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A Pedant's Prudence | 迁腐的谨慎
A pedantic scholar, bound by rigid etiquette, delays warning a father about his child playing dan...
Moving the Thill to the South Gate | 徒辕南门
Wu Qi cleverly built public trust by fulfilling small promises, then successfully mobilized civil...
Fishing for Girls | 钓鱼与邂逅
Howard's solo weekend trip for fishing and meeting women is foiled by an empty pool and his own s...
The Self-Injury Stratagem | 苦肉计
Before the Battle of Chibi, Huang Gai volunteers for a self-injury stratagem, enduring a severe f...
The Medicine Swindler | 骗子卖药
A famous doctor prescribed poris cocos for Liu Zongyuan's swollen spleen, but a swindling apothec...
The Archer's Miss | 神射手的失误
A master archer, Hou Yi, misses his shot when a huge reward is at stake, revealing how anxiety ov...
The Lost Sheep at the Crossroads | 歧路亡羊
A story where the failure to find a lost sheep due to complex branching paths leads a scholar to ...
Crossing the Sea by Stratagem | 瞒天过海
General Xue Rengui used a clever ruse to trick the hesitant Emperor Taizong onto a ship and acros...
The Runaway Pancake | 逃跑的煎饼
A pancake, hearing it will be eaten, escapes from the frying pan and rolls away. It outruns the f...
How the Bear Lost His Tail | 熊是如何失去尾巴的
A proud bear, tricked by a cunning fox into fishing with his magnificent tail on a frozen lake, f...
The Long Reins | 马不千里
A disciple boasts of his horses' speed but is told his long reins prevent true progress, illustra...
Pangu Separates the Sky and the Earth | 盘古开天
This myth describes how Pangu emerged from a primordial egg-like chaos and spent millennia separa...
Practice Makes Perfect | 熟能生巧
A skilled archer becomes complacent after a successful practice, only to be humbled by an old oil...
The Three Languages | 三种语言
A count's son, deemed foolish for learning only the languages of dogs, birds, and frogs, is cast ...
Lu Ban's Magpie | 鲁班造鹊
Lu Ban, a legendary craftsman, built a mechanical magpie that could fly for days. However, Mo Zi ...
Do Not Burn Your House to Get Rid of a Mouse | 投鼠忌器
A collector destroys his priceless jade vase while trying to kill a mouse inside it, learning a h...
The Cowherd and the Weaving Girl | 牛郎织女
This is the classic Chinese folktale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl, a celestial weaver. The...
Strike When Unprepared | 攻其不备
A skilled bailiff outwits a threatening robber by proposing a duel before the magistrate, then st...
The Tailor in Heaven | 天堂里的裁缝
A lame but cunning tailor talks his way into heaven while God is away. Overcome by curiosity, he ...
Zengzi Slaughtered the Pig | 曾子杀彘
Zengzi fulfills his wife's casual promise to slaughter a pig for their son, arguing that parents ...