TIL when the first US ship arrived in China in 1785, the Chinese loved the American flag, calling it "as beautiful as a flower". Since then, an informal Chinese name for the United States has been the "flower flag country".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States?z#The_.22Flower_Flag.22_arrives_in_Asia



Submitted April 09, 2015 at 09:50PM by AirborneRodent http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/320gzg/til_when_the_first_us_ship_arrived_in_china_in/