• 枉凝眉

    21-06-17 枉凝眉 Hope Betrayed 作者:曹雪芹,译者:David Hawkes 一个是阆苑仙葩, One was a flower from paradise, 一个是美玉无瑕, One a pure jade without spot or stain. 若说没奇缘, If each of the other one was not intended, 今生偏又遇着他; Then why in this...

  • 缅甸矿坑塌方 54名矿工失踪

    19-04-24 About 54 jade miners went missing after the collapse of a tailing pond in Myanmars Kachin state, the Ministry of Information said Tuesday. 缅甸新闻部周二称,克钦邦一座尾矿池发生塌方,大约54名玉石矿工失踪。 The tailing pond collapsed late Monday at a...

  • 海昏侯墓主确认 系“汉废帝”刘贺

    16-03-02 A jade seal found in the interior coffin of a 2,000-year-old tomb in east China's Jiangxi Province has helped identify its master as the Marquis of Haihun, who had a short-lived reign of 27 days as an emperor of Western Han Dynasty. 中国江西省一处具...

  • 唇亡齿寒

    15-11-19 Between the States of Jin and Guo was the State of Yu. Once, the State of Jin intended to invade the State of Guo and had to seek for permission to go by way of the State of Yu. The King of Jin was worried that the State of Yu would refuse to consen...

  • 宋人献玉

    15-11-19 There was a man of the State of Song who liked to curry favour with others. One day, he got a piece of uncarved jade and went to present it to Zi Han, a minister of the State of Song, with the intention to ingratiate himself with the official. Zi Ha...

  • 和氏献璧

    15-11-19 One day, a man named He Shi of the State of Chu got a piece of uncarved jade in a hill. He quickly went to present it to King Li of the State of Chu. King Li asked a jade craftsman to appraise it. The jade craftsman said: This is a piece of ordinary...

  • 林回弃璧

    14-11-27 During his abscondence, the overburdened wise man Lin Hui cast away his invaluable jade passed from his ancestors and chose to advance with his newly born son. The others said, It is not to your profit to have discarded the precious jade instead of...

  • 周人买璞

    14-05-30 In the state of Zhen, Pu meant uncarved jade while in the state of Zhou it meant unsalted mouse. One time, a people of the state of Zhou, with an unsalted mouse in his pocket, asked a person from the state of Zhen whether he wanted to buy a Pu. The...

  • 和氏璧

    14-05-29 Bian He, a person of the state of Chu, presented King Li of the state of Chu a piece of stone with jade(翡翠,碧玉) in it. The court's craftsman examined it and said it was just an ordinary piece of stone. The king thought Bian he had fooled him s...

  • 子罕拒玉

    14-05-29 A farmer in the state of Song once got a piece of stone with jade(翡翠,碧玉) in it. He presented this stone to Prime Minister Zi Han. But Zi Han refused to accept it. The farmer explained, It looks like just a stone, but there is jade inside. It...