Why was the farming of common carp banned during the Tang dynasty in China?
Correct answer: The Chinese word for carp sounded like the emperor's family name
Tom
A good thing that the Emperor's name did not sound like 'rice' or the nation would have starved.
Lunarsea
swish, It was just the common carp that was banned, so they bred 4 other types.
Player #27461497
What was the Emperors Name. ?
สไปรท์
Tom,
In Chinese, rice is pronounced as 'fan' (pronounced similar to fun) or 'mi' depending on context (If I'm not wrong, there are also other Chinese words for this too, in one way or another)
I did not write it with Chinese tone, which is a thing above the Chinese words (not all of them do have) and also, different tones on a Chinese word would mean something different
Player Bengal Mama
Rey, A young man at the Chinese restaurant I love to go to has a whole wall filled with 50 gal. tanks, different heads and colors and sizes. I usually leave because I've taken so much time starting at his fish