China

This ended about two weeks ago, but, for the total span of approximately 2.5 weeks, everything I did, and everywhere I turned, seemed to bring to my eyes somethingto do with China. These things included my homework, the book I was reading, my girlfriend's homework, what was on the news, etc.
So, because of this, for these 2.5 weeks I felt as if a character in a working novel, or an actor in a film, surrounded by symbolism of future events.
So I got thinking: what symbolism would China provide?
Surely not the symbol of communism, or of war? Their national bird is the crane and their national mammal is the giant panda, but that makes no sense; if I were to Google such a question lost I would become within Chinese caligraphy, and so, the question is given here.
What symbolism would China provide?