Chinese Writing

As many people know, Chinese language is one of the hardest languages in the world. It has many dialects and many different characters for writing. The "art of writing" as they call it in China is very difficult and rare- due to constant development of new characters in their written and verbal language. This is why a lot of Chinese Art is actually filled with their written symbols. Symbols vary in their difficulty too. There are some that more difficult and used by knowledgeable people or for Art; and others used for regular writing. Here is an example:

Education fact... Tang Dynasty....

Education was a big part of Chinese culture. At first it was just noble people who were educated and they were only men, later they started to educate Nobel women too-because they spent most of the time with future rulers of the country who were suppose to be very well educated. In the Tang dynasty, anyone with an education was expected to greet as well as say goodbye to another person in poetic verse composed on the spot. Can you imagine how difficult it is to compose a poem on the spot? But, apparently for that time it was a regular thing for every educated person.

Cost of Olympic Games in China....

I'm  sure many people watched Olympic Games of 2008 that were in Beijing. It was a grandiose show! Most people could not even imagine that a person is able to come up with and make so many interesting and fascinating things. The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing turned out to be the most expensive games in history. Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens were estimated to cost around $15 billion, the Beijing Games were estimated to cost a whopping $40 billion.

Flag of China

"...China’s national flag was adopted in September 1949 and first flown in Tiananmen Square (the world’s largest public gathering place) on October 1, 1949, the day the People’s Republic of China was formed. The red in the flag symbolizes revolution. The large star symbolizes communism and the little stars represent the Chinese people. The position of the stars represents the unity of the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party..." (http://facts.randomhistory.com/)

Another thing about Chinese Flag is that stars represent people's unity under Communism.

Smart people of China...

It is known that Chinese people are extremely smart. A lot of people believe it is due to their dedication to studying and consistent repetition. But I found one fact that defiantly shows their smart generations started to evolve a long time ago. By the second century B.C., the Chinese discovered that blood circulated throughout the body and that the heart pumped the blood. In Europe, circulation wasn’t discovered until the early seventeenth century by William Harvey (1578-1657).

Royal Chinese customs

I found information that "..It was customary for wealthy men and women in the late empire to grow the nails of their little fingers extremely long as a sign of their rank. They often wore decorative gold and silver nail guards to protect their nails..." This is defiantly royal way of showing their status in society and their nobility because only they can do nothing and grow their nail, unlike working class people who work all the time with their hands.

Color in Chinese Culture

I have read that color also means a lot in Chinese culture. There are so many interesting meanings that Chinese put in to color. Probably no other culture in the world has that much meaning in color. Here are some examples: White-symbolises purity, as in many cultures, but also sometimes connects to death and is a funeral color for Chinese culture; Red- is a color of happiness and used in all holidays, red envelopes are used for greeting cards it symbolizes good luck; Green- is very unpopular color, they have a saying about a men wearing a Green Hat, which means his wife is unfaithful; Blue-Green- on the other hand is a symbol of spring and represents nature and renewal; but Blue or Dark Blue- is also a color for funerals and also symbolizes immortality; Yellow- represents freedom, it is considered most beautiful color in China; symbolizes royalty and a symbolic color of five legendary emperors of ancient China; it is thought to generate Yin and Yang and is a center of everything; it is also respected color of Chinese Buddhist and sometimes used by them in funerals as a mourning color.