This is an episode from the novel Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. His father died while Wang Zifu was very young. His mother gave her whole heart to bringing Zifu up. ASfter he was grown， the mother decided which girl was to marry her son. But before the marriaqge took place， the chosen girl died.
On the

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 imperial examination. One night when Xiangruwas reading books in the courtyard， he was surprised to see a beautiful girl on

This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Strdio.
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 behind a reputation that would be noted for generations to come. At the age of nineteen she married Gao Sheng，

This is a classic Chinese fairy tale. It was said that there is a kind of poisonous grass that causes people to die after eating it. People said that people who died of eating this grass would become ghosts. They could reincarnate only by finding a person who had also died by eating the poisonous grass. A young masn， nam

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 irritable and fierce.She often beat and cursed Shanhu.Shanhu never uttered a word of complaint. Later， Shen Shi went so f

This is a story in Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio about "Drunken Tao," a unique species in the chrysanthemum family. The Ma family was a scholars family and a family of chrysanthemum lovers. In this story, the lord of the present generation, Ma Zicai, was more fanantical about the plant than those of previou

This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. Chang Dayong of Luoyang loved peonies very much. He went to Caozhou when he learned that the peonies there were the best of all. He resided in a big garden to wait for the peonies to blossom. When the peonies were budding and redy to blossom， he was already broke， s

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 adked him not to tell anybody. Days later， Wang met a Taoist priest， who asked， "Did you have any peculiar encounter？

The Stories Are Still in Them
During a visit to my mother' s home, I joined her in the living room to talk, read and watch television. Facing a bookcase that has been in the same spot since I was a child, I let my eyes wander over the familiar volumes, many of which no

Homecoming by an Imperial Concubine
This is an episode from the novel A Dream of Red Mansions. Just as the whole family was busy prepasring the birthday ceremony for Jia Zheng， Jia was summoned to report to the imperial court. His family did not know why and felt uneasy about it. The family members waited for quite a w

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Hermes immediately after he was born，hermes was appointed godof thieves at olympus．and a thief he became when he was barely a few hours old．feeling hungry，the infant left his cradle after nightfall to hunt for food．he chanced uponapollo''s oxen grazing on a meadow and drove a number ofthese animals away，tying tree branches

Venus And Adonis aphrodite loved adonis more than she did anybody else，for he was a brisk，lovely young hunter．she gave up herhome at olympus and took to the woods．in the woods she dressed herself up like a huntress and kept the youth company all day long．with him she wandered through grounds andgroves and over hills and val

Apollo among the crowd of olympian gods the one most widely admired was apollo．he was the son of zeus and let to．according to greek mythology，leto was driven by hera from land to land at last poseidon took pity on her and brought the island of delos out of water for her to live on．there she gave birth to the twins ，apollo

Prometheus prometheus was a titan ．in the war between zeus the giants he had stood on the side of the new olympiangods．out of the clay he made the first man，to whom athena gave soul and holy breath．prometheus spent a lot of time and energy in creating the gift of fire．and fire raised man above all animals ．later，there held

Nereus and Proteus of all the small sea divinities nereus and proteus stood out as peculiar sea-gods．nereus，known as“the old man of the sea”，represented the pleasant aspect of ocean waters．he lived beneath the sea with his fifty lovely daughters，of whom the most famous were amphritrite，thetis，galate a and panope．it was ner

Ares son of zeus and hera，ares was appointed god of war．hewas terrible and majestic ，and his march shook the world．of all the major gods at olympus，he was the most hateful，loving struggle and war and ever thirsty for blood ．on the other hand he signified courage and victory in battle，and was devoutly worshipped by soldiers going

Dionysus dionysus was the god of wine．he was the son of zeus by semele． when his mother was burnt to death in the glory of zeus ．he was still a helpless infant．his father trusted his upbringing to some mountain fairy maidens ．they tookthe greatest care of him． under the tutorship of silennus，the satyr， he was introduced to