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368 篇Coyote and the People | 郊狼与人类
A Native American creation myth where Coyote defeats a threatening Bear and uses its blood to cre...
93 阅读Practice Makes Perfect | 熟能生巧
A skilled archer in the Northern Song Dynasty is humbled when an old oil peddler demonstrates tha...
106 阅读Jacob | 雅各
Jacob, the patriarch who became Israel, secured his legacy through cunning and divine encounter, ...
68 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...
78 阅读The Black Sheep | 害群之马
The idiom 'The Black Sheep' originates from a story where the legendary Emperor Huangdi learns fr...
100 阅读The Stooped Cicada Catcher | 佝偻承蜩
Confucius observes an old man who catches cicadas with effortless skill. The man reveals his secr...
91 阅读Waiting by the Stump | 守株待兔
This fable tells of a farmer who, after a lucky accident, abandons work to wait for more luck, sa...
108 阅读Perseverance Prevails | 铁杵磨成针
This legend tells how the young poet Li Bai was inspired by an old woman grinding an iron rod int...
95 阅读Halfway Abandonment | 半途而废
A man's wife uses the metaphor of cutting half-woven brocade to persuade him against abandoning h...
121 阅读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,...
100 阅读The Bell That Reveals the Thief | 恐钟有声
A Song Dynasty magistrate cleverly used a bell coated with ink to identify a thief among suspects...
113 阅读Surprise Attack on Chencang | 计取陈仓
Zhuge Liang captures the strategic fortress of Chencang not by a prolonged siege, but through a b...
91 阅读The Dagger Unrolled | 图穷匕见
This passage recounts the historical tale of Jing Ke's failed assassination attempt on the King o...
90 阅读The Blind Men and the Elephant | 盲人摸象
A king asks several blind men to describe an elephant by touch. Each feels a different part (tusk...
102 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...
91 阅读Having the Bamboo in Mind | 胸有成竹的来历
The story of Wen Tong, a Song Dynasty scholar-painter renowned for his bamboo paintings. His exce...
110 阅读Zheng Yong the Thief-Spotter | 郄雍视盗
The Marquis of Jin pins his hopes on a man who can spot thieves by appearance, but his minister a...
92 阅读Strike While the Iron is Hot | 一鼓作气
This story explains the idiom "一鼓作气" through a historical battle where waiting for the enemy's sp...
86 阅读A Slingshot Is a Slingshot | “弹”就是“弹”
Hui Zi defends his use of metaphors by demonstrating that explaining an unknown concept (a slings...
94 阅读The Thorn-Carver | 棘刺母猴
A man from Wei tricks the King of Yan by claiming he can carve a monkey on a thorn. A blacksmith ...
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