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The Frog in the Well | 井底之蛙
A frog living in a shallow well boasts of its perfect life to a sea turtle. The turtle describes ...
Lord Ye's Love of Dragons | 叶公好龙
Lord Ye, famed for his love of dragon decorations, is terrified when a real dragon visits him, re...
The Fox Borrows the Tiger's Might | 狐假虎威
A clever fox, caught by a tiger, tricks it by claiming divine authority. By walking ahead of the ...
Sleeping on Weapons, Awaiting Dawn | 枕戈待旦
The story of Zu Ti and Liu Kun, two patriotic youths in the Western Jin Dynasty who practiced mar...
Learning to Walk in Handan | 邯郸学步
A young man from Shouling, ashamed of his clumsy walk, travels to Handan to learn the locals' gra...
Three Metaphors for Learning | 人生三喻
King Ping Gong laments it's too late to learn at seventy. His minister Shi Kuang uses three metap...
The Folly of the Chu Army | 楚人涉澭
The Chu army failed a night attack by rigidly following outdated river markers after the water ro...
The Ugly Girl Imitates the Frown | 丑女效颦
An ugly girl blindly imitates the frowning expression of the beautiful Xi Shi, not realizing that...
Xiangyun's Drunken Slumber | 湘云醉卧
During a birthday drinking party in the peony garden, the witty Xiangyun teases the maids with a ...
The Eight Decalitres of Talent | 才高八斗
The story recounts how Tsau Pi, jealous of his brother Tsau Jr's literary genius, challenged him ...
Returning the Jade Intact to Zhao | 完璧归赵
During China's Warring States period, the weak state of Han obtains a legendary jade. The powerfu...
The Mouser and the Chickens | 捕鼠之猫
A man acquires a cat that successfully eliminates mice but also eats his chickens. When his son w...
Aping a Beauty | 东施效颦
An unattractive girl blindly imitates the frowning pose of the beautiful Xi Shi, unaware of the c...
The Age Argument | 郑人争年
Two men from Zheng engage in a futile argument about their ages, making increasingly outlandish c...
Extreme Joy Begets Sorrow | 乐极生悲
The story of Chunyu Kun, a minister of Qi, who used a clever analogy about drinking to warn the k...
The Self-Injury Stratagem | 苦肉计
Before the Battle of Chibi, Huang Gai volunteers for a self-injury stratagem, enduring a severe f...
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 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...