A certain mantis grew extraordinarily stout（结实的） and robust. When he walked around in the backyard, brandishing（挥舞） his two powerful forelimbs. He cou...
A man of the state of Chu had a spear and a shield for sale. He was praising his shield. “My shield is so strong that nothing can pierce it through.“H...
A man from the state of Chu was crossing a river. In the boat, his sword fell into the water by his carelessness.Immediately he made a mark on the boa...
Two men travelling through a forest together promised to help each other whatever danger threated them. They had not gone far when a bear rushed at th...
Bat falling upon the ground was caught by a weasel, of whom he earnestly besought his life. The weasel refused, saying, that he was by nature the enem...
On a cold, frosty day an ant was dragging out some of the corn which he had laid up in the summertime, to dry it. A grasshopper, half perished with hu...
A long time ago, there was a young man called Wang Qi. When he heard that there were many immortals in Mount Lao, he went there at once.从前，有一个年轻人名叫王七，...
A clam swam to the bank and opened its shell in the sun.一天，河里的蚌游到岸边，把蚌壳张开晒太阳。A snipe flew over and saw a piece of red meat on the ground, so it dived ...
A rich man in the Qi Kingdom had two silly sons, but the rich man loved his sons very much and thought them as the apples of his eyes.齐国有一个富翁，他有两个儿子，一...
An ill-natured, jealous peasant saw his neighbor's getting a very good harvest. As he was unable to be glad of his neighbor's blessing from Go...