Happy Chinese New Year!

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Happy Chinese New Year is the seventh episode of the first season of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. In this episode, Kai-Lan and her friends are celebrating Chinese New Year, and this year their going to carry the huge dragon costume.

In production order, it is the eleventh episode of the first season.

Synopsis[]

This Chinese New Year, Kai-Lan and her animal friends are old enough to carry the huge dragon costume! Together, they form the Dragon Team and learn that every job on a team is super, super important!

Plot[]

Today is Chinese New Year, where Kai-Lan is wearing red and yellow clothes. All of her animal friends then arrive, and then they get ready for Chinese New Year, with decorations such as lanterns, flowers, and Ye-Ye cooking dumplings as well. Lulu and Rintoo then find a drum, which they will use for the Chinese New Year celebration. Ye-Ye crafts a dragon float which requires five people to be able to hold it, including everyone.

Ye-Ye tells everyone that they need to work together to be able to carry the dragon. However, Rintoo is unhappy seeing that he ends up being assigned in the middle. When Ye-Ye tells everyone to lift the sticks to hold the dragon float, Rintoo is sitting down, and unhappily holds the float with everyone else while marching. Rintoo suddenly stops and runs off, causing the dragon float to collapse on everyone else, complaining that he doesn't want to be in the middle.

Kai-Lan recaps that Rintoo was getting angry over the fact of being in the middle, and he wasn't happy about being in the middle. Kai-Lan asks Rintoo, who then says that he doesn't think being in the middle is that important of a job. Rintoo and Kai-Lan then watch a group of ants with a drumstick, who the middle stops to tie a shoe, which causes everyone else to lose their balance. After seeing this, Kai-Lan finds a solution; "every job on a team is super super super important."

The team then chants for Rintoo, who eventually then happily returns to the team. Everyone then marches onward with the dragon float. Night falls, with red lanterns being put up, and then fireworks in the sky as well. After the march, everyone eats dumplings and noodles at the celebration. Ye-Ye then gives everyone party envelopes, where then they all follow with a family hug!

Words in Chinese Mandarin[]

新年快樂！xīn nián kuài lè - Happy Chinese New Year!
龙lóng - Dragon
恭喜gōng xǐ - Congratulations

Quotes[]

Tolee: "How do we get ready for Chinese New Year, Kai-Lan?"
Ye-Ye: "Guess what? This year, you're all old enough to carry the dragon."
Rintoo: Yes! Yes! Yes! We get to carry the dragon!
Kai-Lan: Wow, I can't believe we get to carry the dragon.
Rintoo: Ye-Ye, how do we know which part to hold?
Ye-Ye: I'll show you. Everyone pick a Chinese number out of my hat, then match it to the Chinese number along the dragon.
Kai-Lan: Hoho's the youngest, so he goes first. Hoho picked two. 二.
Hoho: 二.
Rintoo: Wow! Hoho gets to be near the head of the dragon!
Kai-Lan: Tolee picked five. 五.
Tolee: 五. My job is to hold the tail. Nice to meet you, tail. 你好. (Tolee laughs)
Rintoo: Cool. Tolee gets to hold the tail. Yes! It's my turn. I hope I pick something good. 三.
Kai-Lan: Rintoo picked three. 三.
Rintoo: 三. Aw. My job is to hold the middle.
Kai-Lan: Lulu picked one. 一.
Lulu: 一. I'm the head of the dragon.
Rintoo: Aw. Lulu gets to be the head, and I'm stuck in the middle.
Kai-Lan: I picked four. 四. Oh, I like my job. I'm near the tail.
Rintoo: Agh! Kai-Lan gets to be near the tail. She's so lucky.
Kai-Lan: You're really good at finding Chinese numbers!
Ye-Ye: Okay, it's time to pick up your sticks and make the dragon move!
Lulu: 一!
Hoho: 二!
Rintoo: 三.
Kai-Lan: 四!
Tolee: 五! Hey, Rintoo, do you think you can pick up the middle?
Rintoo: Okay. (Rintoo picks up the middle) I don't wanna be in the middle.
Ye-Ye: That's it! You look like a real dragon! 真棒!
Kai-Lan, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: 上! 下!
Kai-Lan: We're the dragon team.
Kai-Lan, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: Dragon team!
Rintoo: Ugh! I don't wanna be in the middle!
Ye-Ye: 真棒! 真棒!
Tolee: I hear a drum.
Lulu: 蚂蚁来了!
Kai-Lan: Yeah, it's a team of ants. They're carrying a stick to bang the drum.
Ye-Ye: They're bringing it to the Chinese New Year parade, and it's about to begin.
Tolee: Uh-oh. We'd better hurry.
Ye-Ye: Go, dragon team! You can do it!
Kai-Lan, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: 以後見!
Ye-Ye: 好. 以後見.
Tolee: I like my job. (giggles) I'm the dragon tail.
Kai-Lan: I like my job too.
Rintoo: I don't wanna be in the middle.
Lulu: Dragon team, we're almost at the parade.
Hoho: Look! Everyone's waiting for us!
Rintoo: I don't wanna be in the middle. I don't wanna be in the middle!
Kai-Lan, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: (yell as the dragon falls down)
Rintoo: I don't wanna be in the middle!
Tolee: Kai-Lan, we have a big problem. Without Rintoo, the dragon falls down.
Hoho: 蚂蚁! 蚂蚁!
Kai-Lan: Dragon team! 我来了!
Kai-Lan, Rintoo, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: 下! 上! 下! 上!
Hoho: Look. They're all wearing clothes that are -紅色.
Kai-Lan: You're right Hoho. And look at the lanterns. What color are they? -紅色. (Fireworks go off as everyone exclaims.) Hey, what color are the fireworks? -紅色. You're right.
Kai-Lan, Rintoo, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: 上! 下!
Rintoo: I like being in the middle!
Kai-Lan, Rintoo, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: 下! 上!
Ye-Ye: 好. 吃饺子了.
Tolee: 好吃.
Rintoo: 好吃.
Hoho: 好好吃!
Ye-Ye: Guess what. I have something very special for everyone. 压岁钱.
Kai-Lan: On Chinese New Year, we get envelopes that are -紅色.
Rintoo: And inside is something really, really special.
Kai-Lan, Rintoo, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: Ye-Ye, 新年快樂.
Kai-Lan: Ye-Ye, Ye-Ye, 新年快樂.
Ye-Ye: 新年快樂.
Hoho: 饺子好好吃.
Kai-Lan: Hoho loves dumplings. Mmm! (Kai-Lan eats a dumpling) 饺子好好吃. Ye-Ye makes the best dumplings.
Rintoo: Kai-Lan! Kai-Lan!
Kai-Lan: That's Rintoo. Come on. Ye-Ye, Hoho, 以後見.
Rintoo: Kai-Lan, look what we found.
Kai-Lan: 鼓. 可以打鼓.
Lulu: When do you get to play it?
Rintoo: Yeah. When? When?
Ye-Ye: 新年快樂.
Kai-Lan: 看! 龙来了!
Kai-Lan, Rintoo, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: 恭喜! 恭喜!
Ye-Ye: 新年快樂.
Hoho: 謝謝, Ye-Ye.
Lulu: 謝謝, Ye-Ye.
Tolee: 謝謝, Ye-Ye.
Rintoo: 謝謝, Ye-Ye.
Kai-Lan: 謝謝, Ye-Ye.
Rintoo: I'm sorry I let go. But now I know the middle is important. So, I'm going to do my job.
Kai-Lan: Look, our friends are here. Rintoo, Tolee, Hoho and Lulu.
Lulu: 你好, Kai-Lan.
Tolee: 你好, Kai-Lan.
Rintoo: 你好, Kai-Lan.
Hoho: 你好, Kai-Lan.
Kai-Lan: I love Chinese New Year. We get to be with our family and friends all day long. 請進. (The friends come in the house) 新年快樂.
Rintoo, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: 新年快樂!
Kai-Lan: Hey, there's somebody else we should say "Happy Chinese New Year" to.
Kai-Lan, Rintoo, Lulu, Tolee & Hoho: 新年快樂!

Songs[]

Happy Chinese New Year

Trivia[]

Chinese New Year is celebrated on February every year.
This is the first episode to be based on a Chinese holiday.
This episode is included on the 2009 DVD release of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan Celebrate With Kai-Lan, and the 2011 DVD release of Nickelodeon Food with Friends..
This is one of the only episodes to be included on more than one DVD. The only others are Beach Day, Safari Pals. and Lulu Day

Errors[]

During the flashback scene during the "We Gotta Gotta Try to Find the Reason Why" segment, the flashback freezes when Rintoo says "I don't wanna be in the middle!"