Interesting+Facts

Here are some interesting facts. In China, the government doesn't allow duo citizenship. Ice cream was invented in China at around 2000BC China is usually a day ahead of the U.S.A China is the fourth largest country in the world. China invented lots of stuff, including gunpowder, compasses, paper, wheelbarrows, kites, and umbrellas. The Chinese is based off of the cycles of the moon. It dates back to 2600BC, which is the oldest known calender. Every year has an animal. If a child looses an upper tooth, the parents plant it so that the new tooth will grow straight. Long ago, it was forbidden to tell anybody how to make silk. It was so much of a secret, that you could be killed if you told someone how to make silk. Wedding dresses are red and there is a red veil that covers the woman's face, the man has to take the veil off. Fourth graders are supposed to know how to read, write and say 2,000 of the 40,000 characters. You can't sound anything out so it is harder. Also, if you don't know how to write a certain character/word, you have no way of figuring it out other than checking the dictionary. The exact number of people in China is unknown. Most people think that it is around 1.3 billion (around 6% of the worlds people) to 2 billion people.