ancient chinese stories

In ancient China, there was a cook for the royal court who went back to his hometown with a large sum of money after retirement. His hometown was in a ...

The rhinoceros horn was an imperial treasure, yet it might just be exactly the ingredient needed to cure ...

Two thousand years ago, a scholar failed the imperial examinations over and over again. He finally tired of ...

During the Tang Dynasty, a man named Zheng Youxuan lived in Chang’an City. Zheng’s family had status as ...

“Continuously dripping water eventually penetrates a large stone,” an ancient Chinese saying tells us. In other words, we ...

There was once a beautiful mountain called Sun Mountain that was home to an old man who planted ...

The ancient city of Vaishali, India, was home to 500 blind people. Because of their disability, they couldn’t ...

Long ago, in a city in China, the residents built a large, traditional-style temple. The temple was solemn ...

Li Linfu was a prime minister during the Tang Dynasty. As a child, he lived in the eastern ...

The "Standards for Being a Good Student and Child" (Di Zi Gui) is a traditional Chinese textbook for ...

Among the plays of the Yuan Dynasty, there was one called “The Dream of Bao Gong Examining the ...

In a small village in Northeast China, there was an old blind woman called Grandma Liu. Although she ...

Jigong was an eminent monk of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279) who was also known as Daoji. There ...

In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Yufu. He did not want to live ...

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a person who lived in Chiayi State of Taiwan. His name was ...

At the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man called Zhong Mou. He became an ...

There was a rich man in Changzhou County of what was at that time called Suzhou Province. His ...

One day, after collecting firewood from the forest, Zhao Zan was on his way home. His mother was ...

A basic tenet of ancient Chinese beliefs was that of filial piety, or caring for one's parents. Both ...

At the beginning of the Hong Wu period of the Ming Dynasty in the 14th century, there was ...

It seems like every week there's another news story about a small dispute erupting into extreme violence, or ...