It surprises me that most non-Chinese know about their Chinese zodiac. Today we will talk about Chinese zodiac. Do you know how many animals in Chinese zodiac? How many animals can you name?

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Nobody is perfect. You gain something and you loose something. If you can choose it before you were born, would you rather be good-looking but dumb or ugly but super intelligent? Would your choice be different if you were a male or a female? Today we will talk about one of the ugliest yet the most intelligent women in Chinese history, the legendary Zhong Lichun 钟离春.

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Today we will talk about a ghost story from the book Strange stories from a Chinese studio. This is one of most well-known stories from the book maybe because there are a few movies based on the story and the movies are nightmares of a lot of kids. So watch out!

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The Pixar movie Coco won a lot of laughs and tears from audiences last year. Because it is about family and death which are the two most sentimental topics for everyone. Where did we come and where are we going. Day of death is a Mexican festival however, a lot of details in the movies reminded me of Qing Ming Festival in China.

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Today we are going to talk about a short story about death by laughing. How? Why?

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Today we are going to talk about the third immortal in the Eight Immortals 八仙. He is known as ZhangGuoLao 张果老 which is depicted always an old man riding his white mule facing backwards holding a fish drum, a tube-shaped drum made of bamboo.

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Swords in China is probably the most important weapon in the history and when I read Harry Potter where the part each person has their special magic wands based on their personalities it just reminded me the relationship between warriors and swords in Chinese culture. Today we are going to talk about a couple who forged swords and their child's revenge story.

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Today we will keep talking about the Eight Immortals. There is one immortal kind of looking like Iron Crutch Li we talked about last time. I had a hard time to distinguish them when I was a kid. His name is HanZhongLi or ZhongLiQuan.

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In Chinese mythology, there is a group of legendary immortals in Taoism that are so well-known called 八仙 Eight Immortals. They are the subject of many paintings and sculptures. The eight immortals represents eight groups of people male, female, the old, the young, the poor, the rich, the lower class and the higher class.

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Today we are going to talk about a kind of smart and mysterious animal. You can find myths about it in a lot of cultures and in Chinese mythology as well. Some people are really scared of them. Can you guess what it is? It is snakes.

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