日期:2015-04-23 One day, Ling Gong, King of the State of Qi, had a sudden whim. He liked to see women wearing men's clothes and let all the women in his harem do so. Soon afterwards, all the women in the whole country followed the fashion and dressed like men. Seei... 阅读全文>> 日期:2015-04-23 During the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476B.C), a skillful craftsman named Gongshu Zi in the State of Lu, Known to people as Lu Ban, made a magpie with bamboo and wood. A machine was installed in this magpie which, when started, could fly high lik... 阅读全文>> 日期:2015-04-23 Yan Zi of the state of Qi was sent on a mission to the State of Qi to Yan Zi's face. One day, the King of Chu gave a banquet for Yan Zi. Just when they were enjoying it, two petty officials brought a convict to the king. Deliberately the King of Chu... 阅读全文>> 日期:2015-04-23 One year it did not rain for a long time in the State of Qi, and there was an extremely severe drought. Jing Gong, the King of Qi, was very worried. He wanted to offer sacrifices to the mountain deity to pray for rain. His prime minister Yan Zi said... 阅读全文>> 日期:2015-04-07 In the dense mountain forest, there lived herds of stout and strong red deer. They were alert and suspicious animals and ran about with agility. It was very difficult for people to catch them. When some people came to the mountains to hunt, they wou... 阅读全文>> 日期:2015-03-19 One of the 12 Apostles of Jesus. He and his brother John were fishermen on the Sea of Galilee and were among the first disciples to be called. As a member of the inner circle of disciples, he witnessed the major events in the ministry of Jesus, incl... 阅读全文>> 日期:2015-03-19 Hebrew patriarch, son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, and the traditional ancestor of the people of Israel. His story is told in the Book of Genesis. The younger twin brother of Esau, he used trickery to gain Isaac's blessing and Esau's birthright... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-24 Huang Gong was a citizen of the state of Qi, whose shortcoming was his excessive modesty to such an extent as to debase himself in spite of the fact. Though his two daughters where beautiful ,he said they were ugly out of modesty. Being brought up i... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-18 Xi Shi, a famous beauty, had a pain in her bosom, so she had a frown on her face when she went out. An ugly girl who lived nearby saw her and thought she looked very beautiful. Therefore when she went home, she also put her hands on her bosom and ha... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-18 This story happened during the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC). There was once an old man named Meng who lived in the southern part of the country with his wife. One spring, Meng sowed a seed of bottle gourd in his yard. The bottle gourd grew up bit by bi... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-18 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, collected some flower and grass and began a grass game with the o... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-18 Following the interlocking stratagems they had laid, Wang Yun betrothed his step daughter Diao Chan to Lv Bu, then, to sow discord between the two, presented the girl to Dong Zhou as a concubine. Lv Bu was furious, and each time he met Diao Chan, th... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-11 An Athenian and a Theban were on the road together, and passed the time in conversation, as is the way of travelers. After discussing a variety of subjects they began to talk about heroes, a topic that tends to be more fertile than edifying. Each of... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-11 A man of the State of Qi have an extraordinary love for gold, and the vision of piles of splendid gold often appeared in front of his eyes. One morning, the man, tidily dressed, hurried to the bazaar. He came to the gold booth, seized on the gold an... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-11 King Xuan of the state of Qi was fond of archery, and he liked to hear others' flattery on his ability to stretch tight bows. The tensile strength of his bows was only three shi. But every time he asked his attendants to try his bows, these men pull... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-03 Kua Fu tried his best to chase the sun. When he arrived at the place where the sun set, he had to turned around, as he could not bear the thirst, and came to the Yellow River and the Wei River. In one breath, he quaffed up all the water in both rive... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-03 Xue Tan studied singing from the celebrated singer Qin Qing, before long, he thought he had mastered almost all the skills and techniques taught by the teacher, and said goodbye to the teacher and headed for home. Qin Qing gave a farewell dinner by... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-03 Ji Chang learned archery from Fei Wei. Fei Wei did not teach Ji Chang the specific techniques of toxophily, instead, he asked Ji Chang to learn to stare at the target, without blinking. Ji Chang spent two years on it, and managed not to blink, even... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-03 Zao Fu been learning to drive from Tai Dou for three years, but Tai Dou did not tell him anything about driving, which only added to his respect for his teacher. One day, Tai Dou told Zao Fu, Learning to drive must begin with learning to walk, as lo... 阅读全文>> 日期:2014-12-03 A peasant in the state of Song led an extremely hard life for he was destitute, depending on worn sackcloth to defense the chill of winter. After the spring arrived, the peasant ploughed in the field. When he got tired and rested on the ridge of the... 阅读全文>> |
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