A joke is a story or conversation with comic conflict or comic color that can induce laughter. Its most distinctive feature is "laughter". Its main function is to expose the perverse phenomena in life in order to achieve the purpose of ridicule and entertainment. This purpose may be to ridicule a certain wrong idea, satirize a certain stupid behavior, or it may be to deny the hypocritical character of a certain type of people, and to expose the ugly nature of a certain type of people. In short, jokes play the role of entertaining, educating and alerting the world.
Jokes have appeared in many books in ancient China for a long time, and can be seen in "Mencius", "Han Feizi", "Zhuangzi", "Lü Shi Chun Qiu", "Warring States Policy", and "Yan Zi Chun Qiu", such as the well-known "fifty steps to laugh at a hundred steps", "destroying a seedling to encourage growth", "waiting for the rabbit", "the fox pretends to be the tiger's power", etc.
The earliest collection of jokes in China is the three volumes of "Laughing Forest" recorded in "Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi". From the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, there were hundreds of versions of various jokes.
This book "Ancient Chinese Joke Stories" selects more than 500 jokes from ancient books such as "Laughing Forest", "Qi Yan Lu", "Xi Tan Lu", "Laughing Forest Guangji", "Laughing Well" and "Whispers". After recompiling and rewriting, all the works are marked with their sources and presented to the majority of young friends.
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This book is very interesting! The jokes and stories inside are both humorous and ironic, just like the ridiculous things we encounter in life. Moreover, through these stories, you can also learn about various characters and phenomena in ancient society, which is quite insightful. I think this book is helpful in developing a sense of humor and thinking skills. Just like when I work hard to make money for my dreams, I also need humor and wisdom to deal with various difficulties. Recommended to you, you can read it after work and relax!
I like it and love to listen to it. I hope podcasters will recommend more good works! Thank you [OK] [Like] [Love] [Love]
Beautiful and worth recommending. Thank you.
So cool, very good
It's not bad. In my leisure time, I continue to have hip-hop content. It's a chapter that leads the way in life. Thank you!
Rich content good looking
The wisdom of the ancients is so wonderful!
I feel pretty good, I like it
Humorous and funny, I like it very much
Study hard and make progress every day
Super nice to listen to, super nice to look at, great
Make you smile and live a trouble-free life
The texture is very beautiful
Very interesting novel
Very good, beneficial to the people
Good, good, good, good
The story is full of twists and turns, making people want to read it
The content of this book is rich and clear, and it is very beautiful.
Rich and colorful content worth listening to
The ancients are wise, humorous and cute. I like to listen to such good educational books.
This book is super good, I like to read it [Like][Like][Like]
It's very interesting. It excerpted many interesting things from ancient books and successfully made me want to read the original work👀