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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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, Lin Xiangru, chief minister of the State of Zhao, was sent as an envoy to the State of Qin to ask the ruler of Qin to re...
Lu Ban was supposed to be a consummate（至上的，完美的） carpenter in ancient times. It is said that he once carved a wooden phoenix（凤凰） that was so lifelike（逼...
This is a story from the book Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio.There was an old man with the surname Feng, he had a son named Xiangru. Xiangru studie...