日期：2011-06-02 Doctor Huang Xiaoyuan of Hangzhou was a noted authority on skin diseases and infections of all sorts. One day he was sitting in his office when a man came in groaning（呻吟） . What an ugly brute（畜生，残暴的人） , the doctor couldn't help thinking... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-30 This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. As a child, Xiliu was smart and liked to read biographies of ancient sages. She decided to follow the examples of previous worthies and leave behind a reputation that would be noted for generat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-30 This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. One day a scholar named Wang Sheng in Taiyuan met, on his way out, a beautiful girl. He brought her back to be kept in his study. The girl asked him not to tell anybody. Days later, Wang met a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-30 This is a story in Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio about Drunken Tao, a unique species in the chrysanthemum（菊花） family. The Ma family was a scholars family and a family of chrysanthemum lovers. In this story, the lord of the present generation... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-30 This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. Mr Sun of Luoyang married the daughter of a magistrate（地方法官） . About twenty days after the wedding, his wife died of illness. Sun was extremely sad. One rainy day, an average-looking girl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-25 He strode the length of the nursery walkway, inhaling the heady（兴奋的） scent. To an untrained eye, the rows of methodically labeled roses might look identical. But Monsieur Francis Meilland knew better. As a rose breeder, he had dedicated his lif... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-19 Long, long ago, rain stopped falling in China. The people prayed for rain to the Jade Emperor, for it was he who looked after everything in heaven, on the land and in the sea, but no matter how much they prayed, rain did not fall. Four dragons lived... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-22 This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. The Ans had two sons. The elder son An Dacheng married Chen Shanhu. Shanhu was a kind woman with a sweet temper. Dacheng's mother, Shen Shi, was irritable（急躁的） and fierce. She often beat a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-22 This is a classic Chinese fairy tale. It was said that there is a kind of poisonous grass that causes people to die after eating it. People said that people who died of eating this grass would become ghosts. They could reincarnate（转世） only by fi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-22 This is a story from A Dream of Red Mansions. Third Sister You, a very pretty and strong character, was the sister of jia Zhen's wife. When Jia Zhen, a play boy by nature, was tired of his wife, his eyes fell on the beautiful Third Sister. Collabora... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-22 As Jia Baoyu, Xue Baoqin, Xing Youyan and Ping'er had birthdays on the same day, the young ladies held a hilarious（欢闹的） drinking party in the hall of the peony（牡丹，芍药） garden for them. When it was Xiangyun's turn to compose a verse amid a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-18 As Xi Ren, the leading service girl who had taken care of Baoyu was away to visit her home, the duties, and the charge of Yihongyuan Court, fell on Qing Wen. A girl anxious to excel in（胜过，擅长） everything, Qing Wen did everything personally. Fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-18 This is an episode from the novel A Dream of Red Mansions. Just as the whole family was busy prepasring the birthday ceremony for Jia Zheng, Jia was summoned（传唤，召集） to report to the imperial court. His family did not know why and felt uneasy... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-18 After killing the local tyrant Zhen Guanxi, for fear of being jailed, Lu Zhishen fled to Mount Wutai where he stayed in a temple as a monk. After breaking the temple rules by drinking, he was sent by the abbot（大寺院男住持） to the Monastery of Gre... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-18 The armored cavalry（装甲部队） deployed by Huyan Zhuo could not be destroyed unless barbed lances（长矛） were used. Tang Long presented a drawing of such a lance and lance could be made according to the drawing. However no one was able to use them... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-18 One day Li Kui and Yan Qing, two heroes in liangshan Marsh（沼泽，湿地） , spent the night in the town of Jingmen, which is near to the Liangshan Marsh. In the manor（庄园，领地） the squire（乡绅，侍从） told them that Song Jiang, head of the liang... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-06 Once upon a time there was a peasant who had money and land enough, but as rich as he was, there was still something missing from his happiness: He had no children with his wife. Often when he went to the city with the other peasants, they would moc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-06 Once upon a time there was a child who was willful and did not do what his mother wanted. For this reason God was displeased with him and caused him to become ill, and no doctor could help him, and in a short time he lay on his deathbed（临终之时）... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-06 A man and a woman lived in a village. The woman was so lazy that she never wanted to do any work. She never finished what the man gave her to spin, and what she did spin she did not wind onto a reel（卷轴，盘） , but left it tangled on the bobbin（... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-06 Ji An lived at the time of Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D.24). He was respected for being upright and just and for daring to speak the truth. He did not bother about small matters in personal behavior and in being an official.... 阅读全文>>