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131 readings
Story · 2 min audio盘古开天Pangu separates the sky and the earthA giant sleeps inside an egg for eighteen thousand years. When he wakes up, he has to hold the sky up himself.HSK 4
Story · 2 min audio后羿射日Hou Yi shoots the nine sunsTen suns take turns in the sky, one a day, until they get bored and all come out at once. The earth starts to burn.HSK 4
Story · 3 min audio梁山伯与祝英台The Butterfly LoversA girl dresses as a boy to go to school. Her best friend shares her desk for three years and never guesses.HSK 4
Story · 2 min audio孟姜女哭长城Lady Meng Jiang cries down the Great WallHer husband is taken to build the Great Wall. She walks a thousand miles with his winter clothes, and her tears bring the wall down.HSK 4
Story · 1 min audio八种笔画Chinese calligraphy for beginnersAnna wants to write one 福 for Spring Festival. Her calligraphy teacher gives her a different character, and only that one, for three weeks.HSK 2
Story · 1 min audio七十五岁的同学The kung fu class story: the oldest studentOur kung fu class has eleven children and one new student. He is seventy-five, and he is the slowest of us all.HSK 2
Story · 1 min audio一米长的茶壶At a Chinese tea house: the metre-long teapotIn a Chengdu tea house, the waiter pours from a teapot with a spout a metre long. Mark thinks he's standing much too far away, and decides to help.HSK 2
Story · 1 min audio房子和猫How to rent an apartment in ChineseNear the office, two rooms, only 3,000 a month. The landlady has just one condition, and it's asleep on the bed.HSK 2
Story · 1 min audio地铁上的面试官A job interview in Chinese: the man on the metroOn the metro to her big interview, Su Qing asks a man to stop singing. An hour later, she meets him again, across the interview table.HSK 2
Story · 1 min audio老师，别走丢了！A school trip story in Chinese: don't get lost, teacher!Thirty-two children, thirty-two yellow hats, one coach to the zoo. The teacher counts everyone on board, then gets off to buy water.HSK 2
Story · 2 min audio新郎进不了门Chinese wedding traditions: the door gamesThe groom has the red envelopes and every answer. What he doesn't have is the bride's shoes, and the clock is ticking.HSK 2
Story · 2 min audio奶奶的麻将桌How to play mahjong: grandma's tableShe has never touched a mahjong tile. Grandma teaches her in one minute, she wins the first hand, and she keeps winning. Then she sees grandma's tiles.HSK 2
