The Four Dragons

Super Great Kids' Stories

Wardour Studios

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this Chinese 'How and Why' story, Kim tells us how four dragons help to save the people from drought, and why the dragons end up as the four main rivers which run through China.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories, wise tales from around the world which will
0:22.3	make you laugh and sometimes cry. Recommended for ages 5 to 105. I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:32.5	Hello super great kids and how are you? The story this week is from China. It's a how and
0:42.3	why story about how the people of China say that their four main rivers came to be. Here are
0:50.5	us some fun facts about China. China is a huge country almost as big as the United States. It includes
0:59.1	the tallest mountain, Mount Everest, which is on the border between China and Nepal. And it's also
1:06.7	home to the endangered giant panda. China was ruled for many years by emperors who were a bit like
1:14.9	kings. Do you know one emperor in the 7th century that's a long time ago had 94 workers called
1:24.1	Ice Men whose job was simply to make him ice cream. Can you imagine that is a lot of people making
1:33.3	ice cream for one person. China has thousands of rivers but four of the greatest rivers are the
1:41.5	Yangxi or Long River which is the third longest river in the world, the Juan Huo or Yellow River,
1:50.1	the Heilongjiang or Black Dragon River and the Guangzhou or Pearl River which is in the far south of
1:57.8	China. And in our story today there are four rivers, four dragons and one emperor. Before we begin
2:06.5	our story which is all about dragons. Can you think of a good name for a dragon while we have a
2:13.2	quick word with the grownups? Well super great kids we have some exciting news. If you're a super
2:22.1	great kid story fan and you're in the UK this October where please to announce our first ever
2:29.2	world premiere live show on Sunday the 9th of October 2022 at the Irish Cultural Center in
2:38.1	Hammersmith in London. You'll hear our super great story tellers Tup, Kate Corcorri and me, Kim
2:47.1	performing some of your favorite podcast stories along with our live super great kids stories
2:53.5	band. Tickets go on sale on the 5th of August but if you're a Patreon or Apple subscriber you
3:01.4	can get early access to tickets from today. There'll be more details in your Patreon or Apple
3:08.3	Subscribers feed. That's the 9th of October 2022 at the Irish Cultural Center in Hammersmith
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