Don't be too impressed with the number of stories, though. To make it look taller from the ground, the top stories are smaller than the bottom ones, so 8 and 9 are joined together about 12 feet high inside, 10 and 11 are joined and about 8 feet high inside, and 12/13 are only about 4 feet high. That's right, at about the time Europeans were learning to cook their food, the Chinese understood and put into use the concepts of perspective.