Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- in succession; one after another; continuously
- Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735)
- (literary) to decline; to wane; title of a section in the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1]
- cause; reason; interest; influence
- Xi'an Incident of 12th December 1936 (kidnap of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4 shi2])
- Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
- to place under house arrest
- to guard; to watch over
- 乙 yǐ: 乙 yi3: second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; second in order; letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方[yi3 fang1], as opposed to 甲方[jia3 fang1]); ethyl; bent; winding; radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5); ancient Chinese compass point: 105°乙 zhé: 乙 zhe2: turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折[zhe2]
- to receive (letter etc)
- to be just about to; to be on the point of
- History of the Ming Dynasty, twenty fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉|张廷玉[Zhang1 Ting2 yu4] in 1739 during the Qing Dynasty, 332 scrolls
- twenty
- on hand; at hand
- reference book
- distressed
- to flee; to scuttle; to exile or banish; to amend or edit
- coastal border region
- eaves; ledge or brim
- kettle; cauldron
- cradle (for a baby); (fig.) cradle; birthplace (of a civilization, movement etc)
- left hand; left-hand side
- right hand; right-hand side
- to mirror; to reflect; mirror image; reflection; (fig.) to report; to make known; to render
- to hold in storage; to retain; to harbor (feelings); to entertain (sentiments); (of abstract things) to exist; there is
- the gist (of a text or argument); the main points
- (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ...
- red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
- to seek proof; to seek confirmation
- cover (of a publication)
- yellow; vulgar; lewd; pornographic
- to set a price; to fix a price
- New Taiwan dollar
- to sell; to offer for sale; to put on the market
- to neglect; to overlook; to disregard; to ignore