Stairs Stairs Stairs! Climbed This Daily for All My School Years! - China Vlog 1 Chongqing

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[@JK_was_here]

Thank you for taking us down the actual memory lane. It’s such a beautiful city. I would love to visit there one day.

[@KeiPalace]

I have to appreciate all the civic improvements, even though it's not like your memories, better than seeing things fall apart, and I love that there are trees and plants growing, just wherever they want! Thanks for showing ups Chongqing, definitely someplace I would like to visit.

[@Elaine-gf8nc]

I was studying in Chongqing early 1980's. I climbed everyday to my elementary and high school too. What a sweet and common memory

[@borneoorchid]

"Make things look ugly so they look official..."😂 thanks for this video. I got a feel of what it is like. Do more of this type of stuff!👍

[@fianorian]

I love 'walking' around ordinary towns with a local person, so I really enjoyed this. More please...if your camera and legs can stand the strain. Just one thought. I imagine all those stairs make for an interesting journey in bad weather.

[@PChan-yt4uf]

Her fitness level is now definitely much less than when she had to walk those stairs almost every day, though she complains about it.

[@supa3ek]

I love these small passageways with old school architecture. Its definitely more impressive to a design student then the concrete box structures with straight wide roads we have in most cities around the world nowadays. It has a cultural and historic feel to it. Hope chongqing relizes this and keeps as much of the old architecture as possible. We definitely don't want it to be replaced by the boring typical american style cityscape ! Love this vlog because it shows us the character and culture of the city !!!! Culture around the world must be protected at all cost 👍

[@dnataliesmith2209]

The lunch time drama takes me back to when Guyana changed took out all lunch time dramas because the school kids would return late from lunch after watching "The Young And The Restless and The Bold And The Beautiful" so dramas were from 4Pm and 8 PM lol.

[@multistan9582]

In Jamaican it was the same routine..lol....I stated watching esp....B&B from about 1998...very young child with my mom, aunts and cousins...just being 6 at the time. It's was like a family daytime and night time ritual for years....The other one was Generations....but B&B hit differently....so many memories...😊

[@sassneversleeps]

Reminds me of my recent trip to my hometown in China a few months ago. So many things have changed for sure. Didn't really go to school there but stayed with my grandparents so funnily went past the school that my mum and uncle used to go to. And another school in a touristy location. All I can say is the schools look so much nicer that the ones in Australia. I guess it's expected since I'm from Suzhou but the schools literally have Chinese architecture with the pavilion, Chinese paintings on the wall outside and even the roof tiles were the traditional ones. I was blown out of my mind. The ones in Chongqing look nice too. Makes the ones in Australia look like a rubbish dump. And tell me about things getting better after you leave. My school got a whole new maths block after I left. My uni got a light rail linked.

[@snoozleblob]

So interesting and cool to see a different city with personal narration from a local. Thanks for doing this walking tour! And so many stairs! 😅 I always love waliing around to explore cities because they have such different vibes. The city i live in is very chill and less pedestrian friendly unfortunately

[@rachelgrady3862]

My legs got tired just seeing you walk all those stairs. Very impressive. :) Thank you for taking us on such a lovely tour!

[@ulaalu4356]

Chonqing is one of the best looking cities in the world. I love the vibe and the views. In some ways, I feel it represents the ideal of a Chinese city: mountains, rivers, trees, not sea, etc.

[@maragathm]

It is beautiful

[@dannychen1281]

Loved the walking tour video. Vastly different from the normal fare but it really was very interesting to see life in another country. Thanks!

[@solarlunar689]

I love the "historic" feeling of the city. Even though I have never been to Chongqing, it feels nostalgic to me somehow, most likely due to the mix of old and new infrastructure.

[@waltervelleda]

this is so lovely, feels like we are peeking at your memories hahaha! thank you for sharing!

[@multistan9582]

Okayyyy.....XZ was not kidding when he mentioned Chongqing is a mountainous place thats why at the time he couldn't ride a bike😂😂😂....I guess one gets use to the forced exercise when it's a must to climb those stairs daily....lol

[@liztatianaflorez3942]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@niakantorka7070]

Thanks for sharing this tour of your home town with us! I was especially impressed by the fact that the construction is ongoing while people still use the stairs totally being unfazed about it. Both your schools looked so huge. And the sidewalk so narrow. Lots of contradicting and fascinating scenery. Looking forward to more travelogues. 🤗

[@wollevy2328]

Thanks! So much "life" in Chongqing!! I am addicted to walking videos of this crazy, exciting, sometimes ugly but mostly beautiful city. People everywhere talking, shopping, eating, just being out and enjoying life. What a contrast to what we see in most American cities! You look young enough here so that one could almost think you were still on your way to school.

[@LanYuuren_noona]

🙋🏻‍♀️ hands up if you didn't see any candy or whatever forsaken wrappers and cigarette butts on the streets. Millennials struggles 101: "everything gets better (changes) after we leave." Same sentiments here 😂 The generations after us had it easy, mostly with the improvement of infrastructures. I couldn't recognize my primary school, too. For one we didn't have a comfort room for each classroom back then 😂 I relate to this vlog in so many levels... apart from the stairs hehe.😊

[@SkyPilot111]

I so enjoyed the walk down memory lane! I could imagine seeing you as a little girl running down this awesome path to school, making sure you got there before the bell rang. Loved it😊

[@beepboopbaap2511]

seeing how different the city is to what I'm used to (all those stairs!) makes me want to visit it because it's so fascinating

[@majesty1144]

I completely enjoyed todays Vlog. It felt like I was in your hometown. Pls keep it coming 👏

[@jsung6400]

Would’ve loved to walk this tour together. I’m sure there’s much stories to tell with every step. Thanks for sharing!

[@ldkmelon]

I have always like this aesthetic, in video games I always love exploring and making cities with lots of twists and turns, alleyways and stairs. Maybe because I grew up in an extremely flat place haha. I can see how some parts of the hill side city would be inconvenient but would love to visit someday!

[@wollevy2328]

Neat walk! The underground athletic area is very impressive. Some of the walkways also very nice. You must be in pretty good shape as you weren't breathing terribly hard most of the time. I hope you are feeling better today!!

[@CouaBoua]

This is so refreshing to see! I would be walking in the streets. Lol

[@roydiehl]

Too much fun -- many thanks for sharing this scenery from your life!

[@RicanSeoul01]

What was going on at the school,with meeting the teachers and seeing the classroom is what US calls Open House. 😊 interesting that something similar is practiced in your hometown.

[@Helghast73]

Has much of the city you knew changed ? I love the banyan trees, they’ve such character and very capable of looking fairy like and spooky 😂

[@kechoify]

Finally, you were able to show us your town in actuality instead of quoting movies shot in your town.

[@gingermintrose]

The streets are clean. Narrow and filled with people but clean.

[@zein_free]

That was a lot of fun. More vlogs please 😃 You still look good after all the stairs and hot and humid weather 👍😊 "...Layout is ugly, the colour choice is bad" ... 😂😂😂 You still got to use similar words that you use when you tell us about c-drama. Lol. Thank you for showing us a part of Chongqing. If you ever want to arrange a walking/culture/food tours in Chongqing, I will sign up. ❤😃

[@Amei9561]

Thanks for sharing a part of your life. I look forward to your next vlog in Chongqing. I love all your channel ❤❤❤

[@sushi7dramalover]

The 08:52 shot of the stairway is where they had the comical rose petal rain on 风犬少年 in ep 4 😁😁

[@ritawing1064]

I'm always amazed in the series how many steps everyone has to scale. They're all slim as whippets!

[@cdtkabag139]

i love the brick walls along the steps,

[@woronzof3909]

This was FUN! So interesting. Many thanks for taking us along.

[@lngl]

💝 Thanks for the local tour! With that route, no need to worry about not getting enough cardio or leg workout 😄

[@liztatianaflorez3942]

I loved this video and thank you for sharing the life of Chongqing with us ❤❤❤❤❤

[@manju331]

I loved this walking video and enjoyed seeing the neighborhoods. Thank you! 💜

[@sigyul2283]

That's a lot of stairs😝! After watching this, I am trying to find my high school on google map and just realize the school relocated decades ago. The daily journey might be a grind then, now a fun way to retell old memories.

[@karenaspencer8460]

Amazing! Thank you for taking us down the memory lane with you! Appreciated you!

[@mariepaulecoutens]

Amazing document lovely lady ❤🎉 It's because it's you of course, that I feel the streets are so much closer in my experience. Thank you for that closeness and your irreducible sense of taste! 😂❤ Sending you Love from France 🇫🇷❤

[@afreesoulonearth]

I will visit this town as soon as possible. Thank you for sharing. This is very interesting. This town is really amazing.

[@augustmist]

Thank you for showing us your hometown Chongqing. Yes, I think you are correct, Run For Young is filmed there at the area you mentioned. It's the staircase where the gank usually hang out, down below was the area of their homes: Lao Gou/Peng Yuchang, D Lijiao/Zhou Yiran, Mi Mi/Zhang Youhao and Da Zui/Caesar Guo (Ma Tian/Liang Jingkang and Li Anran/Zhang Jingyi - lived in a super posh area. I wanna go see Chongqing, but the '8-dimension' city with the stairs rather scares me. Hehehe. Love your vlog!

[@Crivitao]

Thank you for the fascinating tour!❤

[@iwjmp]

thank you for the vlog! I really enjoyed it. I just love to feel I'm visiting too💛though I would be so tired of climbing so many stairs 😂but as you say, it's actually great for long-term health to be forced to exercise (except for people whose job already involves physical labor obviously💔). Also It's nice to see that they at least care about making constant urban improvements, something that definitely doesn't happen that often in the city where I live. But at the same time it must be sad to see how some buildings disappear and only your memories of them remain..

[@lamusiquefanatique]

Well since I don't get to go, at least I can see your vlog. I was so excited for your vlogs and it's finally here. And I love stairs. One of the things I want to do when I go abroad is to go stair hiking.

[@bassdayesammydass-rice9430]

Thank you for sharing your childhood memories, would love to visit your country someday❤

[@HanhSolo]

Thank you for taking us along your epic walk!

[@keekeepod]

That high school's outdoor sports field doesn't look much used, considering the number of students. Could have been redone. Or, if it were the top high school in the region, at least some gym classes might have been hijacked for cram sessions. I've been following two guys budget road trips around mostly less populous areas in China. They mentioned that a building could have multiple "first floors" - 1st floor is at one street level while nth floor might be at another street level. Driving on circuitous roads to go from one floor to another floor would take much longer than climbing stairs. I'm curious about address system and mail delivery.

[@WangGanChang]

The field usually get repainted every summer, which is why it looks new at this time of the year. While PE classes does get canceled a lot in last year of high school, they are often used during lower grades. Since students still needs to pass their physical training exams which are standards set by ministry of education. The school I went to are very serious about those, since they used to be a school for military families before they opened up to the public. Since this is more of a cram school, so they might skirt the standards somewhat, but I imagine they can't go too far.

[@floresqq4453]

i visited巴蜀中學 last January . The 潮州滷肉飯店outside the school is really good / because I am a Teochew:). Also the old school of 錢學森。 no wonder your English is sooo good . I actually wondered when I first followed your channel . 失敬

[@missaisohee]

if any of these places come up in a crime drama i'm gonna be like hey i know that place

[@marenhumblebee2736]

This was amazing thank you so much

[@mariocomputer808]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I love seeing everyday life in cities outside North America, and it's cool to see where AvenueX grew up, too. I haven't travelled to China since 2005, and I'm going there this October and really looking forward to seeing how much everything has changed!

[@ashielfaye]

This is so interesting! Wish that we have all the stairs in our place, the exercise will be good😅 Hoping for a food vlog though😂😂 thanks for this video❤

[@linhvo4435]

It's so hilly! Definitely a lot of exercise. I will try to visit it when I travel to China!

[@TheMRock888]

Super interesting and nostalgic, thank you for sharing!

[@roseantwi7731]

Thank you Aveune x , for the tour I found it quite enjoyable.

[@cdtkabag139]

the plenty staircase reminds me of edinburgh, scotland

[@poyun30]

Danggg now I miss my hometown! not in Chong Qing nor China but still..... Great vid as always AvenueX!!

[@hasti352]

Wow thank you for taking us with you for this walk of memory it’s very appreciated I was always so curious about this city.

[@noviben_]

So interesting & refreshing video. Thanks jiejie. We want more 👏👏

[@JAMoore-zz3ki]

I really enjoyed your sharing these memories with us. Thank you!

[@leefamily6061]

Thank you for sharing your childhood memories, I really enjoyed this vlog. You're so funny! I would love to visit there someday

[@stcemel]

I love this episode so much. You narrating the video as you walk down memory lane

[@carolthomas1446]

thank you, I really enjoyed going thru your memory lane.

[@GreyHippo]

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing!

[@colonyofcellsiamamachine6175]

I currently walk for 3 hours per day in a hilly area and it is pretty good exercise for me and helps bring down my blood sugar levels.

[@amandaemeralda1523]

Thanks for this video. Your hometown is a very famous destination for us if we want to have a vacation in china. We from Indonesia have brochures especially showing interesting places on Chongqing. And it looks very pretty.

[@goldenseal50]

Thanks for your walk down memory lane and showing us a little piece of China.

[@lorlacs611]

Damn that's a lot of stairs. I went to a public college and it didn't have convenient walk ways I tend to walk a lot to save money and I stepped on rocks and muds,it gets really muddy during rainy season and too hot during summer

[@robingreen3844]

Thank you for sharing a dot in your life with us. You are appreciated.🙏👍🥰

[@veryqun]

So much similarity to my elementary school in Hunan 😊 the same tall perimeter walls, same crowd of parents at the gate, same lesser populated side gate, nostalgia

[@terrijoe5559]

Haha... I saw other vlogs on Chongqing. Yes, there are a lot of stairs in the city... 😂

[@michelleyamamoto5519]

What a lovely place to grow up in, thanks for the walk through

[@user-vk6ne6uv1y]

Love your vlog! thanks for all your efforts

[@lobstereleven4610]

Wow 重庆has changed a lot yet some small things stayed the same. Haven’t been back in decades! Living in 重庆means never skipping leg day 😂😂😂

[@cirene2143]

Love this vlog and to know a little bit more about yourself. 🤩

[@ren9955]

It's so interesting seeing other cities in China. My family is from Wuhan so I spent most of my time in China there. Definitely not that many stairs hahaha. I'm getting flashbacks of trying not to die climbing up Wudang mountain.

[@lottifisk]

I loved this video. thank you for showing it to us :D

[@nancymcgee4776]

That sure was fun to see! 👍

[@wollevy2328]

One of the most interesting cities in the world! There is something for everyone here. Personally, I like the lower city with all the walkways and alleys and interesting people. I hope the city hasn't made plans to turn it into boxy high-rise apartments. If developed properly, it could be a wonderful oasis in the busy city. Unfortunately, a lot of poor people would lose their homes.

[@leticiagomes312]

Great vlog!

[@Nn33archive]

Thank you for the tour!

[@linhvo4435]

I think it would be a great idea if you make videos about places you should visit if you're a fan of Chinese dramas!

[@MM-pn3bx]

Beautiful place thanks for sharing ❤

[@pinintosarwendah1561]

Wow thank you. I have the opportunity to watch the lovely place, Chongqing.

[@maragathm]

This is soooo cool going back in time ❤❤❤❤

[@wsytch4879]

I think it's gonna be a lot of fun making this city wheelchair accessible.

[@suko_chan_9684]

Very special episode❤

[@Crivitao]

I would so love to visit China!😊

[@debbiechai5603]

Very nice video. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@shelleydee6217]

It’s nice to virtually walk with you while reminiscing your childhood past. At least this time it’s not solely China’s devastation due to horrendous floods that I am seeing.

[@clairsnow6404]

great video! thank you!

[@WangGanChang]

Cool stuff always get build when we are in school only to complete after we graduate. For example, in my collect they expended the outdoor swimming pool to olympic size and and is building an indoor swiming. Both are complete after I graudate, so lucky for me where is practically no swimming pool for us to use for the 2 years when everything was under construction, but the incoming students got to enjoy 2 pools.

[@rendezvous6226]

it's so pretty ✨✨✨

[@cdtkabag139]

Thanks for showing us this. A lot of idol drama neigborhood shows a very fake or beautified setting.

[@strangersontheinternet]

Ah I love this!

[@user-ni8nx7sy2k]

爱四川的地貌人文和佳肴！突然发现真的和您同龄😂。抽空儿记得发视频小聊一下两位小老乡（田曦薇和敖瑞鹏）的新剧，《花轿喜事》。

[@Zhishan929]

Went to chongqing this summer, while visiting my grandparents in fuzhou. Soooooo much stairs 😭