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RE: Cheuan Deng 犬燈 “The Dog Lantern”, a 狐狸精 fox spirit story from the 聊齋志異 Liaujai Jyhyih, by 蒲松齡 Pwu Songling

in #cn6 years ago (edited)

On line 2, notice the exceedingly terse grammar that is a key feature of Classical Chinese, a high context language (= if something can be inferred from context, it need not be stated explicitly):

夜宿廈間 [literally] night, sleep, back-of-house, room
= At night he slept in a room at the back of the house

Here, there are no prepositions whatsoever. What a cool sentence structure!