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The Lazy Spinner | 懒惰的纺纱女
A lazy woman devises clever tricks to avoid spinning and winding yarn, first by frightening her h...
Borley Rectory | 博利教区长的鬼屋
Borley Rectory, built in 1863 and destroyed by fire in 1939, was famed as the UK's most haunted h...
A Single Hair from Nine Oxen | 九牛一毛
The story recounts how General Li Ling's surrender led to tragedy and how historian Sima Qian, pu...
The Nomad Wolf Ankakumikaityn | 游牧之狼安卡库米凯廷
A cunning fox impersonates the nomad wolf Ankakumikaityn to deceive two sisters, stealing their f...
Yunus and the Well of Sweetness | 尤努斯与甘甜之井
Yunus undertakes a perilous quest to fetch magical water from the Well of Sweetness to cure his i...
Yang Bu and the Dog | 杨布打狗
Yang Bu's dog fails to recognize him after he changes clothes, leading to a confrontation. His br...
The Ugly Man of Lu | 偏激
A father, blinded by bias, insists his exceptionally ugly son is more handsome than a man famed f...
How Kangaroo Got His Tail | 袋鼠如何得到尾巴
A tale of friendship turned to rivalry between a kangaroo and a wombat. Their disagreement over w...
The Deer Hunt | 即鹿无虞
The fable contrasts two hunting approaches: success comes from planning with a guide's knowledge,...
The Power of Truth | 诚实的力量
A thief, seeking to change his unethical life, is advised by a holy man to adopt the single virtu...
Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly | 庄周梦蝶
Zhuang Zhou dreams he is a free-flying butterfly, then awakens confused about the boundary betwee...
The King of the Golden Mountain | 金山之王
A merchant's desperate pact with a dwarf binds his son's fate. The boy grows, fulfills a perilous...
Second Thoughts | 重新考虑
An alien translator, Mooba, facilitates contact between humanity and the word-obsessed Xxlepis ra...
The Monkey and the Crocodile | 猴子与鳄鱼
A clever monkey outwits a crocodile who tries to trick him for his heart, by claiming he left it ...
The Tower of Babel | 巴别塔
Humanity, united by a single language, sought to build a city and a tower reaching heaven to avoi...
Yu Shou Burns His Books | 玉寿焚书
Yu Shou, confident with his books, is advised by Xu Feng that wisdom lies in adapting to the pres...
The Tale of Schlauraffen Land | 懒人国的传说
A whimsical, first-person narrative recounts a series of fantastical and impossible sights in the...
Kotura, Lord of the Winds | 风之主科图拉
A father sends his three daughters to appease Kotura, the wind lord, during a deadly blizzard. Th...
Penetrating Insight | 入木三分
The article recounts the origin of the Chinese idiom "Ru Mu San Fen" from a story about the calli...
The Man from Zheng Buying Shoes | 郑人买履
A man from Zheng meticulously measures his foot to buy shoes but forgets the measurement at home....