ancient-china
26 篇Confucius: The Sage and His Legacy | 孔子：圣人与他的遗产
Confucius (551 B.C.), China's great sage and teacher, founded a philosophy centered on innate hum...
40 阅读Food Offered with Contempt | 嗟来之食
During a famine, a proud man starves to death rather than accept food offered with disrespect, il...
33 阅读Tyranny Is Fiercer Than Tigers | 苛政猛于虎
Confucius encounters a woman mourning three family members killed by tigers. She prefers the dang...
37 阅读King Xuan's Bow | 齐宣王开弓
King Xuan of Qi, who loved archery, was deceived by his attendants into believing his three-*shi*...
36 阅读Three Heroes Battle Lv Bu | 三英战吕布
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the coalition against Dong Zhuo faced his champion Lv Bu at Hulao...
32 阅读Moving the Thill to the South Gate | 徒辕南门
Wu Qi cleverly built public trust by fulfilling small promises, then successfully mobilized civil...
35 阅读The Archer's Miss | 神射手的失误
A master archer, Hou Yi, misses his shot when a huge reward is at stake, revealing how anxiety ov...
33 阅读Crossing the Sea by Stratagem | 瞒天过海
General Xue Rengui used a clever ruse to trick the hesitant Emperor Taizong onto a ship and acros...
30 阅读Ignorant and Incompetent | 不学无术
The article recounts the story of Huo Guang, a powerful Han Dynasty general who, despite his serv...
33 阅读The Latecomers Surpass the Old-timers | 后来者居上
This story recounts how the idiom 'the latecomers surpass the old-timers' originated from Ji An's...
28 阅读The Torch of Talent | 庭燎招贤
Duke Huan of Qi lit a torch for a year to attract talent but failed until a humble villager, by o...
34 阅读Few True Confucians in Lu | 鲁国少儒
Zhuang Zi challenges the King of Lu's claim that his state has many Confucian scholars by arguing...
37 阅读The King's Whim | 君王的喜怒
A second performer, imitating a successful acrobat, seeks reward from a king but is instead impri...
34 阅读Like Fire and Flowering Rush | 如火如荼
This story describes how the Wu army, in a desperate situation, launched a spectacular dawn assau...
31 阅读The Latecomers Surpass the Old-timers | 后来居上
This story recounts how Ji An, an upright official in the Han Dynasty, bluntly criticized Emperor...
32 阅读Knotting the Grass | 老人结草
A minister's son disobeys his father's deathbed wish to bury a concubine alive, choosing instead ...
30 阅读The State of Yue Builds Chariots | 越人造车
A man from the water-rich state of Yue, unfamiliar with chariots, mistakenly copied a broken one ...
30 阅读Cao Shang's Chariots | 曹商得车
Cao Shang boasts to Zhuang Zi about gaining wealth through flattery, but Zhuang Zi retorts that s...
29 阅读Gong Yixiu and the Fish | 公仪休拒鱼
Gong Yixiu, a minister fond of fish, refused all gifted fish to avoid obligation and potential co...
35 阅读The Confucian Scholars of Lu | 鲁国的儒生
Duke Aigong of Lu prided himself on his state's many Confucian scholars, but Zhuangzi argued that...
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