Return to Jingzhou | 回荆州

Liu Bei, trapped in Wu after his marriage, uses Zhuge Liang's ruse and his wife Lady Sun's author...

The Robber Bridegroom | 强盗新郎

A miller's daughter, betrothed to a seemingly respectable man, discovers her fiancé is actually t...

The Grocery Store Surprise | 超市里的意外

An elderly woman's pained shriek while picking tomatoes in a supermarket is humorously misinterpr...

Sacrifice Your Own Wrongdoing | 牺牲你的过错

A wise prince, troubled by his people's superstitious animal sacrifices, devises a clever plan up...

The Imperial Consort's Homecoming | 元妃省亲

This passage from *A Dream of Red Mansions* describes Imperial Consort Yuanchun's rare, state-san...

The Clever Dog | 聪明的狗

A dog owner demonstrates his pet's ability to buy a newspaper with money, but the dog fails to re...

Three Borrowings of the Plantain Fan | 三借芭蕉扇

Monkey must borrow a magic fan from a hostile princess to cross the Fiery Mountains, leading to a...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Part 2) | 白雪公主与七个小矮人(下)

Snow White finds refuge with the dwarfs but is tricked by the disguised Queen with a poisoned app...

The Wily Lion | 狡猾的狮子

A hungry lion, afraid of a bull's horns, uses flattery to trick the bull into removing its only d...

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 Unwilling Ghost | 不愿离去的幽灵

A hospital employee encounters an apparition on a converted administrative floor, an experience c...

The Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains | 愚公移山

The story of Yu Gong, who, despite his age and others' doubts, resolved to move two mountains wit...

Colorful Shades of Gray | 灰色的斑斓

The narrator recounts a childhood story where her aunt transformed the perception of moths from u...

Logic vs. Arithmetic | 逻辑与算术

A student's clever response to a math problem highlights the difference between pure calculation ...

The Supernatural Turtle | 神龟报恩

A Tang official's wife buys a giant, weeping turtle out of pity. After her husband releases it, h...

The One Finger Rule | 一指规则

The narrator's son doubts her "one finger rule" will work on his adventurous toddler, Hannah. Dur...

Zhou Chu Eliminates the Evils | 周处除害

The story recounts how Zhou Chu, once a local menace, realizes his own harmful nature after slayi...

Do Not Burn Your House to Get Rid of a Mouse | 投鼠忌器

A cautionary tale from *Hanshu* warns against disproportionate retaliation, using the metaphor of...

My Year of Study in Australia | 我的澳大利亚留学一年记

The author recounts their journey from being a tour guide in China to pursuing a master's degree ...

The Travellers and the Bear | 旅人与熊

Two travellers promise mutual aid, but when a bear attacks, one abandons the other to save himsel...