Official： Your Majesty， my wife is such a shrew. 陛下，我老婆太兇了。

Official： She stomped on my government issued hat！ 她把我的官帽都踩爛了

Emperor： My dear lord， Im afraid you have to be patient.愛卿，還是忍耐些吧。

Emperor： The empress is so naughty that she would smash my crown if I ever dared

to speak against her. 皇后有些頑皮，一言不合，連我的皇冠都會摔碎

This joke is adapted from Xiaolin Guangji （《笑林廣記》， Extensive Gleaning from the Forests of Laughter ）， a joke book published in 1781 that epitomized Chinese humor.

answers for last issue

Across：2.劉慈欣 3. 益友? 5. 欣賞 7.精神疾病? 10. 方向 11. 榮耀 13. 入時 15. 權(quán)威

Down： 1. 精益求精 4. 欣欣向榮? 6. 絕癥? 8. 神出鬼沒? 9. 病入膏肓? 12. 耀武揚威

across

2. Electric diagram of the heart

4. The year-end festival on

the Chinese lunar calendar

6. Capital city of Tibet

Autonomous Region

8. A term to describe a

marriage that lasts 50 years

9. The family planning policy

down

1. Cao Baopings latest movie

3. Capital city of Kazakhstan

5. You watch these on your TV

7. Encouraging late marriage

and late childbirth

9. The Chinese for “computer”

10. The action of giving birth

to a second child