The most iconic things and figures in China: Great Wall, Forbidden City, Dragon and Phoenix, Three Emperors and Five Emperors (Emperor, Rehmannia, Ren Huang, Bai Di, Di Qing, Huangdi and Yan Di), Laozi, Confucius, Sun Wu and Sun Yat-sen.
Civilization system: based on Chinese civilization and Chinese culture.
Cultural thought: Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
State system: abdication → monarchy → * * harmony (the monarchy withdrew from the historical stage after the Revolution of 1911).
Nicknames: Huaxia, Zhonghua, Yanhuang, Shenzhou, Kyushu.
Per capita GDP:8582.94 USD (ranking 74th in the world, ranking first in Luxembourg with a per capita GDP of 696 142 USD) 20 18.
Income level: it belongs to middle and high income.
The land area is 9,634,057 square kilometers, and the territorial sea area is about 3 million square kilometers (ranking third in the world, followed by Russia and Canada).
Population: 65.438+39.5 million (the first in the world).
Life expectancy: 76.4 years (52nd in the world and 84.2 years in Japan).
China is one of the four ancient civilizations in the world (the other three are ancient Babylon, ancient Egypt and ancient India).
China is a unified multi-ethnic country with the Han nationality as the main ethnic group (in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Song and Yuan Dynasties, all ethnic groups in China were further integrated).
Four quintessences of China: Peking Opera, Wushu, Calligraphy and Chinese Medicine.
The following is supplementary knowledge:
The ethnic diversity in China also leads to the linguistic diversity. China Academy of Social Sciences announced at the symposium on the publication of "Language in China" that there are five major language families (Sino-Tibetan, Altai, Austronesian, South Asian and Indo-European) in China, with a total of 129 languages (excluding dialects of each language).
Among them, there are 76 Sino-Tibetan languages (such as Tibetan, Burmese, Yi, Miao and Yao). ), 265,438+0 Altaic language family (such as Turkic and Mongolian). ), 65,438+06 Austronesian languages, 9 South Asian languages, 65,438+0 Indo-European languages and 5 mixed languages.
Among 129 languages, more than 40 languages are published for the first time, some of which are special languages, such as the "Fish Road" used in the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Yajiang County of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan, and only 2685 people are using it.