Interesting short historical stories in 300 words or less

1, according to legend, in ancient times there is a widow her name is Chen Xiuying, her son Zhu Yaozong won the scholar, the emperor admired him, let him be the emperor's son-in-law, the scholar thought of his own mother has not been married for so many years, so he asked the emperor to give his mother to set up a chastity plaque.

The emperor granted him this request, so he happily went home to tell his mother, who told him that she didn't need a plaque of chastity because she was about to remarry his teacher.

The scholar refused to allow his mother to do this, and she told him, "You go and wash my clothes, and if they dry in the sun for a day and a night, then I will listen to you and not remarry, and if they don't dry, then I'm going to remarry. After this scholar had washed the dress and sun-dried it in the yard, it suddenly rained heavily at night, so his mother said to him these words: If it rains, the mother will marry.

2. According to legend, during the Tang Dynasty, there was a prime minister named Fang Xuan Ling, who was rumored to be very afraid of his wife, to what extent? Legend has it that the degree of this prime minister's fear of his wife is as good as his life's contribution to the court, once out of the morning court, Fang Xuan Ling in front of the palace has been wandering and refused to leave, the emperor saw it is very strange, asked him what are you doing here? The emperor asked him what he was doing here and why he hadn't gone home yet.

Fang Xuan Ling said, last night offended my wife today when the morning court came she is still angry, I am afraid that I will go back to no good fruit to eat, please the emperor under a decree not to let my wife angry, I dare to go home.

The emperor listened to the very difference, I can not imagine that she was so afraid of his wife, the emperor absolutely room Xuan Ling is today Tang Tang a prime minister, but so afraid of his wife, this to pass out is not to let the descendants laugh, but also for the room Xuan Ling feel unfair.

So the emperor thought of an idea, deliberately find a reason to say room Xuan Ling has merit, rewarded several beautiful women, sent home want to kill room Xuan Ling's wife's sharpness, room Xuan Ling's wife to see the emperor's reward of the beauty of the anger will be closed the door and refused to go out, the emperor sent his own empress to persuade room Xuan Ling's wife, did not think that the empress has touched the nose of the dust. When the emperor found out, he was very angry.

The wife of the room Xuanling said personally, if you agree today I rewarded those beauties of the room Xuanling as a concubine, then, if you do not agree with me to give you poisonous wine, you understand, room Xueling's wife after listening to the words do not say to pick up the emperor's gift of poisonous wine to drink, the emperor's heart was shocked, the women I would be afraid not to mention the room Xueling, but the cup of poisonous wine in fact is false, the emperor is looking for someone to put the The emperor found someone to put the vinegar.

3, the Qing dynasty during the Daoguang period when the examination was held, there are a lot of candidates to participate in the examination, which has 12-year-old Zhang Zhidong. Because of his age so the examiner a little underestimated him, said to him, you're only so small, is here to make trouble. Zhang was very upset and said to the examiner, "I'm here to take the test today, not to compete with my age.

The examiner saw his eyes gleaming, the look of confidence in the speech of the sharp and dry, said, so, I give you a couplet, if you can let you on the test, if you can not, you go home, children do not come to this place to play.

After listening to the words of the examiner, Zhang knew that the examiner again regarded himself as a child, so he said unhappily, "If I can't match your couplet, I'll be able to leave on my own, but if I can, please let me stay and take the test."

The examiner, after listening to Zhang's words, thought of a couplet: A child in Nanpi County is ten years old. Zhang casually came up with the next couplet: Long live the Emperor of Beijing City. The lord saw Zhang responded so quickly heart is very admirable, and finally after the examination, Zhang won the Xiucai.

4. When Duke Mu of Qin was out on patrol, he accidentally lost his warhorse, and when he found it, a group of people had already killed the horse and were eating the meat. When he found the horse, a group of people had killed it and were eating the meat. When Duke Mu of Qin saw the death of his favorite horse, he could not bear it in his heart, but he did not know that he was innocent, and since the horse was already dead, there was no point in pursuing the matter any further.

So Duke Mu of Qin said to the people who killed the horse, "How can you eat horse meat without drinking wine?" And he ordered his attendants to pour wine for them to drink. The king's impunity in counter-giving them wine and saving their lives made the group of horse-killers feel ashamed in their hearts, and Duke Mu of Qin built up a good image.

A few years later, when Jin attacked Qin, Duke Mu was surrounded by Jin's army and was in critical condition. The group of people who ate Duke Qin's horse meat at that time heard about this and decided to repay Duke Qin's kindness by breaking through the encirclement of Jin's army to rescue Duke Qin at the critical moment. Duke Qin's army came to his aid and defeated the Jin army, and even captured Duke Hui of Jin.

5. Lu Meng, a general of Eastern Wu, was called Wu Xia A Meng because he was poorly educated. Sun Quan couldn't stand it, so he said to Lv Meng, "How can you not read when you are busy with military affairs?" Lv Meng felt that he was too busy with military affairs to read. Sun Quan criticized Lv Meng, "I don't ask you to learn a lot, but I just want you to read some history.

Lu Meng began to read in order to stop being criticized, and his knowledge grew. Once Lu Su and Lu Meng to discuss state affairs was very surprised: "The world said that the general is just a martial artist, I did not expect today a recounting of knowledge, has not been Wu Xia A Meng." Lv Meng said: "Readers respectively a few days, should use new eyes to see him again."