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Will you pay CNY 100000 to learn western etiquette?
Mar 5, 2013 11:44	#21
WANHU Points: Join Date: Feb 20, 2007 Status: Offline	They have food tester. Wan

Mar 5, 2013 11:45	#22
WANHU Points: Join Date: Feb 20, 2007 Status: Offline	P/S We don't have President but Prime Minister. Wan

Mar 5, 2013 20:11	#23
BBQQ Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by WANHU They have food tester. Wan So they test the food in front of you? That's embarrassing.

Mar 7, 2013 16:10	#24
WANHU Points: Join Date: Feb 20, 2007 Status: Offline	Not in front. They have rules and regulations for heads of state. Wan

Mar 26, 2013 02:25

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Not in front. They have rules and regulations for heads of state.
Wan

I see. A few days ago, I watched a documentary about Summer Palace. It is said that 128 dishes are prepared for a meal for the Empress Ci Xi. However, Ci Xi won't eat all of them. She just tastes several dishes. And she won't eat the same dish more than 3 times. Why? It's the old tradition that has been observed by the emperors for years. They don't want others to know what dishes they prefer most. Otherwise, some people might put poison in their favorite dishes.

Forgot to say! Li Lianying, an eunuch favored by Ci Xi, always tastes the dishes first. Then Ci Xi eats the dishes.

Mar 30, 2013 18:02	#26
WANHU Points: Join Date: Feb 20, 2007 Status: Offline	BBQQ, it's the arrogance on her part rather than fearing of poisoning. Wan

Apr 1, 2013 04:23	#27
BBQQ Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by WANHU BBQQ, it's the arrogance on her part rather than fearing of poisoning. Wan Haha, all Chinese emperors are arrogant. Otherwise, they won't call them sons of god.

Apr 1, 2013 06:31	#28
WANHU Points: Join Date: Feb 20, 2007 Status: Offline	If they were really sons of god, they wouldn't perish in 1911. But it's interesting to see how they managed to maintain feudalism far too long. Wan

Apr 12, 2013 02:44	#29
BBQQ Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by WANHU If they were really sons of god, they wouldn't perish in 1911. But it's interesting to see how they managed to maintain feudalism far too long. Wan Maybe, you can dig Chinese history and write a thousand pages essay, Wan.

Apr 16, 2013 14:59

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One of the students that I supervised wrote an academic essay "Islam in China" that started from Tang Dynasty (618-907) that initiated me to understand both the Old Tang Chronicle (Jiu Tang Shu 旧唐书) and the New Tang Chronicle (Xin Tang Shu 新唐书) where the words such as 永徽二年，大食王豃密莫末腻始遣使者，自言王大食氏，有国三十四年，传二世 can't really be explained by ordinary Putonghua laoshi.
Wan

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