My most authentic Chinese New Year yet! 🐲 还是乡下过年有味道！🧨
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Come spend CNY with me in a village on a little island in the Yangtze River! 🏮 Happy year of the rabbit, everyone! 🐰
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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👽
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Did you say those bottle rockets going off - 放炮 的 声音， sounded like Chicago? Well, I did not know that Chicago also celebrated Chinese New Year's like that ... or were you insinuating actual guns going off w/o stopping in Chiraq? ... haha. That was done in bad taste! So where were you from in the States? Don't ever say West Virginia, where eating possum is still a delicacy ... feel me!
这段视频是我认为，外国人做关于中国新年的视频中，做得最好也是最富有人文情怀的，几乎把所有新年的元素全都包含了进去。而且把过年时中国人那种乡愁拍得太到位了，情感内敛却又深厚。我都觉得你上辈子一定是个中国人👍👍👍
其实Katherine已经比不少海外华人还更有中国味了
This was one of the most authentic things I saw on UA-cam recently. I never expected to see someone traveling through China and showing everything. As a Brazilian, it's hard to imagine a life there, but it makes me feel more curious and interested in visiting one day.
welcome to China
Welcome to China, and yes, Brazil is the most far country to China, you need 3 10+ hours flight to get there.
welcome to china, you will know who is the lier once you visit China
Let us realize how disgusting the 365-day hysterical lies of the United States are
@@kinggggray3388 let us not polarize everything into the good guys vs the bad guys, it is also disgusting and a hysterical lie.
You are my favorite youtuber these day. I can't speak Mandarin, but your sounds really authentic and even a bit smart ass at times. The internet really needs footage of China and rural China and everyday people when the media is getting so crazy. these are wholesome and funny and culturally enriching. Thank you
Well said mister 👏
Thanks for this immersive video. Sure, your relative are proud of you. You are more Chinese than Chinese. Every CNY festival and celebration in China never fails to leave a deep impression on the viewers. The mouthwatering food varieties and spirits of the warmth and togetherness of the Chinese is first class. Hopefully with modernity, the tradition still can be preserved only in rural hometowns as folks from cities go back for reunions. With fantastic rails and roads with efficiency, the huge yearly event of looking forward to meeting loved ones must be emotional overwhelming.
The sense of humor in your videos makes wacthing them more amusing and relaxing.
Dami is so cute, and smart! I love how clearly he explains things
Yeah, that kid is cute!
He gonna grow up handsome
Thank you for being honest and sharing the beautiful people of China. The beautiful food. The beautiful cultures. The beautiful people. Just like us. We're all here just trying to share, trying to survive and trying to live another wonderful day.
Year of Dragon. Expecting👏👏👏
We've been to China many times from Shanghai to Hainan Island and in between like Confucius hometown.
因为疫情三年没有回中国过年了，都快忘了过年是什么样子了， thanks for reminding me the sense of NIAN.
很真实的中国乡村过年🧨❤谢谢阳离子有趣而可爱的记录。视频里的小男孩是个小机灵😂
From Québec you are so lucky to be in China away from all the negative stuff going on everywhere else. I hope my visa will be re-activated this year and I can go back in October. Thanks for the videos.
Happy New Year ! Enjoy those moments while you can. Be Well and Safe travels ! Jim and Harriet
That young kid is smart and adorable. Smart boy
One of the last countries where new year has really great meaning and caring tradition❤️ I hope it will stay that way forever.
Dami has such a great personality 😂
yes, absolute precocious and he doesn't even know it's funny for adults to watch!
Glad you enjoyed yourself in the village during CNY. Chinese villages in Malaysia celebrate CNY in the same way too except that we don't play firecrackers so much. Thanks for sharing a wonderful video. Gong Xi Fa Chai.
Loved it! It is my dream to be in rural China during the new year spring festival and play with all kinds of firecrackers and enjoy amazing food. I can feel the richness of the Chinese culture by watching your videos. Thanks and cheers from the frozen land of Canada
中国欢迎你
❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Welcome to China
Unfortunately, many provinces in China now prohibit setting off firecrackers😂
Chicago, pa pa pa, I couldn’t help laughing 😂😂😂
Just like watching the marathon of the "Christmas Story" became the tradition for many people on Christmas as well.
This is one of the best videos on your channel, ever. When I see things like that, it gives me warmth to the idea that everyone in the world is the same when it comes to family and culture, although the US would like people to think anyone not following the American way of doing things is illegitimate.
阳离子在她的视频里不讨论，不评论，不触碰政治话题。我们都尊重一下吧。Kat does not discuss, comment on, or touch on political topics in her videos. Let's all respect it.
This is what has made me think negatively of the U.S. these days. I am getting sick of how the U.S. paints a very negative picture of China or any country that doesn't follow the U.S. style of government.
Everyone have the right to live in this beautiful ❤️ world regardless their culture, language, religion, or colours, but the American rulers thinks they are the superiors n all the others are under them, n the American rulers forgot they are the highest debts in the world 🌎. N if they pay their debits, america will be the poorest country in this world 🌎.
I can't stop laughing at the CONSTANT fireworks!! LMAO I nearly lost it when there's all those fireworks and then the auntie goes "we're gonna set off more fireworks, and then we'll have dinner" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 If I'm ever in rural China for Chinese New Year, I feel like I won't be able to stop laughing from all the fireworks going off! Funny how Katherine mentioned Chicago because I lived in West Oakland for YEARS and I never heard anything even close to this. And actually, setting off fireworks was usually a pretty quick way to get the cops chasing you, even on the nights the Warriors won the NBA Championships.
Omg 😱 same same I am in Toronto . A few yr ago …. Toronto won NBA Championship 2019. There was HUGE parade ! I 😮was like :” I am not going !”
Then guess what , some gang started shooting at some Thug 😮at parade ….. 10000 ppl running 🏃🏻♀️ ppl got stumped n evrything 😮it’s like d most stupid sick 🤢 crap !
I don’t go to any Parade or gatherings these days , just never know any nut job trying to 😮going insane on something 😮
I had a gf went, she told me she was running she trip n fell n 😮just there was mom grab d kid n ram. Everyone left stroller bag 💼 behind . D panic is INsANe 😮! Ruined for everyone 😮😮😮
It’s not fireworks pa pa pa in Chicago
Thank you for this lovely episode, Kat. As always it's like being there sharing the experience with you. Wishing you all the best in the year of the rabbit.
Wow, especially love this video! it brings back so much great memories. I left rural south China 31 years ago for Australia with I was 9. Now I have kids of my own with a 5 and a 8 yo, I would love to take them back to experience the joy and excitement similar to my childhood years. I hope that I can take them back to China to visit our village to experience the rural village life.
Should you had the misfortune growing up in China you'd hate it to your deep core like myself
@@xuanzheng1049That just proves you deserve it😂😂😂
@@gao-zy 二逼玩意，老子上海有上亿的洋房资产，个穷逼滚一边玩去
You made the most Chinese Chinese new year video without a single dancing lion. Good job. Happy Chinese new year to you.
dancing lion is only popular in southern region of China
Yeah southern is popular a lion dancing. But in northern also have lion dancing too. It just the different kinda a lion dance.
There are lion dances in the south and north. There are also dragon dances in the south. It is very popular in Guangxi.
This really makes us those who couldn't go home for Chinese New Year missing home more :(
A unique channel which shows China in a unsual view, and I learned a lot. Almost 100k subscriber, congrats!
五香蛋那段，感觉阳离子已经融入的非常好了，不差那个蛋。才发现有一段黑芝加哥也是黑的可以😂
@@Vincent-yf3pn Bang！Bang！Bang！那可不是炮竹聲哦。😉
@@vivavivo5071 恩，所以才说黑芝加哥的一段......当然待过巴尔的摩的话应该也能接受.......
this is such a wonderful experience oh how I wish I could experience this beautiful celebration in China! ❤The village looks prosperous and well planned
Thanks for taken us on the tour.. "Feel like I'm in Chicago" lol .. Glad you have Auntie and Uncle.. and a smart kid. lol
Thank you for sharing. Wish you an enjoyable stay in China! 🌹
Watching this on the 15th and final day of new year's celebration. Time flies when you're having fun.
the huge greenhouse is a wonderful way to grow fresh fruit and veg in the city. the fireworks are beautiful.
Thanks for this video.
It’s customary for Chinese people to make a lot of noise when celebrating- meaning joy & happiness. If celebrating quietly, live a graveyard, it’s not joyous.
Happy New Year to you all
What a cute little guy🥰😁
The boy is veeery cute and articulate. 😀
The dogs are adorable.
Great video Kat! Wonderful and exciting lives of folks in rural China during CNY! 🐰🐰🐰
That's a cute little tour guide ya got there. He speaks so fast I could hardly catch what he said.
The evening program is broadcast to my country live every year same time. I also never miss it every year while waiting for the fireworks at midnight.
Unfortunately rain did also dampen out the fireworks here too.
It was suppose to be a fireworks gallore this year as it has been permitted to be sold after a long ban.
The change in governance lifted the ban literally days before CNY. Somehow people still managed to sell and buy some in time. As for me, I sort of was oblivious of the lifting of the ban and didn't get any.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed they would continue next year.
Tell you something, a CNY is not exciting nor happiest without fireworks and children(the more the merrier).
I just love to play fireworks with young children around the ages of 6 onwards, they are just so happy the vibe spreads to you.
Happy CNY Katherine, CNY is all about family.
You are more than friend in this family.
You are family in China.
Sorry you missed out on the fireworks this year , hope you can enjoy them next year , they really do add a lot to the new year vibe 🎆
so cuuute this kid!
Happy CNY Katherine. Truly truly awesome, thanks for showing us how the rural folks celebrate their CNY. 👍👍👍
Growing up in Singapore in the late 1950s, Chinese New Year was a big event. Businesses and shops closed for at least 3 days, some closed for a week. Food, family reunions, visiting elders, receiving visitors, were time honored activity. For unmarried children, they also received red packets stuffed with cash. These symbolised luck for both givers and recievers. And yes, the firework displays added so much to the celebration and festivity. Unfortunately, fireworks were also a fire hazard then and when the government banned fireworks, we lost a big part of the emotional atmosphere that characterised CNY for my generation.
Katherine, thank you very much for reviving these long embedded memories.
Keep posting. Love your wholesome content.
Glad you like the videos😄😄
Amazing! I left China when I was 10, and used to spend every CNY with my grandparents in the countryside. It’s one of my favorite memories growing up, and this just bring back so much feels!! So amazing… and yeah the 联欢晚会was all the rage in the 90s 😂 I’ve watched many of your vids, this is definitely one of my favs, thank you!!
The filming is great and fun.
The explaining is clear and concise.
The celebration is loud and delicious! :D
👍👋💯
Nice video which captured the rural Chinese New Year celebration vibes.....well done Katherine👍
ahhhhhhhhhhhh😂the evening show😂😂😂😂 we would like to play and talk with family😊
This is the time to spend time with your love ones. Hope to get united with your hubby soon.
Wow! Fantastic video, as usual. Your host family is truly nice and this new year celebration was so well organised. I wish you a very Happy Chinese New Year!! Thank you very much for sharing ⚘
The Chinese New Year show is very wholesome and family friendly. In the U.S., we used to have wholesome show as well but it has since gone downhill.
Successfully described the Chinese New Year culture
I am such a city person that I find the amount of explosives rural China use to celebrate the New Year to be rather unnerving 😅 And CCTV owes you a medal for being a Spring Gala die hard fan. Happy CNY!
今年城市也很夸张，天天放炮，从早到晚，直到元宵。（听同事们说天津从元旦放到元宵后）
So very nice to celebrate in the village..
Wish I could be in China to enjoy the atmosphere.
Katharine, have a wonderful CNY!!
Lovely vlog Katherine! Such wonderful commentary, visuals...Its like I was watching a documentary. You are a quite a film maker, aren't you?
元宵节快乐。吉祥如意。身体健康。合家平安。
Happy CNY khatherine 💥💥💥
This is one of the better vibe episode recently! After your swipe on Chicago, feel like a battlefield but full of joy!
Happy 元宵节 Katherine~🐰Dami is so cute, he definitely knows alot of history👦 and I think Niuniu missed u alot!🐶
It brings back memories when I was in Taiwan many years ago. I am a rabbit. So guessing my age is a multiplication question. I am too Americanized now, just happened I was on a Princess cruise ship in the Caribbean on CNY day. Dinner was served with Chinese dumplings(煎餃子) as an appetizer for the occasion.
Nice video . Very nice and warming family life . Its the cornerstone of the society after all . Which we a bit lacking in the west , but when we in "poorer" times we draw more back to "families" .
Thank you for taking us along Katherine. Bless you! Happy New Year of the Rabbit.
You have a very young tour guide this time. So interesting n fun having him around.😃
This is the kind of Chinese new year I experienced many years ago
man, that little kid knows everything!
I love China!
Thank you for all the videos that you have shared.
Thank you also for embracing "our" culture!
加油 “美女”！
Great video. Nice host Family. Happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit!🧧 ❤ Happy Lantern Festival! 🏮🌝
Thanks for sharing d spirit of spring festival in rural China. The spirit is d same for Malaysian Chinese, d spring cleaning, shopping n cooking auspicious dishes, firecrackers/works everything Red.
Happy Lantern Festival to you. Today, we are celebrating dual festival ie Thaipusam an Indian Festival.
You can Google significant of this festival.
Finally, Happy New of Rabbit to you n all your dear ones.
Would love to experience CNY in Malaysia someday 😍😍
@@kats_journey_eastyou are welcome. Happy to provide my place as one of the stop over. My place is about 30 minutes away from KLIA.
1:44 Even in Romania, we have the same tradition with loud noises and fires to "drive away evil spirits". I guess at some point they're all connected. Happy New Year!
Katherine you are right where you should be for eternity. Life is wonderful.
Haven’t seen your husband for a while. Wish you two an awesome year of the rabbit
Thanks Katherine, As an offspring of Chinese myself, I really don't know the Red story of China until your little kid told me. I just thought red is official symbol of China. You should wear red outfit as well. Happy Chinese New Year to you and your beloved family in China.
Red is a colour loved by the Chinese culturally. Red colour symbolizes good luck especially during CNY. It’s taboo to wear black during cny. The more red the better during CNY A
I really really want to play with that 'shooting firecrackers/works' (the one he shot it to the sky)!
Looks like you have an awesome time over there!
A happy and great year of the rabbit to you Katherin.
From Malaysia.
Happy Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day, Miss Katherine. 🐇🧧
Very authentic celebration you had in China. And I don’t know whether it is illegal to shoot fireworks in the sky by ourselves? I heard sounds of it during midnight, which I almost could not sleep the entire night.
之前有段时间城市禁止燃放烟花爆竹，农村不限制，今年春节城市也不禁止了。
Certain metropolitan areas banned it. But China is vast.
今天深圳还有人在放呢 我都听到了
1st Your video always brings me back to my childhood.
I'm faster
Thank you for showing the celebration in China.🎉😀🤚
You surely made everyone everywhere homesick! Thanks you for showing us your experience!
I really enjoyed your rural Chinese new year celebration.
Very enjoyable to watch and glad to see the authenticity of tradition in a rural backdrop.
💯👍中国媳妇😊happy Chinese New Year 🧧 thank you for sharing this 😢 I really missed the time in China
What a smart and bright kid
His native Chinese is 💯 😮
Great video that catches the mood of Chinese New Year really well. Thank you very much.
I am a big fan of the night show too
A great people and culture 🇨🇳
That Chaplin style scene is so creative, love it!
Thank you for the video which gives a realistic view of life in China. Also your videos are great English speaking learning material, I love them! 感谢你的视频，让人们看到了真实的中国生活。同时你的视频也是很好英语学习素材，我很喜欢！
陽離子新年快樂丶身體健康丶萬事如意！
Happy New Year Katherine and family. You made me cry. You made me feel warm and cozy. It's life and reality the most beautiful?
Cheers and Happy Chinese New Year from Edmonton Alberta Canada
I love Katherine ❤
She’s absolutely stunning, beautiful !
This is such a fun video. It embodies everything u want to feel and enjoy during Chinese New Year. Thanks Katherine.
Thank you, Katherine for letting us join your CNY celebration.
Rural areas are always awesome👍👍
Happy Lantern Festival today!
新年快乐 + Happy Lantern Festival! Great video, sending lots of love! ❤
Before I could type it, you beat me to it with the reference to Chicago!
I bet that you’ll reach
100k subscribers with this episode.
Lmao
春節，熱鬧，歡樂，一年一次珍惜和親朋好友度過。
It's a tradition. Keep it up. Love your videos.
Awesome vlog. Love the black and white effect that takes us back to the silent film era. As for your reference to Chicago..pop pop pop..lol ..you are not kidding in the south side