Vocabulary: 传习录
- bookstore; publishing house
- Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子[Zhu1 zi3], Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism
- research; a study; CL:項|项[xiang4]; to research; to look into
- 燕 yàn: 燕 yan4: swallow (family Hirundinidae)燕 Yān: 燕 Yan1: Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436); surname Yan
- Zhu Di, personal name of third Ming Emperor Yongle 永樂|永乐[Yong3 le4]
- to overthrow
- independent; self-reliant; self-sustaining; to stand on one's own feet; to support oneself
- Ming Taizu, temple name of first Ming emperor Hongwu 洪武[Hong2 wu3]
- Zhu Yuanzhang, personal name of first Ming dynasty emperor Hongwu 洪武[Hong2 wu3]
- to reinforce; to strengthen; to enhance
- imperial power
- to divide and confer (property on one's descendants)
- various sages; refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒[ru2] represented by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3], Daoism 道[dao4] by Laozi 老子[Lao3 zi3] and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3], Mohism 墨[mo4] by Mozi 墨子[Mo4 zi3], Legalism 法[fa3] by Sunzi 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3] and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[Han2 Fei1 zi3], and numerous others
- north; north side; northern part; to the north of
- military leadership; military power
- power; influence; a force (military, political etc)
- big and strong; formidable; powerful
- (Cantonese) to simmer; to cook over a slow fire
- to succeed to the throne; accession
- 惠 Hùi: 惠 Hui4: surname Hui惠 hùi: 惠 hui4: (bound form) act of kindness (from a superior); (honorific prefix) kind (as in 惠顧|惠顾[hui4 gu4])
- anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious
- large tail obstructs action (idiom); bottom heavy; fig. rendered ineffective by subordinates
- to propose; to suggest; to recommend; proposal; suggestion; recommendation (CL:點|点[dian3])
- to abolish; to abrogate; to repeal
- 齐 Qí: 齐 Qi2: (name of states and dynasties at several different periods); surname Qi齐 qí: 齐 qi2: neat; even; level with; identical; simultaneous; all together; to even sth out
- to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
- name of a river in Sichuan
- Jianwen Emperor, reign name of second Ming Emperor Zhu Yunwen 朱允炆[Zhu1 Yun3 wen2] (1377-1402), reigned 1398-1402
- Peiping or Beiping (name of Beijing at different periods, esp. 1928-1949)
- to suppress by armed force; to send a punitive expedition against; to crusade against
- to be known as; to be nicknamed; to be purportedly; to claim (often exaggeratedly or falsely)
- to force entrance into; to score a goal (sport)
- to flee; to go into exile
- Zhang Tingyu (1672-1755), Qing politician, senior minister to three successive emperors, oversaw compilation of History of the Ming Dynasty 明史[Ming2 shi3] and the Kangxi Dictionary 康熙字典[Kang1 xi1 Zi4 dian3]
- History of the Ming Dynasty, twenty fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉|张廷玉[Zhang1 Ting2 yu4] in 1739 during the Qing Dynasty, 332 scrolls
- book; booklet; classifier for books
- to read carefully and thoroughly; intensive reading
- Fudan University, Shanghai
- publishing house
- Confucianism