Skip to content30 Crazy Fact About China That Shocks The World
- The bicycle was introduced to China by two American travelers, Allen and Sachtleben, and is now the primary mode of transportation for millions of Chinese. Also, China is the leading bicycle producer.
- The Chinese were the first to invent the waterwheel to harness water.
- China was the first country in the world to use an iron plow.
- The Chinese were first to discover that blood circulates throughout the body and that the heart pumps the blood.
- The Chinese were using the decimal system around two thousand years before the first known use in European mathematics. Also, the Chinese were the first to use a place for zero.
- As the Chinese population grew, people had to preserve cooking fuel by chopping food into small pieces so it would cook faster. This eliminated the need for knives; then, chopsticks were invented.
- Chinese invented and first used the crossbow.
- The Chinese were the first in the world to use chemical and gas weapons, two thousand years before Europe.
- Tea was discovered by the Chinese emperor Shennong when a tea leaf fell into his boiling water.
- Martial arts in China were developed from ancient farming and hunting methods.
- According to a Chinese legend, silk was discovered circa 3000 BC by Lady Xi Ling Sui. When a silk worm cocoon dropped into her hot tea, fine threads from the cocoon untangled in the hot water and silk was born.
