The Chinese language is the language that has the largest number of speakers, more than 1.2 billion, throughout world.
Chinese is spoken by more people than any other language in the world. Since estimates of the current population ofChinaare only approximate, figures for the number of speakers of Chinese must likewise be approximate. An educated guess would be about 1.2 billion in the People’s Republic ofChina, to which must be added another 20 million onTaiwan, 5 million inHong Kong, 4 million inMalaysia, l.75 million inSingapore, one million inVietnam, and lesser numbers in other countries including theUnited States. Thus Chinese has more than twice the number of speakers of English, though of course it lacks the universality of English and is spoken by few people not of Chinese origin. Chinese has been an official language of the United Nations since the founding of the organization in 1945.
Though Chinese has many dialects, Mandarin, based on the pronunciation ofPeking, is considered the standard and is spoken by about two-thirds of the population.
Chinese is a tonal language, meaning different tones or intonations distinguish words that otherwise are pronounced identically. The four Chinese tones are (I) high level; (2) high rising; (3) low rising; (4) high falling to low.
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Blog :Highest Plateau
Aug 14
The highest plateau in the world is China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with an average height of 4,500 meters above sea level. The Himalayan Mountain is located in southern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its highest peak, Mount Qomolangma (or Mount Everest) is 8,848.13 meters above sea level. It is the highest peak in the world.
As the highest plateau on earth, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, situated in southwest China, is known as the “roof of the world”. Besides, it is also the largest plateau in China, covering 2.5 million square kilometers, or nearly a quarter of the national total land area. Surrounded and traversed by several mountain ranges, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is where many of China’s major rivers originate. Boasting over 1,000 lakes, it is also a plateau with the most lakes worldwide, including the Qinghai Lake — China’s largest saltwater lake.
Blog :Greatest Canyon
Aug 14
The greatest canyon in the world is China’s Brahmaputra Canyon, 504.6 kilometers long and 6,009 meters deep at its deepest spot. Its average depth is 2,268 meters.
The river with the highest elevation in the world - the Brahmaputra River, has its origin in the Jiemayangzong Glacier in the northern slope of the Himalayas. Its rapid currents roll on in waves towards the east; at the time when it passes Mt. Namjagbarwa in the eastern end of the Himalayas, it has a horseshoe-like bend along the peak. Thick and primitive forests cover the two banks of the river valley and a magnificent green canyon is brought before our eyes. That is the Great Brahmaputra Canyon.
The Brahmaputra Canyon slept soundly for millions of years. No one knows it is a global most. In the early of 1994, Chinese scientists found by accident that the Brahmaputra Canyon, which cuts through the Himalayas, has an average depth of 5,000 meters with the maximum depth of 5,382 meters; from Pai to Baxika, the total length of the canyon is 496.3 kilometers.
Therefore, the great canyon is no doubt the deepest canyon on the globe. The discovery of this great canyon was acknowledged as “an important discovery on earth in the end of the 20th century”; but its unexpected discovery is a sure result of the long-term and backbreaking labors of generations of Chinese scientists. The mighty scenes of the great canyon give the whole world a pleasant surprise.
Blog :Oldest Tree
Aug 14
The oldest tree in the world is China’s gingko, which first appeared during the Jurassic Age some 160 million years ago.The Ginkgo is the sole survivor of a primitive order of plants dating from more than 200 million years ago. Now, the trees shoot forth sprouts in spring, and their leaves turn glowing yellow in autumn, decorating many parks or roadsides nationwide.
Surviving about over a million years, the Ginkgo has remained basically unchanged which has been verified by 200-million-year-old fossils. Because of the trees survivability and hardiness, it was believed to increase stamina and longevity and has been called The Fountain of Youth. The wood is hard and corrosion-resistant, a good choice for furnishings.
The earliest known medicinal use dates back to 2800 BC. Gingko today seems to becoming the herb of choice. European researchers have been constantly studying ginkgo since the 1960’s. In 1995, gingko was ranked 5th in popularity at U.S. health food stores.
Gingko is being used for a wide variety of ailments from senility, asthma and allergies, tinnitus (Ringing in the ears) and Fibromyalgia. It is also used as an anti oxidant to improve circulation, brain functions and memory. The seeds are said to possibly contain anti cancer properties and are sedative and astringent.
A blind study showed positive results in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease over a period up to 3 months. Some improvement showed in 1 month.
Blog :Rarest Animal
Aug 14
The Giant Panda of China is one of the rarest animals in the world. Giant pandas live in remote high mountains in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces and eat bamboo. They are a surviving species of the Fourth Ice Age and are known as a “living fossil”. They are regarded as China’s “national treasure”.
The Giant Panda is a large sturdy bear-like mammal with a very thick woolly black and white coat. The ears, eye patches, legs and shoulders are black and the rest of the body is white. The nose is black. The forepaws have an extended pad on the sole and on the first digit to assist in climbing and grasping bamboo. Giant pandas stand between two and three feet tall at the shoulder (on all four legs), and reach four to six feet long. Males are larger than females, weighing up to 250 pounds in the wild. Females rarely reach 220 pounds.
Although it has a body like a carnivore, closely related to the bear family, Giant Panda specializes in mainly vegetarian diet, consisting mainly of the shoots and roots of bamboo. They sometimes eat other plants such as horsetails and pine bark. They also occasionally eat carcasses and catch small animals.
They inhabit in mountain forests with dense stands of bamboo, at an elevation of between 1400 and 3500 meters, but descending as low as 800 meters in winter. They live mostly on the ground but are good tree climbers, often sheltering in hollow trees, rock crevasses and caves.
The Giant Panda is mostly shy and nocturnal. They are solitary, with individual home ranges of about 2.5 square kilometers, but they share the surrounding areas with other individuals. During the mating season they may expand the sizes of their ranges. They mark their trails with scent from an anal gland. Adult giant pandas are generally solitary, but they do communicate periodically through scent marks, calls, and occasional meetings.
The longest man-made architecture in the world is the Great Wall in China. It climbs and descends on the ridges of mountains in northern China and has a total length of more than 6,700 kilometers. It was first started during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods.
The construction of the segments that later made up the Great Wall began during the Spring and Autumn Period and lasted into the Warring States Period (770-221 BC). Many feudal states built hundreds ofliof wall fortifications as boundaries. These unlinked walls were the embryonic form of the Great Wall. In 221 BC, Emperor Qin Shihuang ordered the walls of the Qin, Zhao and Yan kingdoms in the north to be linked up and reinforced, after he united China. As one of the most magnificent ancient military defense works in the world, the Great Wall was listed in theUNESCO World Cultural Heritage Listin 1987.
The Great Wall is one of the oldest and greatest constructions in the world. Its construction work lasted for over 2,000 years. The best preserved and the most magnificent remains today were done in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It was during the Ming Dynasty that the Wall took on its present form.
At that time, it stretched some 6,700 km from the Yalujiang River in the east to Jiayuguan Pass in the west through 11 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. In the latter part of 1950s, some sections of the Great Wall, reconstructed for many times, have become the most famous tourist sites in the world.
