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周处除害
In the Jin Dynasty, there lived a man named Zhou Chu in Yixing. Tough and...
The girl who taught the world to weave
This is a story of the time when humans first walked the earth. And in those...
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...
Great wealth comes from small beginnings
Once upon a time, an important adviser to a certain king was on his way to a...
Who killed my donkey
"This is bizarre," Yin Anyan asked his family, "Who on earth(究竟) killed my...
The fisherman and his wife
There was once on a time a Fisherman who lived with his wife in a miserable...
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...
Feds threaten wwii vet
"They're going to kick me out of my own home," said Karl Berger, 86 years...
Jingwei determines to fill up the sea
On Fajiu Hill there grew a lot of mulberry(桑树) bushes. In the mulberry...
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...
The knapsack, the hat and the horn
There were once three brothers who had fallen deeper and deeper into...
义放曹操
This story is from the novel Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao's troops had suffered...
Ji shenzi raising fighting-cocks 纪��子养斗鸡
Once upon a time, there was a man named Ji Shengzi who raised fighting-cocks...
Red bands
The great Confucian(儒家的) scholar Ji Xiaolan (1724-1805) recorded this story....
The farmer and his gold pieces
There was once a farmer. His land was hilly多坡的,丘陵的 ; the soil was not the...