2 Chinese New Year Assembly plays

The first play is the traditional naming of the years. You could split the narrator's part, or roll Buddha/Jade Emperor into one person and/or ditch the cat. The 2nd play introduces Nian. We used a dad to play Nian, who does a lot of menacing and dancing about, but an extrovert Y5/6 could do it. This is not the version of the story in Wikipedia , but is the version on the People's Republic of China website.