Three Baby Swallows and Mr Zhou’s Three Sons
There is a Chinese saying, “A fault confessed is half redressed.” There is a story in a Chinese novel titled Sou Shen Hou Ji that illustrates this Chinese idiom.
Once upon a time, there was a literary man surnamed Zhou in Pei State. He had three sons in their early 20’s. They appeared very healthy. But [...]
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Zhang Baozang
Zhang Baozang was a low-ranking government official in Jinwu during the Tang Dynasty. One day on his way home, he saw a young man who had been out hunting. The young man was having a picnic with fresh meat. Zhang Baozang, leaning against a tree, sighed deeply, “I, Zhang Baozhang, am already 70 years old. [...]
A Boy’s Heroic Deeds
May 31st, 1889, is a day that will long be remembered with horror by the people in the beautiful valley of the Conemaugh, in Pennsylvania. On that date occurred the terrible disaster which is known to the world and will be named in history as the “Johnstown Flood.”
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