| 1 | We had a small side room with a slouchy couch and a television set. | |
| 2 | Now another a wing, added two small tables, but up to 20 people enough to eat at night. | |
| 3 | The first wife traditionally had the right to order the secondary wives around and her children were given precedence over the other children. | |
| 4 | Emperors and warlords often had numerous concubines as well as wives.Their successors were often not the first son from their first wife but sometimes their most able son from a concubine. |