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1006 篇Jiang Yan's Wit Runs Dry | 江郎才尽
This story recounts how the talented scholar Jiang Yan, after achieving early fame, failed to mai...
29 阅读A Lesson from My Son | 从儿子身上学到的教训
A carpenter mistreats his elderly father until his young son's poignant act of making a wooden pl...
43 阅读The Bright Sun Brings It to Light | 明亮的太阳终将揭露真相
A destitute tailor's apprentice murders a Jew for money. Years later, settled into a happy life, ...
30 阅读The Hook Forger | 锤钩者
An elderly blacksmith explains to a minister that his lifelong mastery of forging waistband hooks...
35 阅读Zhang Fei's Apology | 张飞赔罪
Zhang Fei promises to reform and guard Xuzhou but breaks his vow by getting drunk and punishing a...
32 阅读The Horse Leaps Over Tanxi | 马跃檀溪
Liu Bei's gifted horse, believed to be ill-omened, proves to be his savior. When trapped by a plo...
35 阅读Learning Qi Dialect in Chu | 楚人学齐语
Mencius uses the analogy of learning a dialect to argue that environment is more crucial than ins...
35 阅读Taming the Tiger | 役虎
Huang Gong, envious of An Qisheng's ability to command a tiger with a sword, steals the weapon be...
33 阅读Counting on Luck | 心存侥幸
Despite a brutal law in the state of Chu that sentenced secret gold panners to be torn apart, man...
37 阅读Borrowing Arrows with Straw Boats | 草船借箭
Zhuge Liang ingeniously fulfills an impossible order for 100,000 arrows by tricking the enemy int...
30 阅读Going South by Driving North | 南辕北辙
A man traveling in the wrong direction believes his superior resources will help, but they only t...
36 阅读The Two Mothers | 真假母亲
King Solomon wisely identifies a child's true mother by proposing to split the baby in half, obse...
31 阅读The Ghost-Fearing Man of Chu | 楚人畏鬼
A thief exploits a man's intense fear of ghosts by imitating ghostly sounds, then robs him. Even ...
41 阅读The Twelve Apostles | 十二门徒
A poor mother's twelve sons, sent into the world in desperation, are guided by angels to a magica...
26 阅读Beauty and the Beast | 美女与野兽
Beauty, a kind young woman, sacrifices herself to a Beast to save her father. Living in his encha...
34 阅读The Bird Startled by the Bowstring | 惊弓之鸟
The story recounts how the archer Geng Ying used only the sound of his bowstring to bring down a ...
29 阅读The Gentleman on the Beam | 梁上君子
During a famine in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a thief hiding in Chen Shi's house is moved to repent...
33 阅读The Shroud | 寿衣
A grieving mother's incessant tears prevent her deceased child's shroud from drying, disturbing h...
30 阅读A Father's Equanimity | 子死不忧
A Wei state man, Dong Menwu, remains calm after his son's death, explaining to his puzzled servan...
39 阅读The Seven Ravens | 七只乌鸦
A man's angry wish turns his seven sons into ravens. Their determined sister embarks on a perilou...
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