If you've ever worried about having enough room for a growing brood, spare a thought for Ziona Chana.
He has 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren living under the same roof.
Home is a 100-room, four-storey house set in the hills of the village of Baktawng in the Indian state of Mizoram. Even then, some of his wives sleep top-to-tail in communal dormitories.
But Ziona doesn't appear fazed by the size of his apparently happy family - and doesn't claim any benefits for their upkeep.
"I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the world's largest family."
The family is organised with almost military discipline, with the oldest wife Zathiangi, 69, drawing up schedules for her fellow partners to take turns performing household chores such as cleaning, washing and preparing meals.
One evening meal can see them pluck 30 chickens, peel 132lb of potatoes and boil up to 220lb of rice.
The compound has its own school, a playground, carpentry workshops, piggery and poultry farms and a vegetable garden big enough to supply the whole family.
Ziona is also head of a sect that allows members to take as many wives as he wants.
He even married ten women in one year, when he was at his most prolific, and enjoys his own double bed while his wives have to make do with sharing.
He keeps the youngest women near to his bedroom with the older members of the family sleeping further away - and there is a rotationsystem for who visits Ziona's bedroom.
And Ziona, whose polygamous religious sect has 4,000 members, says he has not stopped looking for new wives.
"To expand my sect, I am willing to go even to the US to marry", he said.
One of his sons insisted that Ziona, whose grandfather also had many wives, marries the poor women from the village so he can look after them.


据英国《每日邮报》10月20日报道，如果你曾为孩子渐渐长大没有足够的房间而担忧，那么想想锡安纳吧。
他有39个老婆，94个孩子，14个儿媳以及33个孙子，这么多人生活在同一屋檐下。

他的家是一栋拥有100个房间的四层大房子，坐落在印度米佐拉姆邦巴克道恩村的小山中。即便这样，锡安纳的一些老婆还是打对头地睡在公用的宿舍里。
但是锡安纳并没有因为他幸福大家庭的这种规模而表现出任何狼狈之态--也没有以供养家庭为由提出任何利益上的要求。

"我觉得自己是个很幸运的人，能成为39个女人的丈夫，并且是世界上最大的家庭的一家之主。"
这个大家庭实行的几乎是军事化的管理，锡安纳最年长的妻子萨席安吉现年69岁，她负责为太太们制定日程表，安排大家轮流做家务，比如清扫、洗衣服和做饭。

这家人一顿晚饭要消耗掉30只鸡、132磅土豆和220磅大米。
他们拥有自己的学校、游乐场、木工工场和畜牧场，还有一个很大的菜园，足以让这一大家人自给自足。

锡安纳还是印度一个教派（查那教）的领袖，这一教派正如他所希望的那样，允许教徒迎娶多个妻子。
他最高纪录甚至曾在一年内娶了十个老婆，在家里他自己独享一张双人大床，他的妻子们则必须几人同宿。
锡安纳总是把最年轻的妻子安顿在离自己卧室较近的房间，年长的则住得比较远--而且每天由谁进入主卧和他同宿，都有固定的轮换制度。

锡安纳，这个拥有4000名教众的多妻制教派的领袖，似乎并不打算停止寻找新的伴侣。

"为了发扬教派，我还想去美国娶妻"，他说。
锡安纳的一个儿子坚称，他的父亲迎娶村子里贫困的女人其实是为了能更好地照顾她们。锡安纳的爷爷也娶了很多老婆。

• indian [´indiən] a.印度的 n.印度人 (初中英语单词)
• discipline [´disiplin] n.纪律；训练 (初中英语单词)
• compound [kəm´paund] n.&a.混合(的) v.合成 (初中英语单词)
• vegetable [´vedʒtəbəl] a.&n.蔬菜(的)；植物 (初中英语单词)
• sleeping [´sli:piŋ] n.&a.睡着(的) (初中英语单词)
• system [´sistəm] n.系统，体系，制度 (初中英语单词)
• willing [´wiliŋ] a.情愿的，乐意的 (初中英语单词)
• grandfather [´grænd,fɑ:ðə] n.(外)祖父；祖先 (初中英语单词)
• apparently [ə´pærəntli] ad.显然，表面上地 (高中英语单词)
• playground [´pleigraund] n.操场；运动场 (高中英语单词)
• poultry [´pəultri] n.&v.家禽 (高中英语单词)
• expand [ik´spænd] vt.张开；膨胀；扩大 (高中英语单词)
• drawing [´drɔ:iŋ] n.画图；制图；图样 (英语四级单词)
• rotation [rəu´teiʃən] n.旋转；循环，交替 (英语四级单词)