> Said to be a Chinese proverb
Unlikely, cf. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/12/29/plant-tree/
There's an old Chinese proverb for this, it goes "most of the time it's not a Chinese proverb". Ah, words of sages, the wisdom of ages.
Unlikely, cf. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/12/29/plant-tree/
There's an old Chinese proverb for this, it goes "most of the time it's not a Chinese proverb". Ah, words of sages, the wisdom of ages.
It turns out that since for most of Western history China was synonymous with the "mysterious far east", it become common practice to just tack on "Chinese" to the origin of any saying to let it exotic credibility.
Unsurprisingly "May you live in interesting times" is not a Chinese curse.