Vocabulary: 封神演义
- bustling with noise and excitement; lively
- to evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old); finely chopped firewood (old)
- light refreshments; pastry; dim sum (in Cantonese cooking); dessert
- food and drink
- shopkeeper
- date and time of a person's birth; age
- unfavorable; disadvantageous; harmful; detrimental
- 6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake; ancient Chinese compass point: 150°
- signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]); brand; trademark; mahjong tile; domino; playing card (CL:張|张[zhang1]); (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌|词牌[ci2 pai2] and 曲牌[qu3 pai2])
- to drop in; to visit; to lock a door; (of a shop) to close; to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
- (idiom) a downpour; rain bucketing down
- (summer) heat
- immediately; at once
- rancid; soured (as food)
- embarrassing; dull; unsatisfactory
- wine and meat; food and drink
- Peng, large fabulous bird; roc
- sometimes; now and then
- to fly over; to fly past
- capital; (fig.) asset; advantage; the means (to do sth)
- a single penny; a single cent
- road; path; way; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- money; silver
- 场 chǎng: 场 chang3: large place used for a specific purpose; stage; scene (of a play); classifier for sporting or recreational activities; classifier for number of exams场 cháng: 场 chang2: threshing floor; classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout
- to sell; to peddle; to traffic
- to deal in; to buy and sell; to trade in; to retail; to peddle
- to hurry to (somewhere)
- unfavorable; adverse
- to rain
- 屠 tú: 屠 tu2: to slaughter (animals for food); to massacre屠 Tú: 屠 Tu2: surname Tu
- announcement
- janitor; watchman
- yelling (sound made by person); barking; braying; roaring (sound made by animals)
- to violate a prohibition or ban; prohibited; illicit
- oxen and horses; beasts of burden; (fig.) drudge; laborer
- to have one's hands tied; helpless; unable to do anything about it
- time and again; repeatedly; frequently
- to make a capital loss
- to cook; to boil
- pot; classifier for bottled liquid