Friends:Wouldnt it be nice if our children got married in the future?

Husband: No way! My daughter is only one, and your son is two; when shes ten, your son would be 20. Thats disgusting!

Wife: No, sweetie, your math is wrong. Our daughter will be two years old next year, and they will be the same age by then.

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

cross word

across

1. The highest organ of power in China

4. Agree on a three-point decree; lay some ground rules

6. The small machine that keeps you connected, can be addictive

7. Secret code, password

10. Trifling skill of a scribe; literary

skill of small order

13. Only the toughest grass can                          stand strong winds; adversity is

the best testing ground for strength

down

2. What Edward Snowden leaked

3. Approximately, by estimation

5. Classic Yunnan cuisine involving

chopped black pickles and two

other ingredients

8. Winter worm, summer grass

9. An idiom for proficiency in a  particular field

11. Famous poet of the Southern

Song Dynasty, from whose

famous lines the name “Baidu”

was taken

12. Ignorant