Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all
- serious; meticulous; nitpicky; to take sth (or sb) seriously
- Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
- finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last
- to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古[Pan2 gu3] creation myth
- Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)
- whether (or not); if; is or isn't
- really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine; (math.) proper
- to make; to build; to manufacture; to invent; to fabricate; to go to; party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement); crop; classifier for crops
- bloodline
- clan
- 种 zhòng: 种 zhong4: to plant; to grow; to cultivate种 zhǒng: 种 zhong3: seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts
- to approve of; to endorse; to acknowledge; to recognize; to identify oneself with
- mode; pattern; model
- clan; clansman
- feeling; emotion; to move (emotionally)
- (line of) thought; thinking
- previous life; former incarnation
- this lifetime
- to satisfy; to meet (the needs of); satisfied; content
- reader
- Gentlemen! (start of a speech); Ladies and Gentlemen!
- interest in sth; curiosity; inquisitive
- no harm (in doing it); One might as well.; It won't hurt.; no matter; it's no bother
- to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
- Grand Scribe, the title by which Sima Qian 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1] refers to himself in Records of the Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4]
- magnificent
- monumental (literary) work
- Records of the Grand Historian, by 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1], first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3]
- 夏 xià: 夏 xia4: summer夏 Xià: 夏 Xia4: the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432); surname Xia
- biographic sketch of an emperor
- 载 zǎi: 载 zai3: to record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. [zai4]; year载 zài: 载 zai4: to carry; to convey; to load; to hold; to fill up; and; also; as well as; simultaneously
- 姒 sì: 姒 si4: wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old); elder sister (old)姒 Sì: 姒 Si4: surname Si
- next; later; after that
- to divide and confer (property on one's descendants)
- 国 Gúo: 国 Guo2: surname Guo国 gúo: 国 guo2: country; nation; state; (bound form) national
- happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
- 扈 hù: 扈 hu4: retinue扈 Hù: 扈 Hu4: surname Hu
- (bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states); two-character surname Sima
- chaste
- 索 sǔo: 索 suo3: to search; to demand; to ask; to exact; large rope; isolated索 Sǔo: 索 Suo3: surname Suo; abbr. for 索馬里|索马里[Suo3 ma3 li3], Somalia
- pre-Qin, Chinese history up to the foundation of the Qin imperial dynasty in 221 BC
- ancient text; antique books
- 世 shì: 世 shi4: life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble世 Shì: 世 Shi4: surname Shi
- to annotate; to add a comment; explanatory note; annotation