The Yue Man's Trap | 越人诱鼠
A Yue man cleverly lured troublesome mice to their doom by first baiting them with grain in an op...
Xue Tan Learns Singing | 薛谭学讴
A student, overconfident in his mastery, decides to leave his teacher. The teacher's breathtaking...
Back Home | 回家
Jennifer returns home after being away for three days. The peaceful sunset beach contrasts with t...
How Kangaroo Got His Tail | 袋鼠如何得到尾巴
A tale of friendship turned to rivalry between a kangaroo and a wombat. Their disagreement over w...
The Boasting Traveller | 吹牛的旅行者
A traveler boasts of an unbeatable jump in Rhodes but is challenged to prove it on the spot, illu...
Never Give Up on Your Dreams | 永远别放弃梦想
An 87-year-old woman named Rose fulfills her lifelong dream of attending college, becoming an ins...
Susan's Magic Carpet | 苏珊的魔法地毯
Holly is disappointed by her new friend Susan's odd birthday gift: a carpet remnant. After a visi...
The Heshibi Jade | 和氏璧
The story of Bian He, who persistently presented a raw jade stone to three successive Chu kings, ...
Love in Bloom | 绽放的爱
A woman recounts how her father's extravagant floral gifts marked every milestone in her life, fr...
The False Collar | 衬衫领子
A boastful false collar, washed with a garter, vainly proposes to various household items before ...
Love Notes | 爱的便笺
A new mother, exhausted and struggling with postpartum life and marital strain, discovers a serie...
The Vizir's Punishment (Part 2) | 受罚的维齐尔（下）
The story continues as the poisoned Greek king dies, and the narrative returns to the fisherman a...
Besieged on All Sides | 四面楚歌
This article recounts the historical origin of the Chinese idiom "Besieged on All Sides," describ...
The Happy Prince | 快乐王子
The story introduces the magnificent statue of the Happy Prince, admired by all in the city. A lo...
One Basket Short | 功亏一篑
A man abandons building a terrace when just one basket of earth remains, illustrating the idiom a...
Huang Gong's Daughters | 黄公嫁女
Huang Gong's excessive modesty backfires when he constantly describes his beautiful daughters as ...
Ben and the Teddy Bear | 本与泰迪熊
A teddy bear, gifted to Ben on his first birthday, is his constant companion through childhood. A...
Experience | 经验之谈
A driver's lawyer cites his client's long driving experience in a hit-and-run case, but the plain...
The Unhappy Fish | 不快乐的鱼
A big fish in a small pond dreams of a grander river life but finds loneliness and discomfort the...
Traps Behind the Leaves | 叶后的陷阱
This fable from *Chuang-Tzu* depicts a chain of predation: a cicada is stalked by a mantis, which...
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