【英语时差8,16】Chinese Folk Tales in London 中国社区

let’s hear from this lady, Veronica Needa. Where does Veronica live? "Hello there, my name’s Veronica Needa, I have a Chinese name too, my Chinese name is Li Wi Kei, which is in Cantonese because I come from Hong Kong, and I make my home in London now.When I came to this country twenty plus years ago, I realised that a lot of the British-born Chinese, a lot of the Chinese people here were actually out of touch with a lot of those myths¹ and legends² and the old stories and overseas³ Chinese have had a lot of things like that missing⁴ for them, especially the young ones. And of course as a theatre worker, I was not just telling stories for the British community but also really for the British-Chinese community where I could.I also talk about another very special feature about the dragon which a lot of Chinese people have forgotten, or perhaps they don’t even know and that is the fact that it is said to resemble⁵ nine other animals. And I feel very connected to this aspect of the dragon because of course I’m Eurasian -I have four cultures, races, in my blood so I identify very strongly with the Chinese dragon. " Veronica: I remember you! Yes, that’s right. Did you like my dragon? Child: Yeah. Veronica: What did you like about my dragon most of all? Child: All the animals. Veronica: All the animals? All the different animals that the dragon is made of…