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By Kids, For Kids Story Time - Children's Story Podcast

The Nian Monster - Chinese lunar new year

By Kids, For Kids Story Time - Children's Story Podcast

BKFK Studio

Arts, Kids & Family, Fiction

4.1902 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This is a tale from China about Nian, a huge, scary beast that loved to munch on everything in sight every Lunar New Year! 🐉✨ Wesley and Warren, two talented kids from the BKFK community, wrote and performed this story for us! 🎧Nian was a giant with a lion's head and super sharp teeth, as big as a bus! 😲 It used to sleep all year but woke up hungry on New Year’s Eve to visit a village for a snack. 🍽️ The villagers were super scared and had to hide away.Then, one New Year’s, an old man appeare...

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0:00.0

Hi, my name's Wesley. And I'm Warren. We wrote this story by ourselves. We both perform it too.

0:10.0

This is an old story that is told in Chinese New Year.

0:14.4

We decided to write our version of it.

0:17.6

This is why we put red paper outside our houses

0:21.8

and write Chinese calligraphy on it during Chinese New Year, which is called

0:27.4

Shingian in Chinese. Thank you for listening to our story.

0:33.0

And thank you so much for writing the story.

0:36.0

Wow, listeners, Warren and Wesley are such special kids.

0:40.0

You know, we were recording something together and they mentioned the story of the

0:44.0

Neel Monster and asked if five kids would do it.

0:47.4

And I said, well, what about if you guys actually wrote the story?

0:51.4

And they took up the challenge and did a brilliant job. It's such a great story and you know what we'd like to extend the invitation to all of you kids.

1:00.0

If you'd like to write a story for Bye Kidsid's for kids, just do it, write it and send it to us and we'll make your imagination come alive.

1:09.0

You can find all our contact details on by kids for kids.

1:12.8

C.O. Oh, and by the way, if you'd like to see Wesley and Warren standing next to a paper

1:19.3

neon monster, they sent us a picture. That's the cover art for this episode.

1:24.0

Okay Ruby over to you.

1:27.0

The Neon Monster Once upon a time in the deep mountains in ancient China.

1:44.0

There was a flesh-devouring monster

1:47.0

called the neon monster.

1:49.0

Neon had a lion's head and a sharp horn.

1:55.0

It was 40 feet tall, about the size of a school bus.

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