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The Three Apprentices | 三个学徒
Three destitute apprentices make a pact with the Devil, agreeing to speak only in coded phrases i...
The Kiwi's Sacrifice | 几维鸟的牺牲
A Maori legend tells how the Kiwi bird selflessly agreed to live on the dark forest floor to save...
Open the Net on Three Sides | 网开一面
The story recounts how Tang, founder of the Shang Dynasty, demonstrated mercy by cutting a bird n...
The Pheasant and the Phoenix | 山鸡与凤凰
A man in Chu sells a pheasant as a phoenix. The buyer, wishing to present it to the king, regrets...
The Ghost and the Ancestral Home | 鬼魂与祖宅
A skeptical young man confronts the ghost haunting his ancestral home. By cleverly using the ghos...
The Silk Weaver's Lesson | 断织诫夫
Le Yangzi's wife twice guides him toward integrity and perseverance: first by rejecting found gol...
The Heaven of Thirty-Three | 三十三重天
The story follows Sakka, king of the gods, guiding his former wife through multiple rebirths by t...
Three Strikes on the White Bone Demon | 三打白骨精
Monkey King protects the Tang Priest from the White Bone Demon's three disguises but is wrongly b...
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Part Two) | 阿里巴巴与四十大盗（下）
The robbers discover Ali Baba knows their secret and attempt to find and kill him. Twice, Morgian...
Calling a Stag a Horse | 指鹿为马
The story of Prime Minister Zhao Gao testing court loyalty by calling a stag a horse, leading to ...
A Dying Man's Favorite Cookies | 临终曲奇
A dying man, smelling his favorite cookies, musters his last strength to reach the kitchen, only ...
The Rare Qin | 稀世珍琴
A craftsman creates a superb qin, but it is rejected for not being ancient. After artificially ag...
A Courtyard as Crowded as a Marketplace | 门庭若市
This fable tells how Minister Zou Ji used a personal story about flattery to persuade the King of...
His Bride Died Young | 他的新娘早逝
A young man tries to keep his ghostly bride from vanishing at dawn by blocking sunlight, but a ca...
The Royal Thief-Catcher | 皇家捕贼人
A Brahman in Sravasti hoards wealth given by devotees, only to have it stolen. He vows to starve ...
Wishful Thinking | 一厢情愿
A farmer falls ill from unrequited love for a princess. His friends deceive him about proposing t...
The Hazel Branch | 榛树枝
The Virgin Mary, while picking strawberries for the sleeping Christ-child, is threatened by an ad...
The Cheating Wife | 出轨的妻子
A successful private detective, Marcus Osborne, is secretly in love with a married woman, Christi...
The Last Day | 退休之日
A man's long-awaited retirement day, filled with warm farewells and dreams of future travels with...
The Three Green Twigs | 三根绿枝
A pious hermit is punished by God for judging a condemned man. His penance involves carrying a dr...