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• 1.治舟驾舟
• There was an artisan of the state of Yue who was good at making boats. Because of his excellent work, the king trusted him very much. He was regarded ...
• 2.楚人畏鬼
• There was a person of the state of Chu who feared ghosts very much. After knowing this, a thief climbed on the top of wall of his yard, and mimicked t...
• 3.曲突图薪
• One person found that the chimney in his friend's house was too straight and too close to the firewood. Then he reminded his friend, Those two things ...
• 4.羿射不中
• King Xia put a target as large as a square-foot at a distance and asked the marksman Hou Yi to shoot it. The king said to him, If you can hit it, I wi...
• 5.孰能生巧
• Although Chen Yaozi was a civil official in Song Dynasty, he loved archery very much, and was pretty good at it. One day he was practicing in his own ...
• 6.攻其不备
• There were a bailiff and a robber in Haozhao district, Anhui province. They both were noted for being skillful users of spear. The robber threatened t...
• 7.恐钟有声
• When Chen Xiang served as the head of the Pucheng county, Fujian province in Song Dynasty, he once arrested a group of suspects, but could not tell wh...
• 8.戴蒿画牛
• Dai Song was a famous painter in Tang dynasty and his paintings of ox were always cherished by Brahmins. In Song dynasty, a person who lived in Sichua...
• 9.夜光之珠
• A fisherman, Bei Gongzhi got a very precious and rare luminous pearl, and all his acquaintances came to congratulate him. And the minister of the stat...
• 10.角象龙鸣
• Da Fuquan made a born that could make sounds of dragon. He blew the born by the deep pool near Mountain Nanshang. Hearing the sound, the three-legged ...