In the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280), the king of the Wei, Cao Rui, wanted to select a very capable man to work for him. He said to his ministers: &...
In the Warring States Period, Duke Wei of Qi neglected state affairs, for the first three years of his reign, giving himself over to dissipation（浪费，损耗...
In the Spring and Autumn Period, a farmer in the State of Song was one day working in the fields when he saw a rabbit bump into a tree stump（树桩） accid...
Zengzi’s wife was going to the market. Her little son insisted on going with her, making a tearful scene. Stay at home,” she said to the b...
Yuan Shu sent 100 thousand troops, led by General Ji Ling, to attack Liu Bei. For fear of Lv Bu in Xuzhou who might lend Liu a hand, Yuan wrote Lv a l...
Mi Heng was recommended to Cao Cao when the latter, to expand his influence, needed someone to lobby Liu Biao. But Mi was slighted. Mi took his anger ...
Following the interlocking stratagems（策略，计谋） they had laid, Wang Yun betrothed（订婚） his step daughter Diao Chan to Lv Bu, then, to sow discord（挑拨离间） be...
This is story from Three Kingdoms.Tricked by Zhou Yu, Liu Bei married Sun Shangxiang, Sun Quan's younger sister. After the wedding ceremony, Liu B...
This is a story from Three Kingdoms.Zhou Yu of Wu Kingdom was a strategist but he was narrow-minded and jealous of people smarter than him. So he had ...
This is a story from Three Kingdoms.Huang Zhong, a veteran in the army of Shu, was one of its top five generals. Zhang He under Cao Cao had suffered o...