One Basket Short | 功亏一篑
A man abandons building a terrace when just one basket of earth remains, illustrating the idiom a...
Unpublishable Children's Books | 永远不会出版的童书
A humorous list of fictional children's book titles that are intentionally inappropriate, dark, o...
Birds of a Feather Flock Together | 物以类聚
Chun Yukun explains to King Xuan that virtuous people naturally gather together, making it easy f...
The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox | 狗、公鸡与狐狸
A traveling Cock outsmarts a hungry Fox by luring him to the Dog's hiding place, leading to the F...
The Dog and the Shadow | 狗与影子
A greedy dog, mistaking his own reflection for another dog with a larger piece of meat, drops his...
The Three Fishermen | 三位渔夫
A group of four friends camps at a remote, historic site in New Hampshire's woods, a place of pro...
The Gemstone Harvest | 宝石的采集
This story describes a clever, albeit provocative, method used by people in southern Yunnan to co...
Saving the Birds | 拯救雏鸟
A young Abraham Lincoln, traveling with fellow lawyers, stops to rescue fallen robin chicks while...
The Fox and the Monkey | 狐狸与猴子
A fox and a monkey argue about their lineage. The monkey claims the monuments in a cemetery honor...
Wrong-Way Driver | 逆向行驶
A worried wife warns her husband about a wrong-way driver on his route, only to receive the ironi...
The House in the Wood | 林中小屋
A woodcutter's three daughters get lost in the woods seeking their father. The first two, selfish...
Frederick and Catherine | 弗雷德里克和凯瑟琳
A humorous folktale about a naive wife, Catherine, whose well-intentioned but foolish actions lea...
Beating the Neighbor's Son | 打邻家的儿子
A father who frequently beats his son is joined by a neighbor, who also beats the boy, claiming t...
Rising with the Rooster | 闻鸡起舞
The story of Zu Ti and Liu Kun, who disciplined themselves to rise at the rooster's crow to pract...
The Haunted Schoolhouse | 闹鬼的校舍
A sensitive military trainee recounts eerie experiences in a schoolhouse converted from a wartime...
The Fox and the Crow | 狐狸与乌鸦
A vain crow loses her cheese to a cunning fox who flatters her into singing. The fable warns agai...
Disrupting Governance for Fame | 乱政图名
Shu Xiang praises Minister Meng Xianbo's frugality for using only one chariot, but Miao Fenghuang...
Learning to Walk in Handan | 邯郸学步
A young man from Shouling, ashamed of his clumsy walk, travels to Handan to learn the locals' gra...
The Photograph of Death | 死亡照片
In August 1992, while exploring rural Corfu on a motorcycle, the narrator discovers a remote ceme...
Clever Hans | 聪明的汉斯
A simpleton named Hans repeatedly visits Grethel, receives gifts, and bungles bringing them home ...
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