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China in eight easy-going questions about the things it is best known for. Perfect to play together, whatever your age.
Eager beginner 0–3 · Dumpling lover 4–6 · Silk Road scholar 7–8
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Beijing means 'Northern Capital', a name it was given about 600 years ago, while the city of Nanjing, further south, means 'Southern Capital'. In 2022 Beijing became the first city ever to host both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games. Shanghai is a giant city too, famous for its skyscrapers.
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Wild giant pandas live in high mountain forests, mostly in the province of Sichuan. A newborn panda cub is pink, blind and toothless, and weighs only about 100 grams, roughly 1/800 of its mother's weight. Koalas, on the other hand, live only in Australia.
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An old legend tells of a beast called Nian that was afraid of loud noises and the colour red, which is why families hang red decorations and set off firecrackers. Children also get money in red envelopes, and these days many are sent by phone: in 2016, more than 32 billion digital red envelopes were sent over the holiday.
Photo: Michael Elleray from England, United Kingdom, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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The wall was built along the northern edge of the old Chinese states and empires, to protect them against nomadic peoples from the grasslands beyond. Counting all its branches, it stretches about 21,000 km. Despite the popular story, you cannot see it from the Moon with your eyes alone: from there it would look as thin as a hair seen from 3 km away.
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Papermaking is traditionally credited to Cai Lun, an official at the emperor's court, around the year 105, although even older paper-like scraps have been found in China. Paper is one of the 'Four Great Inventions' of ancient China, together with printing, gunpowder and the compass. Glass is far older and was first made in the Middle East or Egypt.
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The animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. A folk tale says their order comes from a great race across a river: the clever rat rode on the ox's back and jumped off just before the finish, so the rat came first and the ox second.
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Nearly a billion people speak Mandarin as their first language, more than any other language in the world. It uses tones: 'mā' said with a high, flat voice means mother, while 'mǎ', dipping down and up, means horse. Cantonese is spoken by about 80 million people, mostly in the southern province of Guangdong.
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Kung fu covers many Chinese fighting styles, and the monks of the Shaolin Temple, founded about 1,500 years ago, are especially famous for it. In Chinese, the word originally means any skill gained through hard work and patience, so even a great cook can be said to have good kung fu. Judo comes from Japan.
Photo: Shi Deru (a.k.a. Shawn Xiangyang Liu), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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