This Is How People Lived Inside a House in Shanghai in 1900 | AI Reconstruction
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🏮 Shanghai, year 1900: behind the stone gate of a shikumen townhouse in a narrow longtang alley, an ordinary middle-class Chinese family lives the daily rhythm of the late Qing empire, only steps away from the neoclassical banks of the Bund and the bustling International Settlement. Step inside a reconstruction created with artificial intelligence.
⛩️ This documentary reconstructs, using AI based on historical studies and records, a typical two-story shikumen residence in one of the world's most populated and cosmopolitan cities on the eve of the twentieth century. Discover the small paved tianjing courtyard, the ancestral altar of the ketang main hall with its gilded tablets and slow-curling incense, the raised earthen zao stove watched over by the painted image of the kitchen god, the cramped tingzijian room above the kitchen, and the tiled roofs of the longtang under the estuary sky.
📜 See the everyday textures of late Qing life: the long changpao robes and the queue hairstyle of men, the ao and qun of women, morning bowls of zhou porridge with youtiao, a shared midday meal of steamed rice and river fish in the benbang style, mahjong afternoons in the courtyard, and evenings by kerosene lamplight while news of the Boxer Uprising arrives from Beijing.
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Nits:
1. It's a cleaver, not a hatchet. A cleaver is a knife, not an axe--use a slicing motion; don't hack and chop with it.
2. Every time you mention kerosene lamps, what we are seeing are oil lamps.
This Is How People Lived Inside a House in Shanghai in 1900 | AI Reconstruction
History Reconstruction
9,720 views
🏮 Shanghai, year 1900: behind the stone gate of a shikumen townhouse in a narrow longtang alley, an ordinary middle-class Chinese family lives the daily rhythm of the late Qing empire, only steps away from the neoclassical banks of the Bund and the bustling International Settlement. Step inside a reconstruction created with artificial intelligence.
⛩️ This documentary reconstructs, using AI based on historical studies and records, a typical two-story shikumen residence in one of the world's most populated and cosmopolitan cities on the eve of the twentieth century. Discover the small paved tianjing courtyard, the ancestral altar of the ketang main hall with its gilded tablets and slow-curling incense, the raised earthen zao stove watched over by the painted image of the kitchen god, the cramped tingzijian room above the kitchen, and the tiled roofs of the longtang under the estuary sky.
📜 See the everyday textures of late Qing life: the long changpao robes and the queue hairstyle of men, the ao and qun of women, morning bowls of zhou porridge with youtiao, a shared midday meal of steamed rice and river fish in the benbang style, mahjong afternoons in the courtyard, and evenings by kerosene lamplight while news of the Boxer Uprising arrives from Beijing.
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#HistoryReconstruction #AIReconstruction #Shanghai1900 #Shikumen #QingDynasty #ChineseHistory #Longtang #LateQing