Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- the previous dynasty
- flourishing; bustling
- positive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism); Yang, opposite: 陰|阴[yin1]
- resolute; definitive; categorically; absolutely
- ancestors; forebears
- those
- (literary) ancient sage
- to match; is comparable with
- to be shoulder to shoulder; (fig.) to be as good as; to match; Taiwan pr. [bi4 jian1]
- family name
- to include (in a collection); to put together (stories, poems etc); to record; to employ; to recruit
- The Book of Family Names, anonymous Song dynasty reading primer listing 438 surnames
- to belong to; to fall under (a category)
- offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding; blue blood
- (idiom) to rise to fame
- to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
- inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity
- to seek; to look for
- related; relevant; pertinent; to be interrelated; (statistics) correlation
- lit. spider's thread and horse track; tiny hints (of a secret); traces; clue
- in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day
- to dig up roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
- 比如 Bǐ rú: 比如 Bi3 ru2: see 比如縣|比如县[Bi3 ru2 Xian4]比如 bǐ rú: 比如 bi3 ru2: for example; for instance; such as
- to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon
- (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)?
- to find
- to issue (an order, decree etc); to send out; to dispatch; to produce (a sound); to let out (a laugh)
- to come from a distinguished family
- after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
- and so on; and such
- to sigh with sorrow, regret etc; rueful; deeply moved
- even; even if; even though; no matter how
- (idiom) to make far-fetched claims; to offer outlandish explanations
- antiquity; ancient times
- legend; fairy tale; myth; mythology
- legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- even if; even though; right away; immediately
- (loanword) logic
- inconsistent; not in agreement with; not agree or tally with; not conform to
- (of a defect etc) to be of no great matter (idiom); harmless
- after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis
- who; also pr. [shui2]