MY FIRST LUNAR NEW YEAR IN CHINA 🐲🍊🎇
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- What do ancestors eat on CNY? Why is there lettuce in the traditional lion dance? Why are there red scraps all over the ground? Where can you find some corners of traditional culture in ultra-modernized ultra-urbanized Shenzhen, a city of 12 million inhabitants? Join us and find out! 🎇
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I wish so much I could visit China.
Go, once this pandemic matter is settled.
welcome. :-)
China will open arms to welcome u!
An excellent video, positive presentation of Chinese culture from a Western perspective.
My Grandmother is Hakka and my Grandfather is cantonese. Hope someday i can go there, Love our culture from Indonesia ❤️
Me too! 🇮🇩 ❤🇨🇳
I am Hakka... It was great seeing you visit a Hakka neighborhood. I wish you had recorded people's conversations in Hakka, because depending on which region they are found, the accents and ways to say the same thing differ from locale to locale. Thank you for sharing the amazing video. You were spot on in explaining the meanings of the rituals.
You looked like another vlogger Blondie. Initially I thought you were Blondie. Both of you have cheerful attitudes. Great!
She’s one of my favorite vloggers 😎 I get confused for her often on Chinese social media too 😂 people are always commenting asking if I’m her
@Katherine's Journey to the East 阳离子东游记 she also did the yantzee river swim with a group of oldies maybe next time you’ll both should do a meet up at the yantzee n have a swimming race across
@@samy8897 I actually got the idea to do the Yangtze River swim from watching her video 😆😆 otherwise I would have never guessed that it’s possible to do that
Yes I was gonna say that. And yea, they should really do a video together. I really like her videos too. She's always very positive and energetic.
same here...I was wondering wow Boondie's Chinese name was yanglizi...LOL
That is Chinese Traditional Culture! 👍
I’m Chinese but I’m amazed by how good there lion dancers are!
Thanks for the amazing vid! Happy Chinese 🐄 Year!
Have subscribed. Fantastic content, informative, interesting and fascinating. I feel part of your adventures. These vlogs makes the world a smaller place and hearing and seeing 👀Chinas culture, people, history makes me want to visit China.❤️Hope the tourist board sponsors your vlogs and wishing health, happiness and more subscribers and views. You both deserve it! 💕 London.🇬🇧
Glad you like the videos ❤️😎 haha that would be a dream come true if they would sponsor me, maybe someday 😭😭
Don't! Then cnn, bbc will really contact you. Ha.......
Happy new year!
Katherine = Total Package (Smart, Beautiful, and a True Sweet Hearted Woman. Love all your videos!
Thanks so much for sharing on youtube.
This is real China, I hope more people can get more truths, no lies again! Thank you so much, Katherine!
I’ve been a china fan n following Chinese vlogs since 2016 and I’ve never seen any other side of Shenzhen till date , it’s beautiful n I like that govt is keeping the villages hope no new skyscraper plans the dragon dance is crazy that to on poles dam 👌 the whole an-sisters thing reminds me of Mulan lol
Glad you liked it, I am always on the hunt for tiny places that preserve rural culture 😎 city life is great and all but I am always drawn to exploring villages and small towns. Yeah the dance was wild, it always looked like they were about to fall off but they never did, can’t imagine how much training it takes to master that!
@@kats_journey_east Hi could you please give a near-address of this Hakka place your visiting? I have a friend that grew up in EU and origninated from some Hakka village in Shenzhen.
@@judasdiface8952 the first one right ? it’s in Longhua district, pretty sure it’s called 老围
Another great vid...that'll eventually b viewed by more ppl curious of the China that u're experiencing...
Another great video. I love it when locations are preserved.
really really cool, Kathy! Thanks for sharing!
Omg I love lion dance and dragon dance
and yes lion dance is supposed to scare away evil ghosts
the story of the lion dance goes
a monster named Nian destroys the village every year
then a lion beast came up and scare away Nian
away so the people tried to replicate the lion still using Chinese mythical animals
and they used the lion costume to scare away and he the beast never came back
and they bang loud drums and used firecrackers 🧨 to also make Nian go bye bye
[Gosh Dang!!!!] and the Qilin Dance is a dance based of the Chinese beast the qilin
which is the Chinese unicorn
Dancing Lion is very beautiful
Happy Chinese new year Katherine. Thanks for a wonderful video.
It's the closest to a lion dance and new year for us this year as we are still in lockdown.
No firecrackers, no lion dance or unicorn at that & cannot visit relatives who lives more than 10km away.
You are an amazing and wonderful girl.
Glad you liked it ❤️ happy Chinese New Year 🐲 hope life will go back to normal soon 😭😭
Your channel is a trove of exquisite beauty, and a wealth of cultural knowledge and poetic narration. I must share this with my friends here in EU. It is so under the radar of viewers of things about China compared to those produced by YTubers who are also covering topics on china.
ps. How is it you got so few viewers and subscribers to your channel???
Thanks, Glad you like it ❤️ compared to the other youtubers covering China topics, I started waaaay too late. I didn’t start making videos until a few months ago, while other channels such as Miriam in China, blondie in China, laowhy, etc have been doing this for years , so I am at a big disadvantage. I don’t expect to ever catch up with them but it’s fun to share my life here anyway 😁
@Katherine's Journey to the East 阳离子东游记 You also have a Chinese language channel on youtube, right?
@@MrTioung111 yes , it’s 阳离子。but I don’t update it as much . I would prefer to only post in English on UA-cam but if I don’t have a Chinese channel of my own on YT then people will steal my content from 哔哩哔哩 and reupload it pretending to be me. It’s already happened twice already and we caught them and got them to remove it
@Katherine's Journey to the East 阳离子东游记 Thanks for the info. Wish you well!
Wonderful video!
阳离子, So far, I have watched only this vlog of yours and the other one where you explained why you moved to China. I must say I like what I have seen. There is some uncanny physical resemblance between you and Blondie in China. Both of you have a passion for the Middle Kingdom. But I can see yours goes deeper. Your command of Mandarin is admirable 加油! Hope to see more of your experiences exploring China and letting us in on them. I am a Chinese Malaysian but may I welcome you to the land of my ancestors who came to the Malay peninsula from Fujian. Will be following up with you channel now and then. Thank you! And god bless!
A lot of people say we look similar 🤣 I love her videos , maybe someday when she’s back in china we can make a video together 😆 glad you like the videos , another will be out soon 🌸
Good to see you came to Shenzhen
oh you were in Shenzhen?welcome to my city Katherine.
you deserve more subscribers
Yesssss!.. You're back.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks 😭 😭
Your videos are always well made. Densely filled with information. You are also good to look at.
The pronunciation of Tangerine in chinese literally means lucky.
amazing culture
Wow.What a beautiful city.
Bowing in every direction represents the four elements I believe, earth water fire and wind
Thank you. Cheers.
Cool. 春莭快樂 to you guys. 吉祥。
谢谢分享Chinese culture!
Fire crackers bring in the spirit of happiness to everyone together sharing the special occasion, and thus opportunity to give rise to hopes and prospects of good fortune to come.
"To drive away evil spirit" is only a simply sentence to describe it.
tangerine is called "桔子“, I guess 桔 is symbolize ”吉“, same thing as vegetable “菜” for “财”... Chinese like to use things which have similar sounds to the good things like money, fortune, health, peace, etc.
I am going back home this year. So exited!!!!!
like your video! just subscribed 👍🏻
Nice
a big yes now you're speaking my kinda dialect, CANTONESE my ancestor hometurf guangchou...
Katherine, you may wish to know tangerines (or oranges) are ubiquitous at CNY because the pronunciation for 'orange' and 'gold' is the same. So giving oranges is symbolised as giving gold.
非常非常感谢你！让外国观众看到真正的中国一面！而且详细介绍了中国民间习俗！👍👍❤️❤️！
Very professional!
Happy New year to everyone . Year of the ox, or is it water buffalo?
Ox 😎🐮
The US dollar is so hilarious 🤣
you had your first CNY experience in a chinese city with nearly least CNY vibe, hahaha
Thanks for your video. Happy new year 🥳
namo, tiang kong, menciptakan langit dan bumi, semoga happy new year chenes, selalu memberi hidup selalu bahagia
🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹
happy Chinese lunar new year 😘 😘 😘 😍 😍
Cool video
Happy NIU year
春节全世界最热闹节日 没有之一
Thank you Katherine for your very interesting vlog
I see commonality in cultures. In China, the lions twerk, in America, the people twerk.
Beautiful video!!
one of the best content on YT, great video
Very beautiful video. Love it!
That one is called "LingWei", in China it is to commemorate the ancestors who have died. By the way, it is not that China has no faith. The Chinese believe in ancestors who have died (ancestors will bless themselves). So you can often see large and small ancestral halls in China. They are usually famous people in the local area or other places. Confucius should be considered the most known person in the West.
中国百姓的信仰可不是一元的，比如说菩萨保佑的人有，说老天保佑的人也有。你想一想中国人在结婚时，第一拜的是谁？是天和地。想一想这天和地是什么？事实上，天地也是中国信仰的组成部队，比如天道轮回，人在作，天在看，比如苍天在上...等等等等。
中国的信仰是个很繁杂又弘大的话题。因此不要把它简单化的分析。
Best Lion Dance group from Malaysia!
Wah...
Like mini documntry
Vry gd
Happy Chinese New Year!!
Good job
Katherine, 祠堂并不Kinda like a Buddhist temple, 祠堂是客家人祭拜先人及进行各种重要仪式的场所，不是道家，也不是佛教，更多是中国人（不单单客家人）宗族文化的传承。
看过姐妹们的茶话会！！！喜喜嘻嘻
Go to Foshan找黃飛鴻、Zhongshan找孫逸仙、广卅去飲茶and explore more rural village life?
Thanks for the recommendation 😁 after I graduate I plan to take about a year of time off of work/study to explore China , I will show everyone lots more interesting stuff then 😍
@@kats_journey_east Also the last but not the least, going to Shunde 找李小龍！
You really have a thing for Chinese rural areas. Even visiting Shenzhen, you would rather explore the villages instead the metropolis. Is this an exotic curiosity?
cities are nice for living but I think there's a little more diversity and unique regional specialties in the countryside, it's fun to explore villages in all the different places I go. it's hard to find that level of unique-ness in most parts of the city
Gong Xi Fa Ca!
New subbie here and I binged watched your videos. It’s true you reminded me of Blondie (Amy), you have the same vibe, and she’s back in China now, I wish you both can collaborate in the future.
I wish we could but I haven’t been able to get in contact with her yet 😭😭 maybe someday 😔 it would make for an interesting collab since I have heard from sooo many people that we look alike and a lot of people on Chinese social media platforms mistake me for her . Haha
To be accurate, CNY is not lunar new year. Its a lunisolar calendar.
Happy Chinese new year! Year of dragon, any year of dragon in the west? No, it has month of Leo, Cancer or Scorpions but no year of Jupiter, oh funny. Yes, when compare it is differences.
The burning of US dollars part cracked me up !!!.. by the way, can you please make your videos longer , please ???
I will do my best😝
I miss my mother land so much😢
Whoever invented lion dance had never seen lions of any kind. They doun climb trees!
Happy Chinese New Year to your family!
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🤣🤣🤣 happy Chinese New Year to you too 🐯
Lions do climb trees... 🦁🌳
Happy Chinese New Year!!! 🐂🧨
...and don't eat vegetables.
You haven't watched everything. As the video showed, it's a Chilean, not lion.
漂亮👍
No, this is not a temple, not a religious thing. It is the local village tribal community centre based on blood lineage and shared surname. They pay respect to ancestors, a Confucius ethics. They make ritual offering for blessing. You might call it ancestor worship. In the end all the food got eaten in family feasts. Chinese are not particularly religious like the monotheistic middle-east and the west that worship one-God. What a blessing!
英文不错～哈哈！
新年快乐！
声音好听，英语快却很清晰，说中文像我的小孩说的一样腔调😂
你忘了我是外国人么🙄
@@kats_journey_east 哈哈，你中文好的让我忘了.😂 真希望我女儿在你的年龄能有你这么好的中文水平. 谢谢回复！预祝你答辩顺利！
American English..
应该叫Chinese new year
Would appreciate that you call it Chinese New Year rather than lunar new year in this context since you are specifically referring to 中国春节.
Gong Hey Fat Choy literally means I hope you get rich.
so hard to see good lion dances over seas. they really simplified to just two guys walking around. sydney china town used to have a good group on new years going round but they're really let the hard technical moves go so sad.
These are the aboriginals of Shenzhen and they are very rich. Basically, these are a lot of properties.
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Second Lunar New Year in China, soon?😊🎊🧧
yooo, i was born in china, but grew up in costa rica. i was wondering, do they drink liquor and tea together? or how does it work? haha greetings. love the content!
Glad you like it 😆 i haven’t seen anyone drink that combination in real life, they just give it to the ancestors, haha
Great Video, Katherine! Very informative :) Did you get a lot of red pocket by any chance?
You should have known those are couplets pasting at the doorway. the oranges are mandarines and not tangerines.
太帅了吧！谢谢🙏
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why do firecrackers only scare away evil spirits? are the good spirits deaf? hakka #1 baby!
Lmao
The Qilin is a unicorn
0:55 ancestors apparently really like to drink :-)
Love your contents, as a Chinese overseas, I would like to see and learn about Chinese ordinary people and old traditional Chinese from culture, architecture, food, and the way of life. Stay away from tourist traps place of 99% shitty Utube. Please do the villages that CPC projects Poverty Alleviation in the mountain areas. If you can interview the villagers about what they think of the projects. Keep on the good work. Thanks. Jai Jien.
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That's why they called alcohol "spirits"
You are so funny😁
It’s not silin it’s qilin pronounced chilin
it’s a Chinese unicorn but please it has a dance called qilin dance [Gosh Dang!!!!]
🎊🍎 Guanianhao 🍊🍍
我是意大利人，我在维琴察写信，我明白中国必须在“一带一路”项目中得到帮助;其实，只有中国人懂得如何把事情做好;我们的意大利新政府由一位女性领导，她像乔治亚·梅洛尼（Giorgia Meloni）一样不了解中国，不支持中国，老实说，我不明白为什么;意大利和中国一直是朋友!!