On a hot summer night, at a local bar in Beijing, two foreign men encountered a critical incident. They wanted to have beer. One of them therefore went to see the barman, and made a number gesture by holding up his thumb and the index finger. The barman nodded his head. Several minutes later, 8 glasses of foamy beer were displayed in front of the stunned foreign man, “Here are your beers!”
In China, “Eight” is represented by the thumb and index fingers. We use one hand to signify the natural numbers 1 through 10… Want to know what happened to the two foreign men? They laughed, drank all the 8 glasses, and continued their night inside old Beijing’s charming hutong alleys …
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