Vocabulary: 菜根谭
- to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control; classifier: a handful
- to grip; to hold
- to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand
- a staff; a rod; cane; walking stick; to flog with a stick (old)
- romance; beautiful scenery; small or petty (of talk etc)
- (literary) to put down one's burden; to rest; to stay (at an inn etc)
- what time?; when?
- to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb
- material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess
- 青 Qīng: 青 Qing1: short name for Qinghai 青海[Qing1 hai3]青 qīng: 青 qing1: green; blue; black; youth; young (of people)
- 白 bái: 白 bai2: white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera白 Bái: 白 Bai2: surname Bai; Bai ethnic group
- Buddhist allegorical word or gesture; subtleties of Buddhist doctrine
- 忽 hū: 忽 hu1: to neglect; to overlook; to ignore; suddenly忽 Hū: 忽 Hu1: surname Hu
- horizon
- rosy clouds; CL:朵[duo3]
- (bound form) to doubt; to suspect
- 好事 hǎo shì: 好事 hao3 shi4: good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead好事 hào shì: 好事 hao4 shi4: to be meddlesome
- 中古 Zhōng Gǔ: 中古 Zhong1 Gu3: Sino-Cuban; China-Cuba中古 zhōng gǔ: 中古 zhong1 gu3: medieval; Middle Ages; Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties; Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English); used; second-hand
- 东 Dōng: 东 Dong1: surname Dong东 dōng: 东 dong1: east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlord
- 曾 céng: 曾 ceng2: once; already; ever (in the past); former; previously; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)曾 Zēng: 曾 Zeng1: surname Zeng曾 zēng: 曾 zeng1: great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)
- to wring one's hands (literally wring one's wrists)
- north; (classical) to be defeated
- Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan, with many Han, Wei and Jin dynasty royal tombs
- not yet; not so far
- to stop; to cease
- profit and loss; waxing and waning
- the world; this world; the world of the living
- satisfactory; consummate; perfect
- leisure
- deficiency; lack; scarce; vacant post; to run short of
- content with one's situation; to know contentment (hence happiness)
- to operate; to control; to rig; to manipulate
- to work and rest
- unobstructed; unconstrained; smoothly; with ease; freely
- luck; to create the universe; god (as the creator of all things); the Creator
- must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot
- work and rest
- (bound form) to compare; (literary) to dispute; compared to; (before an adjective) relatively; comparatively; rather; also pr. [jiao3]
- freezing weather; frosty sky
- snowy night