Unselfish Recommendation | 大公无私
The story of Qi Huangyang from the Spring and Autumn Period, who recommended both his enemy and h...
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black | 五十步笑百步
King Hui of Liang boasts of his governance to Mencius but wonders why his population doesn't grow...
The Ghost That Followed Me Home | 鬼魂随我回家
The narrator recounts a trip to Tombstone where a visit to a reportedly haunted restroom stall wa...
Riddles (Part 2) | 脑筋急转弯（2）
A collection of four classic English brain teasers with bilingual presentation, designed to chall...
Playing the Lute to a Cow | 对牛弹琴
This story tells of a musician who played elegant music for a cow, which ignored him, illustratin...
The Mantis Stalks the Cicada | 螳螂捕蝉
A young attendant uses the allegory of a cicada, mantis, and siskin—each focused on its prey whil...
Andrew Carnegie | 安德鲁·卡内基
Andrew Carnegie built the U.S. steel industry and amassed great wealth through savvy business str...
The Lazy Donkey | 懒驴
A man returns a newly bought donkey after observing it immediately befriend the laziest donkey in...
Never Too Late: The Story of Rose | 为时不晚：罗丝的故事
An 87-year-old woman named Rose fulfills her lifelong dream of attending college, becoming an ins...
The Origin of Evil | 邪恶的起源
A professor argues that if God created everything, He must have created evil, thus making God evi...
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...
The True and False Han Tripod | 真假汉鼎
A man's genuine Han Dynasty tripod is imitated by his neighbor. When the fake is presented to a p...
Armchair Strategist | 纸上谈兵
The idiom "armchair strategist" originates from the story of Zhao Kuo, a Warring States theorist ...
The Sock Shop | 袜子商店
The author recounts an encounter with an exceptionally passionate young sock salesman, whose zeal...
The Frog in the Shallow Well | 井底之蛙
A frog living in a shallow well boasts of its perfect life to a sea turtle, only to be humbled by...
The Juniper-Tree | 杜松树
A pious woman's wish for a child is granted under a juniper tree, but she dies in childbirth. Her...
God's Boxes | 上帝的盒子
A story about two boxes from God: a golden one for joys that grows heavier, and a black one with ...
The Fox and the Goat | 狐狸与山羊
A trapped fox tricks a goat into jumping into a well by promising water during a drought, then us...
The Bird Startled by the Mere Twang of a Bowstring | 惊弓之鸟
The archer Geng Ying demonstrates profound observation by bringing down a wounded, exhausted bird...
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...
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