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369 篇The Self-Injury Stratagem | 苦肉计
Before the Battle of Chibi, Huang Gai volunteers for a self-injury stratagem, enduring a severe f...
31 阅读The Medicine Swindler | 骗子卖药
A famous doctor prescribed poris cocos for Liu Zongyuan's swollen spleen, but a swindling apothec...
40 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The Lost Sheep at the Crossroads | 歧路亡羊
A story where the failure to find a lost sheep due to complex branching paths leads a scholar to ...
34 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How the Bear Lost His Tail | 熊是如何失去尾巴的
A proud bear, tricked by a cunning fox into fishing with his magnificent tail on a frozen lake, f...
33 阅读Pangu Separates the Sky and the Earth | 盘古开天
This myth describes how Pangu emerged from a primordial egg-like chaos and spent millennia separa...
31 阅读Practice Makes Perfect | 熟能生巧
A skilled archer becomes complacent after a successful practice, only to be humbled by an old oil...
29 阅读Lu Ban's Magpie | 鲁班造鹊
Lu Ban, a legendary craftsman, built a mechanical magpie that could fly for days. However, Mo Zi ...
32 阅读Do Not Burn Your House to Get Rid of a Mouse | 投鼠忌器
A collector destroys his priceless jade vase while trying to kill a mouse inside it, learning a h...
29 阅读The Witty Retort | 反唇相讥
Yan Zi of Qi uses a clever analogy about oranges changing when transplanted to rebut the King of ...
29 阅读Passing Off as a Competent Player | 滥竽充数
The story tells of Nanguo, who joined a royal yu ensemble despite lacking skill, pretending to pl...
28 阅读Mend the Fold After a Sheep Is Lost | 亡羊补牢
This fable tells how a minister's warning was ignored by a complacent king, leading to invasion a...
26 阅读Bristling with Anger | 怒发冲冠
This passage recounts the historical story behind the Chinese idiom "Bristling with Anger," where...
33 阅读Bringing Back to Life | 起死回生
The story recounts how the ancient doctor Bian Que correctly diagnosed a prince's coma as illness...
32 阅读Paper Becomes Precious in Luoyang | 洛阳纸贵
The idiom 'Paper becomes precious in Luoyang' originates from the story of Jin Dynasty writer Zuo...
33 阅读The First Test | 初出茅庐
This passage recounts how Zhuge Liang, newly appointed as Liu Bei's military adviser, earns the r...
36 阅读A White Horse Is Not a Horse | 白马非马
The story of Er Shuo illustrates the gap between abstract philosophical debate and practical real...
38 阅读Pandora's Box | 潘多拉魔盒
Zeus creates Pandora, the first woman, as a punishment for humanity after the theft of fire. She ...
39 阅读Lower the Banners and Silence the Drums | 偃旗息鼓
This idiom originates from a Three Kingdoms stratagem where Zhao Yun feigned weakness to lure Cao...
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