chinese-fable
共 38 篇文章
文章列表
Hou Yi Misses the Target | 羿射不中
The master archer Hou Yi fails to hit a simple target when overwhelmed by the high stakes of a gr...
The Seeker and the Swindler | 季子拜师
A tale of blind faith and deception. Ji Zi, a seeker of Taoism, is easily fooled by a swindler wh...
Buying Bones with a Thousand Gold | 千金买骨
A king, desperate for a legendary steed, is convinced by a guard to buy the bones of a dead one a...
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...
Dong Shi Imitates Xi Shi | 东施效颦
The story tells of Dong Shi, an ugly woman who blindly imitates the beautiful Xi Shi's pained exp...
He Shi's Jade | 和氏献璧
A man named He Shi persistently presents a precious jade to successive kings of Chu, only to be p...
The Qin Antiquarian | 秦士好古
A Qin Dynasty scholar's obsessive passion for antiques leads him to trade his entire estate—land,...
The Big Sea Fish | 大海鱼
A Qi man dissuaded Lord Tian Ying from fortifying his fiefdom by telling a parable of a mighty se...
Practice Makes Perfect | 熟能生巧
A skilled archer in the Northern Song Dynasty is humbled when an old oil peddler demonstrates tha...
Shi Kuang Tunes the Zither | 师旷调琴
Shi Kuang, a musician, fails to tune a zither with identically sized strings and explains that ha...
Two Children Argue About the Sun | 小儿辩日
Two children present contradictory arguments about the sun's distance at sunrise versus noon, usi...
The Coachman's Wife | 妻子劝夫
Yan Zi's modest demeanor shames his coachman's arrogant behavior, prompting the coachman's wife t...
Zheng Yong the Thief-Spotter | 郄雍视盗
The Marquis of Jin pins his hopes on a man who can spot thieves by appearance, but his minister a...
The Master Carpenter and His Axe | 匠石运斤
A tale of perfect trust and skill: a carpenter removes a speck of plaster from a man's nose with ...
The Man in the Well | 井底有人
A family's metaphorical comment about gaining an 'extra person' after digging a well is distorted...
Same Path, Different Fate | 同道异功
Two families' sons study the same arts, but their success depends entirely on applying their skil...
Ji Chang Learns Archery | 纪昌学射
Ji Chang's archery master, Fei Wei, emphasized foundational skills over technique, first training...
The Perforation of Hun Dun | 浑沌开窍
Two well-meaning emperors, Tiao and Hu, attempt to repay their friend Hun Dun by giving him the s...