Didn't the US and West alleged that there is no religious freedom in China? This eye-opening, right. Such misconception is gradually wipe off by apolitical vbloggers like Katherine. Seeing is believing. Enjoy yourself.
@@LuZhao-z4qI didn't expect to see that too in mainland China. I thought the cultural revolution got rid of them all. You can still find these old traditions in Taiwan.
Those two kids on the scooter remind me of my younger self. "I don't dare go to the celebration. There are police there." Besides, stealing Dad's scooter for a joyride is much more fun. 🤣
The two children were not afraid of the police. Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to ride electric motorcycles in China. The child was afraid that the police would catch him and notify his parents, which would make the child feel embarrassed.
I love the opera. So colourful. Fantastic sight and sound. A feast for the eyes and ears. I believe the dialect is Hokkien as the majority of Xiamen residents are. I may be wrong. I am overseas Chinese. Another great video. Very down to earth.
I now live in Xiamen, which is a beautiful city. The languages of Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou are similar, both are Hokkien.Welcome to visit your hometown.
@@谢晓峰-i6s in Msia amongst the Chinese diaspora, the Xiamen-Zhangzhou variation (a derivation of it) is spoken in the northern part of Pen. Msia (around Penang) while from the central to the South the Quanzhou version dominates.😂❤
Aysajan is such a goofy and funny guy, lol, and that traditional local opera even had synched subtitle....what a world! Honestly, this is the first time I know that Fujian has such authentically traditional CNY rituals existed, amazing and admiring!
For those who doesnt know, Taiwan was part of Fujian province. Taiwanese is actually coming from here. I have always said that Hong Kongers didn't say they speak Hong Kongnese but rather Cantonese.
The last few minutes of the video are captivating and very wild. Amazing. Without you being present there, we wouldn't have known such festivity. Tao chie, Kats! 💥👍
Those Deities definitely had a wild time being carried and spun up and down the street. The extravagant celebrations you captured gave us the same nice sensations! :D
Your luck is our luck. So glad you ran into these festivities. Such rarely known indigenous religious rituals are clearly important to this coastal region, with seafarers always in need of some psychological refuge for safety. Won't be surprise if these rites have similar counterparts in places like Portugal, Spain, Italy.
Aysajan is shy but he should take this opportunity to educate the young about China’s Uighur and Xinjiang. Just ask the kids if they know Dilraba Dilmurat,, she’s the most popular actress in China.
ppl don't want to be educated in the middle of their entertainment. Please try to retain the desire to do that. We have an idiom called 好为人师, think about it.
Aysajan is a whole vibe and a great addition to your videos. His joie de vivre is delightful, and his playful yet patient interactions with people who think he is a foreigner are great to watch.
My older siblings liked to tell us before that we had this kind of deities procession during the CNY in Padang, Indonesia. Now I can see it from your video, direct from Fujian, China. Thank you.
The temple existed for 800 yrs more 3 time than ammorica been around. It has provided solace and blessings, peace for more than 800yr. Ammorica 250 odd yrs had provided death and suffering and wars for 240 yrs.
never had we expect that CNY is celebrated in such grand scale, its aura determines the grandest period of the year and its celebration 2nd to none, Kate is doing good in this episode, she went into the unkwon to show us how Chinese treated the festival in a grandiose style > 宏偉風格, thank you
Brings back memories of when my dad introduced to me the sights and sounds of Chinese Opera as a kid. Southern Chinese dialect is different but similar in some ways.
Traditional opera is the carrier of history, culture, and language. Among the three major ancient operas in the world, only China still exists（ancient Greek and Indian opera has been lost）.The program is the story of each dynasty, mostly featuring heroic figures. You can understand that China's heroic universe has been continuously increasing and performing for thousands of years.
Fijian culture is so unique and niche and so different from the northern area where I grew up. Like the turtle thing. Really interesting! ❤ And it’s so smokey in the end of the video😂😂😂
Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese moved from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian province to Taiwan from Ming dynasty, the stage show is so called 歌仔戲 is also very popular in Taiwan decades ago, both area speaks same local language.
05:00 try to feel the powerful soft and high blessing frequencies energy there if you can. Its more good when you try at list 3 days vegetarian diet before to to tample. Or you can try meditation , it help you can open your third eyes and your clairy audience
I really like your bike tour travel style,which makes the vibe of the video so chill and relaxing.It’s kind of life I’ve been looking forward to in rural China❤ Keep going
My home town near there does the similar thing, but the celebration last a month from village to village and they do grand celebration for all as well. Some of deities are actually use the same colour code from the local opera which different face colour symbolise justice, bravery, loyalty and compassion etc.
Man... this celebration is over the top!!! 2:46 I like how they display captions on both sides, so that people can read the lines when they can barely hear a thing.
Another great video! Thank you! Heading off to Shanghai myself tomorrow. Gonna try to train myself to catch the little "nuggets" off the beaten path :)
Very interesting episode, as a northerner, I never knew Spring Festival can be like this! Carrying all gods around was very funny, not sure if they really enjoyed being treated like this.
So glad you are enjoying life in China and sharing your experience with us Katherine 👍Fujian is the province where my dad was born, wish I could visit there someday
Immensely enjoyable to see people enjoying such festivities. For a country like China in economics woes, it showcase the resilient people's resolve to enjoy!!! ❤❤ Thanks for the vlog Katherine.....and the journey continues!!! 😂😂😂
Some of these practices celebrating a festival are similar to those practised by the the Chinese Hokkien communities in Malaysia and Singapore where they form the majority of the Chinese people . Also the worshipping of the Sea Goddess, Mazhu 妈祖 is prevalent during Chinese New year and in March for the Minan people in Fujian and in Taiwan.
In fact, the Cultural Revolution completely eradicated the "high caste" clans in China. It was beneficial to the ordinary people at the bottom. It changed the mental outlook of the people at the bottom who had been afraid of the "high castes" for thousands of years! There are advantages and disadvantages, yes, culture The Great Revolution destroyed many excellent cultural traditions. It was a catastrophe, but I still think that the Cultural Revolution is something that China must complete. Otherwise, today's China will turn into India
Fujian is indeed a very nice place although hardly mentioned in the West or outside China despite the large number of Fujianese who had migrated overseas. It seems that, unlike the Cantonese, they have become even more fully integrated and immersed into the local communities of the countries they had migrated to. Very prosperous, modern, new and ancient, clean and colorful. It's more "cultural" than the northern provinces. The culture here is so rich, like in ChaoShan too. Yeah... they are more religious and spiritual compared to their northern counterparts. I like that the deities are also having so much fun! So exciting! Wild! Such rituals or religious events can also be found in Japan too because these people migrated there. Hahaha... the Karaoke thing in the temple? is so funny. Wow! That village is really so fun! Thanks again to Katherine for bringing all these wonderful places in China right to our screens. And I say "thank you" on behalf of Aysajan and Mehmeti for bringing them along. Ayasajan is very cool too. Enjoy! Happy Year of the Dragon! 🐲 🐲 🐲
If you're thinking about the one in Puri, that's extremely crowded! But not the same thing. For one it's the only chance foreigners can see the Deity. And Lord Jagannatha is HUGE, they can't carry him on a palanquin. And the purpose of the festival is also different, they don't go out to have fun. I think Indian Deities and Chinese Deities have a very different mood, they are also not worshiped in the same way. Just look at this old movie, of Lord Caitanya (a saint, but also an incarnation of Krishna in the mood of his devotee) worshiping Lord Jagannatha, it's such a pity this particular video doesn't have subtitles! Because the words are beautiful! They're by Vidyapati and in Bengali. Ok, I found the very long version with subtitles, it's at minute 24:46 to which I'm linking: ruclips.net/video/ZVOUi__D4ps/видео.htmlsi=6CIi6pgBTDm-8R7s&t=1486
They are too young to ride a electrical motor by themselves on road which is not allowed in law.I guess they are playing secretly in small roads and afraid of being noticed by the police.ha ha ha.....
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一个美国人，一个维族人，一起在中国旅游，感觉居然很搭配。还是阳离子的魅力大！
那些戏叫做芗剧，芗就是漳州市区的简称，用漳州口音的闽南语唱的，一般都是古代有名的历史故事。漳州天宝玉尊宫于2024年02月17日(正月初八晚上23:00)举办“天公诞”祭拜仪式也很有特色。欢迎阳离子明年再来看呗😊
我还以为是闽剧 小时候经常陪爷爷奶奶去寺庙里看闽剧
As a Chinese, did not know there exists cultural tradition like this china. Thanks for capture the procession
唱戏都不知道？ what kind of chinese are you?
Yeah I'm Cantonese, born in HK and raised in New York ... and I am learning about my homeland through Katherine. She is such a blessing!
Didn't the US and West alleged that there is no religious freedom in China? This eye-opening, right.
Such misconception is gradually wipe off by apolitical vbloggers like Katherine.
Seeing is believing.
Enjoy yourself.
@@LuZhao-z4qI didn't expect to see that too in mainland China. I thought the cultural revolution got rid of them all. You can still find these old traditions in Taiwan.
@@brandonso Visit some small village during CNY, the parade and festivities are absolutely wild. Just be ready to be deafened by fireworks lol.
Those two kids on the scooter remind me of my younger self. "I don't dare go to the celebration. There are police there." Besides, stealing Dad's scooter for a joyride is much more fun. 🤣
The two children were not afraid of the police. Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to ride electric motorcycles in China. The child was afraid that the police would catch him and notify his parents, which would make the child feel embarrassed.
I love the opera. So colourful. Fantastic sight and sound. A feast for the eyes and ears. I believe the dialect is Hokkien as the majority of Xiamen residents are. I may be wrong. I am overseas Chinese. Another great video. Very down to earth.
I now live in Xiamen, which is a beautiful city. The languages of Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou are similar, both are Hokkien.Welcome to visit your hometown.
@@谢晓峰-i6s in Msia amongst the Chinese diaspora, the Xiamen-Zhangzhou variation (a derivation of it) is spoken in the northern part of Pen. Msia (around Penang) while from the central to the South the Quanzhou version dominates.😂❤
Even the locals who live in rural areas, do have a wonderful life.
Aysajan is such a goofy and funny guy, lol, and that traditional local opera even had synched subtitle....what a world! Honestly, this is the first time I know that Fujian has such authentically traditional CNY rituals existed, amazing and admiring!
This contradicts the West's false claim of old traditions and customs being banned or become extinct !
welcome to visit southern china. maybe it's because we used to live on fishing, we people in the south have more traditions remain.
@@antonyip
Not really the cause ...
The GPCR impact were minimal in far flung places like Fujian province .
For those who doesnt know, Taiwan was part of Fujian province. Taiwanese is actually coming from here. I have always said that Hong Kongers didn't say they speak Hong Kongnese but rather Cantonese.
They survived the revolution , it seems.
Many people in Taiwan are coming from Fujian . You will find similar Chinese New Year events in Taiwan as well .
Taiwan🐸:😡
Watching so many vlogs of China travel, only Catherine captured the soul of Chinese life❤🎉
can not agree more
他确实在深入了解中国
don't know if those gods had fun or not, but those people who spin with underwear definitely had fun a lot
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mum, it was the deity that wanted to have fun, not us😂
😂
That was an excellent documentary of local life and traditions. China blows my mind.
Wow, Chinese people are the most festive in the world!
This is how we celebrate CNY at my home town, sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia. Looooove it.. very proud of my own culture.
Fireworks and KTV, you picked a great time to go out 🎉
The last few minutes of the video are captivating and very wild. Amazing. Without you being present there, we wouldn't have known such festivity. Tao chie, Kats! 💥👍
Very similar to South East Asian Chinese. As Malaysian, we are familiar with these 🎉🎉🎉
well that's taking glitterbombs to another level! I hope Aysajan didn't eat too much of it
❤
Thank you for showing us the real China Katherine!
Those Deities definitely had a wild time being carried and spun up and down the street.
The extravagant celebrations you captured gave us the same nice sensations! :D
The kids were afraid to get busted for riding the scotters😂 also lots of fireworks and confetti 🎉 awesome video
In China, riding an electric bike requires reaching the age of 16, otherwise the police will call your parents to take you home for education...
Your luck is our luck. So glad you ran into these festivities. Such rarely known indigenous religious rituals are clearly important to this coastal region, with seafarers always in need of some psychological refuge for safety. Won't be surprise if these rites have similar counterparts in places like Portugal, Spain, Italy.
Aysajan is shy but he should take this opportunity to educate the young about China’s Uighur and Xinjiang. Just ask the kids if they know Dilraba Dilmurat,, she’s the most popular actress in China.
ppl don't want to be educated in the middle of their entertainment. Please try to retain the desire to do that. We have an idiom called 好为人师, think about it.
Aysajan is a whole vibe and a great addition to your videos. His joie de vivre is delightful, and his playful yet patient interactions with people who think he is a foreigner are great to watch.
Katherine is hands down the best youtuber in China.
陽離子 黄昏好🤗
My older siblings liked to tell us before that we had this kind of deities procession during the CNY in Padang, Indonesia. Now I can see it from your video, direct from Fujian, China. Thank you.
I envy you having all the fun, food, sight and sound of China during this time of the year !
your Fujian series is really eye opening for a dongbei dude like me haha
我一个辽宁人去厦门，看到陈嘉庚先生为厦门捐建的学校，尤其集美到处是陈先生捐赠。我明白福建人热爱祖国，热爱自己的传统文化。每次在美国和台独对峙的都是中国福建华人，福建不管去哪里都心怀祖国，而我们东北人也出去世界各地，但一盘散沙。
东北还有出马文化呢 建议阳离子可以去东北探索一下 哈哈
The temple existed for 800 yrs more 3 time than ammorica been around.
It has provided solace and blessings, peace for more than 800yr. Ammorica 250 odd yrs had provided death and suffering and wars for 240 yrs.
never had we expect that CNY is celebrated in such grand scale, its aura determines the grandest period of the year and its celebration 2nd to none,
Kate is doing good in this episode, she went into the unkwon to show us how Chinese treated the festival in a grandiose style > 宏偉風格, thank you
I love your videos! Especially as a great way to practice my chinese listening and reading skills :)
Brings back memories of when my dad introduced to me the sights and sounds of Chinese Opera as a kid. Southern Chinese dialect is different but similar in some ways.
You warned us, this video was wild. China has no peer when it comes to celebrating the New Year, undefeated again. 🥳🐲🐉🎉🎊🧨🎆
因为我们过年的传统要和家人在一起，我过年很难去另外一个城市感受不一样的文化。谢谢你带我看到这些
Traditional opera is the carrier of history, culture, and language. Among the three major ancient operas in the world, only China still exists（ancient Greek and Indian opera has been lost）.The program is the story of each dynasty, mostly featuring heroic figures. You can understand that China's heroic universe has been continuously increasing and performing for thousands of years.
Come to India u will see what Indian opera is
Thanks!
thanks for supporting the channel ❤️
The opera is so well lit and colorful
Fijian culture is so unique and niche and so different from the northern area where I grew up. Like the turtle thing. Really interesting! ❤ And it’s so smokey in the end of the video😂😂😂
Thanks Katherine! As a 50+ year old Chinese, it is my first time seeing this, wild and fun, so hilarious I can't help keeping laughing, hahahah...
Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese moved from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian province to Taiwan from Ming dynasty, the stage show is so called 歌仔戲 is also very popular in Taiwan decades ago, both area speaks same local language.
福建人过年是最认真的也是最传统的，相比其他地方福建最有“年味”
The opera is in Minnan dialect. This is also performed in Malaysia in the Chinese temple festival
That was Brilliant Katherine.We are so lucky to have you there.x
Wow!!! ...this Fujian festival is really WILD,
and the three of you had real wonderful rural fun.
as a Chinese born in Henan provicen, and now working in Shenzhen ,I've never seen this before but on your video🤗🤭
The conversation with the kids is hilarious 😂 Do you ride camels to school 😂 highlight of the video
福建、潮汕、湛江、台灣等也有熱鬧的遊神
I didn’t know there are still such festivities in China. Thanks for this amazing vlog.
Interesting video. Love the vipe and new year rituals in this part of China! Thanks.
05:00 try to feel the powerful soft and high blessing frequencies energy there if you can.
Its more good when you try at list 3 days vegetarian diet before to to tample.
Or you can try meditation , it help you can open your third eyes and your clairy audience
Great video in a sense of no matter what, understand the difference culturally give us greater opportunities for us better understand each other.
I really like your bike tour travel style,which makes the vibe of the video so chill and relaxing.It’s kind of life I’ve been looking forward to in rural China❤ Keep going
Thank you once again, Katherine, for providing us with a glimpse into life inside this fascinating culture.
I am glad to learn so much from an American girl,by the way I was born and lived there for 30 years
在中国活了四十年, 还是从一个老外的视频第一次看到这种风俗😂
Your Chinese is much better than 3 years ago in your introduction video.
You've capture some of the best celebrations in China! Thank you for sharing it with the world. I have shared your video! 🕊🐉🧨🎆
@9:22 fibbing the the kids! 🤣🤣🤣
My home town near there does the similar thing, but the celebration last a month from village to village and they do grand celebration for all as well. Some of deities are actually use the same colour code from the local opera which different face colour symbolise justice, bravery, loyalty and compassion etc.
10:36 You biked here from the US?!!! fair and logical question!
How sweetly amazing that the Divine led you to the temple when technology would/could not. I simply love when that happens.
lol, there is subtitle for those traditional drama now!!! super helpful!!
wish I had noticed at the time 😭😭 I watched it for a quite a while but literally did not pick up on that LOL
The tree at 0:35 is gorgeous
I found some chemistry between these two!
Man... this celebration is over the top!!!
2:46 I like how they display captions on both sides, so that people can read the lines when they can barely hear a thing.
wish I had noticed earlier 😂😂
Another great video! Thank you! Heading off to Shanghai myself tomorrow. Gonna try to train myself to catch the little "nuggets" off the beaten path :)
Very interesting episode, as a northerner, I never knew Spring Festival can be like this! Carrying all gods around was very funny, not sure if they really enjoyed being treated like this.
3:24 there are subtitles on the side of the stage
Thank you for sharing the event! I am a bit surprised people don't cover their cars given all the firework being launched.
With all those fireworks and explosions, I thought you walked onto Michael Bay movie set...😂😂😂😂
that is so great
4:00 *漳州白礁慈濟祖宮是祭拜保生大帝( 吳夲 )* 😊
一如既往的百看不厌
So glad you are enjoying life in China and sharing your experience with us Katherine 👍Fujian is the province where my dad was born, wish I could visit there someday
Thanks for sharing another great video Katherine. All the best! Cheers!🍻
I am a Zhangzhouer, can’t believe you came during holiday!
So Festive & Wild!😍😮😍
China is very good
I wish I have a chance to go to Fujian to Have Chinese New Year In the future
Immensely enjoyable to see people enjoying such festivities. For a country like China in economics woes, it showcase the resilient people's resolve to enjoy!!! ❤❤ Thanks for the vlog Katherine.....and the journey continues!!! 😂😂😂
事实中国经济经济数据还是数一数二的😂😂😂。
Is China economically poor?😂😂
I want to see all of your videos with you 2❤❤!!
Love this great video so much, thank you for sharing your amazing journey in Fujian
14:45 wow!! amazing!!!!
Excellent. Explore the religious activities in China
10:36 You've seen kids sneakily ride on motorcycle too much that you forgot for a moment that its against the law. 😂😂
That is one wild party.
Some of these practices celebrating a festival are similar to those practised by the the Chinese Hokkien communities in Malaysia and Singapore where they form the majority of the Chinese people . Also the worshipping of the Sea Goddess, Mazhu 妈祖 is prevalent during Chinese New year and in March for the Minan people in Fujian and in Taiwan.
曾经中国北方很多地方也有，因为各种国家运动后，经历了浩劫洗礼，很多风俗和古建筑都被破坏掉了，很可惜。南方因为远离政治中心遭受的影响比较小，所以更多的保留了下来。
In fact, the Cultural Revolution completely eradicated the "high caste" clans in China. It was beneficial to the ordinary people at the bottom. It changed the mental outlook of the people at the bottom who had been afraid of the "high castes" for thousands of years! There are advantages and disadvantages, yes, culture The Great Revolution destroyed many excellent cultural traditions. It was a catastrophe, but I still think that the Cultural Revolution is something that China must complete.
Otherwise, today's China will turn into India
Fujian is indeed a very nice place although hardly mentioned in the West or outside China despite the large number of Fujianese who had migrated overseas. It seems that, unlike the Cantonese, they have become even more fully integrated and immersed into the local communities of the countries they had migrated to. Very prosperous, modern, new and ancient, clean and colorful. It's more "cultural" than the northern provinces. The culture here is so rich, like in ChaoShan too. Yeah... they are more religious and spiritual compared to their northern counterparts. I like that the deities are also having so much fun! So exciting! Wild! Such rituals or religious events can also be found in Japan too because these people migrated there. Hahaha... the Karaoke thing in the temple? is so funny. Wow! That village is really so fun! Thanks again to Katherine for bringing all these wonderful places in China right to our screens. And I say "thank you" on behalf of Aysajan and Mehmeti for bringing them along. Ayasajan is very cool too. Enjoy! Happy Year of the Dragon! 🐲 🐲 🐲
Fujian is such a fascinating place, can't wait to share the next 3 vlogs about it,, happy year of the dragon to you too!
庙里唱K那个真是蚌埠住，哈哈哈哈
Thank you for helping in opening the world's eyes about china ❤
陽離子真的是深入地方生活❤
Kids are having a lot of fun. People are so dedicated to their festivities.
You should come to 长乐 for the 游神 some day. Won't be disappointed!
Was in Xiamen , Shanghai, Penang, Singapore snd Taipei 2018.
Wow, wild. I’m from the northern part of China and had never seen something like this in Zhengzhou. Thanks for sharing with us YangLiZi❤
The deity festival reminds me of Ratha Yatra (Chariot Festival) to celebrate Jagannath. Maybe your experience with India you know about that too.
If you're thinking about the one in Puri, that's extremely crowded! But not the same thing. For one it's the only chance foreigners can see the Deity. And Lord Jagannatha is HUGE, they can't carry him on a palanquin. And the purpose of the festival is also different, they don't go out to have fun.
I think Indian Deities and Chinese Deities have a very different mood, they are also not worshiped in the same way. Just look at this old movie, of Lord Caitanya (a saint, but also an incarnation of Krishna in the mood of his devotee) worshiping Lord Jagannatha, it's such a pity this particular video doesn't have subtitles! Because the words are beautiful! They're by Vidyapati and in Bengali.
Ok, I found the very long version with subtitles, it's at minute 24:46 to which I'm linking:
ruclips.net/video/ZVOUi__D4ps/видео.htmlsi=6CIi6pgBTDm-8R7s&t=1486
3:35 I never understand Chinese opera...
Well... I never understand opera in general...
10:40 不敢去... 那邊有警察... 噢... 😄
那娃自己知道自己不到年龄骑电动车...
@@suhuaxu 還載人, 罪加一等 😂
They are too young to ride a electrical motor by themselves on road which is not allowed in law.I guess they are playing secretly in small roads and afraid of being noticed by the police.ha ha ha.....
I liked fireworks.