Wu Qing’an, also known as Wu Yun, distinguished himself when he was still a boy. A taishi (court historian) by the name of Ge was impressed by his writing and asked a friend to invite Wu to his residence.
Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio’s “Chopping the Python” (Hacking the Boa) recounts the ordeal of two Hu brothers in remote mountains.
A man in the state of Song felt the shoots in his fields were not growing fast enough. So he pulled them all up, then went home quite exhausted.
“I have done my best for the state,” King Hui of Liang told Mencius. ”When the crops fail west of the river, I move the people east or bring grain from the east to relieve them. If the crops are poor in the east, I do the same. When I look at the rulers…
There was a man who used to steal a chicken from his neighbours every day.
Playing Go is a minor art; yet even so, you must give your whole attention to it to learn it.