A Billion is a lot, you might even say incomprehensible.   You could not count to one billion during a lifetime.   Yet that's how many people live in China.

You may wonder, as I do, how they ever got so many.   The answer is it only takes about a thousand men like Giocangga, the grandfather of the founder of the Qing dynasty. According to one genealogy site, Giocangga is responsible for 1.5 million male descendants alive today.   Apparently he had a few wives as well as several concubines.

Those must be some family reunions!