Vocabulary: 世间人家多有见赤白光为变怪者
- 节 jié: 节 jie2: joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar); seasonal festival; (bound form) to economize; to save; (bound form) moral integrity; chastity; classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc; knot (nautical miles per hour)节 jiē: 节 jie1: see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]
- 阴 Yīn: 阴 Yin1: surname Yin阴 yīn: 阴 yin1: overcast (weather); cloudy; shady; Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang); negative (electric.); feminine; moon; implicit; hidden; genitalia
- see 陝西省|陕西省[Shan3 xi1 Sheng3]
- middle (of a period of time); medium-term (plan, forecast etc)
- important official or statesman (in feudal China)
- to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder; ☳
- 子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- (bound form) abundant; plentiful; extensive; wide; to win; to gain; to play; to gamble; learned; well-read; (bound form) doctoral degree (abbr. for 博士[bo2 shi4]); (bound form) blog (abbr. for 博客[bo2 ke4])
- almanac
- 传 chuán: 传 chuan2: to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity)传 zhuàn: 传 zhuan4: biography; historical narrative; commentaries; relay station
- 常 Cháng: 常 Chang2: surname Chang常 cháng: 常 chang2: always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant
- to live in seclusion
- professor; to instruct; to lecture on; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- (of one person) to hold the successive posts of; (of several persons) the successive (presidents etc)
- provincial governor (old)
- 尚书 shàng shū: 尚书 shang4 shu1: high official; government minister尚书 Shàng shū: 尚书 Shang4 shu1: same as 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] Book of History
- incorruptible; unbribable; honest
- to be widely known as
- nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence; CL:個|个[ge4]
- honest; frank; candid
- court; imperial household; dynasty
- each; every
- gains and losses; success and failure; merits and demerits
- then; at once; always; (archaic) luggage rack on a chariot
- to display utter loyalty; to be loyal to the end
- to remonstrate; to warn earnestly (esp. classical written Chinese); to exhort
- 纳 nà: 纳 na4: to receive; to accept; to enjoy; to bring into; to pay (tax etc); nano- (one billionth); to reinforce sole of shoes or stockings by close sewing纳 Nà: 纳 Na4: surname Na
- to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
- History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Fan Ye 范曄|范晔[Fan4 Ye4] in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4], 120 scrolls
- 陶 Táo: 陶 Tao2: surname Tao陶 táo: 陶 tao2: pottery; pleased
- see 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3]
- see 柏鄉縣|柏乡县[Bai3 xiang1 Xian4]
- 东 Dōng: 东 Dong1: surname Dong东 dōng: 东 dong1: east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlord
- Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]
- bright; clear; manifest; to show clearly
- 年 Nián: 年 Nian2: surname Nian年 nián: 年 nian2: year; CL:個|个[ge4]年 nián: 年 nian2: grain; harvest (old)
- December; twelfth month (of the lunar year)
- forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031; cf 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], Xinhai Revolution of 1911
- beginning; first day of lunar month; north
- (bound form) sun; day; day of the month; (bound form) Japan (abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3]); (vulgar) to fuck; to have sex with
- 食 shí: 食 shi2: to eat; food; animal feed; eclipse食 sì: 食 si4: to feed (a person or animal)
- 转 zhuǎn: 转 zhuan3: to turn; to change direction; to transfer; to forward (mail); (Internet) to share (sb else's content)转 zhuàn: 转 zhuan4: to revolve; to turn; to circle about; to walk about; classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm; classifier for repeated actions转 zhuǎi: 转 zhuai3: see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2]
- 占 zhān: 占 zhan1: to observe; to divine占 zhàn: 占 zhan4: to take possession of; to occupy; to take up