Chinese Parables Novels & Stories

Long Chen asked Zi Lanying with slightly gentle eyes. "I don't know, why?" "Because a fish should live in water. Climbing is not the task of a fish. Similarly, with humans, no matter how hard they climb in their lives, they will never succeed even if they have strength, wealth, and high status because that's not where they belong. If a fish is called crazy, then a human is called shameless!"

Candice, clutching her stomach, laughed. Rex realized his mistake and felt a bit embarrassed. "I mean, since you can’t figure it out, just don’t think about it. Jim always says there’s an old saying in China: ‘When the bridge is reached, the boat will be straight.’ That’s the meaning, right?" Candice: "…" Sophia: "…" Somehow, it didn’t sound too bad. "Ah, yes, that’s exactly what I meant," Candice nodded. Sophia chimed in, "That’s right. Rex is getting better at Chinese, impressive."

Even though she was past 40, her face was still capable of that. Her crying filled the everyone’s gazes with dissatisfaction and disdain toward Jian Jianan again… Translator’s Notes A camel that starves to death still looks bigger than a horse (瘦死的骆驼比马大) A Chinese saying meaning that, despite one being challenged or in trouble, it still contains more power and ability compared to another.

I mumbled and then focused on the writings again. "Touch the Untouchable. Unbind the Bindable for it is the way of the Witches." It read and I sighed. For starters, the ways of Witches was something I barely understood. Secondly, parables like this would only waste my time but I couldn't afford to give up either.

She laughed again, "So no sex for me?" I nodded, "no sex for us... me and you... noo... Baby in Chinese they say 'Wù jí bì fǎn'" She laughed at me... "What the fuck?" I laughed too, "okay I don't know if it's said like that but apparently it means too much of something is bad.. no matter how good it is.. once it's too much, it ain't good anymore..." She pulled me into a hug laying me in her chest, "okay my Chinese girlfriend.... so what is that bad thing that we can do it twice and turn it good..."

This idiom comes from a story about the Daoist concept of Ziran, where Chef Ding’s careful yet effortlessly spontaneous way of cutting up the ox became an example of the cognitive state of mind Zhuangzi associated with the Tao and the assertion that this state is accessible in everyday life (2) A Frog in a Well (井底之蛙 jǐngdǐ zhī wā), View the Sky from the Bottom of a Well (坐井观天 zuò jǐng guān tiān) - means to be ignorant or narrow-minded; to have a myopic perspective

"Wait, Court Lady Han planted cabbages in the imperial farm?" [A/n: "Good cabbage has been arched by a pig." is an expression with Chinese origin meaning, “One is very capable, the other extremely incompetent.” or “The couple is not a good matching”.]

Chu Xun had the power to kill him. "I just want to let you die more clearly," Chu Xun said indifferently. "What do you mean?" "Since you are proficient in Huaxia language, you should know what the saying that luring the tiger away from the mountain means." The expressions of the four Sword Sages changed. "What do you mean?" "Are you stupid or just pretending to be stupid? Can't you see that I am just responsible for drawing you away and killing you? Your Baqi Palace has already fallen, hasn't it?" Chu Xun said disdainfully.

Jack said. " What! He told you that all this was going to happen. When did he say that and how did he say that was going to happen? You did not even inform me about this, not even mum" Jacquard said. "He said all this in parables. I did not understand any of the things he said then. He said he saw someone drowning in a big river. He tried his best to save the person. But all of a sudden, the whole river turned red and he was completely soaked and pained red. He said the person he tried to save was later seen at the river bank, while he that tried to save the person was in the middle of the river drowning."

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