The Little Girl Who Dared To Wish | 敢于许愿的小女孩
A third-grader with cerebral palsy, tired of daily teasing, writes a simple Christmas wish to San...
Gulp! Gulp! | 咕咚!咕咚!
A young man in New York, terrified of cockroaches, buys a gecko as a natural solution. The gecko ...
Pals for Life | 一生的挚友
A Canadian boy's mission to provide clean water in Africa led to a lifelong friendship with a Uga...
A Pedant's Prudence | 迁腐的谨慎
A pedantic scholar, bound by rigid etiquette, delays warning a father about his child playing dan...
Hou Yi Misses the Target | 羿射不中
The master archer Hou Yi fails to hit a simple target when overwhelmed by the high stakes of a gr...
The Mayor's Revenge | 市长的报复
Two mayors bet on a football game with tomatoes and potatoes as stakes. After overhearing his tom...
How the First Head Was Taken | 首级是如何被取走的
A myth explaining the origin of headhunting. The Moon goddess beheads the Sun's son for watching ...
The Boatmaker and the Boatman | 治舟驾舟
A master boatmaker in Yue, trusted and rewarded by the king, overconfidently claimed to also be a...
The Lord's Animals and the Devil's | 上帝的动物与魔鬼的动物
A tale explaining the origin of goats' physical traits. The Devil creates troublesome goats, lead...
Fairyland | 仙境奇遇
Jesse and Mary Sue run away from home after their father announces his remarriage. They discover ...
The Man and the Seagulls | 人与海鸥
A man's pure friendship with seagulls is broken when his father asks him to capture them, causing...
The Girl in the Pagoda | 宝塔中的女孩
A girl is whisked away by a wind and imprisoned in a pagoda by a deceptive young man who reveals ...
The Showdown | 对峙
The narrator's father recounts a tense confrontation between Bill and the dog Bingo. Bill brandis...
Jupiter and the Sheep | 朱庇特与绵羊
A pious sheep, suffering from others, rejects Jupiter's offers of fangs, poison, or horns for def...
Animal World | 动物世界
The article introduces the diversity of animals, describing traits and habitats of species like l...
The Devil's Offer | 魔鬼的交易
The devil offers a lawyer immense worldly success in exchange for the eternal damnation of his fa...
The Biscuit and the Kick | 饼干与一脚
A blind man's guide dog urinates on him. When an observer questions why the man then offers the d...
The Farmer and His Donkeys | 农夫与驴
A farmer forgets to count the donkey he is riding and believes he has lost one of his four purcha...
Safe and Sound | 安然无恙
A hunter returns from a trip carrying a deer but not his fainted partner, reasoning that the man ...
The Stethoscope Trick | 听诊器妙计
A young doctor learns a clever observation trick from his senior colleague during house calls, on...
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