Buildings that will make you laugh in China

This one is in Wuxi Province

Every time you travel to another place, you are met with challenges that are new to you, especially if you never traveled to new places. Today, let's take a look at some new buildings that you'll find when you travel to China. The atmosphere will not make you thrilled by watching these buildings rather you will be bursting to laughter and satisfaction as you witness the newest archaelogical feats achieved by the architects and engineers behind these projects, such as the teapot above or the art building below.

This is an art building in Hefei, Anhui Province.

This is a building in Shenyang, FangYuan Dasha

Sheraton Hotel in Huzhou

In Hebei Province, Tianzi Hotel

Wuliangye liquor company buildings

Olympic park building

In Guanxi, presents the cardboard building

CCTV building in Beijing

In Suzhou, we found a building that looks like a trouser

This one building is in Guangzhou Plastic Company

A snail building in Beijing.

The tallest building in Jinan Province, it looks like... You get the idea, but I think I might have overthank

A bus station in Jinan

A building as thin as a paper in Shijiazhuang Province

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Chinese Bike Sharing Companies Desire to Expand Worldwide

Mobike, one of the bike sharing companies in China got an investment of six million US dollars to help it expand its bike sharing services worldwide.

Bike renting companies are not new in the world, but companies in China have been named the first ones to use technology to make bike sharing possible. After success in China, now they are expanding beyond borders. Using GPS technology, all you need is an App on your smartphone which will show you where the bikes are near you. You use your smartphone camera to scan a QR Code on the bike to unlock it and then all you have to do is ride it to wherever you want and just leave it there, when you lock it you will receive a bill on your app, and you can see how long, and how far you've travelled, and how much you they charged you.

Mobike reports a stagering amount of 100 million users using its bikes a combined amount of 25 million times a day. The service spans 100 cities in China, and it have expanded to Singapore, at the end of this month, they are planning to start operating in Manchester, UK, and this will be the first city in Europe to receive their services.

The founder and CEO of Mobike Davis Wang, said they want to expand their services worldwide and they plan to have a global presence in more than 200 cities on earth at the end of this year.

Another company that provides the same services, Ofo, have also shown interest in expanding abroad as well, it is already asking for investors and sponsors from different sources. Valued at one billion at the beginning of the year, Ofo, is already operating in Singapore and have trials in Cambridge, UK. Many companies around the world are already immitating the trend, such as US's LimeBike which started a few months ago which is basically a copycat of Ofo.

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How to Cool Off During Summer, Humorous Way

When summer comes, every one is looking for that easier way to cool off themselves, and Chinese have given us the better example to do it. The sense of humor, accompanied with the never give up testaments in the pictures below, will help lift your spirit and build a courage to face the summer without not so much of grievance. I got to admit that the pics below are as funny as anything funny. For example the guy who puts all limbs in the water, I wonder though, did he put ice on the water? lol, would like your water on ice or?

As they say, you get creative when you meet a problem, these are just some of the coolest ways to cool off, need we say more?

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Chinese New Year

28th of this year, Chinese people will be celebrating the biggest traditional festival. And this is not any but the New year celebration. How big is this celebration? It is celebrated by almost the fifth of the world population, that means more than one billion people will be celebrating. On top of that, many East Asian countries will be celebrating this new year as they share most of the history and culture so it is not a surprise. During this time, schools are closed, shops are closed and most of the people will be on a month long holiday to give them a time to celebrate the CNY(Chinese New Year).
This is a long time tradition in China, every year the date is different due to the difference in Lunar and Solar calenders, but most of the time it falls between 21st January to 20th February.

Picha inaonyesha baadhi ya miiko kipindi cha mwaka mpya

The festival was held to celebrate the new planting season, during the time, most of the Chinese people depended on Agriculture. With development, most of the Chinese people are not peasants anymore, but they haven't quit their traditional ways of celebrating Spring festival. Most of them go to the cities to find work, and during this time they all have to go back to their hometown to celebrate this important festival, almost 200 million people travel back to their hometown every year during this time. The tradition have changed from praying for more harvest, to get better jobs and fortune.
They celebrate for the whole month, eventhough the most important day is the new year day. With development, it is harder to celebrate for the whole month, and so, celebration period have been adjusted from one week to two weeks, all those who have to work during this period receives extra payment and bonus.

In a span of 12 years, each year is dedicated to a certain animal, that is why you will hear they say this is the year of Dragon, or Monkey and so on. To celebrate the spring festival, they beg pardon to those they mistreated or sinned against, they refrain from sinning, they forgive those who have wronged them, and they make new chances to know more people, to buy new clothes, to give gifts to others(this is mostly a red envelop packed with cash), cleaning up their houses, eating well, and do fireworks(this makes China the country that do fireworks in large numbers more than any country in the world.), they do fireworks to scare the evil spirits.

During this time, it is also a perfect time to introduce your lover to your parents, relatives and neighbours. Without that you might be annoyed  by the questions posed to you by them, that is the reason why during this festival there's a booming business of "pretend-boyfriend/girlfriend for rent", this is a quick way to make money during this time for many youths.

Different ways to say "Happy new year" in Chinese~
Happy new year                                                Xin nian kuaile    
Happy new year, Congrats be wealthy        Xin nian kuaile, gongshi facai
Happy Spring Festival                                   Chunjie kuaile
Luck on the new year                                      Xin nian Daji

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