The Fate of the Hunting Dog | 兔死狗烹
This story recounts how the Yue King Gou Jian eliminated his loyal minister Wen Zhong after achie...
Riddles (Part 2) | 脑筋急转弯（2）
A collection of four classic English brain teasers with bilingual presentation, designed to chall...
I Need God with Skin | 我需要有身躯的上帝
A child, comforted by the idea of God's presence, expresses a deeper need for tangible, physical ...
The Boy Who Became a Stone | 化为石头的男孩
A boy, heartbroken after his grandmother eats his pet bird, asks a stone to swallow him. Despite ...
High Mountains and Flowing Waters | 高山流水
This story recounts how the ancient musician Yu Boya, after achieving technical mastery, found tr...
The Bald Man and the Doctor | 秃头男子与医生
A bald man seeks a cure from a renowned doctor, only to discover the doctor suffers from the same...
A Test of Priorities | 优先级的考验
During a bar exam, only two candidates stopped to perform CPR on a fellow test-taker having a hea...
Lawyer's Trust | 律师的信任
A junior lawyer panics over forgetting to lock the safe, but his senior partner humorously reassu...
The Man and the Satyr | 人与萨堤尔
A man's contradictory actions of blowing on his hands to warm them and on his food to cool it lea...
Fire Goddess with Two Ds | 火山女神，双D拼写
A woman's life transforms after a dramatic midlife crisis. Forgetting her childhood dream of bein...
Obama's Landslide Victory and the U.S. Electoral System | 奥巴马压倒性胜利与美国选举制度
This article explains key English vocabulary and concepts from the 2008 U.S. presidential electio...
The Mistress and Her Servants | 女主人与仆人
Two servants, tired of being woken early by their mistress's rooster, kill it hoping to sleep lon...
The Mirror | 镜子
A vain Spaniel mistakes his own reflection for a rival, boasts of defeating it, but flees in terr...
The Walk | 那一次散步
A woman reminisces about a fateful winter walk where she both found and lost her great love. Year...
The Kingfisher's Nest | 翠鸟迁巢
The kingfisher repeatedly lowers its nest out of excessive protectiveness for its young, ultimate...
If the Lips Are Gone, the Teeth Will Be Cold | 唇亡齿寒
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Jin used gifts to persuade the State of Yu to a...
Tightfisted Till the End | 本性难移
A notoriously stingy man, even after death and facing punishment in hell, cannot overcome his nat...
The Cat and the Cock | 猫与公鸡
A cat, having caught a cock, seeks an excuse to eat him and accuses him of disturbing sleep. The ...
The Nearsighted Contest | 近视之争
Two nearsighted men, too proud to admit their poor vision, compete to read a temple board they se...
Besieged on All Sides | 四面楚歌
This article recounts the historical origin of the Chinese idiom "Besieged on All Sides," describ...
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