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china facts


 * Ni hao (nee-how) (hello), my name is jordan william yee
 * BEIJING-CAPITAL
 * 9,579,000-SQUARE KILOMETERS
 * 1,321,851,888-POPULATION
 * MANDARIN CANTEENS CHINESE-LANGUAGES ||||~ [|Currency] || [|Yuan] [|[c]] ([[ISO 4217|CNY [|[c]] ]]) ||


 * SHANGHAI-LARGEST CITY
 * HU JINTAO-PRESIDENT

COUNT TO TEN IN CHINESE
 * YAH
 * YEE
 * SAM
 * SEE
 * IM
 * LOOK
 * CHUK
 * BUK
 * GUL
 * SUP


 * The Great Wall of China was started over two and a half thousand years ago and is more than 5,000 km long.


 * The most important celebration is the Chinese New Year. This is the biggest national holiday and shops and offices are closed for three days. As well as the traditional festivals also there are special days for teachers as it is called teachers day.

IN CHINA RED AND PURPLE ARE THE MOST COMMON COLORS AS IT GIVES EVERYBODY GOOD LUCK as also number 8 gives everybody good luck as the number 4 gives people bad luck.

In fact, one fifth of the world's population lives in China.

they start school at 8 o clock and they go to school 6 days a week and get the sunday off.

For supper, each member of my family starts with a bowl of rice. Then we can help ourselves to the nearest dish which might include soup, pork, and fish. For breakfast we have noodles and leftover rice. The cutlery we use are chopsticks and soup spoons. Tea is the favorite Chinese drink.

In much of Southeast Asia chopsticks are usually used when eating noodles. Chopsticks are made out of [|wood], [|bamboo], [|metal], [|bone], [|ivory], and in modern times, [|plastic] as well. The pair of sticks is maneuvered in one hand – between the thumb and fingers – and used to pick up pieces of food.
 * Chopsticks** are a pair of small equal-length tapered sticks.