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...
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