On Baoyu's birthday the young ladies held a drinking party in which they composed poems and much fun. Their service maids started a game of their own.Xiang Ling, Xue Fan's concubine（妾，情妇） , collected...
One day, when Houyi was out, Chang'e secretly swallowed the potion（一剂） in the hope that she would become immortal. The result was quite unexpected: she felt herself becoming light, so light that she f...
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Fu Jian, king of the State of Qin, controlled northern China. In the year 383, Fu Jian led 900,000 infantry（步兵） and cavalry（骑兵） troops to assault the State of Jin which...
This is a story from Three Kingdoms.Huang Zhong, a veteran in the army of Shu, was one of its top five generals. Zhang He under Cao Cao had suffered one defeat after another. Cao Hong gave him a 5,000...
At Cao Cao's instruction, Liu Bei was about to set off for a punitive（惩罚的） expedition against Yuan Shu. Before he left, Liu Bei worried about the defence of Xuzhou City. When Zhang Fei volunteered to...
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 out on almost all of Cao Cao's subordinates（下属） .O...
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） between the two, presented the girl to Dong Zhou...
This is story from Three Kingdoms.Tricked by Zhou Yu, Liu Bei married Sun Shangxiang, Sun Quan's younger sister. After the wedding ceremony, Liu Bei stayed in the state of Wu. In light of Zhuge Liang'...
This is a story from Three Kingdoms.Zhou Yu of Wu Kingdom was a strategist but he was narrow-minded and jealous of people smarter than him. So he had always been thinking of killing Zhuge Liang and Li...
In the Northern and Southern Dynasties when the State of Chen (A.D. 557-589) was facing its demise（死亡，终止） , Xu Deyan, husband of the princess, broke a bronze mirror into halves. Each of them kept a h...
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 letter, together with many food supplies as gifts,...
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: 'When choosing a talented person, always beware of（...
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） . One of his ministers, Chun Yukun who had a go...
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） accidentally and break its neck. The farmer took the ra...
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 boy. “When I come back, I will slaught...
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（逼真的） that it actually flew in the sky for three...
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 return a fine piece of jade（翡翠，碧玉） to Zhao. But the...
This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio.As a child, Xiliu was smart and liked to read biographies of ancient sages. She decided to follow the examples of previous worthies and leave beh...
Doctor Huang Xiaoyuan of Hangzhou was a noted authority on skin diseases and infections of all sorts.One day he was sitting in his office when a man came in groaning（呻吟） . "What an ugly brute（畜生，残暴...
This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio.Lady Fan was gentle and beautiful. One day, accompanied by an attendant on an outing（远足） to the Water and Moon Monastery, she encountered the war...
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 studied hard but failed several times in passing the imp...
This is a story in Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio about "Drunken Tao," a unique species in the chrysanthemum（菊花） family.The Ma family was a scholars family and a family of chrysanthemum lovers. In...
This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio.One day a scholar named Wang Sheng in Taiyuan met, on his way out, a beautiful girl. He brought her back to be kept in his study. The girl asked...
He strode the length of the nursery walkway, inhaling the heady（兴奋的） scent. To an untrained eye, the rows of methodically labeled roses might look identical. But Monsieur Francis Meilland knew better...
This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. Mr Sun of Luoyang married the daughter of a magistrate（地方法官） . About twenty days after the wedding, his wife died of illness. Sun was extremel...
This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. The Ans had two sons. The elder son An Dacheng married Chen Shanhu. Shanhu was a kind woman with a sweet temper. Dacheng's mother, Shen Shi, was...
Long, long ago, rain stopped falling in China. The people prayed for rain to the Jade Emperor, for it was he who looked after everything in heaven, on the land and in the sea, but no matter how much t...
