EP 97 - THE NIAN OF NEW YEAR!
Now that we have finished the Christmas season we have one more holiday we can celebrate and that is New Years!! So to celebrate we decided to honor the New Years with a themed episode. In this week's episode we are going to explore the international New Years celebration of Chinese New Years. Do you all know much about the history of this holiday? Well to start it was all created because of a cryptid! Yes, you read that right a cryptid started a whole holiday. So take some time to relax, listen to this week's episode and let's ring in the New Year together!
China and Shanghai on a map!
Another depiction of the Nian
An image of Chinese New Years being celebrated
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