Vocabulary: 大清相国
- lit. to anoint your head with the purest cream (idiom); fig. to enlighten people with perfect wisdom; flawless Buddhist teaching
- suddenly (perceive); confused; vague; distracted
- document; official correspondence; secretary; secretariat
- carefree
- to ponder earnestly; to give a lot of thought to sth
- (dialect) to keep thinking about (sth); to have (sth) on one's mind
- cannot be avoided; cannot do without
- to spend one's last years
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- unhurried
- refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院
- (said by departing guest) no need to see me out
- to invite; to request; to intercept; to solicit; to seek
- pavilion; booth; kiosk; erect
- to pour wine; to drink wine; to deliberate; to consider
- to alternate; to take turns
- to raise one's head
- to irrigate; to pour; to install (software); to record (music)
- early winter
- to rustle in the air; to rustle; to sough; bleak; desolate; chilly
- (bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)
- 叙 Xù: 叙 Xu4: abbr. for Syria 敘利亞|叙利亚[Xu4 li4 ya4]叙 xù: 叙 xu4: to narrate; to chat
- to be chattersome; to talk on and on without stopping; to nag
- incoming letter; to send us a letter
- to think of; to keep thinking about; to be concerned about
- time of birth; period of labor; lying-in
- to dismantle; to disassemble; to open up (sth sealed); to unpick
- thousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold; money and riches; (honorific) invaluable (support); (honorific) daughter
- mother and daughter; mother-daughter
- to name; to christen; to take a name
- lucky; auspicious; propitious
- to modestly decline
- husband's parents; parents-in-law; (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
- to console; to soothe; relieved
- to worry about
- to give an earnest message of good wishes, encouragement, or advice etc; a message of this sort
- small arched door; boudoir; lady's chamber; (fig.) women