"Red beans grow in the southern land; come spring, how many sprigs (jizhi) will bloom?" — Wang Wei Jizhi is a quiet, beautiful home for classical Chinese poetry and traditional Chinese colors. Each day it brings you a verse that fits the season and the sky, paints it in a traditional Chinese color, and lets you keep it as a card, a wallpaper, or a widget. NEW: INK THAT FOLLOWS YOUR FINGER • Xuan Paper Ink: ink blooms slowly across rice paper, and flows wherever your finger moves • Midnight Ink: colors drift across dark paper with a faint glow of gold, for gentle reading at night • Both themes are free for everyone Please note: the app interface and all poems are in Chinese (Simplified or Traditional). Jizhi is made for readers of Chinese — whether you grew up with these poems or are learning to read them. A TRADITIONAL CHINESE COLOR PALETTE • Every verse is paired with a traditional Chinese color, with its classical name and literary source • Daily picks follow the season, the solar terms and the time of day • Seven living themes — ink wash, midnight ink, sea breeze, cherry blossoms, starry sky, fireflies, river moon — with separate picks for day and night POEM CARD STUDIO • Five original card styles: Elegant, Ink, Minimal, Sakura, Misty Rain • Three layouts, including classic vertical writing read right to left • Smart line breaking that never leaves a single character alone on a line • Add a seal stamp and export HD wallpapers and long share images MORE THAN TANG AND SONG POETRY • Thousands of poems from the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties and beyond • Five classics: the Book of Songs (all 305 poems, annotated), the Analects of Confucius, the Tao Te Ching, the I Ching and The Art of War READ SLOWLY, READ DEEPLY • Tap any character for pinyin, radical, animated stroke order and its Shuowen Jiezi definition • Notes, modern Chinese translations, background and commentary for each poem • Gentle voice recitations that bring out the rhythm of the verse ON YOUR HOME SCREEN AND WRIST • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with traditional paper textures: boats, mountains, ink wash, xuan paper • A standalone Apple Watch app with vertical layout and color themes — read a poem without your phone ============================== JIZHI MEMBERSHIP Core reading is free. Membership unlocks: • All premium widget papers, textures and layouts • Unlimited favorites, synced across devices • Full access to the classics library • Unlimited voice recitations • An ad-free experience Subscription terms: • Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase • Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, in your Apple ID account settings • Privacy Policy: https://jizhi.yichenlab.com/privacy • Terms of Use: https://jizhi.yichenlab.com/subscription • Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ============================== FROM THE DEVELOPER Jizhi is an independent app, built out of love for classical Chinese writing and the quiet beauty of empty space. If you enjoy it, a review on the App Store means a lot. Questions or ideas? Write to Hugo3641+jizhi@gmail.com May these lines, a thousand years old, bring a little calm to your day.
Education · iPhone, iPad · Free
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