Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- mill; grain mill; millstone
- 工夫 gōng fu: 工夫 gong1 fu5: period of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time; skill; labor; effort工夫 gōng fū: 工夫 gong1 fu1: (old) laborer
- tasty; to taste good
- to talk about often; to reminisce about; to keep repeating; to keep harping on; to discuss
- 熬 áo: 熬 ao2: to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure熬 āo: 熬 ao1: to simmer; to boil slowly
- pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing; CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1]
- mapo tofu; stir-fried beancurd in chili sauce
- hot and numbing
- 豆瓣 Dòu bàn: 豆瓣 Dou4 ban4: Douban, a Chinese social networking website豆瓣 dòu bàn: 豆瓣 dou4 ban4: cotyledon of a bean or pea (i.e. either of the halves of a bean or pea); thick bean sauce (abbr. for 豆瓣醬|豆瓣酱[dou4 ban4 jiang4])
- crucian carp
- to miss; to remember with longing; to long to see again
- pampered girl from an affluent family
- to cook; cooking
- (idiom) far apart; (idiom) from different places; from all over; (idiom) (to talk) about this and that
- to be in the majority
- to withdraw from; to evacuate
- air force; (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
- to recruit; to enlist
- native person (of a country)
- noon; midday; CL:個|个[ge4]
- evening meal; dinner; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4]
- (of a perfume or a foul odor) permeating the whole place; (of grease etc) dripping everywhere; flowing all over the place
- to arrange; to handle; to cook; cuisine; art of cooking
- cayenne pepper; chili
- cook
- cook; chef
- 蒲 pú: 蒲 pu2: refers to various monocotyledonous flowering plants including Acorus calamus and Typha orientalis; common cattail; bullrush蒲 Pú: 蒲 Pu2: surname Pu; old place name
- elderly lady (respectful); esteemed mother; CL:位[wei4]
- (of planes etc) to fly; flying; flight; aviation
- location; site
- (dialect) what
- sun (dialect); daytime; date
- to shine; to illuminate
- warm
- to correspond (by letter, email etc); to send or receive messages through telecommunications
- well-developed; flourishing; to develop; to promote; to expand; (literary) to achieve fame and fortune; to prosper
- exultation
- wooded mountain; mountain forest
- abyss; depths; deepest or most distant part
- across one's whole face