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1006 篇The Chopsticks | 筷子
Mrs. Wen teaches her constantly fighting sons a lesson about unity by showing them that a bundle ...
34 阅读The Carrot, the Egg and the Coffee Bean | 胡萝卜、鸡蛋与咖啡豆
A mother uses a kitchen parable with carrots, eggs, and coffee beans to teach her daughter about ...
35 阅读Sweeping the Sunlight | 扫阳光
Two young brothers try to sweep sunlight into their dark room with a dustpan, failing repeatedly ...
32 阅读The Touchstone | 试金石
A man learns the secret of a magical touchstone hidden among ordinary pebbles. After months of ha...
37 阅读The Nail | 一枚铁钉
A merchant, in a hurry to return home, repeatedly ignores warnings about a missing nail in his ho...
32 阅读Adding Feet to a Snake | 画蛇添足
This fable tells of a servant who lost a wine-drawing contest by adding unnecessary feet to his s...
29 阅读Learning to Walk in Handan | 邯郸学步
A young man from Shouling, ashamed of his clumsy walk, travels to Handan to learn the locals' gra...
35 阅读The Emperor's Wine | 天帝赐酒
The Emperor of Heaven orders wine to be bestowed upon visiting deities, but the registration proc...
30 阅读Three Metaphors for Learning | 人生三喻
King Ping Gong laments it's too late to learn at seventy. His minister Shi Kuang uses three metap...
31 阅读Three Heroes Battle Lv Bu | 三英战吕布
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the coalition against Dong Zhuo faced his champion Lv Bu at Hulao...
32 阅读Concentration | 专心致志
The story contrasts two students learning from a master chess player: one's focused attention lea...
26 阅读The Pardoner's Tale | 赦罪僧的故事
A group of wicked youths, seeking Death, find gold under an oak tree. Greed leads them to betray ...
32 阅读The Crow of a Rooster and the Snatch of a Dog | 鸡鸣狗盗
This story recounts how Prince Mengchang of Qi, with the help of retainers skilled in petty trick...
36 阅读Zhuge Liang Mourns Zhou Yu | 诸葛亮吊孝
Zhuge Liang pays a risky condolence visit after his rival Zhou Yu's death. His sincere and moving...
29 阅读Scraping the Bone to Cure Poison | 刮骨疗毒
During the siege of Fancheng, General Guan Yu endured a painful bone-scraping surgery without ane...
36 阅读The Ugly Girl Imitates the Frown | 丑女效颦
An ugly girl blindly imitates the frowning expression of the beautiful Xi Shi, not realizing that...
33 阅读The Night Battle at Jiameng Pass | 夜战马超
A tale from Three Kingdoms where Zhuge Liang strategically provokes Zhang Fei to fight the formid...
27 阅读The King of Yan Seeks Immortality | 燕王学道
A Warring States king, eager to learn immortality, blames his envoy when the fraudulent teacher d...
31 阅读The Eight Decalitres of Talent | 才高八斗
The story recounts how Tsau Pi, jealous of his brother Tsau Jr's literary genius, challenged him ...
32 阅读Beat the Grass and Startle the Snake | 打草惊蛇
The idiom 'Beat the grass and startle the snake' originates from a story about a corrupt magistra...
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