1 . An about 2-meter-wide alley (巷子), or "Liu Chi Xiang" in Chinese, now attracts floods of visitors in East China's Anhui province. There is an old ______ hidden behind it.

During the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911), one of its ministers (丞相), Zhang Ying, ______ a letter from his family in his hometown of Tongcheng city in Anhui one day. Zhang learned that his family ______ with their neighbor Wu about the boundary (边界)of the two houses. The local court felt awkward and ______ to reach a final decision because both families ______ high reputation (声誉)in Tongcheng. Zhang's family wrote the ______ hoping that Zhang could force the Wu family to give way.

However, Zhang ______ with a poem saying, "Writing a letter from home, miles away, just for a wall. All that fuss (为小事大吵大闹)over one meter or two. Looking at the ten thousand mile-long Great Wall. Long gone is its ______ Emperor Qinshihuang." His reply made the family members understand that the close relationship with their neighbors was the most ______ thing. They decided to move their wall about one meter back for their neighbor. ______ , the Wu family was ______ touched and they moved another meter ______ , which created an about two-meter-wide narrow " ______ " between the   houses.

Now the alley is one of the most well-known ______ in Tongcheng. Zhang Yun, a descendant (后代)of Zhang Ying, has learned Zhang Ying's wisdom in ______ problems. He always uses this old story of his ancestor（祖先)to persuade others to reach agreements with each other.