China
Chinese History
China is a country with a long and rich history and ancient civilization. Chinese civilization began with the legendary sage-emperors Huang Di and Yan Di in the area of the Yellow River Basin. After centuries, the two tribes gradually merged into one by the time of the Xia Dynasty. Chinese people usually regard themselves as the descendants of Yan and Huang or call themselves Hua Xia People or Hua People. It was these people who established a state in the region of the Yellow River Basin – which was believed to be the center of the world, so the state was named “Middle Kingdom”.
The history of China is generally told from the Xia Dynasty, which began in the 21st century B.C. and was followed by various dynasties until 1912 when Dr. Sun Yat-sen was proclaimed the provisional president of the Republic of China.
Population: 1,355,692,576
This makes everyday life in china much harder, like for example traffic is always congested and it is harder to get a job.
Ethnic Groups
Han Chinese 91.6%, Zhuang 1.3%, other (includes Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai and other nationalities) 7.1% (The people in the photo are Han Chinese)
Literacy: 95.1%
Religion
Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, folk religion 21.9%, Hindu < .1%, Jewish < .1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist), unaffiliated 52.2%
Languages
Mandarin, Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages
(Mandarin Alphabet)
Popular Sports
Bag-mitten
Baseball
Basketball
Important Health Statistics
Birth rate: 12.17 births/1,000 population
Death rate: 7.44 deaths/1,000 population
Infant Mortality Rate: 14.79 deaths/1,000 live births
Life Expectnacy: 75.15 years
Hospital Bed Density: 3.8 beds/1,000 population
Manufacturing in China
Apartments in China
Mix of Old and New clothing in China
Daily Life in China
- Though there are still examples of traditional Chinese clothing most Chinese people wear clothes similar to like ours in america suits for business and jeans for pleasure.
- Some common jobs are that 45% of Chinese people are employed in service industries, while another 45% are employed in manufacturing.
- Chinese people travel in all sorts of different ways by bus, plane, cars, and trains this is because China is such a large and prosperous country
- Typical housing has been evolving over the last several years in china from agricultural based houses to inner city houses.