Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- to flow and change; development and change (of society)
- close; familiar; intimate; closely (related); to foster close ties; to pay close attention
- to be related; to be connected; relationship; connection
- Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
- each country; every country; various countries
- to go on or send a punitive expedition
- to hold up (as an model); to hold in esteem; to revere; to advocate
- to be eradicated; to vanish; extinct; to break off relations
- broadsword; large knife; machete
- pike; CL:支[zhi1]
- combat; to fight
- first; original; primitive; original (document etc)
- to collect material
- stick; rod; truncheon; scoundrel; villain
- front; front end; forward part of sth
- to confront; to face the enemy
- quick fix; opportune short cut (around a difficulty); cheap trick (to get what one wants); to pull a fast one
- until; while
- Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD); refers to the Western Han and Eastern Han
- club; staff; stick
- trend; tendency
- lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom); fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat; to fight at close quarters
- the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties
- Northern and Southern dynasties (420-589)
- Shaolin Temple, Buddhist monastery famous for its kung fu monks
- textual criticism
- evidence; proof; testimony
- hard to avoid; difficult to escape from; will inevitably
- to pretend; to use a pretext; to make sth up; to pass oneself off as sb else; to make use of
- to add parallels and interpretations (to a story etc); to develop and embellish; to interpret (often in a strained manner)
- suspicion; to have suspicions
- Brahmanism; Hinduism
- (loanword) yoga
- different tunes played with equal skill (idiom); different methods leading to the same result; different approach but equally satisfactory outcome
- skillful in; proficient in; adept at
- to the point; concise
- 易学 Yì xué: 易学 Yi4 xue2: study of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]易学 yì xué: 易学 yi4 xue2: easy to learn
- to breathe
- to smelt; to cast; seductive in appearance
- stove; furnace