The Overconfident Mantis | 自负的螳螂
A strong mantis, intoxicated by victory over a rival, arrogantly confronts a wooden cart, leading...
Yan Hui and the Rice Pot | 颜回攫甑
Confucius mistakenly judges his disciple Yan Hui for eating rice before offering it, only to lear...
The Hook Forger | 锤钩者
An elderly blacksmith explains to a minister that his lifelong mastery of forging waistband hooks...
Grinding an Iron Rod into a Needle | 铁棒成针
The story recounts how the young Li Bai was inspired by an old woman's perseverance in grinding a...
Tell Him You Love Him | 告诉他你爱他
An adult education teacher assigns a challenging homework: telling a loved one "I love you." The ...
The Doorway Effect | 门口效应
The Doorway Effect describes the common experience of forgetting a task or thought immediately af...
My Family | 我的家庭
The author describes their warm and humorous family, focusing on a forgetful but diligent mother ...
A Rose from Homer's Grave | 荷马墓上的一朵玫瑰
A rose growing on Homer's grave, believing itself too sacred for a common nightingale, dreams of ...
Three Good Friends | 三个好朋友
The story begins with a monkey. | 故事从一只猴子开始。
Bring Me a Glass of Milk | 给我捎杯牛奶
Mrs. Culkin sends her husband to confront a suspected prowler in the dark, but her final request ...
Aping a Beauty | 东施效颦
An unattractive girl blindly imitates the frowning pose of the beautiful Xi Shi, unaware of the c...
The Unused Gourd | 不材之药
Hui Zi destroys a giant gourd he finds useless. Zhuang Zi, through a parable about a chilblain sa...
The Hasty Diagnosis | 草率的诊断
A doctor hastily prescribes more exercise to a patient without listening, only to be embarrassed ...
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...
Adding Feet to a Snake | 画蛇添足
A story from the Warring States Period where a servant, after quickly drawing a snake, unnecessar...
The Millet Dream | 一枕黄粱
A Tang Dynasty scholar's brief nap, induced by a magical pillow, encompasses a lifetime of glory,...
Three Metaphors for Learning | 人生三喻
King Ping Gong laments it's too late to learn at seventy. His minister Shi Kuang uses three metap...
The Fox and the Grapes | 狐狸与葡萄
A hungry fox, unable to reach the grapes she desires, dismisses them as sour to cope with her fai...
Just Lost Two Dollars | 只输了两美元
A man loses all his money at a casino in four days, then miraculously turns his last two dollars ...
Spoiled Mother | 被宠坏的妈妈
A boy at the circus questions his parents about an elephant's anatomy. His mother evades the ques...
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