MY FIRST LUNAR NEW YEAR IN CHINA 🐲🍊🎇

[@josechong8207]

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.

[@driftert5687]

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

[@delight7607]

I wish so much I could visit China.

[@billlee2983]

Go, once this pandemic matter is settled.

[@taozhang3135]

welcome. :-)

[@benchang5609]

China will open arms to welcome u!

[@wongheison9481]

That is Chinese Traditional Culture! 👍

[@giangilbert5959]

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

[@liongkienfai104]

Me too! 🇮🇩 ❤🇨🇳

[@kcfmark]

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

[@kats_journey_east]

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

[@samy8897]

@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

[@kats_journey_east]

@@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

[@billlee2983]

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.

[@bubblemumble712]

same here...I was wondering wow Boondie's Chinese name was yanglizi...LOL

[@maruihua]

Thanks for the amazing vid! Happy Chinese 🐄 Year!

[@davepsk7334]

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.

[@kats_journey_east]

Glad you liked it ❤️ happy Chinese New Year 🐲 hope life will go back to normal soon 😭😭

[@PHATDAWGEATS]

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

[@fengzhengtou1990]

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

[@delight7607]

Thanks so much for sharing on youtube.

[@dunkinpossum]

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

[@purplestars3377]

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.🇬🇧

[@kats_journey_east]

Glad you like the videos ❤️😎 haha that would be a dream come true if they would sponsor me, maybe someday 😭😭

[@suckmemore]

Don't! Then cnn, bbc will really contact you. Ha....... Happy new year!

[@dongwu518]

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

[@kdks9873]

really really cool, Kathy! Thanks for sharing!

[@GeorgeLouVideo]

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

[@HTeo-og1lg]

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???

[@kats_journey_east]

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 😁

[@MrTioung111]

@Katherine's Journey to the East 阳离子东游记 You also have a Chinese language channel on youtube, right?

[@kats_journey_east]

@@MrTioung111 yes , it’s 阳离子。but I don’t update it as much . I would prefer to only post in English on KZbin 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

[@MrTioung111]

@Katherine's Journey to the East 阳离子东游记 Thanks for the info. Wish you well!

[@samy8897]

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

[@kats_journey_east]

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!

[@judasdiface8952]

@@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.

[@kats_journey_east]

@@judasdiface8952 the first one right ? it’s in Longhua district, pretty sure it’s called 老围

[@omni3670]

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!

[@kats_journey_east]

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 🌸

[@winglow7615]

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

[@yourenodaisy2391]

Yesssss!.. You're back.

[@kats_journey_east]

It’s been a busy couple of weeks 😭 😭

Dancing Lion is very beautiful

[@falconfrank548]

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

[@NoelLee89]

Good to see you came to Shenzhen

[@我爱你-b9e]

Wonderful video!

[@ZhaoLi-d9s]

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

[@venomsmoke585]

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

[@easwaranbhatt3733]

you deserve more subscribers

[@chilieu879]

Well say to you for comparing of tangerine and Christmas 🎄🎁 tree, you know your history. Kate....

[@A04694996]

one of the best content on YT, great video

[@skybird822]

Wow.What a beautiful city.

[@billy_b8958]

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

[@thesavvyartist]

Very beautiful video. Love it!

[@rapidrainc9318]

Cool. 春莭快樂 to you guys. 吉祥。

[@taozhang3135]

amazing culture

[@peterlee5278]

Thanks for your video. Happy new year 🥳

[@wongchanthong]

Thank you Katherine for your very interesting vlog

[@danwithroya-internationalc5540]

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

[@kats_journey_east]

Ox 😎🐮

[@chanhonming3723]

Best Lion Dance group from Malaysia!

[@xxzheng8248]

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.

[@darrenko8742]

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

[@lovefreebee]

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

[@skyhigh8439]

like your video! just subscribed 👍🏻

[@literung8767]

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.

[@bhf3089]

谢谢分享Chinese culture!

[@戢鎮海]

Very professional!

[@liza6162]

Beautiful video!!

[@10lauset]

Thank you. Cheers.

[@htlow3598]

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.

[@yuan-hsiangliao4968]

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！👍👍❤️❤️！

[@sandiapoi5606]

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

[@nicoleyu5998]

Happy Chinese New Year!!

[@suneast7394]

Wah... Like mini documntry Vry gd

[@absolutelyimmaculate6072]

The pronunciation of Tangerine in chinese literally means lucky.

[@kkkanh7408]

happy Chinese lunar new year 😘 😘 😘 😍 😍

[@wenlin1632]

春节全世界最热闹节日 没有之一

[@liar_hater]

Happy NIU year

[@Btr2084]

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.

[@kats_journey_east]

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

[@lkchoh1454]

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.

[@jurrasicpig2426]

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

[@ylffly2805]

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

[@kats_journey_east]

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 😍

[@ylffly2805]

@@kats_journey_east Also the last but not the least, going to Shunde 找李小龍！

[@yulianusyaps7562]

Good job

[@brianyu1]

The US dollar is so hilarious 🤣

[@manimalworks7424]

Cool video

[@王际洲]

英文不错～哈哈！ 新年快乐！

[@Priyaa..0705]

Nice

[@原来是你-h8e]

看过姐妹们的茶话会！！！喜喜嘻嘻

[@JM-id4nm]

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

[@chriswu6296]

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。

[@kayaka1141]

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.

[@fromprc1761]

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。

[@jasonlai10]

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?

[@kats_journey_east]

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

[@BRI_Bridges]

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

[@kats_journey_east]

I will do my best😝

[@humgarchaun]

I miss my mother land so much😢

[@DarkDetectiveLight]

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!

[@kats_journey_east]

Glad you like it 😆 i haven’t seen anyone drink that combination in real life, they just give it to the ancestors, haha

[@jc2769]

漂亮👍

[@ghostofsolomon237]

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

[@samy8897]

😂

[@kats_journey_east]

🤣🤣🤣 happy Chinese New Year to you too 🐯

[@YeeTzeLau]

Lions do climb trees... 🦁🌳 Happy Chinese New Year!!! 🐂🧨

[@allanchen9337]

...and don't eat vegetables.

[@drrkleut]

You haven't watched everything. As the video showed, it's a Chilean, not lion.

[@baiyun7810]

应该叫Chinese new year

[@noyau1a2b]

中国新年（Chinese New Year）不能说成是月历新年（Lunar New Year），因为中国历法是同时基于太阳和月亮，并且基于中国的经纬度地理位置，位于北半球，有四个鲜明的季节。 中国的春分（白天和黑夜一样长），夏至（白天最长），秋分（白天和黑夜一样长），冬至（冬至）是按照太阳和地球上中国地理位置而来的。 赤道国家，365天，太阳和地球的位置是一样的，并没有春夏秋冬。 越南并没有冬天，也就没有太阳和地球物理位置和角度上的冬至了，当然越南可以有文化上的冬至，毕竟越南本来的文字是汉字。在南半球的也可以过文化上的中国新年， 但不能说 中国新年是南半球的新西兰人发明的。 中国新年是在冬至（12 月 21-23 日）后的第二个新月，这就是为什么中国新年总是在 1 月 21 日至 2 月 20 日之间。 中国新年总是在冬至（冬至）后一到两个月内。当新月在 12 月 22 日（冬至后的第一个新月）时，中国新年（第二个新月）将在 1 月 21 日。当新月在12月20日（冬至前的第一个新月）时，中国新年将在2月20日。 这就是为什么中国新年的夜晚总是没有月亮的。假如中国新年的晚上是晴空的话，会有满天繁星。 真正的月历是阿拉伯历法，这就是为什么他们的新年可能是冬天，也可能是夏天。 一些国家的政客和媒体故意误导性地称月历新年（Lunar New Year）而不是中国新年，目的是要消除中国文化（去中国化），这是非常政治化和恶意的。 中国历法是基于科学。它代表了中国祖先的智慧、理性和文明。中国历法不仅服务于中国制度和社会的功能，还服务于农业和文化领域。 有了中国历法，才有中国新年。中国历法体现了中国人祖先的智慧。中国历法体现了中国文明和人类文明。 中国新年是中国人身份和文化的一部分。 当中国历法和中国新年被任何人误解时，我们有责任耐心而友好地向他们解释。

[@ttw2688]

You are so funny😁

[@stanbimi]

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!

[@nxkm813]

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😂

[@kats_journey_east]

你忘了我是外国人么🙄

[@nxkm813]

@@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！

[@seebauong9593]

American English..

[@sweeleangloh]

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

[@satanbuster8248]

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

[@badimpulses17]

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

[@kbfzldwh]

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

[@dlk3904]

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

[@kats_journey_east]

Lmao

[@frankie2022]

Gong Xi Fa Ca!

[@tommymax3574]

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

[@crazygambler920]

You are in a tshirt. Is Shenzhen warm?

[@kats_journey_east]

Yes it’s warm all year round 😍 after I graduate we want to move south. So tired of cold wet winters 😒

[@PlasticPlanet-o5d]

@@kats_journey_east North China is dry in winter, And you'll get hot summer and wet spring at south 😂 But I think it's not a big deal, still better than cold north.

[@kirbyhuang5609]

太帅了吧！谢谢🙏

[@freakmoister]

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.

[@pengkuang5452]

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.

[@jparsit]

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.

[@kanjipanda]

The Qilin is a unicorn

[@fengz-x7z]

Qilin in English is kirin.

[@qave]

happy lunar new year1

[@haha4581]

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

[@Petergp]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@jetpackjock55]

That's why they called alcohol "spirits"

[@pooi-hoongchan8680]

👏👏👏👍👍👍