ancient-wisdom
17 篇Laozi's Inquiry | 老子问疾
Laozi visits the sage Shang Rong, who imparts wisdom through symbolic actions and a final metapho...
30 阅读The Chicken Thief | 攘鸡
Mencius uses the parable of a man who plans to gradually reduce and delay stopping his theft to c...
36 阅读Five Unreliable Dependencies | 五不足恃
Marquis Wen of Wei asks if he can rely on virtuous family and ministers to govern well. Gu Juanzi...
30 阅读The Horse and the Goat | 鞭马与鞭羊
Mozi uses the analogy of whipping a swift horse versus a goat to explain to his disciple that he ...
34 阅读Tuning an Instrument is Like Governing a State | 调琴如治国
The story uses the metaphor of tuning a stringed instrument to illustrate the importance of disti...
31 阅读The Beadle of Changwu | 长梧封人
A frontier beadle shares a farming analogy with a disciple of Confucius, contrasting the poor res...
32 阅读Spare the Ox, Use a Sheep | 以牛易羊
King Hui of Liang, moved by the sight of an ox being led to slaughter for a ritual, orders its re...
28 阅读Open the Net on Three Sides | 网开一面
The story recounts how Tang, founder of the Shang Dynasty, demonstrated mercy by cutting a bird n...
34 阅读Unselfish Recommendation | 大公无私
The story of Qi Huangyang from the Spring and Autumn Period, who recommended both his enemy and h...
40 阅读Lin Hui Abandons the Jade | 林回弃璧
A wise man fleeing danger chooses to save his newborn son over a priceless family heirloom, expla...
26 阅读The Big Catch | 钓大鱼
A nobleman uses fifty oxen as bait to fish in the East Sea. After a year of patience, he catches ...
29 阅读The Hardest Task in a Stable | 马棚里最难做的事
Duke Huan of Qi asks about the hardest stable task. Minister Guan Zhong explains that fence-build...
31 阅读Shi Kuang Tunes the Zither | 师旷调琴
Shi Kuang, a musician, fails to tune a zither with identically sized strings and explains that ha...
31 阅读The Ultimate Archery | 不射之射
A master archer, Lie Yukou, is challenged by Bohun Maoren to demonstrate his skill not on a safe ...
29 阅读Two Children Argue About the Sun | 小儿辩日
Two children present contradictory arguments about the sun's distance at sunrise versus noon, usi...
27 阅读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 ...
32 阅读The Coachman's Wife | 妻子劝夫
Yan Zi's modest demeanor shames his coachman's arrogant behavior, prompting the coachman's wife t...
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