Chinese Classic Wisdom Stories

The Story of Stone Craver

In the Age of the Song Dynasty, there lived a stone craver. Every day he went into the mountains to carve stone. Although he was poor, he does not want more than what he has so he does not worry about the world.

One day he was summoned to work at a large house of a nobleman.
When he saw the beauty of the house, he said as he sighed, "I wish I was rich! I do not have to make a living with difficulty and sweat like now. "

Suddenly a voice,
"Your wish is granted. From now on do you have any wish will be granted. "It's true. When he returned to his cabin, he found a beautiful mansion house where he worked for this. So he stopped working as a stone carver and start enjoying life as a rich man.

One day when the afternoon air was so hot and humid, he looked out the window and saw the king pass. He thought, "I want to be king, sitting in the cool royal train."
Wishes come true soon. Sit down, she leaned against the royal luxury train. However, the train then becomes hotter than he originally thought. He looked out through the window of the train and began to admire the strength of the heat of the sun can penetrate through the thick body of the train.
"I want to be the sun," he said. Once again his wish granted.
He became the sun.
But in the rainy season, the sun was trying to break through a cloud, but did not succeed. So she transformed herself into the clouds and glorious in the sun holding power - until he turned into rain and met with rocks blocking the way so he had to flow revolves around the rock. He was amazed.
"What is this?" He said.
"Coral is stronger than me? Then I want to be a rock.
"That happened, he stood erect on the slopes of towering mountains. But he almost did not have the opportunity to have fun as a rock. He heard a strange sound broke from her feet. He looked down and be disappointed because he saw a little man sitting there and was working hew blocks of stone from his feet.
"What is this?" He yelled.
"The little creature like that is more powerful than the mighty rock like me?
"I want to be a man!" So once again he became a stone craver, making a living with difficulty and work with a heart full of singing because he was happy to be like before penatah rock and live with what he had.