List 10 facts about china

Answer 1

· The Chinese Flag - Today's Chinese flag was adopted in 1949 after the revolution in which the Communist party gained power. The red background of the Chinese flag symbolizes the bloodshed throughout the revolution and it's also the traditional color of the Chinese people.The large gold star stands for leadership and the four smaller stars represent different classes of the society peasants, workers, bourgeoisie, and capitalists, all united under the Communist Party.

· Chinese inventions -they made the first of these things, paper, printing, silk, kites, umbrellas, the abacus, porcelain and gunpowder.

· The Chinese New Year is the first day of the lunar calendar based on the cycles of the moon.

· There are twelve animals in the Chinese Zodiac. They are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. A full Zodiac is 12years and a calendar cycle is 60 years. There was a story about why these are the animals.

· When you write your name in Chinese you put your family name first then your first name. There are no middle names. In Ancient China, characters were written on animal bones, turtle shells, silk and bamboo slices.

· Chopsticks come from China. However, China was losing millions of acres of forest each year due to chopstick production. Now people are encouraged to recycle their chopsticks instead of throwing them out.