My feeling after Reading “Cao Chong Weighted the Elephant” 六年7班 司徒宇森

                                   My feeling after Reading “Cao Chong Weighted the Elephant”

“Cao Chong Weighted the elephant” is one of the famous fables in China. I’ve read it since I was very young, and this is one of the fables that I like the most.

In this story, Cao Chong was a smart boy. Cao Cao, who used to be the emperor of dynasty Wei, is his father. Therefore, Cao Chong knew a lot of things when he was young. One day, Cao Cao wanted to weigh an elephant, but no one could do that as the elephant was so heavy that no scales could weigh it. Luckily, at this time, Cao Chong came and had a good idea. He let the elephant stand on a boat and recorded how deep the boat sank. After that, he put the stones instead of the elephant until the boat sank to the line that he recorded.

At last, he weighed the stones. The weight of stones equaled the elephant’s weight, so that he could know how heavy the elephant was.

After reading the story, I admire Cao Chong very much as he was so clever. We are at similar age to him, but he thought of what we can’t. He weighted the stones instead of the elephant, which changed a difficult problem into a simple one. I hope we can all work hard, and be as smart as him!