- hometown; native place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- major city; metropolis
- 待 dài: 待 dai4: to wait; to treat; to deal with; to need; going to (do sth); about to; intending to待 dāi: 待 dai1: to stay; to remain
- (idiom) tiny speck of land; small area
- always
- to like; to love; to be fond of; favorite
- local official
- to repair; to renovate
- see 石門縣|石门县[Shi2 men2 Xian4]; see 石門鄉|石门乡[Shi2 men2 Xiang1]
- academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty)
- to roll up; to curl up; (of dust etc) to swirl up
- 铺盖 pū gài: 铺盖 pu1 gai4: to spread evenly over铺盖 pū gai: 铺盖 pu1 gai5: bedding; bedclothes
- to be located at; to be situated at; to lie
- foothills
- to start building
- Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇[Tang2 Ming2 huang2], reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基[Li3 Long1 ji1], reigned 712-756
- personal name of seventh Tang emperor Xuanzong 唐玄宗[Tang2 Xuan2 zong1] (685-762), reigned 712-756
- national; state-run; public
- library; CL:家[jia1],個|个[ge4]
- to handle official business (usu. in an office); to do (office) work
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure
- male; man (Cantonese)
- to budge
- gradually
- private; personal; interpersonal; sb with whom one has a close personal relationship; a member of one's clique
- to lecture (on branch of learning)
- location; place
- period; phase; CL:個|个[ge4]
- privately-run; private (school, hospital etc); to set up illegally
- to read intensively
- the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1] and the Book of History 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]
- intellectual; intelligentsia
- free (of charge)
- to disseminate; to propagate; to spread
- to transition to a new dynasty or regime
- to abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated; to lie waste; wasted; to neglect (one's work or study)
- here; this place
- to shine; to glow; to irradiate; to flash
- luster; splendor; radiance; brilliance
- to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately
- to be in favor of; to support; to back; support; backing; to stand by; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to discard; to abandon (old ways); to invalidate
- aristocracy
- to reconstruct; to repair; to revamp; to revise; to retake a failed course