- symbolic; emblem; token
- pad; cushion; mat; to pad out; to fill a gap; to pay for sb; to advance (money)
- loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
- both sides; either side
- soldier; noncommssioned officer (NCO)
- grand; prosperous; ceremonious; solemn
- short name for Shaanxi 陝西|陕西[Shan3 xi1]
- (bound form) army; military
- see 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 su4 Sheng3]
- the local commander; provincial governor (in Qing and Ming times)
- surname Deng
- 甘 Gān: 甘 Gan1: surname Gan; short name for Gansu 甘肅|甘肃[Gan1 su4]甘 gān: 甘 gan1: (bound form) sweet; pleasant (contrasted with 苦[ku3]: bitter, unpleasant); to be willing (to do sth)
- see 四川省[Si4 chuan1 Sheng3]
- 夏 Xià: 夏 Xia4: the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432); surname Xia夏 xià: 夏 xia4: summer
- there still remain(s); there is (or are) still; in addition
- Zhili, a province from Ming times until 1928, roughly corresponding to present-day Hebei
- firm and resolute; staunch
- to rush over
- to see off; to send off
- battered and exhausted; stuck in a dilemma
- appearance; manner; pattern; model
- complete; whole; totally; entirely
- different; distinct; not the same; not alike
- to finish; to end; to complete
- party; delegation
- to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 当天 dāng tiān: 当天 dang1 tian1: on that day当天 dàng tiān: 当天 dang4 tian1: the same day
- to advance; forward motion
- to stay for a time; to stop over; to lodge; to sink down (into soft ground); leftovers
- empress; imperial consort
- 当年 dàng nián: 当年 dang4 nian2: that very same year当年 dāng nián: 当年 dang1 nian2: in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life
- Yang Guifei (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗[Tang2 Xuan2 zong1]
- to bathe
- to have a look
- to experience for oneself
- grandeur; noble
- this place; here (literary)
- next day; the morrow
- to continue; to proceed with; to go on with
- to go forward; to forge ahead; to advance; onward