MY FIRST LUNAR NEW YEAR IN CHINA 🐲🍊🎇 

An excellent video, positive presentation of Chinese culture from a Western perspective.

That is Chinese Traditional Culture! 👍

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.

I wish so much I could visit China.

My Grandmother is Hakka and my Grandfather is cantonese. Hope someday i can go there, Love our culture from Indonesia ❤️

I’m Chinese but I’m amazed by how good there lion dancers are!

Thanks for the amazing vid! Happy Chinese 🐄 Year!

This is real China, I hope more people can get more truths, no lies again! Thank you so much, Katherine!

Thanks so much for sharing on youtube.

You looked like another vlogger Blondie. Initially I thought you were Blondie. Both of you have cheerful attitudes. Great!

really really cool, Kathy! Thanks for sharing!

Katherine = Total Package (Smart, Beautiful, and a True Sweet Hearted Woman. Love all your videos!

Dancing Lion is very beautiful

Another great vid...that'll eventually b viewed by more ppl curious of the China that u're experiencing...

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.🇬🇧

Wonderful video!

Another great video. I love it when locations are preserved.

Good to see you came to Shenzhen

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.

you deserve more subscribers

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

Yesssss!.. You're back.

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!

amazing culture

Your videos are always well made. Densely filled with information. You are also good to look at.

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???

Cool. 春莭快樂 to you guys. 吉祥。

Wow.What a beautiful city.

A good vlog about lunar new year (or Chinese new year).

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

oh you were in Shenzhen?welcome to my city Katherine.

I am going back home this year. So exited!!!!!

Very beautiful video. Love it!

Thanks for your video. Happy new year 🥳

one of the best content on YT, great video

Beautiful video!!

谢谢分享Chinese culture!

Very professional!

like your video! just subscribed 👍🏻

Thank you. Cheers.

Bowing in every direction represents the four elements I believe, earth water fire and wind

Happy New year to everyone . Year of the ox, or is it water buffalo?

Best Lion Dance group from Malaysia!

happy Chinese lunar new year 😘 😘 😘 😍 😍

Thank you Katherine for your very interesting vlog

Cool video

Happy Chinese New Year!!

Nice

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！👍👍❤️❤️！

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.

namo, tiang kong, menciptakan langit dan bumi, semoga happy new year chenes, selalu memberi hidup selalu bahagia 🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹

The pronunciation of Tangerine in chinese literally means lucky.

a big yes now you're speaking my kinda dialect, CANTONESE my ancestor hometurf guangchou...

Wah... Like mini documntry Vry gd

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.

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.

Happy NIU year

The US dollar is so hilarious 🤣

you had your first CNY experience in a chinese city with nearly least CNY vibe, hahaha

春节全世界最热闹节日 没有之一

I see commonality in cultures. In China, the lions twerk, in America, the people twerk.

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.

Good job

I miss my mother land so much😢

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.

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.

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!

Great Video, Katherine! Very informative :) Did you get a lot of red pocket by any chance?

看过姐妹们的茶话会！！！喜喜嘻嘻

Gong Xi Fa Ca!

The burning of US dollars part cracked me up !!!.. by the way, can you please make your videos longer , please ???

英文不错～哈哈！ 新年快乐！

漂亮👍

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?

so the evil spirits don't like loud noises of the fire crackers and the lion dance... so they are in theory just a bunch of sensitive introverts... like me... lol.

Whoever invented lion dance had never seen lions of any kind. They doun climb trees! Happy Chinese New Year to your family!

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!

Go to Foshan找黃飛鴻、Zhongshan找孫逸仙、广卅去飲茶and explore more rural village life?

To be accurate, CNY is not lunar new year. Its a lunisolar calendar.

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.

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。

You should have known those are couplets pasting at the doorway. the oranges are mandarines and not tangerines.

Burning "USD" isn't the funniest. I saw people burning paper "iphones, clothes, car, house, etc..."

应该叫Chinese new year

You are so funny😁

Second Lunar New Year in China, soon?😊🎊🧧

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.

👍👍👍👍👍

Gong Hey Fat Choy literally means I hope you get rich.

why do firecrackers only scare away evil spirits? are the good spirits deaf? hakka #1 baby!

The Qilin is a unicorn

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😂

These are the aboriginals of Shenzhen and they are very rich. Basically, these are a lot of properties.

太帅了吧！谢谢🙏

👏👏👏👍👍👍

That's why they called alcohol "spirits"

You are in a tshirt. Is Shenzhen warm?

0:55 ancestors apparently really like to drink :-)

Actually, Chinese and Koreans don't call it Lunar, only the Vietnamese do. The only Chinese who call it Lunar New Year are the people who got confused (live in China, don't speak or can hardly speak English) because they think that's how to say it in English. As Chinese had been around the world, eg arrived USA or Australia as early as the gold rush in 1780s, established Chinatown and celebrated Chinese New Year in their new adopted homes until now. So with respect, please call it Chinese New Year, unless you're referring to Vietnamese. We don't want to change history. We would like our next generations to understand where it came from. Vietnamese can call it Lunar, but I'd like everyone to know that it's not an Asian new year like they said. Thai, Laos, Cambodia, indonesia .. have their own new year unless they're Chinese living abroad

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.