周处除害
In the Jin Dynasty, there lived a man named Zhou Chu in Yixing. Tough and...
李代桃僵
This idiom comes from a old folk song. The last two stanzas go like this: ...
大闹天宫
Though Monkey was versatile (多才多艺的) and boasted supernatural powers, Great...
大闹无底洞
When Tang Priest and his three disciples come to Mount Pitfall there is a...
老人结草
Wei wuzi, a high minister of the state of Jin ordered his son Wei Ke: after...
畏影恶迹
A person feared his own shadow and loathed (讨厌) his own footprints, and...
The magic pitcher
Long, long ago there lived far away in India a woodcutter(伐木工,樵夫) called...
The ungrateful son
A man and his wife were once sitting by the door of their house, and they...
吕布与貂蝉
Following the interlocking stratagems they had laid, Wang Yun betrothed his...
义放曹操
This story is from the novel Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao's troops had suffered...
Red bands
The great Confucian(儒家的) scholar Ji Xiaolan (1724-1805) recorded this story....