日期：2011-08-03 During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Fu Jian, king of the State of Qin, controlled northern China. In the year 383, Fu Jian led 900,000 infantry（步兵） and cavalry（骑兵） troops to assault the State of Jin which was south of the Yangtze River. Xie Shi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-15 One day, when Houyi was out, Chang'e secretly swallowed the potion（一剂） in the hope that she would become immortal. The result was quite unexpected: she felt herself becoming light, so light that she flew up in spite of herself, drifting and floa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-15 On Baoyu's birthday the young ladies held a drinking party in which they composed poems and much fun. Their service maids started a game of their own. Xiang Ling, Xue Fan's concubine（妾，情妇） , collected some flower and grass and began a grass ga... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-15 At Cao Cao's instruction, Liu Bei was about to set off for a punitive（惩罚的） expedition against Yuan Shu. Before he left, Liu Bei worried about the defence of Xuzhou City. When Zhang Fei volunteered to take the task, Liu said, How can I feel assu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-06 This is a story from Three Kingdoms. Huang Zhong, a veteran in the army of Shu, was one of its top five generals. Zhang He under Cao Cao had suffered one defeat after another. Cao Hong gave him a 5,000-strong army to attack Jiameng Pass. When Liu Be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-06 This is a story from Three Kingdoms. Zhou Yu of Wu Kingdom was a strategist but he was narrow-minded and jealous of people smarter than him. So he had always been thinking of killing Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei of Shu Kingdom. One day, he invited Liu Be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-06 This is story from Three Kingdoms. Tricked by Zhou Yu, Liu Bei married Sun Shangxiang, Sun Quan's younger sister. After the wedding ceremony, Liu Bei stayed in the state of Wu. In light of Zhuge Liang's plan, Zhao Yun made a false report to Liu Bei... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-06 Following the interlocking stratagems（策略，计谋） they had laid, Wang Yun betrothed（订婚） his step daughter Diao Chan to Lv Bu, then, to sow discord（挑拨离间） between the two, presented the girl to Dong Zhou as a concubine（妾，情妇） . Lv Bu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-26 Mi Heng was recommended to Cao Cao when the latter, to expand his influence, needed someone to lobby Liu Biao. But Mi was slighted. Mi took his anger out on almost all of Cao Cao's subordinates（下属） . One day, at a banquet（宴会） in honor of dis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-26 Yuan Shu sent 100 thousand troops, led by General Ji Ling, to attack Liu Bei. For fear of Lv Bu in Xuzhou who might lend Liu a hand, Yuan wrote Lv a letter, together with many food supplies as gifts, asking him not to help Liu. Liu, on the other han... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-21 In the Northern and Southern Dynasties when the State of Chen (A.D. 557-589) was facing its demise（死亡，终止） , Xu Deyan, husband of the princess, broke a bronze mirror into halves. Each of them kept a half as tokens（代币，符号） in case they we... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-21 Zengzis wife was going to the market. Her little son insisted on going with her, making a tearful scene. Stay at home, she said to the boy. When I come back, I will slaughter a pig for you. When she came back, Zengzi got ready to slaughter the pig.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-21 In the Spring and Autumn Period, a farmer in the State of Song was one day working in the fields when he saw a rabbit bump into a tree stump（树桩） accidentally and break its neck. The farmer took the rabbit home, and cooked himself a delicious mea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-21 In the Warring States Period, Duke Wei of Qi neglected state affairs, for the first three years of his reign, giving himself over to dissipation（浪费，损耗） . One of his ministers, Chun Yukun who had a good sense of humour, said to him: 'There is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-21 In the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280), the king of the Wei, Cao Rui, wanted to select a very capable man to work for him. He said to his ministers: 'When choosing a talented person, always beware of（小心，谨防） one with a false reputation. A fals... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-21 In the Warring States Period, Lin Xiangru, chief minister of the State of Zhao, was sent as an envoy to the State of Qin to ask the ruler of Qin to return a fine piece of jade（翡翠，碧玉） to Zhao. But the ruler of Qin was rude and unreasonable. Li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-21 Lu Ban was supposed to be a consummate（至上的，完美的） carpenter in ancient times. It is said that he once carved a wooden phoenix（凤凰） that was so lifelike（逼真的） that it actually flew in the sky for three days. Thus it was considered the h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-15 This is a story from the book Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. There was an old man with the surname Feng, he had a son named Xiangru. Xiangru studied hard but failed several times in passing the imperial examination. One night when Xiangru was re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-15 This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. Lady Fan was gentle and beautiful. One day, accompanied by an attendant on an outing（远足） to the Water and Moon Monastery, she encountered the warm and equally beautiful Lady Feng. As they f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-12 People have been passionate about roses since the beginning of time. In fact, it is said that the floors of Cleopatra（埃及艳后） 's palace were carpeted with delicate rose petals, and that the wise and knowing Confucius had a 600-book library speci... 阅读全文>>