Oriental Wisdom 智慧东方: Issue #1

Grinding An Iron Pestle Into A Needle - 铁杵磨针(Tiě Chǔ Mó Zhēn)

Plot

With a long history, the traditional Chinese virtue has experienced five thousand years of accumulation and continuous transmission, and created a large number of traditional classic stories that having been heard for many times. These stories are about hard-working and inspirational, or wisdom and bravery, or goodness and humanity, nurturing generations of people. The book Night Reading by the Light of Fireflies is based on the traditional Chinese classic stories, and they are translated into pure and native English. With exquisite pictures, the book is recommended to young readers at home and abroad in order to inherit and promote the traditional Chinese cultural treasures. It contains full functions of reading story, understanding truth, enjoying comics and learning English. While reading, readers can edify their sentiment, broaden their horizons, experience aesthetic feeling, promote their imagination and get pleasant experience. Following each story, we also design story theatre and games to enhance interaction of language learning and improve childrens ability to use English.