15-09-18 Shortly after King Zhao of the State of Yan came to the throne, he went to visit Guo Kui, an able and virtuous scholar, and asked for his advice on how to govern the state and make it strong, and how to avenge his father and wipe off the shame of th...

15-08-07 In the Qin Dynasty, there was a scholar addicted to antiques. He was so fond of collecting them that he would buy them nomatter how costly they were. One day, a man came to his door to peddle a worn-out straw mat. He said to the Qin scholar: In thos...

14-04-14 A pretentious（自命不凡的） scholar was keen to show off. One day when he was being rowed across a stream, he asked the boatman: Do you understand philosophy? No, sir, said the boatman. Then, said the scholar, one-fourth of your life is gone. After...

09-09-30 Confucius, the greatest teacher in the history of China, was born in 551 B.C. He began to devote himself to serious studies and made up his mind to become a scholar at the age of fifteen. When he began teaching in his early twenties, he soon began t...