16-07-27 Arrow to the knee is a phenomenon that occurs when youre stopped in your tracks or cease to do something that you used to. 膝盖中箭指原来经常做的事情突然停止不做的现象。 The term was popularized in todays culture by Skyrim with the famous phrase I u...

16-02-17 King Wu went on a trip to view the beautiful mountain scenery in his domain. Led by the stately honor guards, King Wu climbed up a mountain peak. The monkeys in the mountain were scared away by King Wu's attendants, except for a big monkey who didn'...

15-11-19 In the past, a man bragged about his bow: There is no bow better than mine. It doesn't need any arrow! Another man bragged about his arrow: There is no arrow better than mine. It doesn't need any bow! At that time, a man good at archery happened to...

15-09-09 During the Xia Dynasty, there was a crack archer named Hou Yi. One day, the King of Xia pointed to a shooting target of one square metre in size with a bull's eye of only 1/3 decimeter in diameter, and said to Hou Yi: If you can hit the bull's eye,...

15-08-27 Tu Gu Hun in ancient times is now the Song Pan area of Qinghai and Sichuan Provinces. A'cai, chief of Tu Gu Hun, had 20 sons. One day A'cai said to them: Each one of you bring me an arrow. Then, he broke the arrows one by one and threw them on the g...

15-08-27 King Xuan was fond of shooting an arrow and liked to be boasted as a powerful bowman he was, although he could draw no bow heavier than thirty jin, When he showed is bow to his attendants, they pretended to try to draw it, but only bent it to half i...

15-07-28 There was a doctor who claimed to be good at treating surgical cases. One day, a general was struck by an arrow from the enemy on the battlefield. The arrow had penetrated into his flesh, so he called for the surgeon. The general told him what had h...

14-03-10 An archer, hungting in the woods, was so successful with his arrows that he killed many of the wild animals. This frightened the rest so much that they ran into the densest part of the bushes to hide. At last the Tiger stood up, and pretending to be...

13-10-14 An eagle sat perched on a lofty rock, keeping a sharp look-out for prey. A huntsman, concealed in a cleft（裂缝） of the mountain and on the watch for（密切注意着） game（猎物） , spied him there and shot an arrow at him. The shaft struck him full i...

12-03-27 In the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties(420-589) there was an expert archer（弓箭手） named Zhangsun Sheng. One day he went hunting together with a friend. Suddenly they saw two vultures（秃鹰） fighting for a piece of meat high in the...