First off, here are the answers!
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Thanks to its founding, Macau is a very historical city. Thanks to it being an SAR, it is basically Las Vegas in China. It is the only place in China where gambling is legal. They have their own currency and their own flag.
A historical site that we did
not make it to (because it was
crowded!!!!!) was the
Moorish Barracks (because Macau was a very international city), but we did have a tour of the city and make it to two different places. Check those out in the upcoming posts!
Macau is still a very international city, and as a reference to its history, signs are still written in both Portuguese and Chinese. The blog
Stained Glass Travel has a nice piece about the history of parts of Macau, but one of their pictures caught my eye:
These two names are not exactly the same. To be crystal, sparklingly clear, I know almost nothing about Chinese characters (I haven't even learned the characters for my own name), but I recognized that second character as the number 3, which does
not show up in the Portuguese name. I pestered my Chinese friend for help explaining it; she explained that the last character is the word
jie, which means "street", the second-to-last one means "right", and the first three are the name Da San Ba. Apparently, the Chinese name comes from the Chinese name for memorial gates and the church at the end of that road.
There's no real point to this paragraph, except to comment that translations are complex things.
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