Full (bilingual) episode transcript here.
What do you do when the Jade Emperor decides to burn your village? Today’s story features a furious Jade Emperor, a compassionate princess, a beautiful crane…and lots and lots of lanterns! This is the Legend of the Lantern Festival!

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Panda Cub Stories (熊猫宝宝故事会) is a bilingual children’s podcast with a big vision: to help raise multilingual and multicultural children through storytelling! In season one, we are making our way through well known tales (and some lesser known stories) of Chinese mythology. Join Panda Cub as she dives into the seas of dragon kings and explores Jade palaces in the sky! 

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SCRIPT SOURCES:

http://www.chineseamericanfamily.com/holiday-guides/

https://web.archive.org/web/20150929003004/http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2010-02/20/content_13013374_1.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_Festival#Origin_legends

Nian monster: https://baike.baidu.com/item/年兽/1558021?fromtitle=年&fromid=5455888

Cranes in mythology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_in_Chinese_mythology

玉女：http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Myth/personsyunv.html

Christie, Anthony (1968). Chinese Mythology. Feltham: Hamlyn Publishing.

Yang, Lihui, et al.(2005). Handbook of Chinese Mythology. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Li Jianping 李劍平, ed. (1998). Zhongguo shenhua renwu cidian中國神話人物辞典(Xi'an : Shanxi renmin chubanshe), 144.

Luo Zhufeng 羅竹風, ed. (1989). Hanyu da cidian漢語大詞典(Beijing: Hanyu da cidian chubanshe), Vol. 4, 471.

Shi Xuanyuan 施宣圓et al., ed. (1987). Zhongguo wenhua cidian中國文化辭典(Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue yuan chubanshe), 1068.

Xia Zhengnong 夏征農, ed. (2002). Cihai辭海(Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe), Vol. 4, 2613.

Archers in Chinese warfare: https://www.ancient.eu/article/1144/archers-in-ancient-chinese-warfare/

History of nets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_net#History

Cranes, preening behavior: https://journeynorth.org/tm/crane/migr_prep_preen.html

LANTERN CRAFT: http://www.chineseamericanfamily.com/trimming-the-tree-with-chinese-lanterns/

SOUNDS

Panda Cub Stories jingle: C.S. Brown

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Dark Tension Rising - Mattia Cupelli - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvQoPyY2XE

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All other sounds from the iMovie music library, or YouTube Library

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Writer/producer: Linda Yi 

Chinese translation: Zoe (竻竻) Du

Language/Literacy Advisor: Kevin Wong 

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