日期：2014-05-29 Minister Pang Gong accepted the appointment of the king of the state of Wei and accompanied the prince to Han Dan to be the hostage. Before departure, he said to the king, If someone told you that there was a tiger at the market, would Your Majesty... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-29 River Lishui, located in the south of the state of Chu, abounded in alluvial（冲积的） gold. In order to monopolize（垄断） the mineral resources, the government issued a law to the effect that whoever was caught panning（淘金） secretly in the rive... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-20 One day, Duke Huan of the state of Qi was reading woks by those sages of the past. Lun Bian, a wheel-maker, believed that these books were just dross（渣滓，碎屑） from the ancients. To prove his conception, he explained, It is just like making whee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-20 In Yingdu, the capital city of the state of Chu, a man put a piece of white plaster（石膏，灰泥） of the size of a fly on top of his own nose, and asked an artisan（工匠） named Shi to back it off with an axe. The artisan brandished the axe with sou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-20 Once the state of Jin was bothered by the prevalence（流行，普遍） of thieves, and this plagued Marguis Jin. He was very happy when he heard that Zheng Yong could identify the thieves' misdeeds just by observing their appearances. He was confident t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-20 There was a person who made his living with his excellent acrobatic（杂技的） skills in the state of Song. He once purposely went to the palace to perform his specialty for King Yuan of the state of Song. The King was amazed by his performance and r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-20 Yang Zhu had a younger brother named Yang Bu. One day Yang Bu went out wearing white clothes. It happened to rain, so he took off his white clothes and changed into black clothes and went home. He dog did not know that he had changed clothes, so it... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-20 There was a poor man in the state of Qi who made his living as a beggar in town. After some time the people in the town began to dislike him, and gradually refused to give food to him. There was nothing he could do but go to work in farmers' horse p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-20 A person in the state of Chu, trying to sell his pheasant（野鸡） , lied to people by saying that what was in his hand was a phoenix（凤凰） . A passerby believed him and bought it for twenty pieces of gold. The passerby wanted to present it to the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-20 A person who was born in the state of Yan grew up in the state of Chu. When he was old, he planned to go back to the state of Yan. Passing the state of Jin, the people who went along with him pointed to the cities and shrines and cheated him by tell... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-20 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 about. One child said, I think the sun is closer to us when it first rises in the morning, and farther... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-09 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, there is no emperor or liege（臣民） any longer, and it saves you a lot of trouble. There is no hard... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-09 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 state of Lu was very proud of this. But Zhang Zi thought that those who had the title of Confucian sch... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-09 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 craft despite of his old age. He inquired of the old man about the reason. The old man replied, It i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-09 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 witnesses that she should pay him a high fee if he cured her, while if he failed he was to receive not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-09 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 year when the taxes have been collected. I will lend you three hundred jins of gold. Zhuang Zhou r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-09 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 he was not discouraged and did not give up. In the end, a big fish swallowed the bait. If the fish w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-09 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 faster and faster, and left more and more footprints. And his shadow chased him faster and faster. But h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-29 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 temple, and gave it wine to drink, played it music from Jiushao. In order to delight it, he also fe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-29 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 on the ground. Confucius asked him what the secret was. The old man said, Five six months after I b... 阅读全文>>