Fun Facts About China (Part II)

1) Developed about 5,000 years ago, the earliest chopsticks were used for cooking, not eating.

2) Hong Kong has more skyscrapers than any other city in the world.

3) Chinese white dolphins, which live off southern China, are often pink.

4) China is about the same size as the continental USA, but it only has one official time zone. Continental USA has four.

5) China’s Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys live at a higher altitude than any other primate except humans.

6) More people speak Mandarin, a Chinese Dialect, as their first language than any other language in the world.

7) China is home to a cluster of ancient rock pillars called the Stone Forest.

8) China’s Leshan Giant Buddha, a gigantic stone statue, has 5.5-m-long eyebrows!

9) China’s giant pandas are good swimmers.

10) Many Chinese emperors considered themselves to be descendants of dragons.

11) The word “ketchup” may come from a Chinese word for pickled-fish sauce.

12) Half of all pigs on earth live in China.

13) It took around 37 years to make the Terracotta Army, a set of around 8,000 clay soldiers built in Xi’an to guard an Emperor’s tomb. Take a look at these super-impressive statues in the video, below!

14) Dogs get special treats on one day of the Chinese New Year celebration.

15) Chinese brides often wear red, a colour considered to be lucky.

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