Chengyu: 100 Common Chinese Idioms Illustrated with Pinyin and Stories!

By Dragon Reader

This illustrated edition of Chengyu: 100 Common Chinese Idioms features over one hundred of the most common and useful Chinese idioms in use today. The idioms include illustrations, pinyin pronunciation and stories. Chinese idioms are four characters long, and have a rich history in classical Chinese. Chinese students and enthusiasts will recognize and appreciate many of these common phrases used throughout the Chinese world. 

The book includes: 

愚公移山 Old Man Moves Mountains
对牛弹琴 Playing the Instrument to the Cow
井底之蛙 Frog in the Well
按图索骥 Looking for a Horse with the Help of Its Picture
杀鸡吓猴 Kill a Chicken to Scare the Monkeys
画饼充饥 Allay Hunger with Cake Pictures
画龙点睛 Paint a Dragon and Dot the Eyes
百发百中 One hundred Shots, One Hundred Bull's Eyes
盲人摸象 Blind Men Touching the Elephant
塞翁失马 The Old Man Lost his Horse
名落孙山 Name Lower than Sun Shan

...and 88 more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dragon Reader
• Release date: Aug 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386813125

Book preview

愚公移山

Old Man Moves Mountains

yú gōng yí shān

愚公移山

Describes an indomitable will. There was an old man that lived in a house with two mountains directly in front of it. He gathered his family, and started to level the mountains. His neighbors made fun of him, telling him he was too small to level the giant mountains. He replied, I have my sons, and my sons have sons. I will have endless posterity, while the mountains will not continue to grow higher. The heavens were moved by the old man’s will, and sent two immortals to move the mountains