Stories
story records from the stories content collection — 70 records.
| id | title | tradition | sourceText |
|---|---|---|---|
| artisan-qing | Artisan Qing and the Bell-Stand: A Seven-Day Fast | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| bao-weng-guan-qi | The Gardener and the Well-Sweep | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| bei-gong-she | Beigong She's Bell | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| boatman | The Ferryman and the Diver: When the Water Is Forgotten | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| bole-horses | Bole Manages the Horses | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| boshun-archer | The Archer at the Cliff's Edge | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| butterfly-dream | Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| cao-shang | Cao Shang's Chariots | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| carpenter-shi | The Carpenter and the Plaster: What Practice Loses Without a Partner | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| chui-gou-zhe | The Hook-Forger's One Thing | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| cicada-catcher | The Hunchback and the Cicada | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| confucius-meets-laozi | Confucius Meets Laozi: The Dragon | Daoist / Confucian encounter (traditional) | daodejing |
| cook-ding | Cook Ding Carves an Ox | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| dao-yi-you-dao | The Robber's Five Virtues | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| daye-zhu-jin | The Metal That Demanded Its Shape | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| diao-ling-yi-que | The Magpie at Diaoling | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| dongguo-zi-asks | The Way Is in the Dung | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| dongshi-frowning | The Woman Who Copied the Frown: Imitation Without Its Ground | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| drumming-basin | Drumming on the Basin: Zhuangzi Sings When His Wife Dies | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| fish-happiness | The Joy of the Fish: Zhuangzi and Hui Shi on the Bridge | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| fish-in-the-dry-spring | The Fish in the Dried-Up Spring: Forgetting Each Other in the Rivers and Lakes | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| four-friends | The Four Friends: Sickness as Transformation | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| guangchengzi | The Yellow Emperor Asks Guangchengzi | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| handan-walk | The Handan Walk: What the Imitator Loses on the Way | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| hezhe-zhi-fu | The Fish in the Dried-Up Rut | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| hook-smith | The Old Man Who Forged Belt-Hooks | Zhuangzi, Zhi Bei You 22 (知北游) | |
| huan-gong-jian-gui | The Duke Who Saw a Ghost | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| hui-shi-wu-che | Huishi's Five Cartloads | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| hundun | Hundun: The Story of the Seven Holes | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| huzi-jixian | Huzi and the Shaman: Four Depths of Stillness | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| jingdi-zhiwa | The Well Frog and the Sea Turtle: The Three Limits of Knowing | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| kui-xian-chain | The Pity Chain: Kui, the Centipede, the Snake, the Wind | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| light-brightness-asks-nothingness | Light-Brightness Asks Nothingness | Zhuangzi, Zhi Bei You 22 (知北游) | |
| lin-hui-qi-bi | Lin Hui Drops the Jade | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| luhou-yang-niao | The Marquis of Lu's Seabird | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| mantis-and-chariot | The Mantis, the Tiger-Keeper, and the Horse-Lover: Talent Against Force | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| mantis-stalks-cicada | The Mantis Stalks the Cicada | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| marsh-pheasant | The Marsh Pheasant: Ten Steps, One Peck | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| mountain-tree-goose | The Mountain Tree and the Goose | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| painter-unrobed | The Unrobed Painter: What the True Artist Does with Protocol | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| peng-bird | The Peng Bird: The Book's Opening Image of Scale | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| phoenix-and-owl | The Phoenix and the Owl: What the Rotten Rat Is Worth | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| qinshi-mourning | Three Cries, and Out: Qin Shi Mourns Laozi | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| qiu-hao | The Tip of an Autumn Hair | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| ran-qiu-asks-zhongni | Ran Qiu Asks Zhongni | Zhuangzi, Zhi Bei You 22 (知北游) | |
| ren-gongzi-fishing | Lord Ren's Giant Fish | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| sanghu-friends | Singing at the Corpse: The Friends of Sang Hu | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| shanbao-zhangyi | The Two Deaths: One-Sided Cultivation | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| shinan-yiliao | The Fox's Fur Is Its Disaster | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| snail-horn-war | The Snail-Horn War | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| standing-in-snow | Standing in the Snow at Cheng Yi's Gate | Neo-Confucian | |
| swimmer-lvliang | The Swimmer of Lüliang: Native, Grown, Complete | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| taiqing-asks-wuqiong | Taiqing Asks the Infinite | Zhuangzi, Zhi Bei You 22 (知北游) | |
| three-in-the-morning | Three in the Morning: The Monkeys Who Confused the Order for the Amount | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| tu-long-zhi-ji | Dragon-Slaying Skill | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| turtle-in-the-mud | The Turtle of Pu: Dragging Its Tail in the Mud | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| tushan-shuo | The Sheep-Butcher's Three Refusals | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| useless-gourd | The Giant Gourd: On the Uses of Uselessness | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| wang-liang-wen-jing | The Penumbra Asks the Shadow | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| wangyang-xingtan | The River God Looks Out to Sea: When the Flood Meets the Floodless | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| wheelwright-bian | Wheelwright Bian: What Cannot Be Put into Words | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| wooden-rooster | The Wooden Rooster | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| xuzhou-empty-boat | The Empty Boat | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| yanshi-wind-song | The Song of the Yanshi Wind | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| yi-dai-niao | The Dithering Bird | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| yun-jin-cheng-feng | The Axe Sweeping the Wind | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| zhi-wen-wuwei | The Three Answers That Aren't | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| zhi-yan | Goblet Words | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| zhili-shu | Zhili Shu: The Broken Body That Outlived the Draft | Daoist | zhuangzi |
| zhuangzi-skeleton | Zhuangzi and the Skull | Daoist | zhuangzi |