Many connections between the Bible and Chinese culture are shown in the book God’s Promise to the Chinese by Ethel R. Nelson, Richard E. Broadberry and Ginger Tong Chock. In their book they show how hundreds of Chinese symbols are similar to the Bible accounts.
For example, the traditional Chinese words for righteousness (義 - yì), sacrifice (犠牲- xī sheng) , and beautiful (美 - měi) all include the symbol for a sheep (羊 - yáng). In the Bible the sacrifices of sheep made people righteous and beautiful before God. And Jesus is the Lamb of God that was sacrificed to make us righteous.
Many Chinese words contain two trees (木), such as forbidden (禁) which also contains the God radical (示). The word for covet (婪) has a woman (女) between two trees. Compare this with the Bible’s Garden of Eden where there were 2 trees and Eve coveted the forbidden fruit from the forbidden tree. The Chinese word for ship (船 - chuan) contains the number 8 and mouth / people. Likewise, the Bible account of Noah’s Ark says that there were 8 people on the Ark (ship).
The best explanation for these amazing parallels between Chinese characters and the Bible is that when the Chinese invented their writing system around 4,000 years ago they used symbols that people knew the meanings of. All Chinese back then would have known the stories of Adam and Eve and the Flood because it is real history, and all nations, including the Chinese, came from the Tower of Babel around 2200 BC.
It is important to understand that the worship of the creator God is not a new thing in China. Near Beijing is a famous tourist attraction called the Temple of Heaven (天壇– Tiāntán) and its associated Altar of Heaven. Up until 1912 it was the site of an annual ceremony where every year the Emperor would sacrifice a bull to Shangdi 上帝(God). (Note that in the Bible sacrifices also included bulls – and the Chinese word for sacrifice also includes the symbol for bull.) The temple was built over 500 years ago, but the ceremony and worship of Shangdi predate the temple and go back thousands of years. Nowadays, many Chinese people flock to the Altar of Heaven and raise their arms to heaven believing that in so doing they will receive good luck. However, most Chinese are unaware of the history of the Temple of Heaven and do not connect the Temple of Heaven with the God of Heaven.