It is one name for it. Renminbi is the official name. Kuai is also a casual name. Quizmaster would you consider adding any of these, or at least the abbreviation, RMB?
The currency code is CNY; RMB is a common abbreviation in English, as it's common to abbreviate using the first latin letter of each character/syllable.
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doh. Of course Everest.. I knew that. half in China half in Nepal. Only other ones I missed were Wu and Compass. We could argue about the "greatest inventions" thing- very subjective- but fine quiz anyway.
greatest inventions? well, half of the world's current products have a label on the back that says "MADE IN CHINA." take a look in your house. i bet many of your things have the words "MADE IN CHINA.'
It's been made clear that although we have been the first people to make the compass, we did not spread it to the western world, instead we kept it ourselves and shortly after westerners made compass without our help. Paper was already in Egypt a long time ago.
I’m going to disagree with you, JHAssassin, to give your country more credit for inventing paper! True the Egyptians did come up with papyrus, and the word paper does come from the word papyrus, but the two things are not the same, nor equivalent in quality. To get papyrus, they just sliced the stem of the papyrus plant stem real thin, squashed and glued a bunch of the strips together, and called it a day. Papyrus isn’t as strong, pliable, or long-lasting as paper. Making paper is a much more complicated process, which requires agitating the plant ingredients in water until the fibers are cleaned, separated, and soft. The mush is then poured into molds and dried under pressure. The fact that the fibers now criss-cross every which way is why paper is strong & supple; being cleaned of the plant goo that would make it mold/mildew gives it longevity. Paper is awesome, WAY better than papyrus, and China deserves all the credit!! ❤️🇨🇳📝!
It is paper making,but not paper.Before,there is already lots of people using paper.In China,I think it’s started in Zhou dynasty?And for Cai Lun in the Han dynasty,he invented better paper.
It's subjective but also well established that these are considered the four great inventions of China. Google it & you will find the same list on a thousand web sites. It's similar to the seven wonders of the ancient world. It might be subjective but you still know which seven to list.
The four great Chinese inventions is a well established concept and all Chinese know about it, though it's actually originated from European scholar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions
Wu is the dialect spoken by Sun Jian and his people...oh wait...that's Dynasty Warriors...is that based on fact? Because that's where i get most of my knowledge about Chinese history.
To answer buck1017, The wu dialect came from the region of Wu, which is in fact the area that Sun Jian came from, and the area where his son, Sun Quan formed his empire. (making up today's Nanjing, Suzhou and Shanghai regions). Similarly Shu is another name for the Sichuan province, especially around Chengdu, and Wei is an old name for a certain region in the Central Plains. And Dynasty Warriors is based on Luo Guangzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a romantic history spanning the period between about 180 - 300 AD. Much of what happened in the novel is embellished, however a large number of the events are recorded in official history. (In particular Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdom, and Wei Zhao's Book of Wu.
Yes, Huangho is a (fairly close) romanization of the name of the river. The character transliterated as 'Huang' literally means yellow, and 'ho' is a word for river.
Okay, that will work now. FYI, this site is in English so we always use the generally accepted English names for things. That's why it's the Yellow River and not the Huang He.
Actually, I believe (as is stated on Wikipedia) that “Yangzi" for 扬子江 is only the lowest part of the river; the entire river is the 长江 (chang2jiang3). Of course, although I didn't test every possible word, it seems that pinyin answers do not work (e.g. xianggang, putonghua, shanghaihua, kongzi/kongfuzi, xizang, zhonghua renmin gongheguo). Fortunately, however, it accepted my "Shanghainese" for the Wu question. Note: my Chinese is not that great.
Yup. I stared at the screen and went, "Everest is in China?? What? Since when??" and then realized that I always just assume it's entirely in Nepal, because Everest = sherpas, and sherpas = Nepal!
Isn't Taiwan the biggest island? I believe the Taiwanese and PRC governments both claim legitimacy over both the mainland and the island. The question isn't whether Taiwan is part of China, but which government should rule.
From Wikipedia: "Constitutionally, there is dispute over whether the government [of Taiwan] claims sovereignty over all of 'China,' in a definition that includes mainland China and Outer Mongolia, but the ROC has not made retaking mainland China a political goal since 1992. However, the government's stance on defining its political position of relation with China largely depends on which political coalition is in charge. Meanwhile, the PRC also asserts itself to be the sole legal representation of China and claims Taiwan as its 23rd province to be under its sovereignty, denying the status and existence of ROC as a sovereign state."
I am hardly an expert on such things, though, and defer to the group mind.
Most people in Taiwan these days consider themselves to be a separate country from China and are not interested in retaking the mainland. Frankly, I don't think they'll ever be part of the same country again and we should all start thinking of them as separate nations.
As for a Chinese,I think Taiwan is a part of China,BUT for a Jetpunk user,Taiwan is a ‘country’(Jetpunk tradition).Both the government in Mainland and Taiwan agrees one China policy,but one say CCP rules,and another say it’s the GMD in charge.
In China, the term Gobi only refers to the desert in Inner Mongolia, not the vast desert in Inner Asia. In this case the largest desert in China should be Taklamakan in the Tarim Basin.
absolutely! china has been a part of china since ancient times. So has antarctica, you can argue that the americas were also historically part of the chinese empire and so was europe
Didn't get any historical things lol, but geography and currency was awesome! glad to get the 4 inventions. Also, I think shanghainese is a more common form of saying "Wu", but it is also longer :P
I live in Suzhou, a city close to Shanghai, where the Suzhou dialect (aka 'Suzhounese'), a sub-dialect of Wu, is locally spoken. Many locals speak it amongst themselves, especially if they know each other quite well, but if you go to a shop or speak to a stranger, you would converse in Mandarin.
Although Wu is a dialect, it contains a huge number of sub-dialects, which may vary from town to town; a native speaker of one of these sub-dialects might not readily understand another sub-dialect, or even find it incomprehensible/unintelligible.
“In America, protestors are not shot” so we’re just forgetting Kent State happened then? And the fact that rubber bullets (which are usually just regular bullets coated with rubber) are very much used today?
This series will end in January 2021 and I really hope things aren't going down the same way the population of the featured countries will go down by the end of it...
As a Chinese who has been living in China for 20 years, I can't get 100%, things are different here from what we have been taught in Chinese schools. The most obvious difference would be the largest island, in mainland Chinese textbook, Taiwan is the largest island of China. Another difference would be the first leader of Communist China, according to our history textbook, the Communist China was already separated from ROC in 1927 and the first leader is Chen Duxiu. also, in Chinese textbook, Tibet was annexed a long time ago during Tang Dynasty, but under control by the communist party since 1950.
China AKA the evil empire. Muslim Genocide in Tibet, Mass theft of intellectual property, Jailing of doctors, destroying evidence of Coronavirus, and falsifying every stat known to man, not to mention the bullying of African and other Asian countries smh.
Ultimate facepalm when I furiously typed March of the Volunteers and Yiyongjun jixingqu and getting mad when neither were accepted. Reread the question and saw national ANIMAL, not anthem 🤦♂️
As a native Chinese, I don't think "gobi" is the biggest desert in China, while Taklamakan (or Taklimakan, Teklimakan) Desert is. In fact, gobi is even not a name of any single desert; it's totally just a kind of desert, or somebody may agree that it's another name for desert.
Second, as a Chinese, I strongly hope you accept "Qomolangma" for "Mount Everest"
And most importantly, THE BIGGEST ISLAND OF CHINA IS TAIWAN. If you say you don't want to annoy some certain Taiwanese, well, you can also delete that question to avoid debate.
Much earlier than the Italians.
By the way, never heard of "Wu"??
and ICE CREAM is not one of them
i am chinese anyways
From Wikipedia: "Constitutionally, there is dispute over whether the government [of Taiwan] claims sovereignty over all of 'China,' in a definition that includes mainland China and Outer Mongolia, but the ROC has not made retaking mainland China a political goal since 1992. However, the government's stance on defining its political position of relation with China largely depends on which political coalition is in charge. Meanwhile, the PRC also asserts itself to be the sole legal representation of China and claims Taiwan as its 23rd province to be under its sovereignty, denying the status and existence of ROC as a sovereign state."
I am hardly an expert on such things, though, and defer to the group mind.
I mean, sometimes i see such a good or funny comment, that i wont to like it, but i cant :D
Although Wu is a dialect, it contains a huge number of sub-dialects, which may vary from town to town; a native speaker of one of these sub-dialects might not readily understand another sub-dialect, or even find it incomprehensible/unintelligible.
They may face arrest or something but not as serious in china...
In China, they aren't shot
they are blown to bits
between Nepal and China
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Second, as a Chinese, I strongly hope you accept "Qomolangma" for "Mount Everest"
And most importantly, THE BIGGEST ISLAND OF CHINA IS TAIWAN. If you say you don't want to annoy some certain Taiwanese, well, you can also delete that question to avoid debate.