Our First Date | 我们的初次约会

A chaotic first date filled with traffic, arguments, and unexpected turns leads to a profound con...

The False Collar | 衬衫领子

A boastful false collar, washed with a garter, vainly proposes to various household items before ...

The Extra Charge | 额外收费

A dentist explains to a mother that her son's tooth extraction costs twenty dollars instead of th...

A Nice Stone | 上好的石头

A widow humorously reveals how she interpreted her late husband's final wish to buy a "nice stone...

The City Mouse and the Country Mouse | 城市老鼠和乡下老鼠

A country mouse visits his city friend and experiences the dangers of urban life despite its mate...

The Perfect List | 完美的清单

A wife proposes writing lists of each other's annoyances to improve their marriage. She reads her...

Wei Wenhou's Hunting Appointment | 魏文侯期猎

Wei Wenhou interrupts his merry drinking to honor a hunting appointment in the rain, demonstratin...

The Miser and His Gold | 守财奴与他的金子

A miser buries his gold for safekeeping, only to have it stolen. A wise passerby points out that ...

Bringing Back to Life | 起死回生

The story recounts how the ancient doctor Bian Que correctly diagnosed a prince's coma as illness...

The Hare and the Tortoise | 龟兔赛跑

The Hare, confident in his speed, challenges the slow Tortoise to a race. While the Hare naps, th...

Two Roaches | 两只蟑螂

Two roaches are eating garbage when one describes the extreme cleanliness of a new restaurant, mu...

A Slingshot Is a Slingshot | “弹”就是“弹”

Hui Zi defends his use of metaphors by demonstrating that explaining an unknown concept (a slings...

How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter | 隐士如何助人赢得公主

A kind-hearted youngest son, aided by a hermit and a crew of men with magical talents, completes ...

The Stag and the Lion | 牡鹿与狮子

A stag escapes hunting dogs only to be captured by a lion in its supposed refuge, illustrating th...

Borrowing Arrows with Straw Boats | 草船借箭

Zhuge Liang ingeniously fulfills an impossible order for 100,000 arrows by tricking the enemy int...

Coyote and the People | 郊狼与人类

A Native American creation myth where Coyote defeats a threatening Bear and uses its blood to cre...

Each Man Has His Merits | 各有所长

A foreigner applying for U.S. citizenship cleverly responds to a judge's test question by asserti...

Waste or Save | 浪费还是节约

A humorous dialogue where a father scolds his son for wasting time by sleeping, and the son cleve...

Two English Jokes | 英语小幽默两则

Two short humorous dialogues. The first involves a logical paradox about an all-purpose solvent, ...

The Wolves, the Sheep and the Ram | 狼、羊与公羊

Wolves propose peace to sheep on the condition of killing their guardian dogs. The sheep agree, b...