CROSS WORD
2016-01-10
汉语世界(The World of Chinese) 2016年4期
关键词:笑林
Old Man: I will give each of you 10,000 RMB if you move apartments today!
Old Man: This is great, thank you. Where are you moving to?
Neighbors: Oh, we just swapped.
This joke is adapted from Xiaolin Guangji (《笑林廣记》, Extensive Gleaning from the Forests of Laughter ), a joke book published in 1781 that epitomized Chinese humor.