Chinese New Year

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got a project called Chinese New Year.

Am I

supposed to be quiet? I'm telling again.

We did a...

So we did...

We got this project called Chinese New Year.

And I can be honest and tell you that I have never made no music like that in my life.

For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. A Selection from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling Translated by Herbert Allen Giles Volume 1, Part 2 The Talking Pupils, read by Ashwin Jain.

At Chang'an there lived a scholar named Fang Tung, who, though by no means destitute of ability, was a very unprincipled rake, and in the habit of following and speaking to any woman he might chance to meet, the day before the spring festival of clear weather

he was strolling

about outside the city when he saw a small carriage with red curtains and an embroidering awning followed by a crowd of waiting-maids on horseback one of whom was exceedingly pretty and riding on a small palfrey going closer to get a better view mr chang noticed that the carriage curtain was partly open and inside he beheld a beautifully dressed girl of about sixteen, lovely beyond anything he had ever seen.

From this time he was more careful of his behavior, and acquired in his part of the country the reputation of a virtuous man.

Footnotes 1.

The Spring Festival of Clear Weather One of the 24 solar terms.

It falls on or about the 5th of April and is the special time for worshipping at the family tombs.

Well, we were just talking off air.

I will be back at Chinese New Year.

Then we can meet in person.

But yeah, it's been a few weeks since you were last on.

You have to actually be right where you are, and it is okay to be right where you are and the joy of maybe that five-year question.

I mean, that's like the classic, who are you going to be in five years? And for anybody listening, at the time of this recording, we're in 2026, which is the year of the firehorse if you're following the Chinese Lunar New Year, but it's also five years post-pandemic.

So all of us were five years ago as we were sort of in that chapter because everybody has their pandemic story now.

And again, I think a lot of changes and shifts were made there that maybe now you're at a different place.

And I said, I need a break.

I need to wait until the new Chinese Chinese New Year.

I just want a break.

So maybe the winds will change.

Jessel and Aaron are not.

So when Jessel hosts that party, the Chinese Lunar New Year and gets Aaron kicked out, she literally has the manager or the owner of the venue go over to Aaron and say, I'm sorry, but I think you really need to leave.

And then you see like her and Abe leaving.

I'm like, this is a housewives event.

Evelyn's father is in town from China.

They are preparing to throw a Chinese New Year's customer appreciation party in their laundromat.

They're getting audited by a real hard ass.

an IRS agent named Deirdre Beaubirdrie, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, and they have a daughter in her early 20s or somewhere in her 20s, Joy, played by Stephanie Hsu, and she is gay.

And Chinese culture, you know, my parents always kept the Chinese culture with me.

We always celebrated Chinese New Year.

We always celebrated Chinese.

I think Chinese New Year was the main holiday we always celebrated and we still celebrate it to this day.

That's important, right? That's important to have that.

It's important to have that culture close to you.

Yeah, I never actually thought about that.

Honestly, I was just really thankful it was kept close to me.