1) In order to enter the forbidden city you must go through the three gates
2) the ground of the forbidden city is 15 feet thick
3) there are no trees in the forbidden city
4) the average age of the emperor is 39
5) there are very few fountains in China (2 or 3 maybe)
6) there are nine million bicycles in Beijing
7) the children live to meet the goals their parents have for them
8) the hutong are given names and if the house is big,then it is given a big name. If it is small, then it is given a small name.
9) Beijing in split by "a dragon's spine"
10) there is a figurine on one of the buildings in the forbidden city with a sword through it to keep it attached to the building. It is supposed to prevent fire. (Chinese logic?)
11) the number 8 is a lucky number because in mandarin it is pronounced similarly to the way fortune is pronounced. The number 4 is not good because it is similar to the way death is pronounced.
12) the tallest building in Hong Kong is 88 floors high
13) the Great Wall of china is the worlds longest cemetery because there were too many people to bury so they just built the wall around them
14 In Hong Kong, if you have a white license place you can drive in Hong Kong, but if you also have a black one then you can go into China
15) in Beijing the traffic is terrible so cars with certain numbers on the license plate can only drive on certain days.
16) in the tall apartment buildings it is required to have an empty floor that the wind can go through
17) in the monastery by the largest outside Buddha in the world there are 24k gold Buddhas inside the temple
18) there are 270 steps to get to the giant Buddha
19) people from Hong Kong can go to China for as long as they want, but people from China need a visa to go to Hong Kong and can only stay for 7 days
20) Hong Kong has three parts: Kowloon, Hong Kong, and the territories (115 territories)
21) mandarin and Cantonese are the same written but spoken differently
22) they have 165 days of school
23) disney land in Hong Kong is 1/3 the size of Disney land in Hong Kong
24) all beaches are free and they all have shark nets
25) horse racing is the only legal gambling in Hong Kong
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