What does Chinese New Year symbolize?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	And now it's time for who smarted?
0:03.0	Pse, hey, smarty pants, trusty narrator here.
0:07.0	See if you can guess where I am right now.
0:10.0	Go ahead, shout it out.
0:11.0	Uh-huh. I heard a Fourth of July celebration.
0:15.0	Wrong. But good guess.
0:19.0	Ooh, I heard a New Year's Eve party.
0:23.7	An excellent guess. And very close, if I may add.
0:28.3	Here, I'll just tell you, I'm actually attending a traditional parade celebrating the Chinese New Year.
0:35.7	My friend May invited me to this year's celebration for two really good reasons.
0:40.8	The first being, she knows how much I love a good parade.
0:45.9	And secondly, because this year, 2024, the Chinese zodiac is represented by one of my
0:52.3	favorite mythical creatures.
0:54.1	What is it, you ask?
0:55.3	Why, it's a scaly, fire-breathing creature that sometimes has wings.
1:00.8	If you guessed, a dragon?
1:05.5	You're right.
1:07.8	As we all know, trusty, most people in the USA and many countries around the world celebrate the New Year on January 1st.
1:17.6	But for people in many Asian countries, New Year's is celebrated at a different time and has to do with something rather celestial.
1:26.5	Celestial means in the sky, in case you didn't know, Smarty Pants.
1:30.3	The question is, what celestial body has to do with Chinese New Year?
1:34.9	Maybe the Smarty Pants want to take a guess.
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