Every chengyu is a compressed story; these are the originals - feet drawn on a finished snake, the frog at the bottom of the well - plus the folk epics the sayings came from: the White Snake, Ma Liang’s magic brush, the Monkey King’s havoc in Heaven. Read the tale, own the idiom. 175 graded readers (L4–L5), 34 free to read in full here and the rest in the app with Pro - each with an aligned English translation and dual-accent zh-CN/zh-TW audio.