Facts about China That Most of People Don't Know

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1) Starting with nickname the Middle Kingdom Zhang Guo it's China's most traditional Name and it goes way back to the very beginning. Ancient people didn't know what lies beyond their lands just that they were surrounded by natural barriers on all sides so they assumed that they must be the center of the world.

2) China is the only remaining ancient civilization it traces back over 40 centuries.

3) The earliest form of ice cream comes from Ancient China King Tang of Shang. He had 94 of his men go the mountains for fresh ice then they'd mix it with other ingredients like buffalo milk and flour to make ice cream for their king.

4) Some people believe that pasta comes from China and Marco Polo brought it to Italy much later in the 13th Century.

5) Chopsticks have been around for 4000 years but they were originally made for cooking not as eating utensils. They came in handy when grabbing hot things out of pots. Also, the Chinese use 45 billion chopsticks a year. In comparison to Japanese kind, the Chinese chopsticks are longer, thicker, and blunt at the end. One uses thousands of nerves and over 50 muscles in your fingers wrists arm and shoulders while using chopsticks.

6) Mandarin is spoken by more people as their first language than any other language or dialect in the world. There are over 800 million native Mandarin speakers while there are 1.2 billion people who speak other Chinese dialects.

7) Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of China and the country is named after him. In one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time his tomb was accidentally found in 1874 when some farmers were digging a well it was full of life-sized clay statues of warriors, chariots, and horses it dates back to 208 BC.

8) Sunglasses were invented here in the 12th century but for an entirely different purpose, Chinese judges wore them to hide their facial expressions during trials.

9) China is the home to the Stone Forest it looks exactly what it sounds like there are giant limestone formations estimated to be over 270 million years old.

10) The Leshan Giant Buddha is a humongous 230 feet tall statue in the Sichuan province it took almost 100 years to complete and his feet can fit 100 people.

11)Chinese emperors thought that their ancestors were dragons which is why this creature is sacred here.

12) The Great Wall isn't just one single wall it's a collection of them and all it's 13000 miles weren't built all at once it involved about 20 dynasties over 2000 years.13,000 miles that's longer than the distance from the north to the South Pole. The great wall is the largest human-made structure ever built the Chinese call it Wanli Chong Chong which translates as the endless wall.

13) Ketchup is a Chinese word for pickled fish sauce there originally wasn't any tomato in it it was made from anchovies mushrooms and garlic unsalted fish brine.

14)The game choo-choo was invented around the second or third century BC and it's considered the earliest form of soccer the name translates as kickball yet the sport in which China has more Olympic

gold medals than any other country ping pong started in Victorian England.

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