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Hebo's Awakening | 望洋兴叹
The proud river deity Hebo, upon witnessing the boundless North Sea, realizes his own insignifica...
The Statesman as Commodity | 作为商品的政客
A statesman is humorously defended at a commerce meeting by being labeled a "commodity" himself. ...
The Travellers and the Plane-Tree | 旅人与梧桐树
Two travellers find shade under a plane-tree, only for one to call it useless. The tree rebukes t...
The Three Sieves | 三个筛子
A man eager to share gossip is stopped by the wise Grandpa Hodge, who teaches him to filter infor...
The Camel and the Arab | 骆驼与阿拉伯人
A loaded camel is asked by its driver whether it prefers going uphill or downhill. The camel shre...
The Blade of Grass | 一叶知爱
A teacher uses a metaphor of picking a single blade of grass to teach his student about the searc...
The Kid and the Wolf | 孩子与狼
A kid on a horse safely taunts a passing wolf, who replies that courage from a distance is meanin...
The Crucian Carp's Plea | 鲫鱼求救
Zhuang Zhou, in need, is offered delayed help by an official. He responds with a parable about a ...
Daughter-in-law and Daughter | 儿媳与女儿
A conversation between two mothers reveals how the same behavior is judged harshly in a daughter-...
The Wolf and the Goat | 狼与山羊
A wolf tries to lure a goat down from a safe rock by describing a false paradise below. The cleve...
Earrings Lost, Ears Remain | 珥亡耳存
A young woman loses her valuable jade earrings but remains unperturbed, explaining that the true ...
The Dove and the Crow | 鸽子与乌鸦
A caged dove boasts of her many offspring, but a crow points out that a larger family only means ...
The Value of Words | 多言何益
Mozi uses the analogy of noisy creatures versus the timely rooster to teach that effective commun...
Saint and Sinner | 圣徒与罪人
A Salvation Army officer attributes his reform to Divine Grace, but the sinner he addresses sugge...
The Goat and the Vine | 山羊与葡萄藤
A vine warns a grazing goat that its destructive actions will be met with poetic justice during t...
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 Horse and the Goat | 鞭马与鞭羊
Mozi uses the analogy of whipping a swift horse versus a goat to explain to his disciple that he ...
Cao Shang's Mission to Qin | 曹商使秦
Cao Shang boasts to Zhuangzi about the hundred carriages he received from the King of Qin for fla...
The Age Argument | 郑人争年
Two men from Zheng engage in a futile argument about their ages, making increasingly outlandish c...
The Wheelwright's Insight | 轮扁斫轮
A wheelwright argues to Duke Huan that the true essence of skill and wisdom, like his own craft, ...