The Lost Gloves | 丢失的手套
An elderly man meticulously searches a supermarket for his lost, cherished leather gloves, despai...
Uncle Sam and the Farmer | 山姆大叔与农夫
Uncle Sam looks down on farmers as foolish. When a farmer asks for directions, Sam gives a rude a...
The Strange Visitor | 不速之客
The narrator's great-grandmother recounts a chilling childhood memory: after her father's funeral...
Pelican Girl | 鹈鹕少女
Pelican Girl breaks a sacred custom during her coming-of-age, leading to her capture by a shaman....
The Wolf and His Shadow | 狼与它的影子
A wolf mistakes its elongated shadow at sunset for true size, becomes arrogant, and is consequent...
A Lesson in Tantrums | 当女儿发脾气
The narrator recalls a childhood lesson where her mother, instead of spanking, mirrored her publi...
King Frost | 霜王的故事
A kind step-daughter, cast out by her cruel step-mother, meets King Frost in the frozen fields. H...
Old Sultan | 老苏丹
A loyal old dog, facing execution by his master, stages a rescue with a wolf's help to regain fav...
The King of the Golden Mountain | 金山之王
A merchant's desperate pact with a dwarf binds his son's fate. The boy grows, fulfills a perilous...
Children's Prattle | 孩子们的闲谈
A children's party reveals social prejudices through the proud boasts of privileged youngsters, w...
Master Pfriem | 鞋匠普弗里姆师傅
Master Pfriem, a perpetually critical shoemaker, finds fault with everyone and everything on eart...
Rising with the Rooster | 闻鸡起舞
The story of Zu Ti and Liu Kun, who disciplined themselves to rise at the rooster's crow to pract...
The Man of Qi Who Feared the Sky | 杞人忧天
This fable tells of a man from Qi who was paralyzed by the irrational fear that the sky would fal...
The Man with a Thousand Coins | 腰缠千钱
A skilled swimmer drowns because he refuses to discard a heavy belt of copper coins while escapin...
Love Me, Love My Dog | 爱屋及乌
This story recounts how the ancient King of Zhou, by wisely choosing to release prisoners of war ...
The Flood | 洪水
Zeus, disgusted by humanity's wickedness, unleashes a catastrophic flood. Only the virtuous coupl...
The Elves and the Shoemaker | 精灵与鞋匠
A poor but pious shoemaker receives magical nightly help from two elves, who craft exquisite shoe...
The Nail | 一枚铁钉
A merchant, in a hurry to return home, repeatedly ignores warnings about a missing nail in his ho...
The Mayor's Revenge | 市长的报复
Two mayors bet on a football game with tomatoes and potatoes as stakes. After overhearing his tom...
The Hungry Wolf | 饥饿的狼
A hungry wolf finds and eats a woodcutter's lunch hidden in a tree hole, but becomes stuck due to...
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