A Sweet Night | 甜蜜之夜
The author recounts their first Halloween experience in Canada as a child, describing the excitem...
Harold | 哈罗德
Two friends create a straw doll named after a disliked farmer, Harold. Initially a scarecrow and ...
The Ditmarsch Tale of Wonders | 迪特马申奇闻录
A series of absurd and impossible vignettes, describing a world where roasted birds fly backwards...
Leaving the Net Open on Three Sides | 网开三面
King Tang of Shang demonstrates benevolence by modifying a hunter's prayer and removing three sid...
The Overconfident Mantis | 自负的螳螂
A strong mantis, intoxicated by victory over a rival, arrogantly confronts a wooden cart, leading...
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...
The Dogs and the Fox | 狗与狐狸
Dogs tear a dead lion's skin, and a fox warns that they wouldn't dare if the lion were alive, ill...
The Gift | 礼物
A patient forms a profound, transitory bond with another patient's father during a long hospital ...
Face-Lifting Death | 整容之死
A woman is told by God she has decades left to live, undergoes extensive cosmetic surgery, but is...
Like Fire and Flowering Rush | 如火如荼
This story describes how the Wu army, in a desperate situation, launched a spectacular dawn assau...
The Jackal, the Dove and the Panther | 豺狼、鸽子与黑豹
A cunning jackal preys on a dove's chicks and a heron's advice, then tricks a panther by eating h...
The Blind Men and the Elephant | 盲人摸象
A king asks several blind men to describe an elephant by touch. Each feels a different part (tusk...
Moving the Thill to the South Gate | 徒辕南门
Wu Qi cleverly built public trust by fulfilling small promises, then successfully mobilized civil...
The Jury | 陪审团
A judge, facing a missing jury for a simple case, impanels a group of lawyers as jurors. The tria...
The Pheasant and the Phoenix | 山鸡与凤凰
A man in Chu sells a pheasant as a phoenix. The buyer, wishing to present it to the king, regrets...
The Fate of Actaeon | 阿克特翁的命运
The hunter Actaeon accidentally sees Artemis bathing. As punishment, the goddess turns him into a...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf | 狼来了
A bored shepherd boy repeatedly tricks villagers with false wolf alarms for amusement. When a rea...
King Xuan's Bow | 齐宣王开弓
King Xuan of Qi, who loved archery, was deceived by his attendants into believing his three-*shi*...
Shi Qian Steals the Armor | 时迁盗甲
To defeat Huyan Zhuo's armored cavalry, the Liangshan heroes need Xu Ning and his barbed lance sk...
The Cross-eyed Rottweiler | 斗鸡眼罗威纳犬
A man brings his cross-eyed Rottweiler to the vet, concerned about its eyes. The vet's alarming s...
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