- proletariat
- Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
- childhood
- certainty; without a doubt
- to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc); to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc)
- to continue; to persist; to last; sustainable; preservation
- politics; political
- to move; to exercise; sports; exercise; motion; movement; campaign; CL:場|场[chang3]
- intellectual; intelligentsia
- artist; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- capitalist
- degree; level; extent
- to attack; to batter; (of waves) to pound against; shock; impact
- father's father; paternal grandfather
- landlord; landowner; host
- identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." 以[yi3] + ... + 的身份[de5 shen1 fen4]); status (social, legal etc); position; rank
- (coll.) father; dad; CL:位[wei4]
- pingtan, a traditional Suzhou narrative art that combines storytelling and ballad singing, typically performed by two artists; also used as a collective term for 評話|评话[ping2 hua4] (spoken storytelling) and 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2] (sung storytelling)
- music; CL:張|张[zhang1],曲[qu3],段[duan4]
- to narrate; to recount; narrative
- folk art
- 当时 dàng shí: 当时 dang4 shi2: immediately; right then当时 dāng shí: 当时 dang1 shi2: then; at that time
- quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- to be born of; to come from; family background; class origin
- no good
- thus; consequently; as a result
- frequently; often
- to study at the same school; fellow student; classmate; CL:位[wei4],個|个[ge4]
- to bully
- to fight; to scuffle; to come to blows; CL:場|场[chang2]
- for a time; at one time; one time; once
- head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- to soak; to permeate; to immerse
- a martial arts (wuxia) novel
- afterwards; later; newly arrived
- Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2] novelist, author of the 1957-1961 Condor Trilogy
- novel; fiction; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- to speak; to explain; to negotiate; to emphasize; to be particular about; as far as sth is concerned; speech; lecture
- chivalrous; chivalry; knight-errantry
- wisdom; intelligence
- brute force