A few fun facts about China !!

The PlayStation is illegal in China.

In ancient China, mirrors were believed to protect their owners from evil, making hidden spirits visible and revealing the secrets of the future. A person who had been scared by a ghost could be healed by looking in the mirror. Mirrors were often hung on the ceilings of burial chambers

The bat is a traditional good luck symbol that is frequently depicted in designs for porcelain, textiles, and other crafts

Did you know that about 100 million chinese residents live on less than 1US$ per day

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The Chinese have made silk since at least 3,000 B.C. The Romans knew China as “Serica,” which means “Land of Silk.” The Chinese fiercely guarded the secrets of silk making, and anyone caught smuggling silkworm eggs or cocoons outside of China was put to death

China’s “one child” policy has created a significant gender imbalance. There are currently 32 million more boys than girls in China. In the future, tens of millions of men will be unable to find wives, prompting some scholars to suggest that this imbalance could lead to a threat to world security.

Nearly 700 million people in china drink contaminated water.

Men and women in high ranks were needed to grow their nails very long to show their position.

China has some cool bridges

Company executives in China can get sentenced to death for committing fraud.

In July, China’s head of the State Food and Drug Administration was found to have accepted bribes from pharmaceutical companies.

Dragons are animals that represent china

China used more cement in 3 years(2011 to 2013) than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century.

The Chinese were using the decimal system as early as the fourteenth century B.C., nearly 2,300 years before the first known use of the system in European mathematics. The Chinese were also the first to use a place for zero.

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China was founded in October 1st 1949

Lots of languages spoken in China, including Mandarin, Yue, Wu, Minbei, Minnan, Xiang, Gan and Hakka.

China is a communist government

Half of all the world's pigs live in China.

The Great Wall of China is the largest man made structure in the world, stretching an incredible 8,850 kilometres (5,500 miles).

Fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom. They were invented in early 1900 in San Francisco.

Martial arts are practiced throughout China and were largely developed from ancient farming and hunting methods.

According to popular legend, tea was discovered by the Chinese emperor Shennong in 2737 B.C. when a tea leaf fell into his boiling water. The Chinese consider tea to be a necessity of life

The World's First Paper Money was created in China

1,400 years ago.

Tens and thousands of girls are abandoned because of China's one child policy.

China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.

One in every five people in the world is Chinese. China’s population is estimated to reach a whopping 1,338,612,968 by July 2009. China’s population is four times that of the United States.

White, rather than black, is the Chinese color for mourning and funerals.

The World's Biggest Mall,located in China,is 99% empty.

Table tennis is china's national sport.

For the next three years, McDonald's is going to open one restaurant every day in China.

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About 1.35 billion people live in china.

BEIJING IS THE CAPITAL OF CHINA

The famous Giant Panda is found near the Yangtze River in China.

China invented ice cream

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Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy.

By 2020, China could have between 30 million and 40 million men who cannot find wives.