During the Ming Dynasty, there was a legend of liquor well in Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province. According to the records of Fan Garden, a Taoist traveler came here. He drank heavily in a bar and left immediately after finishing. He seldom thanked the bar owner, and the owner did not ask him to pay for ...
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a fisherman in Jiangxi Province named Zhang Deyan spent his days fishing on the carp beach. He could barely make ends meet because of the heavy tax on fish imposed by the local government. However, King Carp was about to change that. On the 15th day of ...
Chinese festivals have a unique flavor of their own. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the prominent festivals in Chinese culture. There are some interesting stories and legends behind the Mid-Autumn Festival. Among the stories, the most popular one is that of Chang’e – the legendary story of the Chinese Moon goddess. The legend changes ...
Born in the Song Dynasty, brothers Jingxiu Cao and Jingzhi Cao lived markedly different lifestyles, which led to very each having a very different fate; the former lived an exemplary life, while the latter lived a life filled with nefarious ways. They were the younger brothers of the empress and uncle to the emperor at ...
In ancient China, there were multiple stories around the legend “Tigers Keeping the Apricot Forest.” Here, we introduce the Three Kingdoms version. Dong Feng, also known as Jun Yi, was a Chinese medicine practitioner during the Three Kingdoms period. He lived in the mountain area and gave people medical treatments for free. He only asked ...
In life, it is easy to react to situations without thinking. Ask yourself: Do you “fly off the handle” when faced with a challenging situation because of uncontrolled emotional outbursts? Would your friends and family describe you as “hot-headed” because of such emotional outbursts? Overreactions can either be visible to those around us or hidden, emotional outbursts ...
There is a traditional Chinese story about an immortal female named San Shengmu, who fell in love with a mortal scholar, Liu Yanchang. Against her brother Erlang’s will, San Shengmu escaped from her palace with a magical lotus lantern and came down to Earth. Liu Yanchang and San Shengmu married and had a son they named Chen ...
There is a traditional Chinese story where it was said that there was a small flying mountain in Sichuan Province. Sometimes it flew toward the east and sometimes it flew toward the west. Yet wherever it stopped, many houses were smashed and many people were killed. At that time, there was a monk in Lingyin ...
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