中国历史小故事英文版

中国历史小故事英文版

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once there was a very rich man. he lived in a beautiful house, and had a beautiful garden. the rich man had a blue beard: so he was called “blue beard”.

near the rich man's house there lived a poor woman. she had three sons and two beautiful girls. the name of one of the girls was ann; the name of the other was fatima. blue beard wanted to marry one of the girls, but the girls did not want to marry blue beard.

a han folktale

a little over two hundred years before our era, the first emperor of the chin dynasty ascended the throne under the name of shih huang. this emperor was very cruel towards his subjects, forcing people from every part of the country to come and build the great wall to protect his empire. work never stopped, day or night, with the people carrying heavy loads of earth and bricks under the overseers' whips, lashes, and curses. they received very little food; the clothes they wore were threadbare. so it was scarcely to be wondered at that large numbers of them died every day.

there was a young man, named wan hsi-liang, among those who had been pressed into the service of building emperor shih huang's great wall. this wan hsi-liang had a beautiful and virtuous wife, whose name was meng chiang-nu. for a long, long time after her husband was forced to leave her, meng chiang-nu had no news of him, and it saddened her to think what he must be suffering, toiling for the accursed emperor. her hatred of the wicked ruler grew apace with her longing for the husband he had torn from her side. one spring, when the flowers were in bloom and the trees budding, when the grass was a lush green, and the swallows were flying in pairs in the sky, her sorrow seemed to deepen as she walked in the fields, so she sang:

there are a lot of things magical in china: the people, the culture, the stories. sometimes ordinary things seem magical, but in reality, they aren't. it usually takes a great fool to transform the ordinary into magically nothing.

in a small village deep in the heart of china, the local tax collector was feared. he taxed the villagers often. if they had no money, he took their possessions. and when possessions were of no interest to the tax collector, he would beat the taxpayers.

one day, a poor man entered the village. he had heard of the tax collector and his terrible ways. the poor man was carrying a plant that had many beautiful green leaves. the tax collector stopped the poor man before walking any further and told him he had to pay entrance fee if he wanted to walk through the village. the poor man said he had no money, but only the magic tree he was carrying. the tax collector, intrigued, asked what kind of magical tree it was. the poor man explained that it would make the holder of the leaves invisible. the tax collector snatched the tree from the poor man while striking him across the face. the poor man fell to the ground and was left in the dust of the tax collector's horse.

that night, the tax collector picked a leaf from the magic tree and held it up to his forehead. "wife," he asked, "can you see me?"

Legend a long time ago, a pair of rabbit practice Millennium became immortal. They have four lovely daughters, all born to pure cute.

One day, the emperor summoned the rabbits in heaven, it left his wife and children to be reluctant to part, stepping on the cloud temple. When it came to the south gate, see too white Venus day will lead the moon from the side walk. Rabbit fairy know what had happened, he asked a guard's door god beside. After hearing her encounter, rabbit fairy feel the innocent suffer, sympathize with her. But his meager strength, can be of any help? Think of the man in the moon, how lonely sad, if someone with good, suddenly thought of their four daughters, it immediately ran home.

The Moon Fairy rabbit tell the female rabbit, and a child to say with the goddess of the moon. The female rabbit though deeply sympathize with the moon, but loathe to give up their baby daughter, this is tantamount to the heart of flesh cut it。 Daughters also reluctant to leave their parents, with tears in her eyes. The male rabbit sincere words and earnest wishes to say: "if I were alone, shut up, you are willing to accompany me? The moon in order to save the people, compromised, we can sympathize with her? The children, we can't think only about yourself。"

The children understand the father's heart, all wants to go. Two rabbits with tears in his eyes, smiled. They decided to let the youngest daughter.

The little moon farewell parents and sisters, flying to the moon to live。

as recorded in a historical book of the sixth century, in ancient times, there lived a man named huan jing. he was learning the magic arts from fei changfang, who had become an immortal after many years of practicing taoism. one day, the two were climbing a mountain. fei changfang suddenly stopped and looked very upset. he told huan jing, on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, disaster will come to your hometown. you must go home immediately. remember to make a red bag for each one of your family members and put a spray of dogwood on every one. then you must all tie your bags to your arms, leave home quickly and climb to the top of a mountain. most importantly, you must all drink some chrysanthemum wine. only by doing so can your family members avoid this disaster.