- building; pavilion
- old learning; Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
- city walls; city; town; CL:座[zuo4],道[dao4],個|个[ge4]
- difference; peculiar
- radiance; glory; brilliant; magnificent
- author's preface; autobiographical notes as introduction to a book
- oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
- to thank; to be grateful
- as for; when it comes to
- start; beginning
- excessive; undue; unduly; overly
- to accept tacitly; acquiescence
- skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort
- inscription in bronze; bell-cauldron inscription
- arrogance
- experience; to go through; to experience
- the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades; (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919); capitalist times (pre-1949)
- don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
- old; ancient; far away
- 30 catties; great; your (honorific)
- red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
- seal (of office); seal script (a calligraphic style); the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆; writing in seal script
- forehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; specified number or amount
- inscription on stone tablet
- rubbings from a tablet
- controversy; dispute; to dispute
- Emperor Xianzong of Tang (778-820), reign name of twelfth Tang emperor Li Chun 李純|李纯[Li3 Chun2] reigned 805-820
- to suppress by armed force; to send a punitive expedition against; to crusade against
- dynasty
- a move; an action; in one move; at a stroke; in one go
- 平定 píng dìng: 平定 ping2 ding4: to pacify平定 Píng dìng: 平定 Ping2 ding4: see 平定縣|平定县[Ping2 ding4 Xian4]
- armed rebellion
- to set up an independent regime; to secede; segmentation; division; fragmentation
- name of a river
- careful; cautious
- (of troops) to march
- Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states); two-character surname Sima
- Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄; Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897; Korea, esp. South Korea 大韓民國|大韩民国; surname Han
- to transmit outwards; to disseminate; efferent (nerve)
- commander-in-chief (military); star player (sports); key figure (in an organization)