philosophical
46 篇Tian Jiu's Audience | 田鸠见秦王
A Mohist scholar, unable to meet the King of Qin after three years, gains an audience only after ...
31 阅读The Elixir of Immortality | 不死之药
A Chu palace guard is tasked with delivering an elixir of immortality to the king. An archer, upo...
32 阅读The Blind Man and the Sun | 盲人摸日
A blind man, eager to know the sun's shape, receives misleading descriptions comparing it to a co...
33 阅读Xu You Declines the Throne | 许由避位
Emperor Yao offers his throne to the virtuous Xu You, who refuses and goes into hiding. The story...
28 阅读Eve's Diary | 夏娃日记
In her first diary entry, a newly created Eve reflects on her existence as an 'experiment' in the...
25 阅读The Master Carpenter and His Axe | 匠石运斤
A tale of perfect trust and skill: a carpenter removes a speck of plaster from a man's nose with ...
29 阅读The Love of Two Leaves | 两片树叶的爱情
Two leaves, Ole and Trufa, cling to a branch through autumn storms, sustained by their love. When...
31 阅读The Frog in the Well | 井蛙之乐
A frog living in a well boasts of his perfect life to a sea turtle, only to be humbled by the tur...
32 阅读The Parrot's Cry | 呼唤自由的鹦鹉
A freedom fighter liberates a parrot that constantly cries for freedom, only to find it voluntari...
30 阅读The Ass and the Old Peasant | 驴与老农
A peasant warns his donkey of approaching enemies and urges it to flee. The donkey, resigned to i...
33 阅读The Ants and the Colossal Turtle | 群蚁观鳌
A swarm of ants journeys to see a legendary turtle carrying a mountain, but after a long wait and...
30 阅读The Quail Mocks the Roc | 鹦雀笑鹏
A tiny quail, content with its short hops among the weeds, mocks the mighty roc's epic journey ac...
29 阅读The Devil's Offer | 魔鬼的交易
The devil offers a lawyer immense worldly success in exchange for the eternal damnation of his fa...
27 阅读What's Time to a Pig? | 时间对猪有何意义？
A city visitor questions a farmer's act of holding up a pig to eat apples, seeing it as inefficie...
28 阅读Goethe's Tolerance | 歌德的容忍
Goethe demonstrates wit and tolerance by gracefully yielding to an insulting critic on a narrow p...
29 阅读The Origin of Unrest | 不安的起源
A humorous and philosophical take on the biblical creation story, suggesting that the creation of...
29 阅读A Broken Mirror's Blessing | 碎镜之福
A 98-year-old man joyfully explains that breaking a mirror, an omen of seven years' bad luck, is ...
29 阅读The Castaway | 荒岛求生者
A shipwrecked sailor, stranded alone on an island for three years, is finally found. Before offer...
27 阅读An Unnecessary Fence | 一道多余的栅栏
A man argues against fundraising for a cemetery fence, humorously stating that the dead cannot le...
25 阅读Who Is More Satisfied? | 谁更满足？
A thought-provoking comparison suggests that the person with six children is more satisfied than ...
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