There were 3 brothers from China, Bu, Chu and Fu. When they moved to America, they decided to change their names.
Bu changed his name to Buck.
Chu changed his name to Chuck.
And Fu…
well, he had to go back to China.
Zhai Yongling had a mother who was a devout Buddhist. She would recite the scriptures from morning to night.
One day, Yongling got an idea. He pretended to have something to talk to his mother about so he called her while she was chanting the name of Buddha. His mother heard Yongling calling her so […]
Ma Xin, a magistrate’s assistant in the County of Changzhou, was a native of Shandong Province. One day, he went by boat to call on his superior.
“Where have you moored your boat?” inquired his superior.
“In the river, sir,” came the reply.
This infuriated his superior who snapped: “Straw sack!”
At that Ma Xin […]
The elder of two brothers hoeing in the fields went home first to prepare lunch. When the meal was ready, he loudly called his brother to come home.
His brother shouted back, “I’ll come back after hiding the hoes in the bushes beside the fields.”
During lunch, the elder said to the younger, “You know, where we […]
After a party, the guests discussed how far they needed to travel before they could reached their beds. One particularly drunk guest said, “I’m the nearest.”
A few other guests muttered: “No, the host is the nearest.” The drunk guest mumbled: “Not so. He has to walk all the way to his bedroom. All I […]
A Scholar rented a room from a monastery to use for study. In fact, he played all around instead of studying. One afternoon, he suddenly came back and called the page boy to fetch him a book. At first, the page boy fetched the Liang Dynasty Wenxuan. He looked at the book and said,” Too […]
A man was traveling through the jungle for days growing tired he passes by a house and decides to ask if they could put him up for the night. After knocking on the door an old Chinese guy with a beard that reached the floor answers. The man asked him if he could stay the […]
Jones: “The Chinese make it an invariable rule to settle all their debts on New Years Day.”
Smith: “So I understand, but, then again, the Chinese don’t have a Christmas the week before.”
An old mouse chanced to see a cat wearing a few beads round her neck.
“Ah,” said the mouse with joy, “that cat has turned vegetarian.”
Thereupon, he brought his offspring along to pay a call on the cat to express their gratitude. No sooner had they appeared than the cat gave a deep howl […]
A woman is just about to give birth in the hospital when she says to the doctor, “Doc, do me a favor. Tell me what color the baby is as it’s being born.”
The doctor is understandably a little puzzled at this. “Why don’t you know what color the child is going to be?” […]