The Rebranding of Chinese Culture 🇨🇳

Chinese culture has been rebranded as Japanese or Korean on social media

[LHxx]

A lot of people think the Go game is a Japanese game but the truth is it is a Chinese game called Weiqi（围棋） in Chinese. The game was invented in China more than 2, 500 years ago

[magnaviator]

Bonsai is most definitely Chinese, it originated in the Chinese empire by 700AD and was later adopted by Japan. All of Asia adopted Chinese ideals of beauty and governance until the European colonizers came and blew it all away with violence and war.

[myeongwol]

Recently I attended a traditional Korean painting class, the korean teacher gave some brief history of traditional korean painting, and she did say about the influence from the chinese.
Good teacher don't twist or hide facts.

[tenchichrono]

I too used to be one of these Sinophobes brainwashed by US/Western media to think that China was inferior. It wasn't until the HK riots happened that I started diving into a rabbit hole and learning more about China and what the US empire was doing in HK, China, and other countries. Sinophobia is by design by the US/West.

[ALIEN_]

Most people do not know that the symbols in the Korean flag incorporated the Chinese Taoist symbols. Taoism originated in China with the elements of Yin-Yang, the 8 Trigrams, Lo-Shu diagrams and Lao Tzu's philosophy dating back from the Shang/Zhou dynasty.

[williamho]

Even the word "tea" is Chinese. It came from Hokkien "teh" whereas in other Chinese known as "cha".

[lawrenzhuang]

Another misconception is about Kiwifruit being native to New Zealand. It was known as Chinese gooseberry in China and has been grown there for centuries. The seeds were brought to New Zealand in the early 20th century and successfully cultivated and grown commercially.

[joeyp]

There's a video on China Uncensored - a reliably anti-China channel - called 'The Genius of Japanese Carpentry'. It's about how the Japanese build tall pagodas without nails. Funny thing is, the Japanese completely copied this from the Chinese! In fact, Japanese temple architecture is basically Tang dynasty (Chinese) architecture.

[peachychoc]

China was the epitome of civilisation in the East for thousands of years influencing the Korean, Japanese and Indo-Chinese culture, traditions and linguistic.

[alft.]

You showed the world the truth about Chinese Culture which is not common knowledge in the West nor widely acknowledged. Well done!

[bananaana]

its funny how people are so quick to call out "cultural appropriation" but feel that it's okay to rebrand a lot of culturally significant chinese things as japanese or korean. Even when some of these things are hundreds or thousands of years old. It's essentially telling me that my culture isnt "good enough" on it's own. And thank you for making this video, I don't see enough (or anyone) on western social media talking about this.

[joeyp]

As the late and great Anthony Bourdain once said, "Even if you've never had Chinese food, you've had Chinese food. Everything from noodles to pasta to ketchup to ice cream had their origins in Chinese cuisine. Yes, ice cream. Chinese chefs in the Tang dynasty mixed ice with goat milk and honey, with a touch of salt to keep it from freezing solid, then added camphor - the vanilla of the time - for flavor. Basically, 'vanilla ice cream.

[etlay]

It seems to me that the majority of Koreans and Vietnamese are in denial of their past connection with rhe Chinese culture. They were the vassal estates of China a long time ago and naturally adopted Chinese culture and writing. It shows that they are not confident and proud about their past.

[yin]

Korean ancient history books record that Korean culture and clothing originated from China. However, the problem is that ancient Korean historical documents were all written in Chinese, and now Koreans do not understand Chinese, so…

[cmaven]

I would never assume that the Chinese stole anything from Japan or Korea. The trend has always been in the other direction, with China being looked at as the cultural leader in the entire Eastern region, the way France was looked at for wine and fashion in the past.
However my interest in Chinese culture and history began before all the Kpop and anime exploded onto the world scene.

[stl]

Not just only rebranding Chinese culture, they are also re-writing Chinese history as well.

[naivoj]

Well, 90% of things that are so called popular from South Korea are not originally from Korea. Just look at their street food for example. Even the names of the food, they just made it sound abit different.

[brandonso]

So much appreciation to you guys, and especially to Julie, for having such frank talks on Chinese and Danish culture. I'm learning a lot, and I'm Chinese-American of Cantonese origin. I've not always been drawn to China but I sure am now, and in a huge way. Love my people and my homeland.

[preciousjewels]

It is disgusting and shameless to take orher culture and make it as your own. Your channel is underrated. Keep up with the good work

[新思维新思考新境界]

To say China stole Japanese and Korean culture is like saying Italy stole pizza from America. LOL