Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- Lancang River, the upper course (in southwestern China) of the Mekong River 湄公河[Mei2 gong1 He2]
- to wipe
- act; action; activity; move; movement
- to attract attention; eye-catching; conspicuous
- our side; we
- to start; to launch; to unleash; to mobilize; to arouse
- none lacking; none missing; everything is there; everyone without exception
- (idiom) to be fired up; to have one's blood racing; to be burning (with excitement, passion, anger etc)
- to lay down the pen and take up the sword (idiom); to join the military (esp. of educated person)
- army
- forced labor; corvée; obligatory task; military service; to use as servant; to enserf; servant (old); war; campaign; battle
- newspaper report
- age; length of experience, membership etc
- border area; frontier
- 勒 lēi: 勒 lei1: to strap tightly; to bind勒 lè: 勒 le4: (literary) bridle; halter; headstall; to rein in; to compel; to force; (literary) to carve; to engrave; (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc); (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯[le4 ke4 si1])
- 戎 róng: 戎 rong2: generic term for weapons (old); army (matters); military affairs戎 Róng: 戎 Rong2: surname Rong
- soldier; servant; to finish; to die; finally; at last; pawn in Chinese chess
- to strive; endeavor
- as yet; until
- quietly; sorrowfully
- short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1] province; one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国[San1 guo2] after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4], situated around what is now Sichuan province
- to teach; to be a teacher; to train; to coach
- nature; characteristic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- forerunner; predecessor; precursor; previous incarnation (Buddhism); jacket front
- see 涼山彝族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]
- a certain number or amount; how many?; how much?
- to persuade; to convince; to talk sb over; Taiwan pr. [shui4 fu2]
- similar; analogous
- to garrison troops to open up land
- military force
- to defend oneself; self-defense; self-preservation
- system; organization
- full of sap (idiom); young and vigorous
- to garrison the border; to guard the frontier; exile to a border garrison post
- at that time; originally
- to imagine; to assume; to envisage; tentative plan; to have consideration for