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A Story of the Dog Hat A Walk Learner in Handan A Willing Victim Letting Himself Caught
A Wily Hare Has Three Burrows Ask a Fox for Its Skin Bian Heh
Bring the Painted Dragons to Life... Cheap Tricks Never Last Chinese Fable Stories-1
Chinese Fable Stories-2 Chinese Fable Stories-3 Dead Horse and Talents
Double Happiness Driving a Wedge between the Enemy Fish for the Moon in the Well
Give the Enemy a Ray of Hope KuaFu Chased the Sun Mark the Boat for a Dropped Sword
Never too Deceitful in War No More Tricks Plucking Up a Crop To Help It Grow
Power of Skirts Stopping Halfway The Donkey of Guizhou
The Fall of a State The Fox Borrows the Tiger The Gentleman on the Beam
Tiger Shoes Wu Yan and Su Liu Yi Shot Down Nine Suns

KuaFu Chased the Sun

It is said that in antiquity a god named KuaFu determined to have a race with the Sun and catch up with Him. So he rushed in the direction of the Sun. Finally, he almost ran neck and neck with the Sun, when he was too thirsty and hot to continue. Where could he find some water? Just then the Yellow River and Wei River came into sight, roaring on. He swooped upon them earnestly and drank the whole river. But he still felt thirsty and hot, thereupon, he marched northward for the lakes in the north of China. Unfortunately, he fell down and died halfway because of thirst. With his fall, down dropped his cane. Then the cane became a stretch of peach, green and lush.

And so comes the idiom, KuaFu chased the Sun, which becomes the trope of man's determination and volition against nature.

 

 


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