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Three in the Morning, Four in the Evening | 朝三暮四
This fable tells of a monkey keeper who tricks his monkeys by merely rearranging their daily rati...
The Man and His Goose | 人与鹅
A man, greedy for the source of his goose's golden eggs, kills it only to find nothing special in...
The Greedy Man | 贪得无厌
A man meets a celestial friend who grants him gold, but his greed leads him to desire the magic f...
The Crow and the Pitcher | 乌鸦喝水
A thirsty crow uses pebbles to raise the water level in a pitcher, enabling it to drink and survi...
The Shepherd's Mistake | 牧羊人的错误
A shepherd gradually lets his guard down against a watching wolf, eventually mistaking it for a g...
Marking the Boat for the Lost Sword | 刻舟求剑
A man loses his sword in a river and marks the boat where it fell, foolishly searching at the mar...
The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat | 海豚、鲸鱼与西鲱
A Sprat offers to mediate a fierce war between Dolphins and Whales, but is flatly rejected, as th...
The Bat and the Weasel | 蝙蝠与黄鼠狼
A bat escapes death twice by cleverly changing its identity to suit the prejudices of two differe...
The Crow and the Swan | 乌鸦与天鹅
A crow mistakenly believes a swan's whiteness comes from the water and abandons his food source t...
The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller | 烧炭人与漂布匠
A charcoal-burner invites a fuller to live together to save costs, but the fuller refuses, knowin...
The Tiger and the Fox | 老虎与狐狸
A boastful Tiger, claiming to protect other animals from a hunter, is shot by an arrow while post...
The Pearl in the Flesh | 剜股藏珠
A seaman hides a precious pearl in a self-inflicted thigh wound to save his ship from a storm, bu...
The Unhappy Fish | 不快乐的鱼
A big fish in a small pond dreams of a grander river life but finds loneliness and discomfort the...
Going South by Driving North | 南辕北辙
Ji Liang recounts a story to the King of Wei about a man stubbornly driving north to reach the so...
The Milkmaid and Her Pail | 挤奶女工和她的牛奶桶
A milkmaid daydreams about all the wealth and finery she will buy with the proceeds from selling ...
The Trees and the Ax | 树与斧头
A man tricks the trees into giving him wood to make an ax handle, then uses the ax to destroy the...
The Fox and the Torch | 恶邻与火狐
A jealous farmer's attempt to destroy his neighbor's harvest by setting a fox with a torch loose ...
The Lazy Horse | 懒马
A lazy horse gloats as its load is shifted to a hardworking companion, only for the owner to deci...
The Lazy Donkey | 懒驴
A man returns a newly bought donkey after observing it immediately befriend the laziest donkey in...
Master Dongguo and the Wolf | 东郭先生和狼
A pedantic scholar saves a hunted wolf out of misguided compassion, only for the wolf to turn on ...