Fun Facts About China (Part I)

1) The Chinese New Year celebration lasts for 15 days.

2) In China, every year is represented by one of 12 animals.

3) China’s Bailong Elevator carries visitors more than 300m up a cliff’s edge.

4) You can buy green-bean-flavoured ice pops in China!

5) In Ancient China, soldiers sometimes wore armour made from paper.

6) In 2010 a 2,400-year-old pot of soup was unearthed in Xi’an, China.

7) The Forbidden City, a palace complex in Beijing, contains about 9,000 rooms!

8) Found in northern China, long-eared jerboas have ears that are one-third longer than their heads!

9) People race boats with dragon designs at a Chinese festival in the spring.

10) Chinese monal birds sometimes build nests in caves.

11) Put together, all of China’s railways lines could loop around earth twice!

12) The mortar used to bind the Great Wall’s stones was made with sticky rice!

13) 7th-century Emperor Tang of Shang had 94 ‘ice men’ who made him ice-cream.

14) Temperatures in China‘s Turpan Depression can range from 49°C in summer to -29°C in winter.

15) Asiatic golden cats in the country’s south sometimes communicate by spitting.

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