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624 篇The Beadle of Changwu | 长梧封人
A frontier beadle shares a farming analogy with a disciple of Confucius, contrasting the poor res...
33 阅读Zhuangzi Fishing | 庄子钓鱼
Zhuangzi declines an offer to become Prime Minister by using the allegory of a sacred tortoise, s...
33 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...
31 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...
35 阅读The Jade Refusal | 子罕拒玉
A Song farmer offers a jade-containing stone to Prime Minister Zi Han, who declines it, valuing t...
36 阅读The Tree and the Goose | 山木与雁
Zhuangzi uses the paradox of a useless tree surviving and a useless goose being killed to illustr...
31 阅读A Good Dog for Catching Mice? | 良狗捕鼠
A man from Qi selects a hunting dog for his neighbor, who then worries it doesn't catch mice. The...
38 阅读The Unused Gourd | 不材之药
Hui Zi destroys a giant gourd he finds useless. Zhuang Zi, through a parable about a chilblain sa...
26 阅读The General and the Little Boy | 将军与小男孩
A general on a flight calms a tantrum-throwing boy with a whispered threat, humorously revealing ...
31 阅读My Father Isn't as Rich as His | 他的父亲比我的富有
A story illustrates John D. Rockefeller's paradoxical frugality: despite his vast philanthropy, h...
32 阅读The Silk Weaver's Lesson | 断织诫夫
Le Yangzi's wife twice guides him toward integrity and perseverance: first by rejecting found gol...
34 阅读The Misplaced Craftsmen | 不合时宜的工匠
A skilled shoemaker and weaver plan to move to a new region but are warned that their crafts are ...
36 阅读The Carrot, the Egg, and the Coffee Bean | 胡萝卜、鸡蛋与咖啡豆
A mother uses a kitchen experiment with carrots, eggs, and coffee beans in boiling water to teach...
35 阅读Fear of Shadow and Footprints | 畏影恶迹
A man tries to outrun his shadow and footprints, only to exhaust himself to death, failing to rea...
28 阅读The Farmer and His Gold | 农夫与金币
A dejected farmer receives a bag of gold from a stranger, which inspires him to revitalize his fa...
37 阅读The Chariot Race | 争先恐后
A student loses a chariot race and blames his teacher for withholding skills. The teacher explain...
34 阅读Huang Gong's Daughters | 黄公嫁女
Huang Gong's excessive modesty backfires when he constantly describes his beautiful daughters as ...
30 阅读Grinding a Brick into a Mirror | 磨砖成镜
A Chan master uses the metaphor of grinding a brick to make a mirror to teach his disciple that e...
25 阅读The Mantis Stops the Chariot | 螳臂当车
King Zhuang Gong of Qi encounters a mantis attempting to stop his chariot, prompting a reflection...
35 阅读Gong Yixiu and the Fish | 公仪休拒鱼
Gong Yixiu, a minister fond of fish, refused all gifted fish to avoid obligation and potential co...
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