The Donkey The Dog And The Master

The Donkey The Dog And The Master（驴、小狗和主人）A dog knew how to please his master well. Heplayed with his master or brought shoes for him, sothe dog could stay at home rather than stay outside.A donkey living in a barn was envious of thedog's life.He thought, "If I can please the master, hewill let me live in the house, too."Thus, the donkey tried hard to find out how the dog pleased his master. Finally, he found the master looked happiest when the dog waved his tail. Whenever the master came home and saw the dog waving his tail, he would be happy and gave him a bone.So, the donkey waved his tail like the dog when his master came closer to him. However, his tail swept the master on the ground. The master was so angry that he had people give the donkey a good spanking. "Why do I deserve this?"The donkey still couldn't figure it out.The Emperor And The Minister（堆鸡蛋的故事）Array An emperor wanted to build a nine-story towerfor himself. To build the tower, he taxed his peopleheavily and forced them to do the work. Thus,his people complained a lot. Besides, he said hewould kill anyone who told him not to build the tower.A smart minister went to see the emperor. Theemperor had his knights put an arrow on their bows. If the minister tried to talk him out of building the tower, they would shoot him.But the minister only said, "My lord, I learned some new skill and would like to show you." The emperor was interested to see his skill, so he asked the minister to perform it. Thus, the minister carefully stacked up nine chessmen and then put eggs on them one by one.When seeing that, the emperor said, "It's very dangerous. You must be careful."But the ministered said, "There is something more dangerous than this.""Really? What's that?" The emperor asked."A nine-story tower made people suffer and neighboring countries wanted toattack us.The Emperor And The Minister（堆鸡蛋的故事）; On hearing this, the emperor realized andwas moved by the minister. He stopped building thetower and his people didn't complain any more.The North Wind And The Sun（北风与太阳）Array As the north wind was proud of his power, hesaid, "Ha, Ha, Ha. No one could beat me. I am thestrongest."The sun heard that, he said, "Really? I don'tthink so""I'll show you. There is a man walking downthere. Let's see who can make him take off his coat."The sun agreed, and the north wind went first. He started to blow hard, but the man held his coat more tightly. At last, the north wind gave up."Watch me." The sun shone brightly on the man. At first, the man felt warm, so he didn't hold his coat. Then, the sun kept shining, the man finally felt hot and couldn't help taking off his coat.Now, the sun smiled and said, "Well, what do you think?""I see. I shouldn't have bragged about myself." The north wind feltembarrassed.The Fox And Cicada（狐狸和蝉）ArrayA hungry fox was looking for food in the forest.As he was starving, he heard a cicada singing.He thought, "Although he is too small to feedme, at least I have something to eat."Thus, the fox said, "Who is singing? I've neverheard such a beautiful voice. Hey, may I ask you tocome down?"The cicada heard the fox, but he pretended that he didn't. The fox kept saying, "Oh, please. I just want to see you. I won't hurt you. Trust me."On hearing this, the smart cicada dropped a leaf to the fox. The fox thought it was the cicada, so he jumpeed over and ate it.After he found he was fooled, he angrily called the cicada "cheater." Thecicada smiled and said, "Well, Mr. Fox, you won't be cheated if you didn't cheatme first."The Father And His Daughters（父亲和女儿）A father missed his two daughters very muchafter they got married. Thus, he decided to seethem.One daughter was married to a gardener.When the father saw her, he said, "My daughter, isthere anything you need my help?""Daddy, don't worry. We are very happy. But if you want to help, I hope you could pray to God for more rain, so that we could have more beautiful flowers." His daughter said.The father promised her and went to see the other daughter.The other daughter was married to a potter. And the father asked her the same question when he visited her.His daughter answered, "Daddy, don't worry . We are very happy. But I hope you could pray to God for more sunlight, so that we could sell our pottery earlier and earn more money."After the father heard that, he sadly said, "What should I do? Should I prayto God for rain or sunlight?"The Bird's Beauty Pageant（鸟国选美）Array All birds decided to elect the most beautiful birdking.So, every bird, including the peacock, thecrane, the egret, the oriole and the parrot, took goodcare of their feathers.An ostrich also heard about the news. Hethought, "I have a bald head and didn't have beautiful feathers. How could I compete with others?"Then, he came up with an idea. He went to collect the feathers coming off from other birds and put them on himself. Thus, he made himself a very beautiful bird.As the judge was going to crown him king, suddenly, there was a strong wind. It blew off all the feathers on the ostrich. At that time, all the other birds found thathe was a fake.The Businessman And The Golden Lion（金狮子）lived in a forest. A king issued an order that he wouldgive a bounty to the one who caught the lion.Many hunters heard that and tried hard to lookfor the golden lion. However, no noe could make it.One day, a businessman saw the golden lion byaccident when he stopped by a forest.He was surprised and said, "Oh, my goodness. It was the golden lion in front of me. If I could get him right now, I could bring him to the king." As he was ready to catch the lion, he stepped back because he saw the sharp teeth."What if he bites me? Maybe I should get some help. But if I ask for help, my bounty will be shared by others. No, I can't do that. Oh! What should I do?"Just when the businessman was thinking, the golden lion had already runaway for a while. And the man was regretful for his being hesitant.The Farmer And The Eagle（农夫和老鹰）ArrayA farmer found an eagle caught in a trap on hisway home. As the eagle was in great pain, thefarmer went up to set him free. As the eagle wassaved, he was grateful to the farmer.One day, the farmer was taking a rest beside awall after he finished his work. However, he didn'tknow that the wall was going to fall down.The eagle found the farmer was in danger, so he took away his headdress and flew away.To get back his headdress, the farmer got up and ran after the eagle.The eagle dropped the headdress. when he saw the farmer was away from the wall.As the farmer was picking up his headdress, he heard a big sound. When he turned around, he saw the wall fell down. At that time, he realized the eaglecame to save his life.The Deer And The Hunter（鹿和葡萄树）Array In a forest, a hunter was chasing a deer andalmost shot him.The deer was running for his life, and finally hehid himself in grape leaves. When the hunter cameup, he couldn't find the deer. "That's weird. I saw itrun in this way, but I can't find it now," The huntersaid. As he couldn't find the deer, he leftdisappointedly.Seeing the hunter leave, the deer thought, "That' was close. I almost got killed. Now, I'm kind of hungry." Then, he looked up and saw the green grape leaves. Since the deer was so hungry, he ate the leaves right away.However, he made a sound when he was eating. The hunter heard the sound because he hadn't gone too far. Thus, the hunter took out an arrow and shot the deer. When the deer was dying, he regretfully said, "I asked for it. Those leaves saved my life and I shouldn't eat them."The Dog, the Ro...A Monkey's Hunt for Fish（猴子捕鱼）The Doctor and his Patient（囫囵吞枣）The Host and his Friend（主人和朋友）The Golden Ax a...The Frog and the Turtle（井底之蛙）The Wolf and the Egret（狼和鹭鸶）The Old Lion an...The Mice and the Cat（老鼠开会）two roosters an...The New House（马路旁边的新屋）The Ant and the Dove（蚂蚁和格子）The Frogs and t...The Maid and the Rooster（女佣和公鸡）The Treasure In...A Blessing In Disguise（塞翁失马）The Lion, the W...The Lion and th...The Lion and the Bear（狮子和熊）The miser and his nuggets（守财奴）The Greedy Dog（贪心的狗）The Opportunistic Donkey（投机的驴子）The Crow and the Fox（狐狸和乌鸦）The Parasol Tre...The Goose Layin...The Oak and the Reed（橡树和苇草）The Bird Learni...The Lost Goat（寻羊记）The Goat and the Donkey（羊和驴）The Eagle and the Roller（鹰与金丝雀）The Rich Man an...The Fox without A Tail （断尾的狐狸）The Eagle And The Roller （鹰与屎壳郎）The Ant And The Dove （蚂蚁和鸽子）The Host And His Friend （火烧屋）The Fisherman A...The Fox And The Food （贪吃的狐狸）The Snobbish Monk （自食恶果的和尚）The Dog, the Rooster and the Fox （狗、鸡和狐狸）A rooster and a dog were good friends. Theynot only played but also traveled together.One night, when they tried to find a place tostay, they saw a big tree. And there was a holeunder the tree.It's safer for you to stay up there, and I’ll sleepin this hole to protect you,” The dog said.The next morning, the rooster crowed as usual, “Cock -a-doodle-doo.” A fox heard this and planned to eat the rooster. Thus, he came to the rooster and said, “Your voice is so beautiful. May I ask you to come down and sing for me?” “No problem. I would love to. But, could you wake up my friend down there for me?” The rooster said.The fox didn’t know his frien d was a dog, so he went to wake him up. As the dog woke up, he yelled, “What are you doing here? Are you up to something?” The fox was scared and ran away quickly. Seeing that, the rooster laughed out loud.The Doctor and his Patient （囫囵吞枣）A doctor was explaining the effects of a pearand a jujube . He took a pear and said, “A pear isgood to our teeth, but bad to our spleen.”Then, he picked up a jujube and said, “Ajujube is opposite to a pear. It is good to our spleen,but bad to our teeth.”A patient heard that, he quickly said, “I have agood way to keep the good points of them two.”“It’s hard to make it. How will you do?” The doctor asked. “It’s easy. When I 1 | 2 |eat a pear, I chew it with my teeth, but don’t swallow it., On the other hand, when I eat a jujube, I swallow it right down in my belly in this way, they are good to both my teeth and my spleen.”The Golden Ax and the Silver Ax （金斧和银斧）One day, a woodcutter dropped his ax into alake by accident. Because he was worried, hestarted to cry.Suddenly, an old man showed up. When hefound out why the woodcutter was crying, he divedinto the water. After a while, he came up with a golden ax and asked, “Is this your ax?”“No, it’s not. I am so poor. How could that be mine?” The woodcutter said. The old man dove into the water again and brought back a silver ax. He asked the woodcutter the same question again.“No, mine is an iron ax.” The old man thought the woodcutter was honest, so he gave him both the golden and the silver axes.When a greedy woodcutter heard about this, he dropped his own ax into the lake on purpose. Then he cried and waited for the old man.Indeed, the old man showed up. He took out a golden ax and asked, “Is this your ax?”“Oh, yes. That is my ax. Thank you.” The greedy woodcutter lied.Your ax is an iron one. Why do you call this yours?” After saying this, the old man was gone. Thus, the greedy woodcutter neither got the golden ax nor his own one.The Wolf and the Egret （狼和鹭鸶）A wolf caught a hare and ate it quickly, but hewas choked by a bone.The wolf felt uncomfortable, so he keptdrinking water.However, he didn’t feel any better. Thus, hewent to ask for help.A smart monkey told him, “Why don’t you goto an egret? With such a long beak , it’s easy to take it out for you.” The wolfagreed with what he said, so he went to an egret for help. He told the egret, “I will give you a gift if you help me to take the bone out.”On hearing this, the egret decided to help him. He bent down and put his head into wolf’s mouth. Soon, he saw the bone and took it out.After the bone was taken out, the wolf felt much better. Thus, the egret started to ask him about the gift. However, the wolf said, “You put your head into my mouth and safely took it out. Is there any gift better than th at?”The Mice and the Cat（老鼠开会）grains and broke into the kitchen. The farmercouldn’t stand it any longer, so he bought a big cat tocatch the mice. The cat was good at hunting; hecaught many mice.The mice were scared to death, so they helda meeting to come up with a plan.One mouse said, “We can hang a bell around the cat’s neck. When we hear the bell, we know that the cat is near and we can hide ourselves in advance.”After he finished, all the mice thought it was the best idea.Thus, they decided to do this plan.At the end of the meeting, another mouse asked, “But who is going to hang the bell?”On hearing this, all the mice started to find their own excuse.Some said they were timid, and others said they would rather die.In the end, the plan didn’t work out because no one would do it.The New House（马路旁边的新屋）Array Once upon a time, a man earned a lot ofmoney, so he built a house on the street. As hishouse was going to be finished, a person walked byand said, “That’s too bad. If I were you, I wouldn’tbuild a house like this.”On hearing this, he asked, “Then what wouldyou do?”“I would make every room face the east so that I can see thesunshine when I get up every morning”.The man thought that was a good Idea, so he rebuilt the house.When the rebuilt house was going to be done again, he invited his friend to come.His friend told him, “You should make every room face the south, so that it wil l be warm in winter and cool in summer.” The man agreed with his friend, so he had the house rebuilt again.Then, more and more people had different opinions about the house, andthey all sounded right. Thus, the man kept rebuilding his house. And the housestill wasn’t finished after three years.The Frogs and the God（没有国王的青蛙）their king, so they sent a messenger to God.When the messenger came back, he said, “It’sdone. God promised he would send a king to us.”After the messenger finished speaking,something fell into the water from nowhere.All the frogs were frightened and they quickly hid.After a while, they popped their heads out of the water and found a log floating on the water. The messenger said, “So, this must be the king God sent us.”However, the log couldn’t do anything but be a place for everyone to jump on.Thus, the frogs asked God to send something else to be their king.On hearing this, God dropped a monster to them and said, “You want someone that can move around? You got it.”And since the monster fed on frogs, all the frogs in the pond were scaredand ran away.The Treasure In the Grape Garden（葡萄园里的宝藏）ArrayA farmer owned a large grape garden. As hetook care of it carefully, there was a big harvestevery year. However, his three sons were lazy andnever worked in the garden with him.Thus, the farmer was worried that no onewould continue his work.As the farmer was sick and dying, he called his sons to his bed and said, “My dear sons, I left something precious under my grape garden. You will find it if you dig hard.”After the farmer died, his sons dug in the garden very hard for the treasure. But, they didn’t find anything,However, they made the soil soft; the grapes in the garden became beautiful and sweet. When all the grapes were sold at good prices, the three sonsrealized that the grape garden was “something precious” their father left.The Lion and the Bear（狮子和熊）A hungry lion spotted a deer in the forest. Hetried hard and finally caught the deer.As the lion was going to eat him, a bearshowed up and said, “Hey, I’ve been watching himfor three years. He is mine. Now, give him back tome.”“I caught this deer all by myself and you did nothing. Why should I let you take him away?” The lion angrily yelled.Since no one would yield to the other, they had a big fight. At last, both were too tired to get up.At that time, a fox passed. He saw they two lying down with a deer between them. The fox took away the deer Immediately while the lion and the bear coulddo nothing.The Greedy Dog（贪心的狗）took it home.On his way home, he walked on a bridge.As he looked down at the river, he saw hisreflection in the water.He didn’t kn ow that was himself. He thoughtthat was another dog with a bigger bone.He looked at the dog, and the dog looked at him, too.The dog thought, “His bone seems to be bigger than mine. It would be great if I could get his bone.” Thus, he s tarted to bark at the dog in the water.However, just when he opened his mouth, his bone dropped and float away. Seeing that, the dog was upset. He kept jumping and barking, but it wastoo late.The Crow and the Fox（狐狸和乌鸦）A fox was running after a crow because therewas a piece of meat in his mouth. As the crowstopped in a tree and was going to enjoy his meal,the cunning fox yelled, “Have I told you that yourfeather are beautiful? I think you are the mostbeautiful bird. But I wonder how your voice soundslike. If your voice is as beautiful as your feathers, I think you should be the king of birds. Can you sing a song for me? I do hope you could become the king of birds.”Flattered by the fox, the crow felt proud and wanted to prove that he also had a beautiful voice. Thus, he started to sing. However, just when he opened his mouth, the meat dropped. The fox went up to eat it and said, “If you know how tothink, you would be the king of birds.”The Goat and the Donkey（羊和驴）ArrayA goat and a donkey lived together. As thedonkey often carried heavy things, his masteralways fed him better food.The goat was jealous of the donkey, so hewanted to set him up.One day, he told the donkey, “Oh, how pooryou are. The master either wants you to pull the heavy grindstone or makes you carry heavy bags. You don’t even have time to take a rest.”“I know,but what can I do?” The donkey said.“Here is an idea. Why don’t you faint and fall over on purpose? Then, you could take a rest.”Thus, the donkey pretended to faint and fall into a hole and got hurt.When his master sent for a vet, the vet told the master, “If you want him to get well soon, you have to feed him a goat’s lung.” On hearing this, to cure thedonkey, the master killed the goat right away.The Eagle And The Roller（鹰与屎壳郎）A fierce eagle was chasing a hare. Since the hare had no place to hide,he could only keeprunning.At that time,a roller was passing by.The hareasked for his help.The roller decided to take his side and askedthe eagle not to eat the hare.However,the eagle said,"Who do you think you are? Why shoule Ilisten to you?"After finishing that,the eagle ate the hare right in front of the roller's face.Deeply insulted by the eagle,the roller felt very angry.From then on, he never missed any chance to get back at the eagle.As the eagle laid eggs,the roller would roll her eggs out when she left her nest.The eagle couldn't stand it, but she had no way to deal with him. So she could only keep away from the roller as much as she could.Now the eagle was very regretful for what she did but it was too late tochange it.The Fox And The Food（贪吃的狐狸）ArrayA fox didn't found anything to eat after a longday. He was hungry and tired,so he sat under a treefor a rest and said, "It seems that I have nothing toeat today."As he finished that, he saw a hole beside a tree.He was curious, so he got into it. To his surprise,there was a lot of great food, including bread, chicken, pork and fruits.Since he was so hungry, he grabbed everything to eat and said, "It's so great. Everything is tasty. How lucky I am. I shall finish them all."After he enjoyed his meal, he wanted to get out of the hole. But, he was too full to come out. The fox was worried and cried for help. Another fox heard that, he asked about the story and said,"Don't worry. All you have to do is to stay here.When you feel hungry again, you could come out easily."A Monkey's Hunt for Fish（猴子捕鱼）A naughty monkey liked to imitate people. Array One day, when he was taking a rest in thetree, he saw some fishermen working at theriver. Those fishermen were skillful. They threw theirnets down in the river and pulled them back after awhile; and then there was a lot of fish in the nets.The monkey saw that and was envied of thosefishermen. He thought, “In this way, I can catch a lot of fish, too,”Thus, he watched them working very carefully and imitated them.The Host and his Friend（主人和朋友）A host invited his friends to his place. Array However, the chimney in his kitchen was straightand the host put the wood beside the fireplace.When one of his friends saw that, he told thehost, “You should rebuild your chimney. Besides it’sdangerous to put the wood beside the fireplace.” Butthe host didn’t listen to him.A few days later, the host’s house got on fire and all his neighbor came to rescue. After they put out the fire, the host held a feast to thank for their help.His neighbors were seated by how badly they were hurt. At this time, one of them said, “If you had ever listened to your friend, you wouldn’t have to do this now. So, he is the one you really should thank to.”On hearing this, the host agreed and felt ashamed of himself.The Frog and the Turtle（井底之蛙）A frog was born and grew up in a well. As he Array lived there, he thought the place he stayed in wasthe whole world.One day, he saw a turtle pass by, so heproudly said, “How comfortable I am here. I canjump around as long as I want. When I am tired, Ican soak in the water and take a rest. Besides, I can take a walk on the mud. I own this well, and I don’t have to share with others. Why don’t you come down and enjoy it with me?”The turtle heard that, so he started to go in it and to take a good look. However, he was too big to get in. Thus, he told the frog, “I live in the sea. It is deep and wide. I am not worried about if the sea will dry up some day. Although I am not the master of the sea, I won’t get stuck there. So, I think it’s better to staythere. Thanks anyway.”The Ant and the Dove（蚂蚁和格子）fell into the pond by accident. As he cried for help, adove heard him and dropped a leaf to him.The ant climded on the leaf and safely floatedback to the shore.A few days later, when the dove was taking arest on a branch, a bird-catcher spotted him. Thus, the man walked quietly and was ready to shoot the dove.At that time, the ant found the dove was in danger. He quickly ran to the bird-catcher and bit him.“Ouch!” The man yelled out of pain.The dove heard his voice and flew away quickly. Seeing that, the anthappily said, “Now I repay yo u for saving my life.”The Maid and the Rooster（女佣和公鸡）Array "Cock-a doodle-doo.” A rooster crowed whenthe day broke.Every day when the mistress heard therooster crow, she woke her maid up and made herdo housework.Since the maid had a lot of work to do, whenshe went to bed, it was always late.So, she hoped she could sleep a little longer. But, as long as the rooster crowed, she would have to get up and couldn’t sleep any more.Thus, she thought, “If I kill the rooster, he could never crow. And the mistress will not wake me up so early.”One day, the maid killed the rooster secretly and thought she could sleep longer afterward.However, the next day, the mistress woke up the maid before the break of day. In fact, the mistress was afraid that she would oversleep so she got up evenearlier when there was no rooster.A Blessing In Disguise（塞翁失马）A man who kept horses lived next to anothercountry. One day, his horse got lost and went to theneighboring country. His neighbor told hi m, “It lookslike your horse won’t come back. What a shame!”But, the man said, “Not really.”Soon, the lost horse came home by itself andalso brought back a horse from the neighboring country. His neighbors were envied of him.Later, the man’s son broke his leg while riding. He couldn’t work and had to stay at home. His neighbors come to visit him. But the father still said, “This isn’t bad luck.”After a while, they were at war with the neighboring country. All the young men were called to fight and many of them died. But, the man’s son didn’t have togo to war because of his broken leg.The miser and his nuggets（守财奴）Array There was a stingy rich man. He kept all hismoney on him and seldom used it. His friend toldhim, “When you have more money, you will beunable to carry it one day. Why don’t you put itsomeplace else?On hearing this, the rich man agreed, andturned all his money into gold nuggets. Then he dug a hole in his yard and put all the nuggets in it.To make sure his nuggets were safe, he checked them every day. But that was how a workman one day found his secret and stole all the nuggets away.When the rich man found his nuggets were gone, he was sad and cried. His friend told him, “Don’t cry. Put some stones there instead and everything will be the same.“How can that be the same? Nuggets and stones are different.”The rich man said. “But you never use them, so, to you, there is nodifference between them.”, his friend answered.The Lost Goat（寻羊记）them to graze every morning.One day, one of his goats got lost, so he askedhis friend and neighbor to look for it.When a man saw this, he felt that it wasstrange and asked, “Why do you have so manypeople looking for one goat?”Johnson told him, “Because the road has many branches and I need many people to go in different ways.”After a while, all the people looking for the goat came back, but none of them succeeded it.Thus, the man asked again, “Since you had so many people looking for the goat, why did you still fail?”“Well, we found that every branch also had many other branches. Wecouldn’t help it, so we give up.” Johnson sadly said.The Eagle and the Roller（鹰与金丝雀）ArrayA fierce eagle was chasing a hare. Since thehare had no place to hide, he could only keeprunning.At that time, a roller was passing by. The hareasked for his help.The roller decided to take his side and askedthe eagle not to eat the hare.H owever, the eagle said, “Who do you think you are? Why should I listen to you?”After finishing that, the eagle ate the hare right in front of the roller’s face.Deeply insulted by the eagle, the roller felt very angry.From then on, he never missed any chance to get back at the eagle,As the eagle laid eggs, the roller would roll her eggs out when she left her nest.The eagle couldn’t stand it, keeep away from the roller as much as she could.Now the eagle was very regretful for what she did but it was too late tochange it.。