Ancient Chinese idioms are short but aptly coined phrases that can help impress others .

This book brings together the author's articles about ancient Chinese idioms that were serially published in the Weekly Chosun, Legislation journal, and Sangjang over several years. It classifies ancient Chinese idioms by referring to Twenty-five History Books and other authentic Chinese chronicles and faithfully describes the related stories in an interesting fashion. It also lists the reference literature alphabetically in the Bibliography at the end of the book. It also makes the stories richer by enabling the idioms and their heroes easily searched by an index.