top of page
Search
Rachelle
- May 22
- 3 min
Three treasures at home
A joke from the 19th-century collection Xiaolin guangji 笑林廣記.
Rachelle
- Apr 24
- 2 min
The hardest thing in the world
A joke from the nineteenth century.
Rachelle
- Mar 20
- 3 min
How to identify a true lion in the 13th-century China
A tip from Zhou Mi's 周密 (1232-1298) jottings.
Rachelle
- Mar 6
- 3 min
An anecdote about a missing cat, recorded by Lu You 陸游 (1125-1209)
How (not to?) find your beloved cat.
Rachelle
- Feb 6
- 3 min
杜甫《惡樹》 “Hateful Trees” by Du Fu (712-770)
Du Fu the gardener...
Rachelle
- Dec 12, 2022
- 3 min
蘇軾《書蜀僧詩》“Note on the poem by a monk of Shu” by Su Shi (1037-1101)
An eleventh-century anecdote about cooking with the head.
Rachelle
- Sep 19, 2022
- 4 min
An anecdote from the Tang dynasty about hiding the Big Dipper
How an astrologer-monk tricked the emperor into releasing a murderer.
Rachelle
- Aug 8, 2022
- 3 min
Zheng Xie 鄭燮 on bird keeping
Zheng Xie on the proper way to keep birds.
Rachelle
- Jul 18, 2022
- 3 min
趙翼《偶書所見（其一）》“Casual notes on my observations (No. 1)” by Zhao Yi
For those who (like myself) often forget what they’ve read...
Rachelle
- Jul 11, 2022
- 3 min
When a centipede meets a slug
An allegory from the Yulizi 郁離子.
Rachelle
- Jun 27, 2022
- 4 min