The Gift of Life | 生命的礼物
A humorous allegory explaining the human life stages through a story of God negotiating lifespan ...
Foundling-Bird | 鸟弃儿
A forester rescues a child carried off by a bird and raises him with his daughter. When the famil...
The Charger and the Miller | 战马与磨坊主
A warhorse, retired to a mill in old age, laments his lost glory to the Miller, who reminds him t...
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...
Discovery | 发现
True discovery is an internal transformation of the observer, not merely finding the hidden. Comf...
How to Tell the Weather | 如何判断天气
A humorous guide using a dog's appearance to deduce weather conditions, from rain and wind to sno...
Open the Net on Three Sides | 网开一面
The story recounts how Tang, founder of the Shang Dynasty, demonstrated mercy by cutting a bird n...
The Lily Fairies | 百合花仙子
A kind old woman discovers fairies living in her lily bed. She protects them, and the lilies flou...
The Ass and the Old Peasant | 驴与老农
A peasant warns his donkey of approaching enemies and urges it to flee. The donkey, resigned to i...
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...
The Tack Hammer | 图钉之锤
A teacher with a hidden back brace uses a shocking act—hammering a tack through his tie into his ...
Astronaut's Culinary Regret: Too Much Shrimp in Space | 太空生活：女宇航员的甜蜜烦恼
Astronaut Peggy Whitson shares her experiences during a 130-day ISS mission, noting how micrograv...
A Broken Mirror's Blessing | 碎镜之福
A 98-year-old man joyfully explains that breaking a mirror, an omen of seven years' bad luck, is ...
A Courtyard as Crowded as a Marketplace | 门庭若市
This fable tells how Minister Zou Ji used a personal story about flattery to persuade the King of...
The Enigmatic Woman | 难以琢磨的女人
This humorous piece outlines the paradoxical and often contradictory expectations a man might fac...
The Mean Man's Party | 吝啬鬼的待客之道
A notorious cheapskate instructs a friend to use his elbow and foot to ring the doorbell and open...
Drawing a Cake to Satisfy Hunger | 画饼充饥
The idiom 'Drawing a Cake to Satisfy Hunger' originates from Cao Rui's warning about false reputa...
Forever Love | 永恒之爱
A story of unrequited devotion where a girl's promise of eternal love endures despite betrayal an...
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...
The Trees and the Ax | 树与斧头
A man tricks the trees into giving him wood to make an ax handle, then uses the ax to destroy the...
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