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Interesting facts about Chinese characters (homophonics or typos, 400 words)

"Shi Shi's History of Lion Eating" by the language master Zhao Yuanren (it is recommended to read it aloud)

Original text -

Shi Shi, a poet in the stone chamber, was fond of lions. Pledge to eat ten lions. Shi Shi always looks at the lion in the market. At ten o'clock, ten lions are in the market. It's time for Shi Shi to be in the market. He regarded them as ten lions and relied on the power of his arrows to cause them to die. His collection contains the corpses of ten lions, suitable for the stone chamber. The stone chamber was wet, and the envoys of the clan wiped the stone chamber. After wiping the stone chamber, Shishi began to taste the food. When he was eating, he realized that they were ten lions, and they were actually ten stone lion corpses. It is a matter of trial and error.

Translation——

There was a poet named Shi who lived in a house built of stone. He was particularly fond of lions and loved to eat lions. He vowed to eat them. Lose ten lions. He often went to the market to see if there were any lions. One day at ten o'clock, ten lions appeared in the market. At that time, Shi Jun also came to the market. When he saw the ten lions, he took off his bow and arrow and shot the lions. The ten lions were shot and killed. Shi Jun then picked up the bodies of the ten lions and prepared to carry them to the stone room where he lived. Unfortunately, the stone room was very damp. Shi Jun asked his servants to move the stone room to the stone room where he lived. After wiping the stone room clean, he began to try to eat the ten dead lions. When he was about to eat, he realized that the ten lion corpses were not real lion corpses, but ten lions made of stone. , now please try to explain this matter.