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368 篇Jing Gong Prays for Rain | 景公求雨
During a severe drought, King Jing Gong considers praying to mountain and river deities for rain....
114 阅读A Single Hair from Nine Oxen | 九牛一毛
The story recounts how General Li Ling's surrender led to tragedy and how historian Sima Qian, pu...
86 阅读The Tower of Babel | 巴别塔
Humanity, united by a single language, sought to build a city and a tower reaching heaven to avoi...
93 阅读Penetrating Insight | 入木三分
The article recounts the origin of the Chinese idiom "Ru Mu San Fen" from a story about the calli...
107 阅读The Man from Zheng Buying Shoes | 郑人买履
A man from Zheng meticulously measures his foot to buy shoes but forgets the measurement at home....
100 阅读Jue, Qiongqiong and Juxu | 蹶与蛩蛩、距虚
This fable describes the symbiotic relationship between the clumsy beast Jue and its companions Q...
111 阅读The Origin of Teddy Bear | 泰迪熊的由来
The teddy bear is named after President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, inspired by a 1902 hunting in...
99 阅读St. James | 圣雅各
St. James, one of Jesus's first disciples and a core apostle, witnessed key events like the Trans...
79 阅读The Fish in the Dried Rut | 涸辙之鲋
Zhuang Zhou uses a parable about a dying fish needing immediate help to criticize Marquis Jianheh...
111 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...
105 阅读Composing a Poem with a Spear in Hand | 横槊赋诗
A story from the Three Kingdoms where Cao Cao, on the eve of a major battle, hosts a feast on the...
83 阅读A Special Skill | 一技之长
This story tells how the scholar Gongsun Long valued and recruited a man whose only skill was lou...
103 阅读Against the Fashion | 不合时尚
A skilled shoemaker and weaver from Lu plan to move to Yue, but are warned that their products wi...
97 阅读The Two Knots | 两个连环节
A man presents two knots to a king; only one is untied, and a student correctly identifies the ot...
100 阅读The Creation of the World | 创世记
This passage narrates the biblical story of creation, detailing how God created the world in six ...
86 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...
101 阅读Swallowing a Date Whole | 囫囵吞枣
A young man, upon hearing that pears benefit teeth but harm the spleen while dates benefit the sp...
106 阅读Pandora's Box | 潘多拉的盒子
The myth of Pandora explains the origin of human suffering and the enduring presence of hope. In ...
72 阅读Separating Public and Private Affairs | 公私分明
Jie Hu recommended his personal enemy for a government post based on merit for the nation's good,...
112 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...
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