Xi

Jinping
 Current
President
Jack Ma
Alibaba
Founder
Bruce Lee
Martial
Artist
Jackie
Chan
 Actor,
Director
Eric Yuan
Founder,
CEO
Of
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C hinese New Year (February)
Also known as the Spring Festival and the Lunar New Year, this is
the most important holiday out of all the Chinese holidays. The
festival takes place on the first day of the first lunar month which,
according to the Western calendar falls either at the end of January
or the beginning of Feb and is celebrated across the nation.
Chinese New Year is one of the most important cultural
celebrations and has been celebrated for over four thousand years.
It marks the Earth coming back to life and the starting of the
growing cycle
Q

ingming Festival (around April 4) is Chinese people's day for

visiting graves and burial grounds to pay their respects to
their ancestors. It's known as Tomb Sweeping Festival in
English. Many Chinese also go for a picnic during Qingming
Festival to enjoy the picturesque scenery of spring.
 FAST FACTS

OFFICIAL NAME: People's Republic of China

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Communist state
CAPITAL: Beijing (Peking)
POPULATION: 1,397,897,720
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Standard Chinese, Mandarin
MONEY: Yuan (or renminbi)
AREA: 3,705,405 square miles (9,596,960 square
kilometers)
MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGES: Himalaya
  MAJOR RIVERS: Yangtze, Yellow
P

EOPLE & CULTURE

Arts and crafts have a long history in China. Thousands
of years ago the Chinese were some of the first people to
use silk, jade, bronze, wood, and paper to make art. The
artistic writing called calligraphy was invented in China.
China's modern beliefs and philosophies are based on the
teachings of a government official who lived nearly
3,000 years ago.
NATURE
China's diverse habitats are home to
hundreds of species of animals and plants.
More than 3,800 species of fish and
hundreds of amphibians and reptile species
live in the rivers, lakes, and coastal waters.
 T he plum blossom, Prunus Mei, was
officially designated by the ROC
Executive Yuan to be the national
flower on July 21, 1964.

T
utankhamun
King of ancient Egypt at 9 reigned until
his unexpected death at 19, from around 1333 B.C. until
around 1323 B.C. His tomb, in the Valley of Kings
across the Nile River from Luxor, is famous for having
been discovered relatively intact, and for containing
thousands of impressive artifacts.

Step 1:
First wash the dead body in wine and Nile water. Make a
cut in the side and take out the organs. To get to the
brain, shove a hook up the nose and jiggle it about. Then
pull out this useless organ and chuck it away.
Step 2:
Clean the liver, lungs, intestines and stomach, then pop
them in four special canopic jars whose lids look like the
gods that guard them. The heart will need to be put back
in the body, though, as it’s the center of intelligence
Step 3:
Use a special Egyptian salt called natron to fill up the
cavities and cover up the body. This will get rid of all the
moisture. Leave it for about 40 days to dry out
completely.
Step 4:
Next, scoop out the natron and stuff the body
with spices, rags and plants so it doesn’t lose its shape.

Step 5:
Wrap up the body in fine linen bandages. Don’t forget to tuck
in some lucky amulets, and then utter spells to activate their
magical protective powers. When the wrapping is all done,
put the mummy in a coffin. Then put that coffin in a coffin,
and that coffin in another one and so on. Then place the
whole lot in a tomb.
 Ancient
Egyptian’s New
Year Day
The Opet
Festival