About Great China, on the blog has been described before. Making another trip across the expanses of the Internet, I found a list of observations of our compatriot. These facts will be interestno and you, the readers of my blog. There are only 103, but each of the observations gives a greater understanding about China. After reading this list, the desire to visit China, I have grown. So I share with you, as they say, "I found out myself, share it with others"
"103 facts about China through the eyes of Russians
(One might say that the Ukrainians, for culture and world view are identical)
A. North, south, east and west of China do not differ much, only some of the food and habits. Therefore, in general, all the same everywhere. I live in the Southeast, in 4 hours from Shanghai, so I will write, as they have everything here.
Two. There are many small cafes and hairdressers, in each house for a few pieces, I initially thought that they just do nothing but eat and trimmed.
Three. In these cafes serves cheap and delicious.
4. The bread in the shops - shit, bread bakeries - shit. He is sweet, and taste for something sweet. Russian man here is not just in this sense, although you can buy in a foreign supermarket baguettes, which without any flavoring, but dries in a day.
Five. Cooking the Chinese are very diverse, incredibly delicious food, and they are proud.
6. Able to cook everything, and I think they even do not have any culinary schools and courses, all taught at home.
7. Chinese cook everything that moves, and in many ways. Sam ate ants and snakes. Strange, but tasty.
Eight. Vegetables, raw hardly eat, they must cook, fry or float.
9. The store sold "Leis" taste of blueberries, and many other sweet potato chips. I finally can not imagine how you can eat sweet potato chips.
10. Sale grilled chicken is fully saturated with sugar. The first time was led by an appetizing appearance and bought such crap ... sweet meat is just too much.
11. The street has never come across a drunk in the trash Chinese. If he gets drunk, the friends dovezut home.
12. Beer is cheap and tasty, more than 4 degrees does not happen only when imported.
13. House of the Chinese do not like heavy drinking.
14. In general, the Chinese culture there is no drinking. They never drink beer, in order to just drink beer and relax. They are the most important thing, if gathered in a noisy restaurant company to celebrate a festival, it is drink beer as much as possible and as quickly as possible to all vyblevat in the toilet, and they cheer each other in every way.
15. They do not clink together, and everyone with everyone, and everyone wants something for everyone.
16. Chinese clubs - this is an amateur. First, there is only Chinese R'n'B, and this - not very much, and secondly people do 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 vyblevat down the toilet or on the floor beside the toilet and then go back to drinking.
17. In the clubs, the Chinese, by the way, rarely dance, there is a great variety of tables, and they are behind these tables are in the game that in the third "Pirates of the Caribbean" Will Turner played with Davy Jones on "Flying golandtse", where they throwing dice, fuck knows how it is in Russian and general, who loses, he drinks, but since it's all happening fast, the result does not force himself to wait.
18. Of the 100 men who smoked 90-95. Women do not smoke (which pleases). Over 3 years have seen with a cigarette only 2 girls.
19. Cakes, pastries, and other baked goods - all fresh and in general can not be compared with ours.
20. In the glasses go to 70 percent of the total population.
21. The Chinese are very friendly and kind, well disposed towards foreigners.
22. Usually, in a town where not so many foreigners, you walk down the street and all the Chinese people stare at you and the children show a finger and say, "Look Mom inostryuga goes." At first terribly furious, but then you get used to.
23. The Chinese can distinguish Chinese from other Asian. I can not
24. They are very fond of white skin, try to do under the sun's rays do not fall into and never tan (it's about women, of course).
25. 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 settled a model, it is absolutely without a model appearance.
26. China is a very quiet place, no attacks, no uprisings and movements. Natural disasters occur mostly in Sichuan and Hong Kong.
27. The streets are very clean, because clean at all times, even though they litter our pohlesche.
28. Everywhere there are free toilets and clean in there. Although the Chinese have no problem ssut the bushes, not very openly. I have no one walks is not held to the eye is not caught ssuschy Chinese.
29. The Chinese people are very industrious, they have no holidays, and even no word conveys a sense of the word holiday in the Russian language. There are only something like English «Hollyday».
30. Rest one week in October, marking the founding of the PRC, and one week in February, in honor of Chinese New Year.
31. Chinese Valentine's Day in August, like the number 8. Guys just give the girls flowers, paper heart, go to the movies, walk along the quays, well then getting lucky
32. Often heard that Chinese students are diligently taught. In fact it is full of garbage, they do not teach more than any other student in any other country. All students - being lazy.
33. Students and people who ride the bus to work, breakfast is usually held on the bus, they often eat some cake.
34. With age, their situation is more complex than ours. When a child is born, he is already a year, and if he was born before the new year, we added one more. In general, every Chinese person by our standards can add to his two years. Often, because of this confusion to foreigners. So be careful if a girl tells you that she is 18.
35. In exactly 100 Chinese surnames.
36. The names "Van" and "Lee" are 20% of the population.
37. In China, an incredible array of dialects. But there is a general, in English called «Mandarin», which was the official is not so long ago.
38. You can learn it 20 years, but did not understand what talk 2 people sitting in front of you on the bus.
39. By itself, a simple Chinese characters and remember the big problem there. And the Chinese are admired, if you talk to them in Chinese, and have even more delighted if you write the characters.
40. They always say that you are well speak Chinese, regardless of whether this really is.
41. The institutes usually have Chinese language courses 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 become very popular right now, many foreigners come here to study or just to share it. Therefore, all groups are international. If you can come here to learn, take.
42. You can enter on a tourist visa, and the institute will have a student with no problems. They take people of all ages, I have learned in the group even 50-year-old American. Within six months of training I had paid 6400 yuan (32,000 p). In Beijing and Shanghai, of course, expensive. There were friends from all over the world.
43. The method of training like a lot more than in Russia, went to school with pleasure, and no dull rote learning.
44. Every Chinese is a means of transportation if you do not have enough money for a car, it is, or bicycle, or moped. China is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Country bike."
45. Many of the girls so much inflated legs, and it somehow «ne ochen '».
46. The biggest bill - 100 yuan (500 rubles)..
47. On each paper bill shows a "great and terrible" of Mao Zedong.
48. Those Chinese who "know something", not like Mao Zedong, and it actually brought more harm than good.
49. In the iron coins depicts the Lotus - a symbol of China. The biggest steel coin - it is 1 yuan. And for those six yuan, can be quite dense and delicious lunch.
50. It would not have offered up the Chinese economy, everything here is not so clear. Everyone wants to be given "on the leg." Huge bribes, corruption is high. Officials are greedy.
51. My boss at the firm with a turnover of 100 million dollars a year, says that if everything is and will continue, in 15-20 years, the great Chinese economy will collapse.
52. The death penalty is permitted here, and applies to all. Not so long ago was executed Minister of Health.
53. As for the death penalty against foreigners do not know. I heard that somewhere in the border town, a Russian driver knocked down a gazelle half-dozen Chinese children to death, but it seems to be 2 years in a pit just sat and released it.
54. I went once to the factory for honey. products, looking like they are manufacturing. The workers, mostly women, sit in a stuffy room with a strong smell of glue, burnt plastic and rubber, I have not been able to stay more than two minutes, do not sit in respirators and masks in the conventional, and repeat the same movement from 6 am to 6 evening. Receive no more than 2,000 yuan (10,000 p), and they are quite happy with everything. Course work only village, which read, it is unlikely that they can and do not care what happens in the world or even in China itself.
55. They produce is really high quality and expensive things, but what is of poor quality, respectively, is cheap.
56. The law that you can only have one child, does not apply to the village, and it is certainly very clever.
57. On the fences around the dormitories and university hang throwing boxes into which the two renminbi, you can buy a pack of condoms.
58. Children grow up spoiled, as the family only one child and the parents please him in every way.
59. They never miss the people at pedestrian crossings.
60. 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 rightly so.
61. Stray dogs there, and indeed they began to start a dog recently. Poop on the sidewalks can be seen, but rarely.
62. Being indifferent to the animals and birds are taught to Chinese children. We went once with friends to eat at a restaurant. There are input cells in a dove in the other 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.
63. Live fish were thrown on a hot frying pan, just to give it an oval shape. And how to prepare a monkey brains will not write, otherwise you will become ill.
64. National food they have - it's ravioli, postures (postures Buryat, incidentally, is delicious) and dumplings (bread made of rice flour). The analogue of bread serves a cup of rice.
65. There are some holidays for 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 people say 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 are doing great grandmother, because billion people to buy their product, robust design?).
66. Cellular communications are public and cheap, just a few of tariffs.
67. Internet is also the state, the speed is excellent, paying 900 yuan (4500 p) in the year.
68. Adults who seldom go to visit, and often do not know their neighbors. Young people, of course, goes to the guests. Hobby away - is to eat.
69. In general, they are very hospitable, at least my name constantly, and the main occupation besides eat or watch the telly.
70. At the table, do not talk about politics, mostly about business and work.
71. Earth is expensive, real estate, expensive, and more expensive every year, but certainly cheaper than in Moscow.
72. Rent an apartment cheaply. Rent three-room with all facilities for 2,500 yuan (12,500 p) a month. Familiar Russian remove the 4-storey penthouse with three terraces for 6000 yuan. In Shanghai and Beijing is more expensive.
73. In grocery stores, cheap prices, year-round fruit, all fresh.
74. The companies operate in basically all the relatives or friends. I for example, the chief, his wife, her brother, his wife, and their childhood friend, his wife and sister and so on.
75. Who can not work in an office, working in a warehouse or factory, and all around happy.
76. You can find a foreigner with a Chinese woman, but a foreigner and the Chinese are very rare.
Of 77. 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 impenetrable cretins who hunt to kill the most horrible way. Although every country has such.
78. The Chinese always try 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 dinner, but they are still not allowed to do that, now do not even try. Pay when current invite to celebrate his birthday, and they still try to fawn without pay.
79. They easily take root foreign holidays. They recently celebrated Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and Catholic. For some people this is another reason to get rich, and another reason for parents to indulge their child gifts. They are not really understand when I explain to them why we celebrate Christmas on January 7.
80. Among the many Chinese Catholics, although they may not know anything about the Christian religion. In the town where I live, about 5 Catholic churches, and more can be built by foreigners in the late 19th century, they are all active and very beautiful. In Shanghai, there is a Christian church, which preaches a Russian father.
81. Many Chinese men long nails - 1-2 inches, for ease of handling of the sensor. Touchscreen phones in nearly all.
82. Most 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 calls your phone, and the whole bus climbs to rummage through his pockets, and I with them.
83. The world premiere of the film has always come with a substantial delay, xs is why, perhaps dubbing hard time = P. For example, the "source code" that's just ended, and 10/18/11, "the field of Darkness" will be released in just a rental. In general, the films mostly they are in English with Chinese subtitles.
84. The Chinese are extremely fond of Transformers, even the girls. During the rental of the third, found in the central square a huge 10-meter figure, and around many of the same, but smaller. In general distrebyutory work better than others.
85. The Chinese have known and loved for some reason, Vitas, often from a music store you can hear his songs.
86. They are incredibly proud of their artists, filmmakers and athletes who have achieved international fame.
87. They are incredibly proud of her four inventions - gunpowder, the compass, paper and woodcut (typography). And they do not care that for 1500 years, they have not invented anything new.
88. By the way, is often said that the Chinese are buying timber in Russia, then make furniture, we sell at exorbitant prices. Recently learned that this is not true. Russian Pine is too soft to create furniture, and they are buying New Zealand pine. Although he saw that we take out timber trains in the outrageously large numbers, apparently to create a toothpick, Chinese sticks, and other unnecessary things in Russia.
89. But medical spatula is made of Russian birch trees.
90. The most popular sport - it's basketball. Play, but play bad. Just as we have in Russia's favorite sport - football, play, but play a very hard time.
91. 90% of Chinese kung fu films about, and all stories are based on legends that have begun to appear even 3,000 years ago, they were simply too much. On the TV show series on the type of "Carmelites," and about how hard it is to live in the capital. They also love TV series «Prison Break». But how can you not love him, right?
92. 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 a hundred thousand civilians.
93. Rarely see that the Chinese have read the book, but read all the newspapers, all day long.
94. Construction is always, even if there is all built up, they will be demolished four-ever, and begin to build anew. For example, yesterday went to the sauna, Sedna in its place has the ruins, and after six months will be a new shopping center.
95. In the markets must necessarily trade because they throw up their prices at all times. In general, you can haggle everywhere except in shopping centers.
96. Very cool them on the tea market. It is entirely different from the concept of the market. There are many small rooms, and few people. When I first came, I was fed 4 o'clock tea at tea ceremony, talked about all sorts of tea, and sold at a discount.
97. If you got into a taxi, not knowing the Chinese, trying to say the store name or the place where you should be in English, then you are likely to be brought to the nearest McDonald's.
98. 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.
99. Rivers of green, probably because of the soil, but not dirty, but they still do not bathe. They catch fish and sell to local cafes.
100. Most of the park is occupied by green lawns. For some reason there are not many Chinese people, and families go largely foreigners, picnics, play volleyball, badminton and more.
101. In each court are Chinese trainers, no similarities with the Russian, but they are kind of funny.
102. At first glance you might think that the Chinese are untidy and not far away from the monkeys. In fact, from what they considered normal, the Russian people can experience culture shock. But once again, that they are normal, and as the saying goes, in someone else's garden with his cabbage does not climb.
Например: рыгать за столом во время еды, и им даже нравится это делать. Везде курить, в лифте, в очереди в супермаркете, и им все равно, что рядом могут быть дети или астматики. Пердануть в любой момент их тоже не смущает. Смачно харкнуть на пол, находясь в кристально чистом лифте 5-звездочного отеля в окружении 10 человек. Орать, как дикари в телефонную трубку, или просто орать, разговаривая друг с другом, хотя молодежь в этом плане кажется цивилизованной, но есть и исключения. И еще много нерадужных мелочей.
103. А, и если везете из России гостинцы друзьям, то везите шоколад и шоколадные конфеты взрослым, и киндер-сюрприз детям, потому что киндер-сюрприз тут не продается, а шоколад — говно.»
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Thank you! Прочитала с удовольствием и большим интересом.
Как я писал выше, это писал не я, но человек там прожил достаточно.
Very interesting! Вам нужно справочник выпустить, такие тонкости очень полезны для поездки в Китай.