The Age Argument | 郑人争年
Two men from Zheng engage in a futile argument about their ages, making increasingly outlandish c...
The Statesman as Commodity | 作为商品的政客
A statesman is humorously defended at a commerce meeting by being labeled a "commodity" himself. ...
The Strange Musician | 奇怪的乐师
A lonely musician in the forest uses his fiddle to lure a wolf, a fox, and a hare, tricking and t...
The Three Sieves | 三个筛子
A man eager to share gossip is stopped by the wise Grandpa Hodge, who teaches him to filter infor...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf | 狼来了
A shepherd boy's repeated false alarms about a wolf cause the villagers to ignore his genuine cry...
The Hare's Bride | 野兔的新娘
A girl is taken by a persistent hare to be his bride but escapes by using a straw doll as a decoy...
Zi Chan Deceived | 子产受骗
A pond-keeper deceives the virtuous official Zi Chan by eating a gifted fish and fabricating a st...
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 Ostrich in Love | 鸵鸟的恋曲
A shy ostrich spends a week secretly admiring a young lady, expressing his love through gifts, so...
Frau Trude | 特鲁德夫人
A stubborn and curious girl disobeys her parents' warning and visits the mysterious Frau Trude, o...
The Giant and the Little Girl | 巨人与小女孩
A little girl's courage defies a village's fear of a giant. Her lack of fear causes him to shrink...
The Grateful Crane | 感恩的仙鹤
A kind woodcutter rescues an injured crane, which later returns in human form as his wife. To hel...
Rabindranath Tagore: A Literary Colossus | 泰戈尔：文学巨匠
Rabindranath Tagore, India's Nobel laureate poet, was a prolific writer whose work explored spiri...
The Fox and the Crow | 狐狸与乌鸦
A fox uses flattery to trick a crow into dropping her meat, then remarks on her lack of wisdom. |...
The Riverbank Feast | 江东赴会
A treacherous banquet invitation from the jealous Wu strategist Zhou Yu to Shu's Liu Bei turns in...
The Caged Bird and the Bat | 笼中鸟与蝙蝠
A caged bird explains to a bat that she only sings at night to avoid being caught, having been ca...
The Dolphins and the Whales | 海豚与鲸
A sprat attempts to mediate a fierce and ongoing battle between dolphins and whales, but its offe...
The Universal Language | 通用语言
The article explores the smile as a powerful, universal language that transcends cultural and lin...
Elephants to the Rescue | 大象救援
An old man in ancient India persuades a compassionate king to lend royal elephants. Using leather...
Lü Bu and Diaochan | 吕布戏貂蝉
Wang Yun's interlocking stratagem uses Diaochan to sow discord between Lü Bu and Dong Zhuo, leadi...
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