The largest Chinese cobra is about 2 meters.

The Chinese cobra is medium to large in size, without cheek scales, black or dark brown on the back, spectacled markings (double circles or its various decorations) on the nape of the neck, and white fine rings all over the body.

Chinese cobras have a wide range of diets, mainly frogs and snakes, followed by birds and mice, and Eat lizards, loaches, eels and other small fish. It was observed in Taiwan that this snake feeds on birds and rats, and also goes to the water to eat water snakes and loach. It stings around May every year and enters hibernation in November.