It's The Year of The Tiger 🐅
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Season 2: Episode 71 Description
In today's episode: 🧧 We're learning all about the Lunar New Year! 🐅 Correspondent Sarah Namias shares why it's the year of the Tiger. Let's celebrate the new year with 5 fascinating facts about Tigers AND some advice from one of the stars of the TV show, Batwoman, Camrus Johnson. 🗞️ In the news: Big gold medals and a 19-year-old solo flight. And, test your Lunar New Year knowledge on today's Trivia on the Ten. ✅
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Lunar New Year | Center for International Affairs (case.edu)
The Debunker: What Kind Of Animal Roars At The Start Of The MGM Movies? - Woot
Top 10 facts about Tigers | WWF
What's a Group of Tigers Called & How Do They Behave? - AZ Animals (a-z-animals.com)
Zara Rutherford becomes youngest woman to fly the world solo | CNN Travel
Chimpanzees apply 'medicine' to each others' wounds in a possible show of empathy - CNN
Lunar New Year: Welcoming the Year of the Tiger | CNN Travel
What is turnip cake and why is it a popular Lunar New Year dish? | CNN Travel
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TRANSCRIPT:
Bethany Van Delft 0:01
I've got my red envelopes ready. Are you excited for the Year of the Tiger? Today we're celebrating Lunar New Year. I'm Bethany Van Delft. It's Tuesday, February 15th and this is the Ten News.
Various Voices 0:19
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Bethany Van Delft 0:26
Lunar New Year is a holiday celebrated in China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Mongolia, and many countries all over the world. This year is the Year of the Tiger and what better way to celebrate than with five fascinating facts about tigers? Number one, tigers are great swimmers. Unlike most big cats and small cats, these stripy giants love the water. Number two, the MGM roaring lion you see at the beginning of movies is actually a tiger. The sound designer decided that a Tiger had a bigger roar. I don't know, it all sounds scary to me. Whatever. Number three, tigers have been roaming the earth for 2 million years, a lot longer than us humans. Cool. Number four, most wild tigers live in India. Number five, okay, this one is kind of weird, but apparently, Tiger pee smells like buttered popcorn. Now I wonder what movie popcorn butter really is. Let's go to Ten News correspondent Sarah Namias is to find out all about Lunar New Year.
Sarah Namias 2:04
Dancing dragons, street performances, and fireworks sound like a party? Well, it is. Tuesday, February 15th marks the final day of the Chinese New Year celebration. Also known as the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival. It is one of the most important holidays for East and Southeast Asian cultures around the world. The traditional Chinese calendar is a Lunar calendar, which means you guessed it, it's based around the cycles of the moon. The new year starts with the first new moon of the Lunar calendar and lasts for 15 days when the full moon appears. Old Chinese legend has it that in ancient times, on the eve of the new year, a monster would emerge from the sea and attack nearby villages. But villagers outsmarted the fabled beast when they discovered that it was afraid of loud noises, fire, and the color red and use them to chase it away. To this day, firecrackers and red decorations are used to celebrate the New Year. Lunar New Year is a time for large family gatherings, festive meals, and traditions that symbolize good fortune and abundance, as well as rituals to honor ancestors. In preparation for the Lunar New Year, houses are thoroughly cleaned to rid them of any bad luck and are decorated with red banners and lanterns inscribed with messages and riddles. Another tradition is for elders to give children money and red envelopes for good fortune in the coming year. Awesome. The New Year celebrations come to an end with a spectacular lantern festival, a festival with displays of colorful lanterns, fireworks, and parades, including long colorful dragons and lions carried by dancers. The Lunar New year also marks another significant event. The Chinese calendar follows a 12-year cycle, each linked with one of 12 animal symbols. Maybe you've heard people say they were born in the year of the dog or the ox. I for one was born in the Year of the Horse, which according to the Chinese zodiac makes me a kind-hearted, easygoing, helpful person. Why thank you I will happily take the compliment. This Lunar New year marks the start of the year of the tiger. In Asian cultures. The tiger is the king of the jungle and is said to symbolize leadership bravery and strong will curious to learn what animals signifies your birth year an easy search online for the Chinese Zodiac will give you tons of fun facts to discover.
Bethany Van Delft 5:03
I was born in the Year of the Snake. So what about you Ten'ers? We want to know. Visit thetennews.com/contact and let us know! Now that we know a little more about this year, let's get some advice from a special guest Camrus Johnson star of the TV show Batwoman on CW and HBO Max.
Camrus Johnson 5:33
Listen, Ten’ers, number one, believe in yourself. You have to be your own cheerleader in this world because there are a lot of beautiful people in this world, but no one would truly know what you're thinking and how you're feeling all the time. So you have to be there for yourself. Now of course you want to surround yourself with amazing people because the more amazing people that you know, the more amazing people that you're surrounded by, the better that you'll feel. But, you always have to remember that in those hard times, you have to lift yourself up and believe in yourself. Because at the end of the day, you will always have yourself to believe in and look after. Love yourself.
Bethany Van Delft 6:05
You can hear more of our interview with Camrus this Saturday on the Ten News gets Extra. Nice. Here to give us the news rundown is our head writer Ryan Willard.
Ryan Willard 6:23
Thank you, Bethany. The United States has taken home 12 Olympic medals and we finally have some gold. Lindsey Jacobellis took gold in the women's Snowboard Cross. Chloe Kim snagged the gold in snowboarding for the women's halfpipe. Nathan Chen got gold in figure skating in the men's singles and Ashley Caldwell, Chris Lewis, and Justin Schoenfeld earned a gold medal in freestyle skiing in the mixed team aerials, which was the first time this event has ever been held to the Olympics. Pretty cool, right? Cool beans, man. 19-year-old Zara Rutherford became the youngest woman to fly around the world all by herself. Zara is a dual citizen of Britain and Belgium and went on a legendary 41 country journey that spanned 32,300 miles and broke two Guinness World Records. She's also the first Belgian to fly around the world alone. When I was 19, I ate a whole pizza by myself. So yeah, Zara is way cooler than me. Are chimpanzees using bugs as medicine? Researchers witnessed chimpanzees capturing insects and applying them to their wounds as well as the wounds of other chimpanzees. It's believed this could be a form of medication for them and has never been observed before. This happened numerous times within a community of about 45 chimpanzees at the Longo National Park in Gabon. And yes, Bethany, I do have a paper cut on my finger and no, I do not want you to put a spider on it. No, thank you very much. I'm Ryan Willard. And that's the rundown, back to you Bethany.
Bethany Van Delft 7:59
Coming up next.
Sound Bit 8:00
What, what, what's the big idea?
Bethany Van Delft 8:04
Trivia on the Ten. Lunar New Year is celebrated with cakes and sweets to bring good luck and good health in the year ahead. One of the most popular Lunar New Year cakes is Low-bak Go is made from rice flour and a root vegetable. Do you know which vegetable is in Low-bak Go? Is it a) carrots, b) radishes, or c) potatoes? Did you guess it? The answer is b) Radishes! It's also called turnip cake, but surprise, t's really made from Chinese radishes. Okay, whether it's made with turnips or radishes, one thing is for sure these cakes are delicious. Time's up. But before we go, here's a quick note for the grownups. Thanks for listening to the Ten News. Look out for new episodes on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and extras on Saturdays. The Ten News is a co-production of Small But Mighty Media and Next Chapter Podcasts and is distributed by iHeartRadio. The Ten News creative team is admiring New Year lanterns and includes Tracey Crooks, Pete Musto, Ryan Willard, Adam Barnard, Tessa Flannery, and Nathalie Alonso. Sarah Namias contributed to this episode. Our production director is Jeremiah Tittle and our executive producers are Donald Albright and show creator Tracy Leeds Kaplan. I'm Bethany Van Delft, and thanks for listening to the Ten News. Singing Kwiluah. Did I say that right? Happy New Year.
