16-01-05 One day, seated in the ancestral hall, King Hui of Liang saw a man leading an ox pass by. He asked: Where are you taking the ox? The man leading the ox stopped and answered: I am taking it to be slaughtered and will use its blood to paint the bell....

15-12-11 King Hui of Liang watched the cook dissecting an ox. Up went his hand, down went the knife, cutting it just right with dexterous movements. The King praised: Your skill is excellent! The cook answered: I can do it so dexterously because I am familia...

15-07-06 An ox and a dog serve for the same farmer. One day the dog arrogantly says: How grand I am! In the daytime, I watch out for the cattle in the meadows; at night, I guard the house. But you Me? How about me ? the ox says You can only plough or draw a...

15-05-06 One day, seated in the ancestral hall, King Hui of Liang saw a man leading an ox pass by. He asked, Where are you taking the ox? The man leading the ox stopped and answered: I am taking it to be slaughtered and will use its blood to paint the bell....

14-10-28 A ploughman yoked his ox and his ass together, and set to work to plough his field. It was a poor makeshift of a team, but it was the best he could do, as he had but a single ox, At the end of the day, when the beasts were loosed from the yoke, the...

14-10-17 Dai Song was a famous painter in Tang dynasty and his paintings of ox were always cherished by Brahmins. In Song dynasty, a person who lived in Sichuan province with a surname of Du collected a painting of ox by Dai Song, and he cherished it very mu...

11-06-28 The man in the prison asked a new comer why he was sent there. The new comer answered: I am out of luck, I think. A few days ago I was walking in the street when I saw a piece of dirty rope. I thought nobody wanted it and so I picked it up and took...

10-07-19 To Borrow an Ox Once upon a time, there lived a rich man, but he didn't know any words. One day, one of his friends wanted to borrow an ox from him, so he wrote a note and asked his servant to take it to this rich man. After the servant gave the not...

10-03-09 A team of scientists has discovered that the drastic（激烈的，猛烈的） decline in Arctic musk ox（麝牛） populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting. This is the first study to use ancien...

09-09-29 Rope or Ox? The man in the prison asked a new comer why he was sent there. The new comer answered: I am out of luck, I think. A few days ago I was walking in the street when I saw a piece of dirty rope. I thought nobody wanted it and so I picked it...