National Foreign Language Week

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Yesterday was the start of the National Foreign Language Week, which is supposed to celebrate foreign languages... so Prof. Yao gave us a a sheet of 20 Mi Yu, which are a form of Chinese riddle. Basically, it's a puzzle in which you guess the character based on the clue. One of the mi yu I got was: ta you, ni mei you. tian meiyou, di you. translated it means, he has, you don't. sky doesn't have, earth has. the answer is ye which is in both of their words. Anyways, got 20 more. wish me luck.

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I know it's a day late, but good luck to you anyway. =)

The Forbidden City was home to both the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) emperors and I believe it has 9,999 rooms.

Thanks Cat!

Yes, I've read it had 9,999 and one-half rooms... the one-half room is meant to signify the next experor's expansion.

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