The Meng Jiu is a bird native to the southern regions. It weaves its delicate nest from beautiful, soft feathers and carefully fastens it to the spikes of reeds.
When strong winds blow, the reeds often break, causing the nest to fall to the ground. All the eggs and young birds inside are destroyed. This disaster occurs not because the nest itself is poorly made, but because the reed to which it is attached is too fragile.
A fable about fish in a moat who ignore a fire on the dis...
King Li of Chu foolishly beats the emergency drum as a dr...
An unattractive girl blindly imitates the frowning pose o...
A story about Huang Gong, whose excessive modesty led him...
The archer Geng Ying demonstrates profound observation by...
A man from Qi selects a hunting dog for his neighbor, who...
A young man from Shouling, ashamed of his clumsy walk, tr...
Marquis Wen of Wei encounters a farmer who wears his fur ...
A stag hides in an ox-stall to escape hounds, believing h...
A young attendant uses the allegory of a cicada, mantis, ...
A Chu merchant's overly ornate casket for a pearl captiva...
This fable illustrates how a shared crisis can unite even...
Bo Le's son tries to find a superb horse by rigidly compa...
A man mistakes an ordinary stone for a priceless treasure...
This story recounts how the talented scholar Jiang Yan, a...
A man loses his sword in a river and marks the boat where...
Confucius mistakenly judges his disciple Yan Hui for eati...
An unattractive woman blindly imitates the frowning expre...
This fable tells how a minister's warning was ignored by ...
To rescue the besieged state of Zhao, the Qi general Sun ...