Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- black and white; right and wrong; monochrome
- newsreel; documentary (film or TV program); CL:部[bu4]
- to disseminate; to give publicity to; propaganda; CL:個|个[ge4]
- nationals; citizens; people of a nation
- cinema; movie theater; CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4]
- to bellow; to rave; to snarl
- eyes brimming with tears of excitement (idiom); extremely moved
- to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by
- (idiom) depressed; dispirited
- indirect
- incomparable; matchless
- bitter; painful; deeply distressed
- one's close relatives
- born of the same parents; sibling; fellow citizen; compatriot
- to die in childhood; war dead
- keenly felt pain; bitter anguish
- disgrace; shame; humiliation
- war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945)
- writer of 詞|词[ci2] (a kind of Classical Chinese poem); person of literary talent
- jade
- Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times
- good fortune; official salary
- to observe; to see
- libretto; lyrics
- to adapt; to rearrange; to revise
- to describe; to depict; to portray; depiction; portrayal
- 燕 Yān: 燕 Yan1: Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436); surname Yan燕 yàn: 燕 yan4: swallow (family Hirundinidae)
- Zhu Di, personal name of third Ming Emperor Yongle 永樂|永乐[Yong3 le4]
- to seize control of (an enemy position); (fig.) to take by storm; to gain (awards, control of a market etc)
- reign name of second Ming emperor, reigned 1398-1402, deposed in 1402
- (Cantonese) to simmer; to cook over a slow fire
- refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院
- to compile and edit
- 程 chéng: 程 cheng2: rule; order; regulations; formula; journey; procedure; sequence程 Chéng: 程 Cheng2: surname Cheng
- (of actors) to make up; to disguise oneself
- to toss about in bed; from person to person; indirectly; to wander
- a thousand miles; a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers); a long distance
- to go into exile; to be in exile
- historical background
- as different as can be (idiom); poles apart