China Tales and Stories

No Three Hundred Taels of Silver Buried Here is a figure of speech which comes from a folktale, it describes someone who imagines him/herself to be more clever than those around. Such a person might perform some action meaning to show his/her intelligence, but only ends up having an outcome exactly opposite to what was intended. The tale was told and retold so many times that even became part of China thinking. (For more about that idea, please see Mead-Hill's, China Thinking - An Introduction.) The No Three Hundred Taels of Silver Buried Here story is from the Mead-Hill collection, China Tales and Stories, and is published in multiple Mead-Hill editions. Each edition is illustrated by a different artist. Each artist uses a different style of Chinese illustration. Each illustrated set can be collected; the collections can be put together to build a special library of China tales and stories. Mead-Hill website: www.mead-hill.com