Chinese TV Dramas vs. Reality: What Chinese Royalty Really Looked Like

Hey everyone, welcome to Off the Great Wall. It's Mikey. It's Dan. Yo, Dano. Have you ever seen Chinese historical dramas before? Yeah, of course. The women are always beautiful. And they're all dressed well. They all know martial arts. They're kind of flying around. Like you said, they're all good looking. Yeah. So that's kind of like the expectations of what people are like back in ancient China, right? Yeah. Some of the most popular TV series like Huan Zhu Ge Ge are set in the royal palace and it's basically days of our lives of Chinese royalty. Yep, all those of royal bloods, you know, like in the palaces, they're all just like walking all proper, dressed all beautiful, looked all beautiful. But was that really how life was back then? We found these online photos that shows how people really dressed and look like back then. Check it out. This is what you think they look like. And this is what they actually look like. Here's a picture of a royal concubine from the movies and TV series. Here's a picture of an actual royal concubine. Here's a picture of a beautiful Chinese ancient lady. Here's a picture of what sometimes they really look like. For those of you who are fans of Huan Zhu Ge Ge, here's what Huan Zhu Ge Ge looks like in the TV series. Here's what she really looks like. Anyway guys, take a look at the rest of these photos right here. Here's one of those funny things where you expect one thing, but it actually is a little different. You know these photos were actually trendy on a website. The headline was, Dear Chinese Emperor, I feel bad for you. Oh my gosh. Because you think like he, the emperor can pick anybody from the town. And the emperor often have thousands of concubines. Thousands. Well, okay. These might be just some rare examples. I don't know. Yeah. I think mostly it's really funny because I, before you show me these photos, I still thought that they look like they do in the TV shows. It was kind of surprising for us to see these photos, so we thought it'd be really interesting for you as well. Again, reality did not match expectation. They probably had really good hearts though, you know. Alright guys, make sure you like us, subscribe to us, and please don't hate us. We don't mean any harm. See ya!