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Receiving Room at the Hall of Thirty Six Pairs of Mandarin Ducks 三十六鸳鸯馆
Right above where the mandarin ducks were happily swimming about, was a hall which incidentally was named after them. The Hall of Thirty Six Pairs of Mandarin Ducks is a strangely named hall. Could it be that when the hall were being built there happened to be thirty six pairs of the ducks, hence the name? It seems that because of the name, the garden managements now finds it necessary to put live mandarin ducks near the pavillion. I wonder if they actually limit them to thirty six pairs, what if they multiply? Do they eat them?
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