what is the most fasinating fact about china??

Question

i need to find a really interesting fact about china! it could be about anything ~~~~~~~~ food, music, clothes, population, language or just about the country itself! plz help!

Answer 1

I found some facts: I hope it helps
Ice cream was invented in China around 2000BC
when the Chinese packed a soft milk and rice mixture
in the snow.

China is the fourth largest country in the world. China is sometimes a day ahead of the United States.

The Chinese year is based on the cycles of the moon. This is called a lunar schedule. A complete cycle of the Chinese calendar takes 60 years. The Chinese calendar dates back to 2600 B.C. It is the oldest known calendar.

When a Chinese child loses a baby tooth, it doesn't get tucked under the pillow for the tooth fairy. If the child loses an upper tooth, the child's parents plant the tooth in the ground, so the new tooth will grow in straight and healthy. Parents toss a lost bottom tooth up to the rooftops, so that the new tooth will grow upwards , too.

Long ago, silk making was a closely guarded secret. Anyone who gave the secret away could be killed

Red is considered a lucky color in China. At one time wedding dresses were red. New Year's banners, clothing, and lucky money envelopes are still red.

Fourth graders are expected to know 2,000 of the over 40,000 written Chinese characters. By the time they leave college, they will know 4,000 or 5,000 characters. Each character is learned by looking at it and memorizing it.

Answer 2

The Chinese smoke a lot, hawk and spit a lot (perhaps there's a connection), more or less invented glazed pottery, gave gunpowder to the world, developed and practise Chinese medicine (which may have a lot to teach us occidentals), and established a nation while the rest of the world was scratching about in the dirt. Gambling is an addiction for many more Chinese than for any other ethnic group - they set great store by luck.

One thing I have found to admire is that, in the commercial sense, a deal is a deal, and that once a deal is done, the fact that it hasn't been recorded on a piece of paper doesn't matter. People once said "An Englishman's word is his bond." Well, maybe that was true once, but from my experience I should rather rely on a Chinaman/woman's word.

One abiding memory of China is a couple of guys by the roadside, with a washing-up bowl in which they were skinning a dead dog. Well, don't knock it - protein can be hard to find in a poor area, and if you aren't a vegetarian, a dead animal to eat is just a dead animal to eat.

Answer 3

Sooner or later the Chinese will rise up and crush the American tyrant for being the beast it is , and then you will all live in America town. Bush is a madman and the voters who keep him there need educated about the rest of the world and the damage you Americans are doing to it. As the biggest world polluters Oil is at the root of every American war of recent times , first only to being racist , greedy and world dominating . If the Iraq population was being maltreated by Saddam , that's nothing to the poverty and starvation you idiots have foisted on them , no work , jobs money or food supplies .......WELL DONE AMERICA .... Don't make me laugh , more like I'm being sick at the vulgar attitude of a supposed great nation.

Answer 4

China is one of the few countries where fossils of homo gigantus (aka BIG FOOT) have been found.

Some say that Kung Fu was made as a different form of meditation. Monks were getting "fat and lazy" with sitting meditation.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 years old and lived in China in 1910.

There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.

Answer 5

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In the China Sea and western Pacific hurricanes are known as typhoons?
China won their first Winter Olympic gold medals in Salt Lake City?
China has only about 200 different family names?
Tennis is one of China's fastest growing sports?
China invented the first kites and they where used in wars?
Trouble in China is symbolized by 2 women living together under 1 roof?
Bird's nest are served in Chinese restaurants throughout the world. The swallow birds nest are picked from caves of the Island of Koh Phi Phi in Thailand?
The Great Wall of China is about 4,000 miles long?
China adopted the new Gregorian calendar in 1949?
China is the fourth largest producer of gas and oil in the world?
Shanghai in China is the most populated city in the world?
Some people in China work as apologisers?
Chinese were the first to use paper?
All Disney characters was banned for 40 years in China?
The unemployment in China is very low, about 0.2%?
The wheelbarrow is inveted by a chinese?
China produces more pears, potatoes, cotton, Tobacco, and rice than any other country does?
In Chinese language China is called Zhong Guo. Zhong Guo means Land of the Middle?
China is said to be the birthplace of tea?
Finish everything on your plate is a bit rude?
The population in China is about 1,260,000,000?
In China they call black tea as red tea?
About 60 years is considered to be a life span in China?
Make much noise when eating soup is a good thing in China?
In China tree hugging is forbidden?
Some statistics says that 5,000,000 Chinese will visit a ski resorts this year? A few years ago there where only a few?
China has about 50 minority groups?
Chinese New Year is called The Spring Festival in China?
The Albanian language is one of most studied foreign languages?
Friday the 13th is suppose to be day of luck?
Brides "always" get married in red colors?
In China there are no difference between the word "Rice" and "food"?
In China astronauts are called taikonauts?
There are about 40000 characters in Chinese language?
In China there are more people who speaks English than in the U.S.?

Answer 6

The Paris-based organisation Reporters Without Borders has frequently criticised restrictions on the media in China, and says Chinese journalists are routinely forbidden from mentioning many sensitive subjects.

In its 2005 world press freedom index, China came 159th out of the 167 countries listed.

Answer 7

The Ch'in Dynasty is the one which gave its name to China.

The first Ch'in emperor, in 221 BC, was Ch'in Shih Huang Ti.

He started out as the king of a smaller state, but he was able to force all the other states to accept his rule too, so then he became the emperor of all China

Ch'in ordered his army to join up all the little(built to defend the kingdoms of northern china) walls to make the Great Wall of China. The wall ended up being 1,500 miles long

Answer 8

I have lived a life that sometimes I am not proud of and could do with a new direction in life. I was watching " The Passion " the other night and it showed the crucifixion and I am have now decided that I want to read the Bible and go to church because I need something else in my life. Maybe not fascinating but true for me.

Answer 9

More people speak english in China than do in the United States.

Answer 10

I just wanted to correct Jessica's trivia fact. She said that people are allowed to kill baby girls in China so they could have more boys. This is not true. Boys are valued more in China because they represent an heir to the family name, but they will have girls too. They are also encouraging people to have more girls now because there's not enough. Also, if you have two kids, they USED to fine you but NEVER make you kill them.