Vocabulary: 都市异闻录
- time and place; world of a particular locale and era; (physics) space-time
- tourist destination; tourist attraction
- (idiom) to stand aloof from worldly affairs
- 避讳 bì hui: 避讳 bi4 hui5: to avoid a taboo word or topic; to refrain from; to avoid避讳 bì hùi: 避讳 bi4 hui4: to avoid a taboo (usu. on the given names of emperors or one's elders)
- scheming; calculating
- harem; chambers of imperial concubines
- little imagined; scarcely realized
- to go on an inspection tour
- Fuchengmen neighborhood of Beijing
- cautious; careful; solemnly; sincerely (formal)
- reign name of penultimate Qing emperor Guangxu or Guang-hsu (1875-1908)
- 景 jǐng: 景 jing3: (bound form) scenery; circumstance; situation; scene (of a play); (literary) sunlight景 Jǐng: 景 Jing3: surname Jing
- imperial concubine
- to build; to construct
- mourning hall; funeral hall
- memorial tablet
- to strive for favor
- to sigh (with feeling); to lament
- bandit; (literary) not
- sisters; siblings; sister (school, city etc)
- to receive favor (from superior); favored; pampered
- by comparison
- ancient books or records
- winner
- to write
- a struggle; fight; battle
- victory; CL:個|个[ge4]
- cemetery; mausoleum park
- Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900
- Kangxi, reign title (1662–1722) of the Kangxi Emperor 聖祖|圣祖[Sheng4 zu3]; the Kangxi Emperor (Qing dynasty)
- Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735)
- to divide sth into (parts); to subdivide
- 康 Kāng: 康 Kang1: surname Kang康 kāng: 康 kang1: healthy; peaceful; abundant
- 皇 Huáng: 皇 Huang2: surname Huang皇 huáng: 皇 huang2: emperor
- (literary) reverence accorded to sb who has died; posthumous recognition
- somewhat; to some degree
- to confer a posthumous title