Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- 宗 zōng: 宗 zong1: school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs宗 Zōng: 宗 Zong1: surname Zong
- superstition; to have a superstitious belief (in sth)
- honorary posthumous name; posthumous title
- to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- (archaic) title granted to a person; to ban an (online) account
- genuine or fake; true or false
- pleasant to hear
- in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact; in practice
- worshipper
- to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker); (LGBT) bottom
- 金 jīn: 金 jin1: gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]金 Jīn: 金 Jin1: surname Jin; surname Kim (Korean); Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
- to go down south
- 打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- Bianjing, Northern Song capital, now called Kaifeng 開封|开封[Kai1 feng1], Henan
- 开封 Kāi fēng: 开封 Kai1 feng1: see 開封市|开封市[Kai1 feng1 Shi4]开封 kāi fēng: 开封 kai1 feng1: to open (sth that has been sealed)
- Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子[Lao3 zi3] (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] (369-286 BC)
- charm; amulet (religious object conferring blessing)
- to resist; to defy; to oppose
- captive
- 只 zhǐ: 只 zhi3: only; merely; just只 zhī: 只 zhi1: grain that has begun to ripen只 zhī: 只 zhi1: classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- (idiom) to mention only very briefly; to skate over (a topic)
- 门 mén: 门 men2: gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)门 Mén: 门 Men2: surname Men
- orthodox school; fig. traditional; old school; authentic; genuine
- careful; attentive; cautious; to be careful; to look out; (dialect) thrifty; frugal
- research; a study; CL:項|项[xiang4]; to research; to look into
- Taoism; Daoism (Chinese system of beliefs)
- degree; level; extent
- to die; to lose; to be gone; to flee; deceased
- cannot; should not; must not
- the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)
- 倒 dǎo: 倒 dao3: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit倒 dào: 倒 dao4: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
- contribution; meritorious service; credit
- some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
- traitor (to China)
- objective; impartial
- don't!; must not
- position; standpoint; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 尽 jǐn: 尽 jin3: to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to尽 jìn: 尽 jin4: to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth); all; entirely
- good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
- bad person; villain
- only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- other; (sth or sb) else; the rest
- to pass an entrance exam; to be admitted to
- top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 榜眼[bang3 yan3] and 探花[tan4 hua1]; top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3]; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light