Interesting Facts about China

China Interesting Facts

China, officially People's Republic of China, is a country in Asia. Here are some interesting facts about China:

Duration of New Year in China is 15 days.

Soldiers in Ancient China occasionally used paper armor.

Around 9,000 rooms make up the Beijing palace complex known as the Forbidden City.

A Chinese celebration in the spring features boat races featuring dragon motifs.

Chinese railroads could round the globe twice if they were all combined.

In China sticky rice was used to create the mortar that held the stones of the Great Wall together.

In China the 94 "ice men" who made ice cream for Tang of Shang in the 7th century.

The giant pandas of China are skilled swimmers.

A large number of Chinese emperors believed they were dragon ancestors.

China is home to half of all pigs on world.

Red is a color that Chinese brides frequently wear because it is fortunate.

Chinese people make up one in every five individuals on the planet.

With around 1.3 billion inhabitants, China is the most populated country on the planet.

In Chinese folklore, a monster by the name of "Nian" (Chinese for "year") emerges on New Year's Eve to devour humans.

Since 2009, Facebook has been prohibited in China.

China devoured 42.5 billion boxes of instant noodles in 2011.

The costliest Olympics were held in Beijing in 2008. They were $40 billion in cost.

Chinese inventors created paper money.

Table tennis is the national sport of China.

China forbids reincarnation. You need approval from the government.

China is a vast country located in East Asia. It shares borders with Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam.