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Jiang Yan's Wit Runs Dry | 江郎才尽

This story recounts how the talented scholar Jiang Yan, after achieving early fame, failed to mai...

chinese-culture educational intermediate
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A Lesson from My Son | 从儿子身上学到的教训

A carpenter mistreats his elderly father until his young son's poignant act of making a wooden pl...

family inspirational intermediate
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The Bright Sun Brings It to Light | 明亮的太阳终将揭露真相

A destitute tailor's apprentice murders a Jew for money. Years later, settled into a happy life, ...

crime fiction intermediate
3 阅读
The Hook Forger | 锤钩者

An elderly blacksmith explains to a minister that his lifelong mastery of forging waistband hooks...

craftsmanship focus inspirational
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Zhang Fei's Apology | 张飞赔罪

Zhang Fei promises to reform and guard Xuzhou but breaks his vow by getting drunk and punishing a...

character-development chinese-literature dialogue
4 阅读
The Horse Leaps Over Tanxi | 马跃檀溪

Liu Bei's gifted horse, believed to be ill-omened, proves to be his savior. When trapped by a plo...

adventure chinese-history intermediate
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Learning Qi Dialect in Chu | 楚人学齐语

Mencius uses the analogy of learning a dialect to argue that environment is more crucial than ins...

chinese-philosophy culture dialogue
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Taming the Tiger | 役虎

Huang Gong, envious of An Qisheng's ability to command a tiger with a sword, steals the weapon be...

cautionary-tale chinese-folktale fiction
3 阅读
Counting on Luck | 心存侥幸

Despite a brutal law in the state of Chu that sentenced secret gold panners to be torn apart, man...

chinese-culture historical-fiction intermediate
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Borrowing Arrows with Straw Boats | 草船借箭

Zhuge Liang ingeniously fulfills an impossible order for 100,000 arrows by tricking the enemy int...

chinese-culture history intermediate
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Going South by Driving North | 南辕北辙

A man traveling in the wrong direction believes his superior resources will help, but they only t...

chinese-idiom culture educational
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The Two Mothers | 真假母亲

King Solomon wisely identifies a child's true mother by proposing to split the baby in half, obse...

beginner bilingual judgment
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The Ghost-Fearing Man of Chu | 楚人畏鬼

A thief exploits a man's intense fear of ghosts by imitating ghostly sounds, then robs him. Even ...

chinese-culture fiction folktale
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The Twelve Apostles | 十二门徒

A poor mother's twelve sons, sent into the world in desperation, are guided by angels to a magica...

christianity fiction folklore
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Beauty and the Beast | 美女与野兽

Beauty, a kind young woman, sacrifices herself to a Beast to save her father. Living in his encha...

beginner classic-literature english-reading
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The Bird Startled by the Bowstring | 惊弓之鸟

The story recounts how the archer Geng Ying used only the sound of his bowstring to bring down a ...

chinese-fable educational intermediate
3 阅读
The Gentleman on the Beam | 梁上君子

During a famine in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a thief hiding in Chen Shi's house is moved to repent...

chinese-culture educational historical-anecdote
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The Shroud | 寿衣

A grieving mother's incessant tears prevent her deceased child's shroud from drying, disturbing h...

fiction folklore grief
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A Father's Equanimity | 子死不忧

A Wei state man, Dong Menwu, remains calm after his son's death, explaining to his puzzled servan...

chinese-literature intermediate life-lesson
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The Seven Ravens | 七只乌鸦

A man's angry wish turns his seven sons into ravens. Their determined sister embarks on a perilou...

adventure brothers-grimm fairy-tale
3 阅读