June Quiz

Only a small part of the first Qin emperor's has been uncovered. There are no plans to excavate further areas as there is a strong respect for the dead in China.

In 2012 Bo Xilai was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges. In truth he had started to build up a singnificant power base that threatened other PRC leaders. His wife was given a suspended death sentence for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.

The Sino-Indian War lasted just one month and resulted in China taking control of the Aksai Chin border area. A skirmish in 2020-21 also took place along the disputed border on the southern fringe of the Himalayas.

The academy is famous for its role in training Republican soldiers who went on to lead China such as Lin Biao. It was Chiang Kaishek and Sun Yatsen who set it up in 1924.

天宫 Tiān gōng means ‘heavenly palace’ and is the name given to a series of space stations that China is putting into Earth orbit.

Eight is the luckiest number and you often see it associated with gambling. There are many gambling web sites with 888 as part of the name. The Beijing Olympics was opened on the 8/8/2008 at 8PM .

The Shu kingdom centered on present day Sichuan province kept many of the Tang dynasty's traditions going during the turmoil that separated Tang from Song dynasties.

The traditional form is a lucky shoe shape known as a ‘sycee’. It was handmade as a large unit of currency.

The Qing dynasty had two separate burial places because feng shui practitioners could not agree which was best. Cixi is buried with a phoenix emblem above the dragon showing the dominance of female power under her long effective reign.

Mao had with him some sophisticated radio equipment that allowed him to listen into broadcasts of Chiang Kaishek's GMD forces. Forewarned of offensives against them the Long March managed to stay one step ahead of Chiang Kaishek who had them trapped on several occasions.

The character is 李 lǐ representing the plum tree. The tree is highly prized as it is one of the first trees to blossom in early spring. It is currently the second most common family name with 93 million people bearing it in 2019.

Although the ancient supply came from within China in the Kunlun mountains for the last few hundred years the country with the biggest mines has been Myanmar. Emperor Qianlong launched offensives to try to capture the mines in the late 18th century.

Women only make up about a quarter of the party this has somewhat reduced from the early years of the PRC.

The much respected military general Zhu De held joint leadership in the early days, the term Mao-Zhu was a term representing a harmonius balance of intellectual (Mao) and military (Zhu) skills.

The taiji representation is shown with dark ?yin? and light ?yang? swirling around each other. The two dots should be thought as seeds - the small circle of yin can grow into yang, and the circle of yang can transform into yin. Yang can not exist without yin and yin without yang but it is a dynamic system where yang transforms to yin and yin to yang.