23 WTF facts about China
Their are many ways to describe China. Big, rich, poor, next to control the world, hot, cold, stunning, filthy, ancient and in some parts new. Fact is though China is at times an amazing place to visit and he who travels their shall make up their own mind whether they either love, hate, like or dislike.
Although before you do embark, here you can acquire some real facts about China that will leave you with think WTF, enjoy.
- Over 4,000 Chinese are named Aoyun which means “Olympics” – I don’t know about you but I would hate my parents if they named me Aoyun and would change it as soon as I knew what my name meant.
- It’s no joke the Chinese do eat cat, 10,000 of them are eaten per day in just the Guangdong province.
- The worlds tallest Man and Woman (unrelated) live in China – yeah, they come from where majority of people are below the average height
- On average about 34 children are born every minute in China! Now that’s a lot of humping going on, especially considering how hard it is to become pregnant.
- Some people’s jobs are to be professional fart smellers and can earn up to $50,00 per year! Is that not the biggest WTF ever?
- They have dwarf theme park. Yep its called ‘Kingdom of the little people’ where many dwarfs dress up, dance and sing – I mean don’t get me wrong I think that is a little funny/odd/cute but isn’t this a little discriminative?
- When Mao came into power there were so many suicides that people were actually too worried to walk by high rises, for the fear of someone landing on top of them. Now that’s crazy
- China has an internet addiction rehab. It is run in military style and costs around $1300 per month but it actually works with a 70% success rate. Wow there must be some crazy as hell internet surfers in that clink, but imagine the cool things they would find. Maybe I should source some of them to work for me . . .hmmmm.
- 45 billion chopsticks are used per day in China
- Researchers wear Panda suits to fool the other pandas; they do this at the Hetaoping Research and Conservations Center to minimize contact with humans who prepare the panda cubs for the wild. How would you like to wear a panda suit to work every day?
- Wealthy people in China hire stunt doubles to serve their prison sentences for them. Whoa . . . someone’s job is to go to jail, in china? No thanks.
- Ketchup (tomato sauce) originated from China from what used to be pickled fish sauce named ke-tesiap. I am glad it evolved into tomato sauce, I can tell you that much.
- The Chinese smoke shit and they don’t even know it. It’s true; they smoke on average 2.2 trillion cigarettes, of which some 400 million are fake containing, some nicotine, carbon monoxide and sometimes human feces and insect eggs.
- What makes that last fact even more disgusting is over 50,000 cigarettes in china are smoked every
second!
- Over 35 million Chinese still live in caves
- Fortune cookies are not traditionally from China, they were invented in San Francisco in the 1900’s
- There is a baby born ever 30 seconds with a birth defect in China
- On average 1.7 million pigs are consumed every day in china. That’s a lot of pork.
- In China someone has the name “@” for which 2 parents in 2007 struggled for a name and they settled at, well @.
- The Chinese love their ping pong. It is the most popular amateur recreational sport in their country with about 300 millions players. That’s about 10 times the amount of people who live in Australia!
- Facebook is banned in China. Along with Twitter and the New York Times.
- 50,000 dogs were slaughtered in 2006 because three people were killed by rabies. Owners were offered 63 cents each to commit the act of killing before the authorities were sent out to beat them to death. Yes even in front of their owners while walking them. Pretty gnarly for just 3 deaths out of a population of about 1.2 billion at that time.
- 100 million people in China live off less than US$1 per day
Now what are your thoughts about China . . . . ?
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Technically, Aoyun just means Olympics. Aoyunhui would mean Olympic Games. Also, correct me if I’m wrong but most of the world’s population are Chinese so Chinese people should logically be closer to the global height average right?
Thanks for the quick edit Jack
On the global height average I am not to sure, I’m sure there is an economist out their that has done that sort of study though.
$50.00 a year huh. Impressive.
Also how is a dwarf theme park worthy of WTF status when dwarfs are common place in carnivals and anything Cinderella?
America and other countries also have internet rehab…
Most of these aren’t impressive considering China’s population… This list is fail imo.
A lot of people are astonished by these for the fact that most people wouldn’t realise more than half of them. But hey your right, it is how you accept the information whether it be WTF or, thats lame. Opinions are like assholes, everyones got one.
Wow some very interesting facts indeed. Professional fart smeller? That’s something you don’t see everyday.
Haha yea who would really care so much to pay someone to describe what a fart smells like. . .
Very interesting facts. I visited one of the cave – house around Luoyang. The Caves are very spacious, they have electricity and water. During the winter time the caves are warm and in the summer they are cold.
Oh cool, that sounds like a place I would like to visit on my next trip to China, thanks Tara
The Chinese thoughts on cats and dogs is enough for me to never visit the country for as long as I live.
Yea they don’t treat either of them well at all!
Some facts were horrible to read! Still want to visit China, though! Nice post!
I do agree. Although I can’t say China is my favourite country it is . . . different. Thanks Gonza
“45 billion chopsticks are used per day in China” cannot be true. China’s population is approx. 1.4b.
Fact 2 very outdated and ONLY happens in Guangdong. Very little people actually purposefully eat cat, most cats eaten are by innocent people who just happen to buy snacks from street vendors who sell cat meat or by starving people on the streets. But it is a very small percentage considering China’s population. It is entirely a joke and a lie that the Chinese eat cat. I’ve lived in China, Shanghai for 7 years and so far I have not met one person that has ever eaten cat. I have purely Chinese relatives that have never met anyone who has eaten cat and is utterly disgusted by the prospect (and no they are not immigrants, wealthy, or have a high social standing, they are just normal citizens).
And some of the facts is purposefully done by very little people, most Chinese are just victims to their antics. Don’t pretend that the rest of the world doesn’t do the same things. It makes me mad that people are spreading around rumors that might once be true but not anymore, and people just believe these lies. China is still developing, things are changing. One day China might still be selling cat meat, the other day it might be banned. It might be many bad things (filthy, disgusting, dirty, rude people, corrupt, polluted) but there is so many good to China; everyone has heard so much bad, that they don’t notice the good anymore. I’ve traveled many places around the world and that has made me appreciate China. Many people who have published these articles have only seen China on the outside, I hope many will get to actually experience China. It is a truly fascinating place and there are Chinese out there who are well-educated and don’t do anything on this list.