- History of the Song Dynasty, twentieth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed under Toktoghan 脫脫|脱脱[Tuo1 tuo1] in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元[Yuan2], 496 scrolls; (not to be confused with 宋書|宋书[Song4 shu1])
- without concealing anything; to pass away; to die
- Wen Tianxiang (1236-1283), Song dynasty politician and poet, folk hero in resisting Mongol invasion in Jiangxi in 1275
- 巴 Bā: 巴 Ba1: Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality; surname Ba; (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)巴 bā: 巴 ba1: to long for; to wish; to cling to; to stick to; sth that sticks; close to; next to; spread open; informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]; bar (unit of pressure); nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
- to compile and revise; to inherit and develop
- different tribe
- the previous dynasty
- falsification in writing; misrepresentation in written history; deliberate digression
- a straightforward honest account
- 秉 Bǐng: 秉 Bing3: surname Bing秉 bǐng: 秉 bing3: to grasp; to hold; to maintain
- (literary) to compile; to edit; (coll.) (hairstyle) bun; chignon (as 纂兒|纂儿[zuan3 r5]); red silk ribbon
- to skim over; to browse
- to hold back from saying precisely what is on one's mind
- to come to power; to hold power; in office
- to show understanding; to excuse; to presume; to expect
- Grand Scribe, the title by which Sima Qian 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1] refers to himself in Records of the Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4]
- Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], known as the father of Chinese historiography
- let alone; not to mention
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- 孔 Kǒng: 孔 Kong3: surname Kong孔 kǒng: 孔 kong3: hole; CL:個|个[ge4]; classifier for cave dwellings
- to fawn on; to kiss up to
- dynasty
- healthy atmosphere; moral spirit; unyielding integrity; probity; (TCM) vital energy (resistance to diseases)
- to alert; to warn; police
- bronze mirror (used in ancient times); to reflect; to mirror; sth that serves as a warning or a lesson; to examine; to scrutinize
- a thousand years; your birthday (honorific)
- fox
- annals
- one or two; a few; a little; just a bit
- grand; magnificent; vast
- (literary) to humiliate; to demean
- 孱 càn: 孱 can4: used in 孱頭|孱头[can4 tou5]孱 chán: 孱 chan2: (bound form) weak; feeble
- Heaven's law; the natural order of things