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12 篇The Frog in the Well | 夜郎自大
This story recounts how the isolated kings of Dian and Yelang, ignorant of the world beyond their...
31 阅读Seamless Heavenly Garment | 天衣无缝
This story from the Tang Dynasty explains the idiom "Seamless Heavenly Garment," where a man sees...
35 阅读Flowers Raining from the Sky | 天花乱坠
This article explains the Chinese idiom "Flowers Raining from the Sky," which originates from a l...
34 阅读Three in the Morning, Four in the Evening | 朝三暮四
This fable tells of a monkey keeper who tricks his monkeys by merely rearranging their daily rati...
38 阅读Peach-Blossom Spring | 世外桃源
This passage introduces the Chinese idiom 'Peach-Blossom Spring', derived from Tao Yuanming's ess...
28 阅读Dai Song's Ox Painting | 戴蒿画牛
A Song Dynasty collector prized a Tang Dynasty ox painting by Dai Song until a shepherd boy point...
31 阅读The Cowherd and the Weaving Girl | 牛郎织女
This is the classic Chinese folktale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl, a celestial weaver. The...
38 阅读Broken Idols | 破碎的偶像
A monk and a Taoist priest repeatedly move their respective idols to the left, each claiming prec...
28 阅读Showing Off Axe Skills Before Lu Ban | 班门弄斧
This idiom, derived from the legend of master carpenter Lu Ban, criticizes the folly of displayin...
32 阅读The Gemstone Harvest | 宝石的采集
This story describes a clever, albeit provocative, method used by people in southern Yunnan to co...
35 阅读Chang'e's Flight to the Moon | 嫦娥奔月
The myth recounts how Chang'e, after secretly consuming an elixir of immortality, became weightle...
34 阅读Why the Sky Is So High | 天空为何如此之高
A myth explaining the sky's height. A lonely, obsessive old woman's relentless sweeping raises du...
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