In the Spring and Autumn Period, Kind Jing of the state of Jin fell ill. One night he dreamed that the diease turned into two small figures talking be...
Tao Yuanming, a famous writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420), wrote the well-known essay Peach-Blossom Spring. In it he tells a story which goes...
In the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties(420-589) there was an expert archer（弓箭手） named Zhangsun Sheng.One day he went hunting together wi...
The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had always been a hard man to convince（说服） . That he really...
Xi Shi, a famous beauty, had a pain in her bosom（胸部） , so she had a frown on her face when she went out. An ugly girl who lived nearby saw her and tho...
A man of the state of Zheng wanted to buy a pair of shoes. He measured his foot and put the measurement on a chair. When he set out for the market he ...
Yi Qiu was known as the most famous expert at chess throughout the land. Once he gave lessons on chess to two men. One of them was completely absorbed...
A man from the state of Chu wanted to sell a precious pearl in the state of Zheng. He made a casket（小箱，棺材） for the pearl out of the wood from a magnol...
China has been divided into three kingdoms historically: Wei in the north, Shu in the southwest and Wu in the southeast.Once Cao Cao from Wei led a 20...
During the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), there was a high official in the State of Jin. He once saw a farmer working in the field and his wif...