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• 1.破镜重圆
• During the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589), there lived a beautiful, intelligent princess name Lechang in the State Chen. She and her husban...
• 2.楚人涉澭
• Once upon a time, the State of Chu planned to attack the State of Song. But the Yong River was the natural barrier against its surprise attack at nigh...
• 3.网开三面
• One day, King Tang, the founder of the Shang Dynasty, saw a man arranging a net on all sides and praying to the deity: Let those that fly down from th...
• 4.佝偻捕蝉
• One day, Confucius led his disciples to the State of Chu. When crossing a stretch of forest, they saw a hunchbacked old man standing under a tree, cat...
• 5.不皲之药
• One day, Hui Zi met Zhuang Zi and told him this story:King Hui bestowed upon me some bottle gourd seeds which I planted in the earth. Soon afterwards ...
• 6.曹商得车
• There was a man named Cao Shang in the State of Song. Once, he was sent on a mission by the King of Song to the State of Qin. Before departure, the Ki...
• 7.五十步笑百步
• One day, King Hui of Liang met Mencius and said: What a mess the political states of our neighbouring countries is in! When they govern their states, ...
• 8.以牛易羊
• One day, seated in the ancestral hall, King Hui of Liang saw a man leading an ox pass by. He asked, Where are you taking the ox? The man leading the o...
• 9.鷃雀笑鹏
• As the legend goes, during ancient times, in the expansive open county of North China, there was a kind of bird called rocs. The roc was very huge, wi...
• 10.妻子劝夫
• Yan Zi was a famous prime minister of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period。 One day, Yan Zi went out in a carriage driven by his coach...