Ignorance of the objective world
不合时宜
In the State of Lu, there was a couple of husband and wife, the former being an expert shoemaker and the latter a skilled hand in wearing taffeta. One day ...
Proficiency in a particular line
一技之长
Gong sun Long , is a famous scholar lived in the State of Zhao during the Warring States Period (475-221BC). He had kept a circle skilled people around him....
To have an image of bamboo in one's mind
入木三分
Wang Xi-zhi is one of the most famous calligraphers during the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China. When he was very young, he practiced his art every day....
怒发冲冠
In the Warring States Period， Lin Xiangru， chief min-ister 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 to Zhao. B...
Buying shoes
郑人买履
A man of the state of Zheng wanted to buy a pair of shoes. He measured his foot and put the measurement on a chair. When he set out for the market he forgot to bring it along. ...
桃李不言，下自成蹊peaches and plums do not have to talk, yet the world beats a path to them--natural attractionduing the western han dynasty(206 b.c.- a.d.24)period, there was a very famous general wh...
lying with one's head pillowed on a spear,waiting for day to breakin the western jin dynasty there were two young men.one of them was zu ti and the other was liu kun.both of them were men of ideals a....
Tradition has it that many,many years ago,there lived on the Yellow River a river god known as He Bo.One day ,He Bo stood on the riverbank and watched the turbulent waves from the west surging forward...
it must have been eight or nine when i read this story. i never forgot its horror. 我看到这个故事时只有八九岁。打那以后，我一想起这个故事就毛骨悚然。ivan was a timid little man---so timid that the vil...
Groping about the Chin of the Black Dragon to Get a Pearl-Bringing Out the Best
Long,Long age,there lived a family by the Yellow River.They lived a very poor lift,depending on cutting reeds,weaving h...
