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1006 篇Nails in the Fence | 篱笆上的钉子
A father teaches his hot-tempered son about the lasting impact of angry words through a lesson in...
33 阅读The Donkey of Guizhou Has Exhausted Its Tricks | 黔驴技穷
A tiger initially fears a strange donkey but discovers its only trick is kicking. The idiom means...
35 阅读The Bird Startled by the Mere Twang of a Bowstring | 惊弓之鸟
The archer Geng Ying demonstrates profound observation by bringing down a wounded, exhausted bird...
36 阅读The King's First Gray Hair | 国王的第一根白发
In an ancient era of immensely long lives, King Makhadeva is jolted into confronting his mortalit...
35 阅读The Mantis Stalks the Cicada | 螳螂捕蝉
A young attendant uses the allegory of a cicada, mantis, and siskin—each focused on its prey whil...
34 阅读One Basket Short | 功亏一篑
A man abandons building a terrace when just one basket of earth remains, illustrating the idiom a...
32 阅读The Mental Chain | 心灵的枷锁
The article uses the metaphor of a conditioned circus elephant to illustrate how past failures an...
32 阅读The Girl and the Bandit | 少女与强盗
A richly adorned girl encounters a bandit while walking in the hills. Despite her desperate pleas...
28 阅读The Gift of Life | 生命的礼物
A humorous allegory explaining the human life stages through a story of God negotiating lifespan ...
35 阅读Belief is All You Need | 信念即力量
A driver, stuck in a ditch, is helped by a farmer using an old, nearly blind mule. The farmer tri...
38 阅读True Wealth | 贫富的真意
A wealthy father's attempt to show his son the poverty of a rural family backfires when the boy p...
27 阅读The Cicada Catcher | 佝偻捕蝉
Confucius learns from a hunchbacked master cicada catcher that supreme skill is achieved through ...
31 阅读The Greedy Man | 贪得无厌
A man meets a celestial friend who grants him gold, but his greed leads him to desire the magic f...
32 阅读The Shepherd's Mistake | 牧羊人的错误
A shepherd gradually lets his guard down against a watching wolf, eventually mistaking it for a g...
29 阅读Marking the Boat for the Lost Sword | 刻舟求剑
A man loses his sword in a river and marks the boat where it fell, foolishly searching at the mar...
29 阅读The Bat and the Weasel | 蝙蝠与黄鼠狼
A bat escapes death twice by cleverly changing its identity to suit the prejudices of two differe...
24 阅读The Unhappy Fish | 不快乐的鱼
A big fish in a small pond dreams of a grander river life but finds loneliness and discomfort the...
31 阅读Sun Shan, the Last on the List | 名落孙山
This story explains the origin of the Chinese idiom "名落孙山," which describes exam or competition f...
31 阅读The Two Spells | 两条咒语
A boy who couldn't get people to listen to him learned from a young man that the "magic spells" o...
33 阅读Master Dongguo and the Wolf | 东郭先生和狼
A pedantic scholar saves a hunted wolf out of misguided compassion, only for the wolf to turn on ...
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