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Question

Your impression of China? Old?

Answer 1

Anyone who hasn't been to China has the constant impression that its "old". Well tell you what. I've lived there long enough to know that it is just as modern as any American city. The only difference is that China has more culture then America. They still use chopsticks. So what? Its so much easier. And in the countryside, here and there, you see old women picking rice. So what? In the US, old folks still own farms. Its all a different culture. Thats all. Where i lived for 10 years, i would see mercedes everywhere. Casinos popping up everywhere. McDonalds, KFC, theatres, ice skating rinks, etc etc.
Everyone is fed properly. We still think that China is communist, but its modernized, and half republic or stuff.
And Hollywood wise, i thought that American paparazzi was hell. Apparently not. I'v seen chinese "People Magazine" and believe me when i say, american fame isn't half as bas as chinese fame. So please believe me when i say China is a normal country just like America. It just has a more historical backround. Whats wrong with history???

Answer 2

Of course China is old.Its culture has been around since the dawn of time. A land of mist,dragons and mystery.Hidden behind the Great Wall of China.Homeland of Lao Tzu,Mencius and Confucius.
From the Spring and Autumn Annals,it is clear that China was civilized,when most countries were still hunter gatherers.The Bronze Age and Iron Age may well have begun in China.Well before reaching the West.

Answer 3

The Chinese are great people. We are a bit worried about your government. But at least they keep law and order and feed almost everyone.

Answer 4

my impression of china is that in fact it is very old indeed.

Answer 5

i love china

Answer 6

... I like Chinese food ... esp. those crispy deep fright
scorpions in oyster sauce .. mmh...

and I love those Chinese ladies ... but that' another story ...

Answer 7

The ancient Chinese called their land Chung-Kuo, which means "Middle Kingdom." The believed they were at the centre of the world, and that the people who lived north of Chung-Kuo were uncivilised. This is not hard to understand when you compared the advanced civilisation of ancient China to the nomadic Mongols who lived on the dry land north of the Great Wall.

Much of the land north of the Great Wall is steppe. Steppe is mostly treeless flat grassland that is unsuitable for agriculture. The tribes who lived on the steppe eventually became known as the Mongols. They maintained herds of sheep, goats, and cattle.

The Mongols believed that water was a live spirit and that it would be sinful to pollute it. They did not wash their clothes or bodies because they believed it would anger their gods. They were terrified of rain and thunder. A Russian solder who travelled to Mongolia in the nineteenth century described the Mongols this way:

"The first things that strikes the traveller in the life of the Mongol is his excessive dirtiness: He never washes his body and very seldom his face and hands. Owing to his constant dirt, his clothing swarms with parasites, which he amuses himself by killing in the most unceremonious way. It is a common sight to see a Mongol open his sheepskin or kaftan to catch an offending insect and to execute him on the spot between his front teeth. The uncleanness and dirt amidst which they live is partly attributable to their dislike, almost amounting to dread, of water…"



Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was one of the world’s greatest conquerors. He was born in AD1167, the son of a minor chief in what is now eastern Mongolia, and was originally given the name Temujin. Temujin united the nomadic tribes of Mongolia in a disciplined military state. He became known as Genghis Khan, or "Universal Ruler."

In 1207, Genghis Khan led the Mongols on the first of many destructive, bloody invasions. Nobody knows exactly how many people were slaughtered by his destructive raids, by even the most conservative estimates suggest several million people died. Genghis Khan never learn-ed how to read, but his success as a ruler resulted from his superior military organisation, strategy and mobility.

Genghis Kahn’s grandson, Kublai Khan, conquered China. Kublai Khan moved his capital to the city now known as Beijing in 1271. He probably did not know Kublai Khan how to speak Chinese, but he took the Chinese name Yuan for his dynasty. The Yuan was the only foreign dynasty to rule all of China. At its height, the Mongol empire stretched from Korea to Hungary and as far south as Vietnam. It was the largest empire the world has ever known. The Mongols are remembered mostly for their ferocious military force, but they improved the road system linking China with Russia and promoted trade throughout the empire and with Europe.

After Kublai Khan died in 1294, the Mongols became less warlike. They were resented as an elite, privileged class exempt from taxation. Several natural disasters and a peasant rebellion caused the Mandate of Heaven to shift to a Buddhist peasant, Hung-wu. Hung-wu expelled over 60,000 Mongols and began the Ming Dynasty.


The Land of Genghis Khan -- National Geographic profiled the Universal Leader of the Mongols in December, 1996 and February, 1997. The Internet version of the article is fascinating! Note that National geographic refers to the tents the Mongols live in as gers. I used the term yerts. They are the same word. Yert is the more common spelling, but either is accepted






China and the west first became aware of one another in the second century BC. Chinese traders exchanged silks, tea, furs, and spices for gold, silver, precious stones, glass, ivory, horses, and wool. The primary trade route between China and the west was the Silk Road, a 4,000-mile caravan route through South Asia and the Middle East. The Silk Road was also a route for the exchange of information and ideas. Buddhism traveled from the Indian subcontinent to China by the Silk Road.

Very few people traveled the entire legnth of the Silk Road. Goods passed from one trader to another in short segments. Trade resembled a chain, with each trader and segment of the trade route representing a link in the trade. The Silk Road was often very dangerous to travel. Muslim Turks seized much of the land along the Silk Road in the tenth century. Mongol armies used the Silk Road in the thirteenth century to expand their empire. The Silk Road lost its importance after Vaco daGama circumnavigated Africa to find a water route to India. It then became easierto travel between Europe and China by sea.
After the Great wall of China to the silk route road trade is well known as above.Other Chinese local kings are not well known.

The Question was for the old China that is why only old history of China was touched.

Answer 8

我爱中国, 中国的文化和中国的菜。