Is that your answer to mscion's question?

(Besides, Kangal is right. Yet again.)

Sometimes, they take that to an extreme.

On my visit to the Forbidden City a few years ago, our tour guide told us that the Chinese culture - at least at the time of building it - explicitly forbade progress. The Emperor's successor could not outshine his father by building a bigger palace. So he had to build a smaller one. With only 9999.5 rooms instead of 10000.