The Origin of China The author of Chinese Cinderella comes from the most popular country, China. China is located in East Asia were there is a diverse amount of landscapes such as subtropical forest, desserts, grasslands, and mountains. China has a current population of 1.35 billion with a large amount of its people coming from its capital city Beijing; this is the largest city in Shanghai. In Shanghai you will meet a lot of Chinese people as that is there dominate race, but you will also find all kinds of other minorities. China does not run on a government like America, China is a communist country.
China claims 22 providences, but also includes Taiwan making their total 23. This large country …show more content…
Just fewer than 30% of the people that live in China originated form the Yellow River. The two cultures came together as one to form one big cultural area where they mixed languages and became one.
Pre-Historic civilizations along the Silk Road where the Chinese would buy and sell their goods, also a lot of other countries would come and sell and buy from other people. The Silk Road was mainly known for trading. This started from the Hans dynasty 2000 years ago; many of the items that were found were not native to China, which means they could have started trading before this dynasty was created. Things that where sold and bought were crops, clothes, tools, valuables such as gold diamonds, crystals, copper, silver, iron, etc.
Archaeologists found skeletons of humans and footprints of animals, which means that farming was a major way of living for the ancient Chinese people. This dates back about 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. Many of the items found are native to China so this shows that the trading was happening on the Silk Road in Northwest China. Also found on the trading routes were ancient tombs and wooden carts that were used for