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• 1.小儿辨日
• In the middle of Confucius's travel round all the states, he saw two children arguing with each other. He stopped and asked them what they argued abou...
• 2.Skull 髑髅
• Zhuang Zi slept with a skull as his pillow. In midnight, he dreamt that the skull old him how happy it was after death. The skull said, After death, t...
• 3.鲁少儒
• The state of Lu was the cradleland（发源地） of Confucianism, and there were a great number of Confucian scholars in the state. Duke Aigong of the sta...
• 4.锤钩者
• The defense minister of the state of Chu noticed that one of his subordinates（下级） , an eighty-year old blacksmith, and still maintained masterly c...
• 5.The old woman and the doctor
• An old woman became almost totally blind from a disease of the eyes, and, after consulting a doctor, made an agreement with him in the presence of wit...
• 6.涸辙之鲋
• Once Zhuang Zhou went to Marquis Jianhehou to borrow provisions（食品，规定） . Marquis Jianhehou said, Yes, but you have to wait until the end of the...
• 7.Angling 钓鱼
• The son of a high official of the state of Ren angled in the east sea, using fifty oxen as the bait. He had not caught a single fish for a year. But h...
• 8.畏影恶迹
• A person feared his own shadow and loathed（讨厌） his own footprints, and wanted to leave behind his shadow and footprints very much. So he ran faste...
• 9.Marquis Lu Raised a Bird 鲁侯养鸟
• Once upon a time, a sea bird landed in the suburbs of the capital of the state of Lu. Marquis Lu was delighted and brought this bird to the ancestral ...
• 10.A stoop old man captured cicadas 痀偻承蜩
• Once when Confucius was in the state of Chu, he saw a stooped（弯腰） old man glue cicadas（蝉） with a pole. He did this as easily as pick up things ...