The Chinese is or the Chinese are?

The class of Sino-Tibetan dialects including Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min Nan and others. Wu and Hakka are lesser-known varieties of Chinese. The logographic writing system shared by this language family. Hong Kong uses traditional Chinese. Mandarin: the official language of the People's Republic of China. read more

Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; literally: "Han language"; or Chinese: 中文; pinyin: Zhōngwén; literally: "Chinese writing") is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. read more

The Chinese Zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao, is based on a twelve-year cycle, each year in that cycle related to an animal sign. These signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. read more