Category: Chinese Idiom

once upon a time there were six blind men who lived in a village in India. Every day they went

In the Northern Song Dynasty  (běi sòng 北宋, 960－1127AD),Xie Wuyi (xiè wú yì 谢无逸) and Pan Dalin (pān dà lín

A man from the state of Chu (chǔ guó 楚国) wanted to sell a precious pearl in the state of

During the Eastern Chin dynasty (dōng jìn 东晋), there lived a merchant named Shr Le. When the area in which

In the Jin Dynasty (jìn dài 265-420AD) there was a famous writer whose name was Zuo Si (zuǒ sī 左思)

A seabird was once seen perching on the city gate of the capital of Lu. Nobody had seen such a

During the Spring and Autumn Period (春秋 chūn qiū,770 – 221BC),the ruler of the state of Lu(lú guó 鲁国) was

This idiom comes from a old folk song. The last two stanzas go like this: One family has five brothers,

In the Eastern Han Dynasty (dōng hàn 东汉), there was a man named Chen Shi (chén shí 陈寔) . One

Chunyu Kun (chún yú kūn 淳于髡) lived in the state of Qi (qí guó 齐国) during the Warring States Period