Happy Chinese New Year !!! Here is some magic from New York City Chinatown. Make sure you check out "magic4u #3" to learn some Chinese magic you can perform yourself at todays parties.

Here is a trick for Chinese New Year.

Hope you can hear me alright.

A cool series where I talk about an "injury" and the different approaches I use to try and heal it.

I've seen them performed in China, Taiwan and here in New York but I did not have the opportunity to record until a friend of mine showed me a link.. If you see them live, you will be fascinated as well..
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The Chinese bodhisattva (Buddhistic prophet) to whom childless women turn for help. He manifests himself in any conceivable form wherever a being needs his help, especially when someone is menaced by water, demons, fire, or sword. Kuan-yin, whose name means "Who Contemplates the [Supplicating] Sound of the World", along with Samantabhadra, Kshitigarbha (Di-cang) and Manjushri (Wen-shu), is one of the four great bodishattvas of Buddhism. Guan-yin is identified as the male bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, also known as Chenresi in Tibetan, "One Who Hears the Cries of the World".

Guan-yin

In more recent representation, Guan-yin is often depicted with distinct feminine features, an effect of Taoistic and Tantric influences from the 8th to 10th century. She is often depicted as the Thousand Armed, Thousand Eyed bodhisattva, and later in a form inspired by the Virgin Mary figures from the West. In many representations, Guan-yin has a child on one arm or appears in the company of a maiden who holds a fish basket or is shown together with Wei-tuo. In other depictions Guan-yin is shown standing on clouds or riding a dragon in front of a waterfall. As Guan-yin of the Southern Sea, she stands on a cliff in the midst of flaming waves and rescues shipwrecked persons from the sea (which symbolizes samsara, the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth). She usually holds a lotus blossom or a willow twig and a vase containing heavenly dew or the nectar of immortality.

Guan-yin is also worshipped in Japan as the goddess Kannon by both Buddhist and Shinto groups.

According to folk belief of eastern China, Guan-yin dwells on the island Pu-tuo-shan, which is the boddhisattva's sacred place.  less

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Girl on Girl Wrestling

Daniella here, so I was talking about calling Leah as guess who walked out of the bathroom. EDDIE! So since we haven't spoken in a while, we decided to sit and have lunch together. It was actually strangely   more...pleasent. So should I call Leah now?
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Eddie here and today Cliff and I took a ride in his piece of sh*t car named Sexual Chocolate. We should've taken my car.
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Eddie

How can they fit in the tube?

Chinese acrobat spins pizza dough at Huis Ten Bois in Kyushu, Japan.

Cartoonistic narration

Just sit back and enjoy this beautiful display!!!

Chinese acrobats can balance anything.

my daughter is learning chinese.. how smart is that???

Secret Chinese submarine gets snapped by a Google Earth satellite!
Note: Yes, not a secret anymore!
This will be public domain knowledge 24 hrs. after this post.
Just Google the words secret chinese submarine   more...and read the news!  less

Chinese New Year is based on the lunar calendar, which is the same calendar as the Jewish calendar. The coincidence of a 7-day week, and the same day of the week worldwide.

family, and mego, outing..
it was my daddys bday! yay!

This bear must be truly Chinese if its got so many acrobatic moves!

Check it out!

Performed and co-composed by Chang Jing

Hard Hitting Questions about Chinese Food. Sorry to all the people who can't hear me apparently my laptop doesn't pick up sound well.

Instruments :
Jinghu : small 2-stringed fiddle, high pitched (instrument of Beijing opera)
Erhu : two-stringed vertical fiddle
Dizi : transverse bamboo flute
Pipa : four-stringed lute with pear shaped body
  more...Guzheng : ancient zither with 16-26 strings
Yangqin : Chinese hammered dulcimer
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Performed by Lu Hong