Is it in your brain or your stomach?

The Chinese medicine was so "advanced", it stipulates that your stomach holds the most important life "ingrients". Your thought process and your thinking is all done inside the stomach. You don't think with your brain, you think with your heart, and you plot or scheme with your stomach. After all, the stomach holds everything you eat. They had no idea what a brain was :-).

So when you hear the Chinese say that so-and-so doesn't have anything in his stomach, it doesn't mean that he is hungry, it means he can't write well or articulate his thoughts.

一个秀才准备去考试，成天唉声叹气。他的太太说﹕“看你这样害怕考试，真像我们女人害怕生孩子一样。”秀才说﹕“你不知道，这比生孩子难多了。你生孩子前肚子里已经有孩子了。可是我肚子里根本没有文章。”

A scholar was preparing to take a test,and was sighing all day long.His wife stated, "Looks like you're very nervous about the test,just like us women afraid of having children."The scholar replied, "You don't know the half of it,this is more complicated than having children.when you're having a child your stomach already has the child.but my stomach doesn't even have an essay."