The Third Person | 第三人
Three roommates consistently seek judgment from their third companion during disputes, regardless...
Love I Let Go | 我曾放手之爱
A first-person narrative about a meaningful but lost teenage romance, highlighting how insecurity...
The Painted Skin | 画皮
A scholar hides a beautiful girl who is actually a skin-painting demon. After the demon kills him...
King Goodness the Great | 善良伟大的国王
King Goodness the Great of Benares rules with unwavering compassion, refusing to harm even wrongd...
A Wolf Story | 狼的故事
A farmer's kindness to a wounded wolf is repaid when the magical creature helps him recover lost ...
Buying the Casket and Returning the Pearl | 买椟还珠
A Chu merchant's overly elaborate pearl casket so captivated a Zheng buyer that he purchased only...
The Gift of Ears | 是谁给了我耳朵？
A boy is born without outer ears but with perfect hearing. After enduring childhood taunts, he re...
Lord Ye's Love of Dragons | 叶公好龙
Lord Ye, famed for his obsession with dragon imagery, is terrified when a real dragon visits him,...
A Play on Words | 文字游戏
Author James Thurber amused himself with wordplay, sharing a story where a nurse's literal answer...
I Never Work After Supper | 饭后从不工作
A stingy farmer tries to make his farmhand work non-stop by having all meals at once in the morni...
The Ram Butts Against the Fence | 公羊触篱
A proud ram injures its horns by stubbornly charging into a fence and gets trapped, illustrating ...
The Storytelling Stone | 会讲故事的石头
An orphaned Seneca hunter named Crow discovers a sentient stone in the forest. In exchange for hi...
The Value of Words | 多言何益
Mozi uses the analogy of noisy creatures versus the timely rooster to teach that effective commun...
Arachne | 阿拉克涅
Arachne, a skilled but arrogant mortal weaver, boasts she surpasses the goddess Minerva. Challeng...
A Final Embrace | 最后的拥抱
French writer Tristan Bernard, unhappy with a restaurant meal, dramatically asks the manager for ...
Shooflies | 驱蝇饰
Sti'Tumma crafts beaded "shooflies" from horsehair to decorate her saddle and deter flies. During...
Then Do It | 那就去写
When asked to lecture aspiring writers, novelist Sinclair Lewis simply advised them to go home an...
How the Kangaroo Got Its Pouch | 袋鼠如何得到育儿袋
A kind Mother Kangaroo, while tirelessly searching for her adventurous joey, selflessly aids a gr...
The Ugly Girl Imitates the Frown | 丑女效颦
An ugly girl blindly imitates the frowning expression of the beautiful Xi Shi, not realizing that...
Zhuangzi Fishing | 庄子钓鱼
Zhuangzi declines an offer to become Prime Minister by using the allegory of a sacred tortoise, s...
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