漢人有適吳，吳人設筍，問是何物，語曰竹也。歸煮其床簀而不熟，乃謂其妻曰：“吳人轣轆，欺我如此！”
There was once a Han Chinese who visited the Wu region. The locals served him some bamboo shoots. [The Han Chinese] asked what he was served and was told it was bamboo. When [he] returned home, [he] cooked his bamboo sleeping mat but could not cook it through. [He] then said to his wife: “Those sly Wu people, how could they lie to me like that!”
* Handan Chun 邯郸淳 (ca. 132-221), Xiaolin 笑林, in Gu xiaoshuo gouchen 古小說鉤沉 edited by Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881-1936); see Lu Xun quanji 魯迅全集 (Beijing: Beijing ribao chubanshe, 2014), vol. 8.
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