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- addrake, on 10/12/2007, -10/+53General Tso's Chicken. Case frigging closed.
- addrake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41Yes, but they invented General Tso. Without his fearless leadership we wouldn't have had the balls to blend spicy-sweet chicken morsels and broccoli.
- aegis9975, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Short summary:
Paper currency, Row crops, Deep drilling for gas, Fireworks, Gun powder, Flame thrower, Parachute, Rudder, The wheelbarrow, Compass. - sinkpoint, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24@sweetmartian
no man, those are Japanese.
I know we all look the same, but please at least pretend to care about our feelings. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Printing Press/ Movable Type was another Chinese Invention. Invented by Bi Sheng in the 11th century.
- kinesis8, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22The list isn't complete until they put in the Asian Squat.... ;-)
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Actually General Tso Chicken was not invented IN China. Its really American food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso_Chicken - ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15um 1000BC isn't the stone age, unless you happen to be a New Earth Creationist, are you (especially considering your comment on BCE/BC).
By the way, even at 1000BC, China was having wars left and right, flame throwers help in building stuff like knives and swords. - snlildude87, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19you forgot the squat
- dwxpub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Missing the curved shaft/iron mould board plow. Without this, row planting wouldn't have been nearly as easy - almost every culture knew the basics of row planting, but struggled to do it well.
http://www.parapundit.com/archives/001785.html
"Chinese plows were so efficient, that they required only one or two animals to pull them. Four, six, or even eight draft animals were needed to pull the inefficient European plow."
And the chest yoke, which was much better than the Roman way of half choking your horse. And allowing greater pulling strength.
http://www.brlsi.org/proceed02/science017.htm - LouCypher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Not just paper currency, but the paper itself was their invention.
- HanSolo69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Too advanced of a reading level for you?
- Comatose51, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11They (or we since I'm of Chinese heritage) invented a lot but they never had the economy nor the desire to really exploit their inventions. Sure they invented the rudder but the Ming emperors forbid ocean voyages after the voyages of Zheng He. The Chinese and their Confucian scholars were always afraid of change and constantly looked back to past ages of "great sages" as the golden age, never looking forward. They were more worried about preserving what they have than anything else. The Confucians despised the merchants and praised the landowners, gentry, and farmers. Ultimately China would pay for that when the Europeans and the Japanese leapfrogged them. I think the bitterness of that lesson still lingers which is why the Communist governments are always trying to erase the past and develop as much technology as possible. They've gone from one extreme to another.
It's sad in some ways because China is the oldest living civilization yet their books barely mention anything about their past. Confucism stagnated their growth but also preserved their civilization and culture. Even after they were completely conquered on two different occasions they still managed to kick out the Mongols and convert the Manchurians into Hans. - main, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You're kidding right? Is this meant to be ironic?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11it would be on the Japanese one
- jmchez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8These list are only good for historical knowledge but people invariably see them as a mode of raising their self esteem. At least the Chinese did invent many things on their own, Arabs are constantly harping about Algebra or shampoo or the sofa when almost everything they provided the West came from India (math, numbers), Persia or the Byzantines. All of the great Islamic buildings of the Past came from Byzantine designers or craftsmen an algebra and "arabic" numerals came from India.
In any case the problem with recounting old inventions from the past is that it makes you look silly if you do it to boast (we were great once). For the Chinese and Arabs their inventions happened more than 700 years ago. Right now in the Middle east, there seem to be tons of high tech inventions coming out of the industry centers and universities in Israel but not a single item can be traced to any of all of those other muslim countries that surround it, not even oil drilling equipment. - ThreeDee912, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Not in the page, but also invented the printing press before some european guy stole it about 200 years later. :) World History Class...
- Ran2004, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://duggmirror.com/general_sciences/10_best_inventions_of_the_Ancient_Chinese/
- sunimoto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+71. here's a list that had to be used, not the site w/ google ads listed above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China (scroll down)
2. ytf is this even on digg? most of those are known facts, every student should know that, in the middle school. damn....
Btw, they also invented toilet paper, somehow this invention didn't get to India, if you know what I mean. - robbyjo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I might add: Modern Paper-making
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papermaking - kinesis8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Nope, it's not gross, just making a facetious reference to a digg post from yesterday
http://www.digg.com/videos_comedy/Why_do_Asians_Squat_And_How - dwxpub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@elnerdo
Google is your friend:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/flamethrower1.htm
And since it's on the internet, it's *got* to be true. - xSCREAMOx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8i think they forgot movable type.
without them creating movable type for printing we wouldnt be anywhere near where we are right now for advertisement design and ect.. - davbmn68, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7No Digg!...Pasta has to be on the list. Frickin Italians stole it. Flamethrower or Mac and Cheese?
- ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Uh, the Kenyans invented mankind.
- ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I had to laugh at that.
No gunpowder = no tanks, no machine guns, no automatic weapons, no grenades, no rocket launchers, no ICBMs. - ThreeDee912, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Same thing with the fortune cookies. Not Made in China. Made in the USA...
- sxreader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Let me add the Chinese Remainder theorem in the list. However it seems that since the ancient times the Chinese technology was pretty much stalled and no major breakthrough came from them. What a pity.
- ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5FTA
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The invention of this made wars less gruesome and painful. Instead of dying slowly by a fatal sword wound, a shot takes toll immediately. Imagine, an America where all the soldiers bear swords…
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All I'll say is, it's an interesting take on things. - dengzhi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Chinese own!
- polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4stalled because of repeatedly invaded by northern barbaric tribes - Huns, Mongolians, Nurchens and so on...in the later Sung dynasty China has seen the rise of market economy but the great Kublai Khan nipped that in the bud.
- polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4propaganda your a**!
how is a list of historical facts a propaganda, i'll never know... - RoshanK, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Maybe they should try to invent better servers now.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3it's commendable that, if i recall correctly, while the chinese had the technology of gun powder they outlawed it for many years because of its danger while they reserved it for fireworks use only.
- tvjunior, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4First Seismograph
"http://www.mssu.edu/seg-vm/pict0688.html" - gigijin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4as chinese, we get used to the notion of so-called "Four Great Inventions" (四大发明), the number should add up to 10 now. :)
- brotherfranciz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Erm, dude... if you asked nicely, anyone would be willing to share. And nobody is saying anyone stole anything...
I believe silk was the only thing that was "stolen" from the Chinese, I think it was some missionaries who hid some silk worms in their walking staffs. The Chinese protected their silk furiously because of economic reasons, it was reaping a huge trade profit for the Chinese against the English (along with porcelain and tea)... but that was before the Opium War...
Besides, I'm pretty sure the Europeans did the same thing with the few inventions they had...
I must add that it's totally different nowadays... so you can't really say "We as humans should be working as a team not in competition." if you were referring to ancient China.
Also, what really pisses me off is when you said "If the Chinese wanted to sit on a killer ideas and keep it to themselves, they don't deserve credit for it."
It's not about them "deserving" credit, it's just common knowledge. It's like saying "Henry Ford invented the car, but he doesn't deserve the credit for inventing it because he made a ***** of money!!!" Also, if the Chinese don't deserve the credit, then who does? Do we just ignore the fact that we have paper?
@ Comatose51: That was a good explanation, I'm Chinese too but I couldn't have put it any better myself. - zmenchini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i, for one, would be lost without fireworks.
thank you, china! - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bull. *****.
Take a Chinese class. Learn how to say things. There are L sounds all over the place.
You're thinking of Japanese, and that's a whole other debate in itself. - aegis9975, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3>>You shouldn't trust Xinhua, the same newspaper that says that China has military superiority over the USA and once that the US government are all made up of mobsters.
Well that's because Xinhua is an official press agency of the Chinese government, its not surprising that they say such things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency - zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Ancient Chinese Secret, huh?"
For those too young to remember this quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgon - Xeth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Xinhua has very accurate and balanced reporting, as long as its news that has nothing to do with China, same is true for most state-run news agencies.
- dachicken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@brotherfranciz Henry ford did not invent the automobile. he developed the modern assembly line production system. Benz is credited with the first internal combustion engine, aka the automobile.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They forgot the chair.
- slstsang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ok, best thing coming out in the last century from china:
Bruce lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. NO other chinese martial artist will ever replace them. mark my words. - T3hl33tg33k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did you notice that the first guy to capitalize his sentence in the comments said that religion is irrational?
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Shika,
You shouldn't trust Xinhua, the same newspaper that says that China has military superiority over the USA and once that the US government are all made up of mobsters. - Xeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1By that line of logic MedEvac = hand of the devil.
- gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Chopsticks are a fork and knife all rolled into one if you know how to use them properly. As for the disposable chopstick... gotta lay that one at the feet of the USA.
- ulsterwrod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the news agency is just a tool of the government. it has published countless lies, many of them about Tibet for example.
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