TOP 5 CHINA FACTS PART TWO: China invented icecream?!
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Last time I shared five of my mind-blowing China facts with you, including that fortune cookies are fake, and that China’s high speed rail network is the longest in the world, a massive 11 times longer than second place, Spain.
Today I’m back with part two, another five China facts that will make you question everything you thought you knew.
I’m Andy Boreham and this is China Decoded. Let’s get started!
#china #travel #facts
once again, great little video and informative...Peace
Your country NZ tried to wipe out the relationship of Chinese gooseberry from its origin China by giving it a new name: kiwi fruit. That's a bit of history a lot of people don't know.
Plus so many cultural aspects of Japan like kimono, bonsai, sakura etc all came from Tang Dynasty China.
Yes, the NZ missionary/principal hid the seeds/seedlings in her skirt n brought to NZ to plant in 1900s. Jackpot! the fruits strived n flourished, sold as Chinese gooseberry, later changed name to kiwifruit - cash cow, man….
The Brits also enticed the tea growers of Fujian(the great tealand) with fat wages to go to Assam Darjeeling (NE states, part of British empire in the Indian subcontinent) to grow tea. Tea flourished there. Then, Brit can drink cheap tea, can even export n made tons of $$$$. No need to depart silver to China for tea. Now, India inherited by coercion this great cash cow of assam, remember, origin of tea is China. Sadly, for the original tea growers, leaving their homeland is easy, going back is darn difficult, got stranded there n had to marry the Assamese women
@gost7213 the Assamese women don’t look too much different from the Southern Chinese women so it is OK. In fact they look almost the same as Assamese women don’t have the very dark skin like other Indians.
Ooh yes, Chinese Gooseberries are better from New Zealand than those grown in China apparently because they are bigger and sweeter if they are from New Zealand
@@LoC28C Imagine that, India has many ethnic groups as well. As if both our massive populations aren't just two monotonous blobs. 🤣 The two main ethnic groups, the Indo-Aryan and the Dravidians, are already very different in skin tones.
I don't think you are correct in your assertion. The NZ farmers had successfully cultivated the "Kiwi" fruit to much larger size than the origin was from Yangtze River bank.
The dilemma for New Zealanders on how to market the fruit in the 1950s to US during the MaCarthy era of anti-China. Hence, it was called "Kiwi" fruit instead Chinese gooseberry.
Many thanks for the video..... very informative and enlightening.👍🙏
Ice cream gets banned in the West tomorrow 😏
"Ice Cream is a U.S. National Security Threat" (Joe Biden)
LOL good idea 😂
US politicians: “China has an overcapacity in ice cream making and other inventions! China is trying to get the world to buy its over-capacitated products that it has invented! The Chinese are guilty of over-inventing products and must be punished for it!”
It shall be renamed "Sundae".
Chinaware, paper, printing, gun powder, rice, tea, pants, forks, sunglasses, high-heeled shoes, vaccinations, coin money, paper money, credit cards, banks, fine textile fabrics, ships, arched bridges, and canals are just a few of the Chinese inventions that will soon be outlawed in the West.
In the UK we would say we are going for a Chinese, which is usually Cantonese based meal. Lots of local adaptations which would be unrecognisable in China.
I don't think Westerners can handle real Chinese food. If they see a head or feet, they will cry out that it is disgusting without even trying it. My coworker complains about octopus. He would not eat anything with more feet than him. Then the stup!d MSG scared in the past making them think MSG is bad and the Chinese are still using it.
That's how food transforms. Go to Latin America or southeast asia and korea and japan. The food transforms over there to fit the local market
In America, it's chop suey😂, you'll never find that in China
@@cryptorenegade1406 In the UK the top Indian dish is Chicken Tikka Masala. You won’t find that in India. It was invented in Scotland or London depending on sources.
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There is no "Chop Suey" in most restaurants in China, but it's a common home dish in China especially in rural areas where people often mix different vegetables of whatever they have, and wok fry them together with meat or no meat.
Makes sense just having one time zone and no daylight saving time.
Most people here would be on or near Beijing time anyway. Fewer people live in Western China.
Only the Western world uses daylight saving time. All because they want to be cheap on lighting candles. Since electricity was born, they have kept it. I don't see what is the purpose of it anymore. The US was going to get rid of it, then they decided to leave it as it is.
I disagree with you on that because sometimes it is really difficult to wake up so early in the morning. For example it you need to wake up at 6:00 AM to go to work in Urumqi it is effectively 3:45 AM geographically.
Let’s say you finish work at 6:00 PM in the evening in Urumqi it is effectively 3:45 PM and you have plenty of day time left to work.
Having one time zone doesn't mean that people across China need to go to work and back home at the same time. People in Xinjiang start to work at 10am and finish at 8pm.
@@ZheSu you are right. that is a better way to do things than having daylight saving time. If necessary, people can have summer and winter hours at work.
Next, they'll say ice cream is a national security risk.
PS: I think there's a record that Chinese people started using milk cream to make ice cream since Tang Dynasty, and it was called "Shushan".
Brain freeze is Chinese.
Ice particles will delete you.
Milk comes from camels.
- US State Dept.
I’m Canadian and have often wondered what it’d be like if we didn’t have such a wide spread of time zones and daylight savings. How would that affect the circadian rhythm as we know it. I worked with an airline that has its corporate headquarters over on the east but my place of employment is over on the western shores. Conference calls are limited to a small window each day to accomodate the team at different parts of the country. It’s much easier in China regardless of which part of the country the different branches of your company are located
Love the mongol’s additives to the Chinese iced cream. Togetherness is the theme here, although the mongols invasion wasn’t ideal way to be together. However, since the mongols joined Inner Mongolia with China, there’s no more enmity.
good facts. good video
Had a colleague once who visited China and went to some big city and was shocked and overwhelmed when she realised that she's in a city of millions of people and nobody speaks english. She made that remark upon her return and I took exception to the attitude in which it was said and replied, "and why should they? (speak english)" She realised what she had just displayed and it must have been a shock that I put it back on her to cause her to reflect. Westerns outside China or ones who have never been to China have a very poor ability to self-reflect. They live in their own anglo world and don't know that the world outside their anglo sphere is even bigger, more culturally diverse, and have a much longer history than theirs (several thousand years vs less than 1 thousand for the anglos).
This is a great series 😊
❤❤❤Kia Ora Andy, Regardless, we still have the yummiest Ice Cream in the world in Pokeno, New Zealand… though no loner cheap for a super quadruple scoop mountain of an ice cream that’s as voluminous as one’s head… yum, yum🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿‼️🀄️🀄️🈶🈵🈵🇳🇿🇳🇿👍NGA mihi 😘
My wife has told me that China has lower retirement ages for men and women than in other places. Please report on retirement in China.
The retirement age for China is 60.
Despite a rapidly increasing life expectancy, the effective retirement age in China remains just 54 years old. This is significantly lower than the OECD average of 64.4 years, indicating a clear need for the government to consider raising the retirement age to better align with current conditions. (CLB)
But China's retirement age remains one of the lowest in the world - at 60 for men, 55 for women in white-collar jobs and 50 for working-class women. (BBC).
As I understand it, China is now contemplating - or has just, raised the retirement age, due to expanded longevity.
Those are very interesting facts about China. I am envious of all the different types of cuisine that China has to offer. City "bu" City. 👍👍👍
I over heard from a tourist couple that in China 🇨🇳 they have spicy ice cream
Yes, that's the latest fad. There is also fried ice cubes with spices.
Szechuan peppercorn ice cream. I saw them being sold all over Chengdu, and regret not trying them.
@@verasinn9285
I think there is stinky tofu ice cream in China, there's already sticky tofu coffee there!!
One time zone is very good for business because the business in different provinces in China is not hampered by different times. Besides, different time zones within one country causes many mistakes and it is not practical.
I have read somewhere that an emperor brought blocks of ice from the cooler regions and used it as air conditioning during hot summers. Ice cream was also probably one of the spinoffs from such endeavour.
China also invented steel-making and Metallurgy.
and navigation tools.
@@Phuckitall
And vaccination.
As a person nearing 40, birthdays suck.
When western people say "lets have Chinese", I say "lets have western" and the confused look on their faces is priceless. This is one way I educate westerns.
I live in the west and I celebrate both birthdays. It’s great to celebrate a birthday on Gregorian calendar with friends and celebrate a birthday on lunar calendar with family.
In the mediaval times, Japanese ate shaved ice with sirup. This shows ice cream wasn't invented in Europe. By the way, pantyhose were invented in China. They were later imported in Europe. A painting of the French King Luis 14 shows the monarch exposed proudly his legs with pantyhose.
安迪自己用西曆換算一下就知道自己的農曆生日啦。:D
in fact every Chinese can have up to three birthdays. according to Chinese culture, the seventh day of the first month is the birthday（ 人日）of mankind.
I never knew that the Chinese invented ketchup until I watched a Korean quiz show on TV a few years ago. What a surprise!
I believe ketchup was originated in Hong Kong or maybe Guangzhou. The English phrase "ketchup" sounds similar to the Chinese terms "kat jup" which mean tomato sauce. A British firm connected to British East India Company in China began marketing a product called Ketchup, although there is no historical record of where the term came from. However, there is speculation that the British acquired the idea to make Ketchup after seeing it in either Hong Kong or Guangzhou. There is an old Chinese sweet and sour pork dish cooked with tomato sauce, sugar and vinegar; perhaps this is where the British got the idea to make ketchup.
Next up on BBC:
China invented ice cream, but at what cost?
Cost for a dentist!
I find it creepy that westerners have weddings and funerals in the same church. Oftentimes wearing the same white and dark colours
Will Joe Biden stop eating ice cream?
National security risk.
Dementia Joe
Yes, he must because it is a National Security risk LOL
No ice cream but sundae
@@stchan8569Sundae is still ice cream….. it’s like banana split, it’s still a form of ice cream.
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windmills
I think China invented the water mill not wind mill.
Well let me put a damper on this: Chinese invented Kungfu and they invented pandas but they didn't invent the Kungfu pandas😂😂
Keep up the good work, Andy! Just wanted to put a cringey joke out there to cheer people up. That's all. Carry on
Football was invented in China !!
Yes, that was likely too because of the ancient drawings and ancient art. Apparently polo and golf too was possibly invented in China too.
@@LoC28Cbest type c comment ever, football invented in china yet they still can't even play well in that sport😂
The Greeks invented the Olympics, but how many Greeks do you see winning metals in the Olympics? Just because a group of people invented something doesn’t mean they would be the best in it forever! After a while other people would learn your invention and they could become better than you in it! The average Chinese people are a lot smaller than black and white people so they would likely surpass the Chinese in the sport that they have invented!
@@Sean-giang type c comment ?
@@LoC28C that's you. A type c
That's a studio as big as Fox. 😮. You need one of those news desks with neon. And to be fair 19 Spains could fit into China.
It's green screen
@@kk66 Ahhh shit. I thought he was on to a bit of pinga's!
If bigger country means longer rail lines then how come Russia doesn’t have a longer rail line than China?
White, blue, brown are funeral colours in China
You said Chinese brides wear red but didn't show us a picture of what the red dresses look like.
search google...
do not say Chinese calender as lunar calender, because it's a lunisolar calender, so simply just say Chinese calender...
Please turn down the background music a bit, it is most distracting.
Chinese developed and invented many things, and do not care about others copying. The US and Japan have copied, and are unshameful of blashing others.
@@jparsit
Not a fan of Japan, but most Japanese actually acknowledge that many things in their culture originated from China and are not afraid to admit so. The South Koreans, however....
Cantonese food oily?? Sorry Mate, I think you are wrong on this one.
We use a fraction of oil compare to other regions.
Cantonese is the least oily of Chinese food hence a lot of steamed recipes. 😂😂😂😂
Claypot Rice, Dim Sum, Siu Mei are indeed.
The fact is that Dim Sum is oily which is not quite suitable for the elderlies ngl (At least that's the case in Hong Kong). Some people would even try to soak Dim Sum into a cup of hot water to remove as much oil as possible...
@@ZariainYT What's Dim Sum here? Dim Sum includes to more than two or three dozens delicacies depending on where you're at. I'm Cantonese and really doesn't understand what you meant by soaking it water to remove the oil. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Not for type c's
Frozen dairy desserts were never invented in china
Anti-China troll working for Fa lun gong cult, the Evil Empire of the United Snakes or Daiwan D P P?
maybe if they are dairy, Nomads are good at producing dairy products ... but we have many historical records and even paintings show that frozen desserts existed one thousand years ago.
@@ShanyuanZhao He's an anti-China troll. He doesn't care about the truth, he only cares about bashing China.
Yes, Japanese 1450 bot, Japan invented the big bang and japan is the origin of the life on earth. Everything is “Japanese”, happy?
Spaghetti wasn't invented in China, but Marco Polo learned how to make noodles when he was in China, after he returned to Europe, he taught people there to make noodles with Europe's durum wheat flour. At the time Europe didn't have tomato yet, it would be introduced from Latin America later, so Europeans were eating spaghetti with meat sauce exactly like how people ate noodles in some regions in China which still can be seen all over China today.
Ice cream? you mean冰淇淋？
More like popsicle... not ice cream.
Ice cream has the oldest first recorded discovery in Mongolia
China used salted ice water to lower the freezing point to make frozen snacks. Mongols basically had a saddlebag of raw milk that shook on the horse, so it became airag during non-freezing months, and proto-ice cream during freezing months. The two combined during Yuan dynasty.
"During the Yuan, imperial chefs developed a new frozen dessert: binglao (冰酪), literally “iced cheese.” The recipe for this frozen treat, flavored with fruits, honey, wine, and other liquors, was kept secret by the imperial palace, though a common story goes that Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan and an emperor ..." Jul 26, 2023, the World of Cheese
Han Dynasty (202BC - 220AD) predated the Mongolian Empire established Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368AD) by more than a thousand years. Mongols never could defeat the Chinese until they stole the gunpowder inventions from China and defeated the Song Dynasty to establish the Yuan Dynasty. Even their conquest of Eurasia had their root from stealing Chinese gunpowder weapon inventions which then spread to Europe and revolutionized warfare for good and for bad, and launched the age of colonialism. Previously, Europeans were fighting on horseback’s with swords.
@@BenjiSun
binglao (冰酪) means Ice Yogurt!!
Aiyah, now u know n not too late to appreciate the Chinese, the only longest surviving culture n civilization in the world, w human centric inclusiveness will rise again to the helm of world stage, to lead humanity forward, Jia Yio.
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