100 Facts About China

North, south, east and west of China do not differ much, only some of the food and habits. Overall, therefore, all the same everywhere. The writer live in the Southeast, in 4 hours from Shanghai, and so will write, as they have everything here.

1. There are plenty of small cafes and hair salons in every home in several pieces, I initially thought that they just do nothing but eat and trimmed. In these cafes serves cheap and delicious.

2. Bread in the shops - bad bread in bakeries - a bad one. He is sweet, and taste something sweet. Russian man here is not easy in this respect, although you can buy in a foreign supermarket baguettes, who without any flavoring, but dries in a day.


3. The Chinese cuisine is very diverse, incredibly delicious food and they are proud of.


4. Prepare all know how, and I think they even do not have any culinary schools or courses, all taught at home.


5. Chinese cook everything that moves and a variety of ways. Sam ate ants and snakes. Strange, but tasty.


6. Vegetables in their raw form almost do not eat, they always boiled, fried or floating.


7. The store sold "Leis" taste of blueberries, and many other sweet potato chips. I do not imagine how you can eat sweet potato chips.


8. Sold grilled chicken, fully impregnated with sugar. The first time led to an appetizing appearance and bought a crap ... sweet meat - it's just too much.


9. In the street never meet a drunk in the trash Chinese. If you get drunk and then dovezut friends back home.


10. Beer cheap and tasty, more than 4 degrees do not exist, only if imported.


11. Chinese at home drinking parties are not satisfied.


12. In general, the Chinese culture there is no drinking. They never drink beer, in order to just drink beer and relax. They have the most important - if gathered in the restaurant noisy company celebrate any holiday, is to drink beer as much as possible and as quickly as possible to get it all then went to the toilet, and they cheer each other in every way.


13. They do not clink together, and each with each and every something for everyone desires.


14. Chinese clubs - it is not for everybody. Firstly, there is only Chinese R'n'B, and this - not very much, and secondly, people are doing the same things and in the restaurants on holidays, try to drink a beer as much as possible and as quickly as possible to all turned down the toilet or on the floor beside the toilet and then go back to drinking.


15. In Chinese clubs, by the way, rarely dance, there is a great variety of tables, and they are behind these tables are playing a game in which a 3 "Pirates of the Caribbean" Will Turner played with Davy Jones on "Flying golandtse", where they throwing dice, fuck knows what it is called in Russian:) And in general, who loses, he drinks, but since this is all happening quickly, the result does not force yourself to wait.


16. Of the 100 men, 90-95 smoke. In general, women do not smoke (which pleases). For 3 years have seen with a cigarette only 2 girls.


17. Cakes, pastries, and other pastries - all fresh and in general can not be compared with ours.


18. In the glasses go 70 percent of the total population.


19. The Chinese are very friendly and kind, well disposed towards foreigners.


20. Typically, in a town where not so many foreigners, you walk down the street and all the Chinese people stare at you and the kids point a finger and say "Look mom inostryuga goes." At first terribly furious, but then you get used to.


21. A Chinese man can tell a Chinese from other Asian. I can not:)


22. They are very fond of white skin, try to do under the sun's rays do not fall, and never light up (it's about women, of course).


23. And in general, are very fond of foreign appearance. You can come here with nothing and with horseradish knowledge of the language, go to any advertising agency, and get the model, it is absolutely without a model appearance.


24. China has been very quiet, no attacks, no uprisings and movements. Natural disasters occur mostly in Sichuan and Hong Kong.


25. The streets are very clean, because clean all the time, even though they litter our pohlesche.


26. Everywhere there are free toilets and clean in there. Although the Chinese easily go into the bushes, not very openly. I have no one walks is not held to the eye is not caught ssuschy Chinese:)


27. The Chinese people are very industrious, they have no holidays, and do not even have words to convey the meaning of the word "vacation" in Russian. There's just something like English «holiday».


28. Rest one week in October, marking the founding of the PRC, and one week in February, in honor of Chinese New Year.


29. Chinese Valentine's Day in August, like the number 8. The guys also give girls flowers, paper heart, go to the movies, walk along the quays, and then the getting lucky:)


30. Often heard that Chinese students are diligently taught. In fact, this is nonsense, they do not teach more than any other student in any other country. All students - being lazy.


31. Students and people who commute to work by bus, breakfast is usually held on the bus, they often eat some cake.


32. With age, their situation is more complicated than we have. When a child is born, he is already a year, and if he was born before the new year, then added another. In general, every Chinese person by our standards can add to his 2 years. Often, because of this confusion to foreigners. So beware, if a girl tells you that she was 18.


33. In the Chinese language exactly 100 names.


34. The name "Van" and "Lie" are 20% of the population.


35. In China, an incredible number of dialects. But there is a general, in English called «Mandarin», which was the official is not so long ago.


36. You can learn it 20 years, but do not understand what talking to two people sitting opposite you on the bus.


37. By itself, a simple Chinese characters and remember the big problem there. And the Chinese admire, if you talk to them in Chinese, and have an even greater delight, if you write the characters.


38. They always say that you are well speak Chinese, regardless of whether this really is.


39. The institutes usually have Chinese language classes for foreigners, to 2.5 years from scratch. That's enough to speak Chinese very well. In addition, due to the fact that China has now become very popular, many foreigners come here to learn to share or just. Therefore, all groups are international. If you can come here to learn, take.


40. You can enter on a tourist visa, and the institute will have a student with no problems. Take people of all ages, I even studied in a group of 50 year old American. During the six months training, I paid 6400 yuan (32 000). In Beijing and Shanghai, of course, expensive. There were friends from all over the world.


41. Liked the teaching method is much more than in Russia, went to school with pleasure, and no dull rote learning.


42. Every Chinese is a means of transportation if you do not have enough money for a car or bike it, or moped. China is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Country bike."


43. Many of the girls so badly inflated legs, and it somehow «ne ochen '».


44. The biggest bill - 100 yuan (500 rubles)..


45. On every paper bill shows "The Great and Terrible" of Mao Zedong.


46. Those Chinese who "know something", not like Mao Zedong, and it actually brought more harm than good.
47. On iron coin depicts the Lotus - a symbol of China. The largest iron coin - is 1 yuan. And for 6 of these can be quite tight yuan and tasty lunch.


48. It would not have offered up the Chinese economy, there are not so clear. Everyone wants to be given "on the paw." Bribes are huge, big corruption. Officials are greedy.


49. My boss at the firm with a turnover of 100 million dollars a year, said that if everything is and will continue, then in 15-20 years, the great Chinese economy will collapse.


50. The death penalty is allowed here and applies to all. Not so long ago was executed Minister of Health.


51. About the death penalty against foreigners do not know. I heard that somewhere in the border town on the Russian driver knocked down a half-dozen Gazelles Chinese children to death, but it seems to be 2 years in a pit just sat and released it.


52. I went once to the factory for honey. products, watched their production goes. The workers - mostly women, sit in a stuffy room with a strong smell of glue, burnt plastic and rubber, where I could not be more than two minutes, do not sit in respirators and masks in the ordinary, and repeat the same movement from 6 am to 6 PM. Receive no more than 2,000 yuan (10 000), and they are quite satisfied with everything. Work, of course, only the village, which read something hardly know how, and they do not care what is happening in the world or even in China itself.


53. Produce, they are actually high-quality and expensive things, but what is of poor quality, cheap costs, respectively.


54. The law that you can only have one child, does not apply to the village, and it is certainly very clever.
55. The fences around the dormitories and university hanging drawers, throwing 2 yuan in which you can buy a pack of condoms.


56. Children grow up spoiled, because the family only one child and parents to him in every way to please.


57. They never miss the people at pedestrian crossings.


58. Not very long ago introduced legislation to ban driving while drunk. The Chinese resented so strongly about this and very surprised when I told them that we have for so long and it is correct.


59. No stray dogs, and dogs in general, they began to start recently. Poop on the sidewalks can be seen, but rarely.


60. Be indifferent to the animals and birds to teach Chinese from childhood. We went once with friends to eat at a restaurant. There are input cells in a single dove, another chicken, duck, and a snake in an aquarium with a turtle. My mother asked her son what you will eat, he stares at it all, poking his finger at a pigeon, after 20 minutes we had already brought.


61. Live fish thrown on a hot pan, just to give it an oval shape. And how to prepare a monkey brains will not write, otherwise you will become ill.


62. National food they have - it's ravioli, postures (postures Buryat, incidentally, is delicious) and dumplings (bread made from rice flour). The analogue of bread serves a cup of rice.


63. There are several holidays, which they eat all sorts of unusual things. For example, there is a holiday full moon, during which the moon cakes to eat, all the Chinese say that they taste good, I also say that they taste good, but eat them all, because it obliges the tradition and the people who produce them, make huge dough , because a billion people to buy their product, robust design? :)


64. Cellular communications are public and cheap, just a few of tariffs.


65. Internet is also the state, the speed is excellent, paying 900 yuan (4500 rubles) a year.


66. Adults who rarely go to visit and often do not know their neighbors. Young people, of course, goes to the guests. Hobby away - it's something to eat.


67. In general, they are very hospitable, at least, my name is constant, and the main occupation besides eat or watch telly.


68. At the table, do not talk about politics, mostly about business and work.


69. Land dear, dear real estate, and more expensive every year, but certainly cheaper than in Moscow.


70. Cheap rent an apartment. Rented three-room with all facilities for 2,500 yuan (12,500 rubles) per month. Familiar Russian shoot a 4-storey apartment with 3 balconies for 6000 yuan. In Shanghai and Beijing is more expensive.


71. In grocery stores, prices are cheap, fruit all year round, all fresh.


72. The companies are working, basically, all relatives or friends. I, for example, the chief, his wife, her brother, his wife, their childhood friend, his wife and sister and so on.


73. Who can not work in an office, working in a warehouse or factory, and all around happy.


74. You can meet an alien from the Chinese woman, but a foreigner by the Chinese is very rare.


75. Among the familiar Chinese is just great guys who are always ready to help you all, leaving all his affairs, but sometimes, of course, come across impassable idiots who hunt to kill the most horrible way. While every country is like that.


76. The Chinese have always tried to pay for lunch at the restaurant for you. Sometimes, on this occasion there are big fights, because all they want to please each other. At first I tried to pay for lunch, but they are still not allowed to do that, now do not even try. Pay only when invites you to celebrate your birthday, and they still try to pay.


77. They have no problem acclimatized foreign holidays. They recently celebrated Thanksgiving, and Christmas Catholic. For some people, this is another reason to get rich, but for another reason parents treat their child gifts. They are not really understand when I explain to them why we celebrate Christmas on January 7.


78. Among the many Chinese Catholics, although they may not know anything about the Christian religion. In a city where I live, about 5 Catholic churches, maybe more, built by foreigners in the late 19th century, they are all valid and very beautiful. In Shanghai, there is a Christian church that preaches a Russian father.


79. Many Chinese men long nails - 1-2 inches, for ease of handling of the sensor. Touchscreen phones in nearly all.


80. The majority of Chinese - Nokia. They certainly do not change the call to "super-old-hit-for-your-mobile", and leave the standard melody. I was at the very first Nokia and I just killed that bus every 2 minutes someone has the phone rings, and the bus climbs to rummage through his pockets, and I with them.


81. The world film premieres are always come with a substantial lag, I do not know why, probably, the dubbing is not easy to give:) For example, "Source Code" that's just ended, and October 18 "Areas of darkness" were released only. In general, the films in the main they are in English with Chinese subtitles.


82. The Chinese are incredibly fond of Transformers, even the girls. During the rental of the third set on the central square of a huge 10-meter figure, and around many of the same, but smaller. In general, distributors work better than others.


83. The Chinese somehow know and love Vitas, often from the music store you can hear his songs.


84. They're incredibly proud of their artists, filmmakers and athletes who have achieved international fame.


85. They're incredibly proud of her four inventions - gunpowder, the compass, paper and block printing (printing). And it's like 1500 years they have not invented anything new.


86. By the way, is often said that the Chinese are buying timber in Russia, then make furniture, and sold to us at exorbitant prices. Recently learned that it is not true. Russian Pine is too soft for furniture making, and they buy a New Zealand pine. Although he saw that our woods are taken trains in large quantities ugly, apparently, for a toothpick, Chinese sticks, and other unnecessary things in Russia.


87. The most popular sport - it's basketball. Play, but play poorly. Just as we have in Russia's favorite sport - football, play, play but not much:)


88. 90% of Chinese movies about kung fu, and all plots are based on legends that have begun to appear 3,000 years ago, they were simply too much. The TV show series on the type of "Carmelites" and about how hard to live in the capital. They also love TV series «Prison Break». But how can you not love him, right?


89. Many Chinese do not like the Japanese because of the sad events in Nanking in 1937. Then the Japanese during the war "just" cut out more than one hundred thousand civilians.


90. Rarely see that the Chinese have read the book, but reading all the newspapers, all day long.


91. Construction is always, even when all around are already built up, they need something to take down and begin to build anew. For example, yesterday went to the sauna, in its place today is the ruins, and six months will be a new shopping center.


92. In the markets must necessarily bargain, because they throw up their prices at all times. In general, you can haggle everywhere except in shopping centers.


93. Very cool them in the tea market. It is entirely different from the very concept of the market. There are many small rooms and few people. When I first came, I drank tea there 4 hours for the tea ceremony, spoke about all sorts of tea, and sold at a discount.


94. If you got into a taxi, not knowing the Chinese, trying to tell the store name or the place where you should be in English, then you are likely to be brought to the nearest McDonald's.


95. Around them a lot of incredibly beautiful and nezasrannyh parks. They are very large in area and with the original architecture. Most are located near the river.


96. Green River, probably because of the soil, but not dirty, but they still can not swim. They catch fish and sell them to local cafes.


97. Most of the parks occupied by green lawns. For some reason there are not many Chinese people, and families go largely foreigners, picnics, play volleyball, badminton and so on.


98. In every house there are Chinese trainers, no similarities with the Russian, but they kind of funny.


99. At first glance you might think that the Chinese are untidy and not far removed from the apes. In fact, from what they considered normal, a Russian man can experience culture shock. But once again, that they have is okay, and as they say, in someone else's garden with his cabbage do not climb. For instance, regurgitate at the table during the meal, and they even like to do it. Everywhere smoke in the elevator, in line at the supermarket, and they do not care that may be near children or asthmatics. Fart at any time, they also will not bother. Harknut relish on the floor, while in the crystal clear lift a 5-star hotel surrounded by 10 people. Yelling like savages in the phone, or just yelling, talking with each other, though young in this respect, it seems civilized, but there are exceptions. And much more bleak details.


100. And, if you are traveling and out of Russia gifts to friends, then Bring chocolate and chocolate candy for adults and children kinder-surprise, because kinder-surprise here is not for sale, and chocolate - a bad one.