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The Power of Truth | 诚实的力量
A thief, seeking to change his unethical life, is advised by a holy man to adopt the single virtu...
The Monkey and the Crocodile | 猴子与鳄鱼
A clever monkey outwits a crocodile who tries to trick him for his heart, by claiming he left it ...
The Tower of Babel | 巴别塔
Humanity, united by a single language, sought to build a city and a tower reaching heaven to avoi...
Yu Shou Burns His Books | 玉寿焚书
Yu Shou, confident with his books, is advised by Xu Feng that wisdom lies in adapting to the pres...
Kotura, Lord of the Winds | 风之主科图拉
A father sends his three daughters to appease Kotura, the wind lord, during a deadly blizzard. Th...
Jue, Qiongqiong and Juxu | 蹶与蛩蛩、距虚
This fable describes the symbiotic relationship between the clumsy beast Jue and its companions Q...
Zi Chan Deceived | 子产受骗
A pond-keeper deceives the virtuous official Zi Chan by eating a gifted fish and fabricating a st...
The Origin of Teddy Bear | 泰迪熊的由来
The teddy bear is named after President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, inspired by a 1902 hunting in...
The Stone Dog | 石犬
A faithful dog waits eternally on a ridge for his fisherman master who perished in a hurricane, e...
A Life-Saving Cow | 救命奶牛
A farmer, Nancy Brown, was knocked unconscious while herding cows during a flood. Her cow Lizzie ...
Sharing Joy and Sorrow | 分享喜悦与悲伤
A quarrelsome tailor repeatedly abuses his virtuous wife despite promising authorities to reform....
My Aunt Is a Snake | 我的阿姨是条蛇
A young man moves in with his childless uncle and aunt, only to discover his aunt is a sinister s...
The Two Kings' Children | 两位国王的孩子
A prince, fulfilling a prophecy, is captured and set impossible tasks by a foreign king to win hi...
A Dog Named Time | 一条名叫时间的狗
A lonely elderly man names his new puppy "Time." As the dog grows from a slow puppy to a fast, in...
Chinese Cucumbers | 中国黄瓜
The narrator's grandmother carefully preserves seeds from China for years until a small patch of ...
The Seal in the River | 河中之豹
A subordinate's prophetic dream about a pleading old man coincides with the capture of a seal. De...
A Special Skill | 一技之长
This story tells how the scholar Gongsun Long valued and recruited a man whose only skill was lou...
The Two Knots | 两个连环节
A man presents two knots to a king; only one is untied, and a student correctly identifies the ot...
Shooflies | 驱蝇饰
Sti'Tumma crafts beaded "shooflies" from horsehair to decorate her saddle and deter flies. During...
The Jade Refusal | 子罕拒玉
A Song farmer offers a jade-containing stone to Prime Minister Zi Han, who declines it, valuing t...