Chengyu Stories - The Wisdom of Greater China

The App is dedicated to the history and origin of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions (called Chengyu), or literally “Set Phrases”, in the modern Chinese language. We have selected 50 most colourful and meaningful stories, or parables which served as a foundation for the appearing of chengyu.

Chengyu in the Chinese language – is a set phrase or idiomatic expression, usually consisting of four characters. The majority of chengyu are the short stories from the classic Chinese works written in the old classic Chinese language.

In order to understand these set idiomatic expressions it is necessary to provide additional semantic explanation. In our App these comments follow each story giving explanation of all semantic meanings of the idiomatic expression as well as the philosophical aspect of the story.

MAIN FEATURES:

1) 50 stories in the App
2) Chinese version of the stories which you may read and listen
3) English version of the stories which you may read
4) Pleasant Chinese background music for each story
5) Unique application design
6) All the stories have been sound recorded in Chinese by the professional radio announcers
7) There are illustrations and commentaries for each story
8) Explanations of metaphoric and figurative meaning of each idiom
9) Examples of idiomatic usage
10) Translations of each Chinese character forming a chengyu
11) You may share the stories with your friends and relatives
12) You can make your own top list and see what stories other users like best