The Emperor then decreed that a group of boys be trained in the Li Yuan, the Pear Garden, of the inner court, to do choral dances with girls from the palace.

堂明皇下令在梨园（内庭）训练一批少男，以便和宫中少女配合唱歌舞。

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It was placed almost in the exact spot that Emperor Norton had decreed.

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Prof Perotti despairs, comparing it to the time of Nero, when the notoriously mad Roman Emperor decreed that no citizen could ever leave his family's allotted profession.

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