On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, bert washington wrote:
> I am having problems tracing the origin of the ancient Chinese
> curse 'May you live in interesting times'.
This has been discussed at length on the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup - do
a dejanews search on "chinese curse". The tentative conclusion seems to be
that it is a relatively recent invention, neither ancient nor Chinese.
Lots more information can be found at:
http://hawk.fab2.albany.edu/sidebar/sidebar.htm
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