There are many stories on how this festival was created. One other story is about a maid. In the Han Dynasty, Mr. Eastern was a favorite advisor of the emperor. One winter d...

There is a very famous traditional Chinese story that has a close connection to the Dragon Boat Festival. Once upon a time on E-Mei mountain there lived two snake spirits, White Sn...

  Fox hummed as he poured lemonade into molds for ice pops. He had invited Bear for lunch. “Bear will be surprised,” Fox said to himself. “He doesn’t know what a great coo...

John and Bobby joined a wholesale company togther just after graduation from college the same year. Both worked very hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to ...

The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.   'Why are you in college at such a young age?' I asked later. She jokingly replied, 'I‘m here to me...

  Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only...

  One morning, Pinocchio was walking to the farm. He looked down and saw a snail. The snail was the blue-haired fairy‘s pet. It looked very sad. It said that the fairy was ve...

  In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king，“I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring.‘ W...

  He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary’s School in Morris, Minn. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very nea...

Laba is celebrated on the eighth day of the last lunar month, referring to the traditional start of celebrations for the Chinese New Year. 'La' in Chinese means the 12th lunar mont...