🐀It's Race Day🐀 Today, we tell the story of how the animals in the Chinese Zodiac got their years: a race that's terrible for all involved. 😈 The Creature: Nian Why you want to dress in red to avoid long, unpleasant runs on New Year's Day, though any run in January or February [...]
Two stories from Chinese folklore about broken things. A broken pot, a broken future, and how things can come together to heal. And why you shouldn't go to work drunk or else you might have to arrest a tiger. The creature is the tooth tyrant, the Odontotyrannos, and it's not an angry dentist. [...]
Why the hot new dating craze is just bleeding on strangers and seeing if something worked out.
The Journey to the West continues!
The legend of Lady White Snake continues in a packed episode. There are magical (if not wholly unexpected) resurrections, crustacean armies, Doctor Strange ripoffs, and that's just in the first half.
A monkey becomes a king...and then decides that's not good enough so he decides to challenge the gods. It's a bold strategy. We'll see how it pays off for him.
The story of Meng Jiangnu and the Great Wall