Welcome to CHINESE TALES...

We all love stories, enjoy tales, and appreciate the wisdom behind the legends...

This blog is full of Chinese stories, tales, and myth that sometimes can tease your fantasies and imaginations.


The stories presented here are simple, easy to grasp and fun. They can be your or your children bedtime stories :)

Chinese culture has rich tales, stories, myth, legends that reflect chinese people's ways of thinking, things they value and respect, and morals...

Anyway stories are fun to read...
Please Enjoy....

Chinese Anecdote : A Man Buys Shoes

There once was a man who intended to buy himself a pair of shoes at the town fair. Just before he went he first measured his feet and marked the size and then left for the market.


When he arrived at the market, he found many shoes he liked, however he discovered he had forgotten the size. Turning to the shopkeeper he blurted out, "Hold these shoes for me, I'll be right back." Then he turned on his heel and bolted off for home. By the time he had arrived back at the market after collecting his measurements he found all the shoes having been sold. So he didn't managed to buy his shoes.

A person standing next to him, having heard this story, curiously asked, "Why didn't you use your feet and try them on ?"

To this he earnestly replied, "I'd rather trust the measurements than my own feet."

If you trust and follow strictly inflexible rules to accomplish a goal, often they will lead to further trouble and even failure. We should always be aware that most of the time there are more than one method to reach a goal, we should be more flexible in implementing such methods.

If you're interested in having your own Chinese Tales Book, I recommend "Tales of a Chinese Grandmother: 30 Traditional Tales from China" I'm sure it will be the right choice.


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