A man and a woman lived in a village. The woman was so lazy that she never wanted to do any work. She never finished what the man gave her to spin, an...
Ji An lived at the time of Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D.24). He was respected for being upright and just and for daring to sp...
One day in the Garden of Eden, Eve calls out to God."Lord, I have a problem!""What's the problem, Eve?""Lord, I know you ...
An elderly man lay dying in his bed. In death's agony（苦恼） , he suddenly smelled the aroma（芳香） of his favorite chocolate chip cookies wafting（飘荡） u...
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 Warring States Period, the State of Qin besieged（被包围，被困扰） the capital of the State of Zhao. Duke Pingyuan of Zhao planned to ask the ruler of t...
Xi Shi, a famous beauty, had a pain in her bosom（胸部） , so she had a frown（皱眉） on her face when she went out. An ugly girl who lived nearby saw her and...
King Sakka returned victoriously to his palace in the Heaven of 33. Next to it stood the mansion of his first wife, the reborn Good-doer. Outside the ...
At that time, so very long ago, there were some unfortunate ugly gods called ' Asuras（魔鬼，阿修罗） '. They had taken to living in the second heaven...
Once upon a time, when King Magadha was ruling in the land, there was a young noble called, 'Magha the Good'. He lived in a remote village of ...