Also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_D...</a> .<p>It's a private theory of mine that the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were so lively because "this is an excellent shoulder of pork" sounded exactly like "I will attack your city at dawn"... :)