Big Bird in China

Big Bird in China was a 1983 television special produced by Sesame Workshop and CCTV. It was originally broadcast on May 29, 1983 on NBC. The special was based on the popular television series Sesame Street. Big Bird, Barkley and Little Xiao Fu travel through China to find Feng Huang, the Phoenix bird.

The story starts in New York Citys Chinatown, where Big Bird peeks at an old scroll with a picture of a beautiful phoenix on it. The shopkeeper explains that the phoenix is magical and lives in China. To find the phoenix, Big Bird will first have to find the four places pictured on the scroll. Big Bird thinks, Well, what a good thing it would be if a great big American bird went to meet that beautiful Chinese bird I mean, she could tell me everything about China, and then I could come home and tell everybody here He sets out with Barkley on a boat and makes it to China.Highlights include Chinese landmarks like the Great Wall of China and Beijing, Big Bird learning the little duckling dance, and a song to teach Chinese words. A character called the Monkey King helps Big Bird and Xiao Fu on their quest. Meanwhile, Oscar the Grouch decides to try to dig his way to China from his trash can, but when he gets to China, he finds it boring and goes straight home. ........

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