-x-About The Similarities & Differences Between China and Japan-x-

The similarities between China and Japan:

*The staple food of China and Japan is rice.

*We use chopstick when we eat.

*Appearance, for example, faces (most of us have yellow color skins and black (dark brown) eyes) and colors of hair (we have the black hairs.)

*There are China and Japan in Asia.

*We use Kanji

*Most of Chinese and Japanese students wear the school uniform.

*Most of us love Chinese food.

The differences between China and Japan:

*When we write words, Chinese use Kanji only, but Japanese use Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana.

*Languages that we speak (Chinese (people) that live in China speak Chinese, and Japanese (people) that live in Japan speak Japanese.)

*Chinese national sports are Ping Pong and  chinese martial arts (wushu). Japanese national sport is Sumo.

*China has a lot of great histories. Although Japan has great histories, they are not very old.

*Number of population and size of countries (There are a lot of people in China, and China is huge country. But Japanese population is few, and Japan is very small country.)

Interesting things (refer to wikipedia)

. It (China) has a recorded history of over five thousand years.

. After the Chinese Civil War, the communist leader Mao Zedong declared a new country, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in Beijing on October 1, 1949.

. China is the original birth of Eastern arts. The names of arts were called Kung Fu or its first name Wushu.

. Japanese people call their country "Nihon" or "Nippon", which in Japanese means "the origin of the sun". It is not actually the origin of the sun.

. Japan began to write its own history after the 5th and 6th centuries, when people from Korea and China taught Japan about the Chinese writing system.

. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 stopped some old ways and added many new ones.