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My local Asian market had a lunar new year event. They lit a picture of Xinnie the Pooh and Mao on fire

13:30 Communists in India have been preaching for years that setting crackers off on Diwali causes pollution. When asked why setting off crackers on New Year's is okay, they start calling you names.

To be fair, the countries around China like Vietnam, Korea and Japan, all used the lunar calendar that originated in China, and therefore all had the same new year (until Japan modernized and adopted the Western calendar)

I’m Mongolian, when coworkers ask me if we celebrate Chinese new year, I always tell China doesn’t own moon. Yes, we celebrate Lunar New Year. I expected that Chinese trolls will flood with ludicrous comments

WHEN DO THE CHINESE NOT LIE? IS THE QUESTION.

The Chinese flag before 1949 didn't feature a dragon and wasn't yellow. You're thinking of the flag of Qing Dynasty Empire which fell in 1911, about fifteen years before the Chinese communist party formed. The flag of the Republic of China is the one still being used by the Republic of China in Taiwan, which is a red flag with a white sun on a blue background in the corner.

Not everyone eats dumplings for lunar new year. I think this tradition is more related to the northern part of China. People I know from the southern part don’t adopt this tradition.

Thank you! As a Korean, lunar new year is appreciated.

Not much about China that isn't a lie.

This channel is just Anti - China LOL

Speaking as chinese indonesian we called lunar new year as chinese new year because nobody else in the country celebrate it other than Chinese descendants the same can be said to malaysia and singapore

Listen here I am chinese Indonesia The chinese new year was my family tradition its has nothing to do with CCP If you dare to disrespect my culture i wish that peace , health and prosperty will never come to you and your family Because jesus never teach hate

Happy Chinese New Year! No matter what you are saying here to the millions, you cannot stop and you will never understand the meaning of this holiday, a holiday of family reunion.

Down with the C.C.P up with actual rights for Chinese People.

The British East India Company did not get chinese addicted to opium, they catered to a demand that was already there. The Qing empire was in many crises during the time between the two opium wars, that was the time when the taiping civil war was raging, and so lots of people turned to opium as an escape.

I am American Born Chinese, born (1949) and raised in San Francisco… have always referred to it as “Chinese New Year”, red was always the color of Chinese New Year… Celebration was always with the ROC flag till the 80’s when more and more commies infiltrated

“Holiday” connotes a single day…Since the lunar phase which is being celebrated lasts more than one day, calling it a “festival” isn’t a subversive act .:a festival is a celebration that lasts more than one day

Christmas is a lie too.

Yeah these days new years shows are just background noise. It is apparently not only a Turkish thing or a Russian thing, it is also a Chinese thing as well.

The more I think about it, I realized that while growing up in Asian-American communities, a lot of the Chinese culture have been taught by Taiwanese and mainlanders that fled the mainland decades ago; and there's been good reasons for that one. In Chinese schools, teachers are mostly Taiwanese and so are the textbooks they usually use, and most courses offered were in traditional script, not simplified. Even in grade school, the "non CCP" versions were taught but I'm pretty sure that's because of heavy local Asian-American influence so teachers can't just bullshit as hard. I can't say much on electives offered in high school as I thought taking it would just mean a waste of time, but that may have been a different story especially with how the AP curriculum was laid out. Funny because I've never heard of the term "Spring Festival" in neither English nor Chinese until just last year watching other KZfaqrs exposing the CCP. And I was born in Taiwan and moved to the US and grew up in Asian-American communities; nobody calls it that shit. Main point being, I'm so glad I've never heard of most of the CCP propaganda bullshit while growing up other than the color red part and not normalizing calling it **Lunar** New Year, but I probably may have loosely remembered that red wasn't the only color Chinese culture was known for. Too bad I can't say the same now that there are more younger, brainwashed mainlanders coming over to the US.

As a Welshman red dragons are best ☺️

When Chris says "right after the break," and you ACTUALLY get a commercial. That's amazin'

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One of my favourite books on the subject is Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now is a 1996 book by Chinese-Canadian journalist Jan Wong. Wong describes how the youthful passion for left-wing and socialist politics drew her to participate in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Speaking little Chinese, she became one of the first Westerners to enroll in Beijing University in 1972. However, her idealism did not survive the harsh realities and hypocrisy she saw in the China of the 1970s, and she abandoned her support of Maoism.

I just got the longest ad. Had to watch the full thing to make sure you could get all that rare ad rev

It was called "Spring Festival" before commies. We've been calling that as long as I can remember in Taiwan.

I used to work on a Chinese farm as boy. (My parents neighbours! :) ) One of the reasons they moved to Canada was to have more freedom, The Dad on the farm, still used one of the oldest Chineses Calendar!s, that he said was best for farming :) .. Judging by the harvest I had to pick and box up?? It worked VERY well! :)

Happy Chinese New Year

Red banners are always a most unsettling thing.

I always loved the story of Nian, a monster that ate people but was afraid of red and loud noises. I'm not sure how Nian ate people, but I associate humans being bitten in half with a lot of blood and screaming. My students would look confused and then irritated when I would point this out.

The ancient North Vietnam was a Chinese city. The name of the history was "JiaoShi 交趾". The ancient Chinese lived here more than 2000 years ago. They speak Chinese dialects 漢方言and use Chinese characters漢字. Of course, they use dragon, Chinese culture and wearing Chinese clothes -hanfu 漢服. The history of the JiaoShi 交趾 (North Vietnam) region was recorded by the local Chinese. History was also written by Chinese characters 漢字& classic Chinese 文言文. Modern Vietnamese are indigenous people in Southeast Asia. Only 100 years have evolved. There is no text (the French made Vietnamese text characters ). Vietnamese Ethnic there is no historical record. It is normal for the Chinese華人 (or Chinese descendants 華人後代) in Vietnam to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The Chinese in any country are the same. Anceint japan (before 13th century )= 東瀛 & 扶桑 & 倭 . (the name set by the Chinese emperor. It is also the name of the historical record) Today japan = 日本 Anceint korea= 朝鮮 (and 高包麗. 百濟. 新羅. 王氏高麗. 李氏朝鮮) . (the name set by the Chinese emperor. It is also the name of the historical record) Today korea = 韓國(南北) Anceint Nonth Vietnam= 交趾 . (the name set by the Chinese emperor. It is also the name of the historical record) Today Vietnam = 越南 Anceint Okinawa= 琉球. (the name set by the Chinese emperor. It is also the name of the historical record) Today Okinawa = 沖繩

Basically watching the ball drop. Doesn't do anything at all, but it's on in the background while you're drinking with friends.

China has to build real alliances to even contemplate surpassing the United States. The world, America included, is content to take from China, but even their immediate neighbors which are also communist don't want to allign too closely with China. Alliances are built upon trust, and it takes time to build trust. You need to want a relationship based off trust, and China wants to be a hegemon. Their desire disqualifies them from earning the trust of their potential allies.

This episode made me miss South Africa: Prior to my emigration to Europe, I used to attend the local Lunar New year at a huge Buddhist temple on the closest Sunday, in the town of Bronkhorstspruit, some 1hr drive from Johannesburg. I loved the ceremony, the vegetarian food... the sunburn (Southern Hemisphere summer).

This episode wasn't demonitized. there was an ad on it.

I have always loved Chinese culture, much like yourself, and I'm sure like myself you've run into people that just don't understand it because all they see is the communist china that has been our enemy. I don't think anyone can truly understand just how different our entire world would be if communist china never came to be.

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My mom told me many years ago that when you see too much red in the national flag, it’s time to leave.

Love the work you all do, thank you.

Although we don’t use a lunar calendar, congrats from Japan!

Tbh it doesn't matter, my people have been celebrating this for hundreds of years, we aren't in China anymore but for us it is still a time for families to gather and meet up.

Well, in Vietnam, it's TET, and there was a bit of excitement for the TET holiday in 1968; things didn't fare well for the Viet Cong or the NVA, for that matter. But Walter just lied as usual. So here in 2024, Vietnam has become pretty much an ally of the United States once again. I find it funny that a Communist Country is seeking defacto protection from another Communist Country by seeking out Uncle Samuel. Never mind that Vietnam has become a major trading nation with the United States; one of these days, I am going to wake up and Ho Chi Minh City is Saigon once again. On the other hand, Huy Fong Sriracha has all but disappeared; I am not happy about that. All I want for TET is to have my hot sauce of choice back and in good supply!

When I think of the lunar new year I think of Taiwan because they didn't have a cultural purge

What you say about the color red is very interesring, but I remind you, the REAL Chinese flag (aka The Taiwanese flag) is mostly red too (🇹🇼)...

Its like the Macys day parade. No one watches it but they play it in the background.

Lunisolar new year is also widely celebrated in India as the "hindu new year". Although, we call it "Ugadi" or Gudi Parwa" depending on which part of India you come from. It occurs usually in late March or early April.

Man, the cultural revolution was such a cultural tragedy. Imagine how interesting china would nowadays be if communists never gained power.

It's too bad that New Year's fireworks don't frighten off Poo Bear and his "Friends. (With "Friends like these China does not need enemies!)

Happy Lunar New Year to all the Taiwanese, Hong Kongers, South Korean, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Malaysian, Filipino, Indonesian. and others!!!! 🎉

Not all Lunar Calendar are the same. Thailand has its own Lunar Calendar System which is not the same as Chinese one, and I believe there should be more systems out there. I understand the need for some countires to get rid of the word "Chinese" for obvious reason, but the fact is they inherited Chinese calendar system at some point in the past and is basically the same system. So, at least in places that has their own Lunar Calendar, the term Chinese New Year made more sense.

If you celebrate a Spring festival before March 21st, you're not calendaring right.

Hey Chris, the Lunar New Years festivities in Crossy Road (China area) might be an interesting topic for your Gamers Unbeaten channel. There was a recent update to the game, and it says “events” in the update notes, so perhaps it could be more Lunar New Year content.

Hey! I saw an advert! You didn't upset the Google Gods.

Ive been thinking about referring to it as Taiwanese New Year, since that's really the only place where chinese culture still remains.

Still won't beat Christmas!

it's still called chinese new year by most people here in the u.s. chinese immigrants were the first to celebrate it here in the states. at that time, they didn't call it lunar new year, it was just "new year". "chinese" was added basically to differentiate the two - chinese and english calendar. But now since there are so many other asians in this country, then it may make sense to call it the lunar new year to be more inclusive. also, red has always been associated with luck and happiness and has nothing to do with communism.

Won't be no red envelope 🧧 this year.

It's also celebrated by Filipino Chinese, and treated as a National Holiday here in the Philippines.

Keep up the good work Chris!

Yellow is the original color of ancient China. It's the color of WISDOM, of wise dominion, exemplified by the Yellow Emperor Huangdi. ☝️💡⚜️

The "lunar" new year never existed in the East, it only exists in the West. The Chinese have been celebrating the Chinese new year for thousands of years. If other people want to celebrate it, the Chinese people are fine with it.

10:16 What??? That's the flag of the Qing Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China, which was overthrown in 1911 with the Xinhai Revolution and the founding of the Republic of China. The flag of China previous to the communist revolution was the "Red Earth and Blue Sky" one with the Kuomintang sun, which is still in use today in the Republic of China in Taiwan.

You should revise your history, OPIUM was widespread in CHINA centuries before the triangular comerce. The East India Company just used the desire of Chinese people to buy loads more of opium to their advantage to make money. I'm not trying to washe away the nastiness of the East India Company, it is just historical facts that China was allready devastated with addiction to opium.

I have seen some Chinese New Year in Taiwan, and it is quite genuine and for family.

I'm an overseas Chinese... and I spent Lunar New Year playing Cyberpunk 2077 :P

I take it the New Year celebrations will not feature boogie-woogie piano playing? (Look up the bizarre case of the Chinese tourists and a piano player at St. Pancras Station in London.)

Red Dragon is Welsh, the CCP is culturally appropriating Welsh culture

One minor correction about the color red for lunar new year (Taiwanese here). Red, in the olden days, was not an easy color to get, especially for fabric. That might be one of the reasons why you don't see a lot of red in paintings of people's clothing back then. As a kid in Taiwan, we would wear red for LNY. So whether or not the CCP tried to associate red with LNY, I don't know. But I can say that red was already a color for celebration and for new years prior to the CCP trying to associate it with LNY. Basically, if they tried to associate red with LNY, it would be like spitting into the ocean.

I hear Santa Claus doesn't exit either!

Our calendar has collected a few BS holidays over the last thirty years or so as well.

Chinese new year is called Chinese new year... because it's Chinese new year. Nobody's stopping you from saying "Korean new year" or "Vietnamese new year". Why tf should Chinese people have to call it "lunar new year". "Chinese" is not just anything involved with PRC. It also refers to Chinese influences in culture not just exclusive to China but outside of it, as well. Such as the word "kanji/hanja" (Han characters), gofuku (Wu clothing), etc.. South China Sea is probably called that due to China being the largest country in the vicinity of that region. It does not automatically mean that all of it should belong to China. PRC also isn't the only "China". "Spring festival" was a term used since the era of the Chinese republic. And if you know anything about the KMT, they were the ones actively seeking out the communist sympathizers to kill.

IIN Thailand the Chinese New Year is spreading through all the sores, as people prepare to attract money from Chinese tourists. The economy was ruined here by the Covid regulations and stores just folded never to return. People still make a great effort to survive through tourism.

In the ancient Korea (Chaoxian朝鮮 , Real historical name). It was two different ethnic groups. 1. Chinese (Han Ethnic) - Ruler and nobleman 2. Korean (White Clothes Ethnic) - Civilians and slaves 1. Ruler and nobleman (Goguryeo , Baekje, Silla , Goryeo, Joseon=Chaoxian朝鮮 ..): Chinese local officials and nobles (royal members, monks, scholars, soldiers, architects, technicians, and their families ...). They are Chinese (Han) and their descendants born in the local area. They have always wore China in China costumes. They speak Chinese language (official and Han dialect) and Chinese characters. They are Chinese officials and represent the Chinese emperor's governance of the ancient Korean Peninsula (朝鮮). Local Chinese officials (Chaoxian king朝鮮王) and Chinese nobles in ancient Korea (Chaoxian 朝鮮-Chinese territory). They all Chinese clothes (hanfu), headdress (hat and crown), silk cloth (including embroidery), soldiers (such as: defensive clothing, horses). Weapons (including cannons), Chinese literature books (including Chinese history, Taoism Buddhism), Chinese special architectural materials (including palaces and design paintings). Food materials (Chinese food and Chinese royal food), wooden wheels used, large military ships, etc. are made from other cities in China). Among them, the Chinese royal's (Chaoxian king /officials and nobles) Hanfu comes from Chinese han clothes, opera clothing, and hat crown headwear. Therefore, the fabric on the clothes is high -level. There are a large number of Chinese official dragon patterns and various traditional Chinese patterns (including Chinese characters) on the clothes. 2. Civilians and slaves (Goryeo, Joseon=Chaoxian朝鮮 ..only appeared in history after the 13th century): Civilians and slaves are indigenous Koreans (White Clothes Ethnic白衣民族). They speak Korean language. Long -term banned learning and use of Chinese characters 漢字(except a few descendants of mixed with Chinese people). Korean people cannot use any pattern of Chinese imperial power. 龍dragon and 鳯phoenix. In ancient times, this was a beheading and destroyer. * Chinese patterns and Dragon's totem represents the symbol of the ancient Chinese and Chinese power. Korean people cannot use any pattern of Chinese imperial power. 龍dragon and 鳯phoenix. Only the Chinese royal family and senior officers can use it. If the "White clothes Ethnic 白衣民族" (today's ancestors of Koreans) use the pattern of dragon and use Chinese characters. They will destroy the tribe and beheaded. Korean characters韓字 are text used by slaves. Ancient Korean can only use Korean characters (after the 15th century. Chinese officials - Chaoxian king and Chinese scholars who settled on the Chaoxian朝鮮 . Chinese officials use Chinese characters and Korean language to create "Korean characters韓字 ".) for slaves. These low Korean soldiers are used to protect the Chaoxian Peninsula 朝鮮半島(Chinese territory) to prevent Japanese pirates from invasion. In ancient Korea (Chaoxian朝鮮 ) does not have any technologies and processes such as metal , Bend the wood and dye embroidery patterns. Most Korean men became low -level soldiers in the Chinese army (under the command of Chinese officers). There is no armor. Korean only wear pure white clothes and korean women's clothing is exposed nipples (Hanbok - Features of traditional Korean clothes). All Korean women use their heads to move anything (similar to other primitive tribal culture). Korean houses are cottage built with grass (only Chinese can live in Chinese palaces and temples). Korean people earn food in the market concentrated on exchanging items. They do not have any coins and any metal things. South Korea's national culture and tools for use are very primitive. Writing history is the tradition and habit of the ancient Chinese. The history of the ancient Korean Peninsula was written by classical Chinese. This was read for the Chinese and must be approved for the Chinese emperor. This is a record and governance story of Chinese officials and nobles on the ancient Korean Peninsula.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the CCPs early effort to make a red traffic light mean "Go".

As a sidenote, the Romans celebrated New Year around the same time as the Chinese. This festival was called Terminalia.

THANKS to everyone that's said LUNAR NEW YEAR, IT'S not Chinese new year.

More of a lizard than a dragon. No offense to lizards.

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So, cuz of you all people in Europe instead of `Chinese calendar` and `Chinese Zodiac` should now say `Asian calendar` and `Asian Zodiac` ? Well, guess what - it`s a Year of the Dragon now, boy ! BTW, Red is a nice, vibrant colour. Mixes with black and gold very well. What are you blabbering about lol.

Interesting statistic: Last year almost 40,000 Chinese tried to illegally enter the US. Fastest growing demographic. How many US citizens tried to illegally enter China: ZERO! I think that's just about all anyone needs to know about which country is 'better'.

I've always celebrated it. I'm from Taiwan originally, though. So it might be different. Lunar new year yeah.

There is no other country that celebrates the lunar new year as hard as Mongolians!

4:59 It's "gah-lah", not "gay-la".

Thank you Chris you and David do a great job about reporting on China. I appreciate you both very much.

This video is actually a total lie. PC is too much. 1st Spring Festival is originally from China;2nd Lunar New Year is not very correct academic，it’s a combine with the sun and the moon; 3th one of our neighbors is good at stealing culture. Last year they said lunar new year is from Korea. 😅they even take many actions. That’s why then we insist on to add Chinese ❤

We love celebrating the lunar new year in Sydney 🎉It’s huge here.

The *only one* scamming is one in the screen fooling all his viewers.

This video is so wrong in many aspects: a) Lunar new year is celebrated in many east Asian countries, but it has the original root in China. There is nothing wrong for the Chinese to call it "Chinese New Year". Just like the Korean can call their new year as "Korean new year" b) The term "Spring Festival" was not created by Communist China. The term was created by Yuan Shikai (袁世凱). After the collapse of Qing Dynasty, Republic of China started to adopt western calendar. At first, Yuan Shikai wanted to remove Chinese New Year and force citizens to adopt Western New Year instead. But he had faced a lot of resistance from the public. So, he decided to keep the Chinese New Year but renamed it as "Spring Festival".

Hurting people in the present for something done in the past is neither just nor moral.

90% of the 14-minute content was deliberately fabricated to smear China, and I couldn't laugh anymore

American propaganda 😂😂😂

Yes red has something to do with the commie CCP, but red has always mean "good luck" in Chinese culture. The red envelope was widely used pre-1949, along with 4-word poem calligraphy and etc. This was all brought to Taiwan prior to CCP. Also they didn't replace the dragon Manchu Ching flag, they replaced either the historical 7 stripe ROC flag or the Blue Sun flag that is currently representing Taiwan

I think you have much better job to do instead of trying to spread lies and propaganda misinformation on others thousands of year’s festival for their family members in the whole country. It’s a nasty thing to doing jobs like that!!!!!

Hey Chris and co! I was watching a Lei show and someone asked if in the chat if she had been on Chinese Uncensored, She replied with words to the effect that she wouldn't mind being on your show. How about it, guys!

So it's kinda similar what Americans did to Christmas or any other Christian holiday.

Perhaps we should rename the South China Sea to South Asian Sea. That might make them mad. Lol 🤣

I’m Vietnamese and Chinese new year is a day where u come together with ur whole FamBam and eat and give out red envelope to the younger kids and parents

lmao I wasn't gonna click "What Marx Got WRONG About Religion" until I heard "According to the game Mass Effect" and now it's next in my queue.

China learned 0 from Japan. Japan, China and other South East Asian countries were alike in the 19th century. You know, closed borders, limited trading with the outside world, limited knowledge about the outside world, with the intellectuals gnawing on old books and philosophies written hundred of years ago, basically an echo chamber before echo chambering was cool. Then came Emperor Meiji and Japan reinvented itself into an industrial and military power, and you would have thought China would have learned something when the imperial Japan navy kicked their asses in the Sino-Japanese war, and imperial Russia afterward. You would have thought that China would have realized that yeah, all of these humiliation happened because of ourselves, and our backward way of governing. But no. China never blamed itself, the one that let the oppressors in in the first place. They learned nothing.