey_east Just love ALL your videos! Learning something new everyday. BTW, if you accidentally deleted a file even emptied all your dustbin, it's possible to recover it back. Ask any computer programmer or coder or ha_ker, they can help. I have spoken too much.

[@richbarrows3922]

Looks like he got his wish.

[@haosun5490]

I hope that everyone can live a healthy and modern life, not just stay in the reservation to keep their original life for others to visit

[@weiskl887]

Lol its not a reservation but resettlement. Unlike the US they are not dumped there not care about their life and death. Or like the Amazon people left behind to be human zoo masquerading as preserving their original way of life.

[@中国杨]

the woman talked about how her daughter is in Qingdao, a main city in China. So people can freely choose to go out and enjoy a modern life or stay in their hometown

[@kenaidiun3736]

Great point.

[@Mayangone]

Thanks Katherine for filming and uploading this video. I wish we have similar videos of our native Americans and other non-ethnic but different groups like the Amish, Mennonite, etc. Being in the states for over 50 years, I must admit, I have never been to a native American or Eskimo village. I have read about the Oroqen and remember seeing a video where their ways of living were compared to our native Americans. Again, thank you.

[@rachellee6829]

Can’t get enough of your travels and descriptions of country life. In China Thank you Katherine For sharing the wonders of chinas back roads and its strong older people. An admirer, R Lee

[@indoman6799]

Prior to this, i've never heard about Oroqen nor ewenki. Such an eye opening

[@Harveyinchina]

Almost 45k 🤯🤯 it was only a few months ago when you were on 15! Thanks for your great videos, you’re part of the reason I’m vlogging China myself!

[@kats_journey_east]

Just checked out your channel , how do you have over a hundred views on your first video 😭 it took me months to be able to get a video to get over a hundred views . You will outpace me in no time 😜😜

[@Harveyinchina]

@@kats_journey_east I’m honoured 😜… Well I highly doubt that… but challenge accepted!

[@manwheat5150]

刻脸的树让我想起了 Children of the Forest

[@Rm-lb1yj]

Basically, they are the Night elf of Chinese-------beautiful culture by using the power of forests.

[@dexterdr.7020]

the Night Watch perhaps 1) worshiping the tree of holy spirit 2) living in the cold cold north

[@aliciang343]

This is so interesting! 👍👍👍 Thanks for giving us a glimpse into the lives of the Oroqens in China. Rest assured that your video is still good despite some lost video footage. Even though the video footage is lost but this can never erase the good memories and meaningful conversations you had with the Oroqen people. 😉

[@lostjangtala]

Wow! This was so fascinating to get to know these people and their culture, it makes me happy to see that so many are passionate about keeping the culture and language alive. I hope more people will have a chance to learn about them. Thank you for sharing this video with us!

[@iWantPeace838]

Another interesting one. Do you intend to cover all ethnic minorities in future videos? If so, that will be fascinating.

[@kats_journey_east]

I would like to 😝😝 that would be a cool series

[@pluto-mq5to]

@@kats_journey_east hope u can do that as the first foreigner

[@silverbeernuts4229]

K, W, great job! I really enjoyed another of your educational and at times, fun and funny, videos!

[@wannago905]

It's interesting that the old couple retain their unique Oroqen accent when they speak Mandarin.

[@anotherlio9572]

拍的真好，跟記錄片一樣。加油哦，一直關注你們。

[@mochichichi2458]

Wow, this is beautiful. I hope you make more videos like these, it's really interesting and you learn a lot. Thank you ❤

[@stanleytcw]

Thanks for showing to the outside world on life in China in each of your video....and every video is an interesting story that we don't see in the mainstream media...keep it up ..a fan from Malaysia.

[@alee2204]

I would love to see an occasion that American Indians, like the members of the Sioux tribe, to visit this place. That will be supreme!

[@alexgang408]

That’s why Chinese don’t believe in Xinjiang genocide. Most of them are minorities. Even though they don’t necessarily know what happens in Xinjiang, the notion of the government trying to genocide a minority is just so absurdly contradicting with what they have experienced as a minority in China. There are also Nepal Chinese, Russian Chinese and others who have foreign looking, speak their own language, have their own culture. The government just builds houses, hospitals, schools, paves roads for them and gives them livestocks to raise or teaches them how to efficiently farm. So what makes Uyghur so special that the government wants to genocide them? Such a BS.

[@newsdigest375]

I am Manchu, and they are relatives of us. They helped Qing dynasty fighting in the wars in Xinjiang, Taiwan , and Nepal. Yet, their ancestral land, around nowadays Vladivostok, was given to Russians.

[@achtungbaby2009]

annexed by russia during the opium war by incompetent & foolish officials of late qing dynasty. Then the russians massacred & drive the surviving populations of the 64 villages to be drown in the amur river. What you cannot defend & protect is not yours. That was the rule of the jungle in those imperialist days.

[@王小明-u1i]

等鹅解体再说吧，地图上一直写的是海参崴可不是什么统治东方的符拉迪沃斯托克，现在和鹅的关系还是比较重要，统一台湾后抓抓国内的黄鹅，不管是蠢的还是坏的

[@aiart3453]

Omg! Catherine! Ur amazing! Thank you! I’m from a minority group too! so watching this, I understood every bit of it

[@andrewzhou7647]

Thank you so much for introducing the Oreqen and the Ewanki cultures to us.

[@zcai2672]

Great video Katherine, I like how you can speak the language and interact withe locals...

[@chenglamchin446]

You are a treasure Katherine. I read about the Dynasties but you have gone multi-levels deeper. First time I know about the Oroqen-people. Thank you

[@kevinkuok9131]

Thank you Katherine for another educational video. It is easily forgotten that one Chinese 'province' is bigger than any European country. The first Qin Emperor may have been a cruel tyrant but he united China. Mandarin is the glue that holds China together.

[@boonteoh2346]

Thank you for another scintillating video that most of us can only dream of going to this laid back place. Much appreciated!!👍👍👏👏

[@SohThirsty]

Amazing.. that's just so cool, it doesn't even feel like a museum. This video showcases a secret way of living of the Oroqens! Beautiful

[@driftert5687]

Thanks you for sharing another great piece. This is what I know about China, and it comes out so naturally in your video.

[@yaucharles91]

The old house is like those from native American. Both must be linked earlier

[@philipz.v2425]

Hey Katherine, greeting you from Italy! I remembered that you were moving to Chengdu and living with your husband's family? You may check out the entire southeast China for the ethnic group composition; it's pretty mixed there! I'm from a city north of Chengdu and, although I'm characterized as Han, I also inherited Miao and Tibetan blood (sadly not enough to get me bonus points for university entrance exam lol). Back in hundreds of years ago, Sichuan was in fact the frontier of Han culture, so you can expect such cultural and material exchanges there.

[@avil8686]

There are some similarities with Indian people in America

[@mohammedibrahim42]

You're amazing katherine sister God bless you and bless your family amen 😇🌳

[@SlimJim3082]

They could be the ancestors of the native Americans. Just saying. .. teepee and al

[@siu-yimchan8103]

thank you Katherine, I like to see the true sense of the minority group in China.

[@peter8039]

Very interesting and educational video! No propaganda, politics and bullshit! This is National Geographic stuff!👍

[@ck.youtube]

Interesting introduction to this tiny ethnic minority. A very candid conversation with the locals, who tell from their hearts how life has improved with the help from the government. The old nainai @9:03 sings very well, the song is beautiful. Here's another Oroqen (also written as Oronchon) ethnic song : kzbin.info/www/bejne/gouymnmIgLWfr5I *《阿依汗的春天》* *The Spring Of Ayihan* 词 : 高山 (Lyrics : Gao Shan) 曲 : 新吉乐图 (Music : Xinjiletu) 唱 : 青格 (Singer : Qingge) 这是一首鄂伦春族民歌。“鄂伦春” 是民族自称 , “鄂伦” (Oron) 是驯鹿 , “春” (Cho) 是表示人 , 合起来为 “鄂伦春” (Oroncho) , 汉语就是 “驯鹿人” 之意。史上文献也写为 “俄尔吞”、“俄罗春”、“鄂罗春” 。 元明清时代也被称为 “林木中百姓” , “乘鹿以出入” 的 “北山野人” , “使鹿部” , “树中人”。史上族人分布极为广阔 , 游猎于贝加尔湖以东 , 外兴安岭以南。17世纪俄罗斯人入侵远东后 , 许多族人被迫南迁至黑龙江以南大兴安岭一带。鄂伦春族人口如今大约8600人 (2010年普查)。 鄂伦春的传统民居叫 “斜仁柱”。“斜仁” 是树干 , “柱” 是房子 , “斜仁柱” 就是树干和驯鹿毛皮 , 白桦树皮搭盖的帐房 , 样式跟北美洲的印第安人的 Tipi 帐房乃一脉相承。 The *Oronchon* people (also written as Orochon, Olunchun or Oroqen ; as 鄂伦春 Elunchun in Chinese ; Orčun in Mongolian) are one of the oldest ethnic groups in northeastern China. The endonym Oronchon means "people who keep reindeers, reindeer herders." The ancestor of the Oronchon originally lived in the vast area south of Outer Khingan Mountains (外兴安岭, Stanovoy Range in Russian), east of Baikal Lake. With the Russian invasion during the 17th century, many Oronchons were forced to move southward crossing Heilongjiang (Amur) River to the forest of the Greater Khingan Mountains in Inner Mongolia. Their current population is about 8600. Oronchon's traditional dwelling is called “Sieranju or Xierenzhu, 斜仁柱”, which literally means “wood-staff (sieran) house (ju)”, is a cone-shaped structure composed of about 30 poles and covered by birch barks or reeds in summer and reindeer skins in winter. It is very similar and perhaps related to the tipi dwellings of the North American Indians of the Plains and Great Lakes regions.

[@adfeatherstone]

Fantastic video about two ethnic groups I never heard of, despite living in Liaoning for several years. Hope they can keep the myth and stories of the culture going and pasted down.

[@andrewcheng5655]

These people looks like the local Indians in Canada. There was a old saying that the Indians were originally from far east.

[@kats_journey_east]

The guy who makes canoes visited Inuits in Canada and apparently they looked like brothers 😜😜

[@Rm-lb1yj]

The disappearance of minor languages is happening all over the world, but the Western media only point to China and say that the Han Chinese are exterminating minority languages and cultures. In fact, many languages have already disappeared within the Western countries themselves. And the governments of Western countries have done even less than the Chinese Communist Party to protect minority languages. The truth is that the biggest cause of language disappearance is social communication and development, and as long as we seek a better education, a better life, and as long as we remain open to interacting with different people, then languages will always slowly disappear. Even if the Chinese government spends a lot of money to try to save these minority languages, it will not help, it will just slow it down. But none of us have the right to accuse them of losing their language, because they have the right to pursue their own lives. We don't have the right to ask them to live in poverty just to satisfy our wants of diversity. But sadly most of the "progressive" people in western countries can't understand it or maybe that's the way they want to keep others slow but keep themselves "progressive".

[@kats_journey_east]

Yeah it seems to be a pretty inevitable process , the amount of change that has happened among the oroqens in just a couple generations is really wild . the elderly people we spoke with experienced a life that was half in the forest gathering their own food speaking their language , the kids and even the generation in their 20s and 30s lives a life almost the same as the Han. I barely met any young people in either village , most of them have mixed into the big cities . It’s nice that some of the local people and government are taking some efforts to preserve the culture though , even though the way of life is disappearing , at least the traditions will be remembered and recorded . But once the people experienced modern life they didn’t want to go back , with the exception of a few such as the guy and his wife who are making birch boats , and even they are picking and choosing what elements of oroqen life they want to continue experiencing

[@Rm-lb1yj]

@@kats_journey_east Fortunately, at least they get a safe and decent life and this is their own choice in the process of economic and social development. There is a theory that the ultimate stage of race development is the disappearance of the race-------------cause all races are integrated. In fact, the Han Chinese are also formed by the integration of many ethnic groups. This is a treasure left over from China's thousands of years of history.

[@predrag-peterilich900]

Katherine, you are a breath of clean fresh air! Intelligent, knowledgeable, observant, enthusiastic, and honest. Methinks, you are destined to a life-path of good, important deeds. All the luck to you!

[@westleyma]

现在所说的白山黑水，也就是神奇的东北亚平原山地里，走出了一批批神奇的民族，东胡人，扶余人，鲜卑人，契丹人，女真人，甚至部分匈奴人，蒙古人，而这些渔猎农耕的民族却在很大程度上重新塑造了以中原地区为主体的汉文化，甚至可以说他们塑造了半部中国历史，也正是这些新鲜的血液融入了古老的华夏民族，才使得中国更像是一个文化而非血缘的概念。何为中国？有四方而有中国。孟子曰：舜东夷人，文王西夷人，得天道而行乎中国。 何为天道？孟子曰，民心就是天道。中国从没有像现在一样版图一统，民心所向。 我以我是东北人而自豪，我以我是中国人自豪。

[@chuckgoodwish3897]

The west can learn something about gun control from this region in China.

[@georwoogle]

Never feel your video "long". I really enjoy all of your videos, Katherine. Thank you!

[@obbenny]

中国在1957年施行粮票肉票时，汉民每月6-8两肉，回民每月可得1.4斤牛羊肉。

[@胡亮-z7b]

Katherine's vlog is such a good resource. I'd encourage every Chinese struggling to learn spoken English to watch and practice after these vlogs. I personally have learned tons of native English expressions of my Chinese style ideas that I tried to express in English but failed frequently.

[@bombasticborneo]

Any video about ethnic people is never too long. On the contrary, I wished it was longer so I could learn more. Perhaps, a sequel in the future?🤗. How the modern architecture preserved the teepee design was remarkable. Btw, could there be any relation of the Oroqen to the Red Indians. It couldn't be such a coincidence that both live in teepees. I hope you'll do a video of the Ewenkis too. TQ 🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@kats_journey_east]

I think so , if the land bridge theory is correct , it would make sense - and the guy who makes canoes visited Inuits in Canada before and apparently they looked like brothers 😄

[@bombasticborneo]

@@kats_journey_east It would be interesting if their languages including the Eskimos' have some similarities.

[@soonhenglim7986]

they hv tepees too? how can this same culture appear on opposite ends of the world? some migration must've happen sometime historically.

[@user-zj8cf3fq8e]

It would have been a positive if the US treated the Native Americans this way here in the states

[@wangpaochen8569]

Love Wei's sense of humor!!! 🙏🤣👍You two are compatible!!!

[@richardhuang98]

Wonderful glimpse into the lives of these small communities.

[@arirooz6240]

Oh thank you so much, everything is wonderful. I wish you the best. 🙅‍♀️x2

[@iamcanadianedmonton]

at 14:13, he said "ewenki culture is slowly being lost in the tides of history", i think this is happening all over the world. at least in his case, his living condition has improved drastically. love from canada.

[@kats_journey_east]

Yeah it seems to be an inevitable process for small ethnic groups especially nomadic ones

[@elvishassassin1]

@@kats_journey_east Well it's just progress I guess. Assimilation is inevitable. It takes effort to preserve traditional culture. I am Chinese but grew up overseas and I am trying to reconnect with Chinese culture now as an adult in my 30s. Also, I am half-Hui but I have no connection to Hui culture. My father's family is Hui but they assimilated long ago so they no longer practised Islam, they were Hui in name only. (They did however keep Islamic funerary traditions and didn't eat pork.)

[@jimbo20022002]

Thanks Katherine. When the Angels tell the truths, the evils get scared.

[@lktruong]

I would cancel the Discovery Channel to subscribe to your KZbin channel. Your videos about these places in China are fantastic, informative, educational and very entertaining. Keep up the good work. Thank you!

[@afendiafendi9642]

Thank alot. Love to see more about china other ethnics culture and people. Especially their living condition and environment.

[@Peter-eg3ux]

Doing a fantastic job. Your efforts to go out of the way to reach out to the natives is most appreciated.

[@longyou8254]

15:39, you are wearing folk clothes, it’s beautiful. More beautiful is you and xiao wang, both of you are doing the greatest work recording and presenting to us the amazing culture that most of people not familiar about. Solute to your good cause

[@williamking3529]

阳离子的vblog做的非常棒👍🏻。你未来很有可能成为自媒体界的大明星。也有可能在电视台地理、探索类节目做主持人。

[@relaxwhc]

If you enjoyed this video, raise your hand to show Katherine 😺ion your super support 🙋✋🔥

[@kats_journey_east]

Thanks 😻😻

[@relaxwhc]

@@kats_journey_east you're welcome ✋

[@sylvesterfong9275]

Katherine, many thanks for an informative and enjoyable vlog. Beautifully created. 💐👍 Blessings from Kuching, Malaysia.

[@maradon385]

Thanks Katherine for showing the world the lives of ethnic minorities there. Can't wait for your videos on those minorities in Xinjiang especially the Uyghurs.

[@LAIFExCulture]

Thank you so much for making this video for the world! I'm from Heilongjiang Province, China. But my city is named Qiqihar, which is by the language of another minority group, Dawuer. The places you have visited in the video are northerner to my city. I would like to contribute some extra information to your awesome viewers besides the very informative content. 1. Besides the minority group featured in this video, 鄂伦春族, there are many other minority groups in the northeastern part of China, mainly in my hometown Heilongjiang Province, such as 鄂温克, 达吾尔族, 达斡尔、锡伯、赫哲、和柯尔克孜. Most of them are quite similar to each other in terms of tradition and traditional lifestyle. They are also similar to the much more famous minority group 满族, which ruled China during Qing Dynasty. 2. For the viewers outside of China (even for some Chinese), you may not know that many minority ethnic groups didn't have their names like what they are now before PRC was established. Many minority groups were named due to many unreasonable reasons, although they may be the same in the past. 3. As mentioned in the video, when I was a student in high school. My ex-classmate, who is from minority group, could get extra point for their entry exam to uni. After living in Singapore, I learnt that India and the US also have similar policy to compensate the minority or lower class of the society. I'm not very familiar with their policy, so please correct me if I'm wrong. All in all, for those believes Chinese gov only does bad things to the minority groups, as a native Chinese person, I can tell you that's wrong. But I would like to mention the next point. 4. As in many other countries, the majority group takes the most of the resources and influence other minorities. I'm Han ethinic group. In my first 20+ years, I have never met people from small minority groups. For the bigger minority groups in my region, such as 回族, 蒙古族, 满族, 朝鲜族, I have some classmates and friends, but most of them don't know how to speak their languages and follow their traditions. But to be fair, many of our Han Chinese traditions have also been replaced by western traditions too. So, it is very sad to face that. 5. If I can suggest my gov something, I would strongly asked them to teach our future generation of the diversity of cultures in our hometown. Not just mention a few sentences in the textbook which no teachers really care about, so no students wanna learn. On this point, I really like what the Singapore gov has done to preserve the traditions and languages of different ethic groups in the society. I have done a reaction video about it. You guys may check it out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXKseZypmKxmkLs 6. Last but not least, the world is colorful enough for us to appreciate. China is great, the US is also great. Big country is great, small country is great too. Open our mind to see and learn what the world has to offer before we die. BTW, welcome everyone to my hometown. It is the same, but also different!

[@刘上来]

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[@elvishassassin1]

I am half Hui (on my father's side) but I have no connection to Islamic culture because my father's family already assimilated long ago. They didn't practise Islam (besides not eating pork and having Islamic funerals). Also, my family is from Wuhan but I don't know how to speak Wuhanese. My parents always talked to me in Mandarin, however I can understand Wuhanese because I heard them talking to each other in Wuhanese. I also grew up in Australia so my main language is English. I haven't lived in China for 30 years. It is very easy to lose cultural traditions, seems like it's just an inevitable part of progress. I would like to learn more about Chinese culture because sometimes I feel like I'm missing out. (Australia is nice but very boring and there isn't much culture or history here compared to other countries.)

[@alexandermilanwang]

@@elvishassassin1 haven't been to Australia yet, but curious about the aboriginal cultures. I hope they keep their tradition well.

[@elvishassassin1]

@@alexandermilanwang Hmm...it's debatable. A lot of it has been lost. The Aborigines met a similar fate as the Native Americans. In recent decades the government has been making efforts to preserve the culture but I'd say most of the traditional pre-colonial cultures and languages have disappeared. There are still people of Aboriginal descent living in Australia (I think they are about 3% of the population) but they mostly live like everyone else.

[@donaldlineker6140]

Pretty much the same people and the same culture as the Native Indians in Tundra and North Americas.

[@troutstalker4744]

For myself, I would like to see longer videos.

[@ghoststreet7301]

01:17 75 and 69 years old???? 🏋they seem healther than 30 year old me

[@philipshim4768]

Very educational video. I won't be surprised if the Oroqen and Ewenki people are related to the Inuit and Eskimo people in North America.

[@kats_journey_east]

The guy at the beginning of the video has been to Canada to meet some Inuit people who built boats similar to his and apparently they were all joking around that they look like brothers

[@chirkchu3903]

@@kats_journey_east I see many similarities with Alaskan Natives. The Oroqen's old life style (hunting & fishing) is very similar to the subsistence life style currently practiced by many Alaskan Native today. The Oroqens in your video even look and act like native Alaskan. I have a question for you Katherine: I see the Oroqens had Mosin Nagant rifles use for hunting in the past. Are they allow to keep them if they are still hunting today?

[@yky257]

@@chirkchu3903 in the video it says they turned in the guns to police.

[@kats_journey_east]

Each village has different rules , Shi ba zhan doesn’t allow hunting as of 2010, in xinsheng 15 people still have hunting licenses but no hunting has been happening recently because of some swine flu concerns with wild boars , not sure if that rule will go on forever or they will be able to hunt again later . Not sure about the situation in other places but since the oroqen have become so integrated into modern society and very few people still want to hunt it seems the trend is moving towards getting rid of hunting altogether . It was allowed for decades after oroqen were settled in villages so they could stay connected to their roots but now most of those people are gone or very old

[@chirkchu3903]

@@kats_journey_east Thank you Katherine. It appears hunting and gathering is not as essential to Oroqen culture as it is to Alaskan Native culture. However I could be wrong given that you could only interview a limited number of locals. Regardless, your videos and Miriam Follin's videos provide the only reliable information about rural China on the Internet today. Your videos are well crafted peppered with heartfelt content. May be you should compete in the same video contest which Miriam won first place in 2019. Your content is that good. Looking forward to your next video.

[@wynnyoder5605]

All those nationalities getting along. Its too bad we don't have a bicycle like yours to see nationalities getting along here in the states. It would truly be a magical bicycle. Keep it up girl.

[@2annec97]

Thanks for this well made video! Really appreciate the dedication and hard work you have put in for producing this informative and entertaining video.