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Mess with the Dragon

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Part 2
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Dont Mess with the Dragon

Questions to Answer
What does a Chinese
dragon symbolize in East
Asian culture?

Lyrics
CHINESE VILLAGER:
So you want to understand where I'm from?
You want to understand this dragon?
All you got to do right now is listen up:

Notes from Mr. P

Wiki Chinese Dragon

What is a dynasty?

I won't lie... it's been a long road,

From days of dynasties up in the
stronghold,
To today's China that's booming,
Let's take it back to the 1800's, shall we?
Check it...

Stronghold is
another name for a
fort.

The British want to trade,

They like the tea we brew and silk we
make.
Ok, but then they act like thugs,
Like, Perhaps we can just pay you in drugs.
Nah, we don't like that, so we fight back,
It's the Opium Wars, but it's not a nice
match,
'Cause our men are in the dens, addicted,
British warships blast us - win quick, kid.

Britain tried to
colonize or take
over and control
parts of China.

And after wars, we're fed up with the West,

The treaties make us weak, and the country
is a mess.
Sick of Christian missionaries, nah, we
don't trust 'em,
Boxers go to Beijing and they bust 'em.
Boxer Rebellion to keep us Chinese,
It didn't succeed, but the dynasty's weak.
And Sun Yat-sen showed up on the street,
To end the streak and overthrow the
dynasties. So

West refers to European countries

United States.

When time period does

the song start with?

What does the line

perhaps we can just pay
you in drugs mean?
What were the Opium
Wars?
Who won and why were
they fighting?

What was the Boxer

Rebellion? Why were they
fighting and who won?
How did the dynasty
system end?
Who was Sun Yatsen and
what did he support?

Dens refer to a
places where
people do drugs.

Missionary is someone who trying

people to join their religion
Treaty is an agreement.

Do you want to mess with the Dragon?

Do you want to wrestle the Dragon?
The West can't mess with the Dragon.
We speed up! Y'all fall back: dragging. (x2)
Who is Chairman Mao?

CHAIRMAN MAO:
Who's Mao? I'm a communist dude who

Peasant is a poor farmer.

What is a communist?
What was the long
march?

What was the Great Leap

Forward?
How did Mao
accidentally kill 30
million people?

What was the Cultural

Revolution?
What was the Little Red
Book?

What happened in
Tiananmen Square?

knew how,
2
To organize peasants to power, boom pow!
I show strength, move now, Long March,
Diss the Japanese, who came into our
parts.
I'm a communist just like Karl Marx,
I'm the Chairman, crafty like some card
sharks.
Whose face gets pasted all over?
I'm bigger than Superman, soup or
supernovas.

Japan invaded China during World

resulting in millions of deaths.

Wrap your mind around that like moo shu,

Time to take a Great Leap, let's move dude.
Melt down the steel, that's what y'all need
to do,
So we got a lot of steel but not a lot of food.
Oops! I guess I started a famine,
30 million died, then I started banning
Any thought that was not like mine,
Teachers got killed if they didn't toe the line.

Moo Shu is the name of a tradition

Chinese food dish.

We call this the Cultural Revolution,

Do you know young spies? I could use
some.
The Red Guard youth will report you if you
don't do
Exactly what you're supposed to.
I wrote a Little Red Book, I'm not lying,
The second most read book of all time.
People wanted freedom even after I died,
Tiananmen Square massacre in '89