Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- abundant; mound
- (grasshopper); Gompsocleis mikado
- nobleman; person of noble character
- deeply worried and sick at heart (idiom)
- already; since; both... (and...)
- 降 jiàng: 降 jiang4: to drop; to fall; to come down; to descend降 xiáng: 降 xiang2: to surrender; to capitulate; to subdue; to conquer; to tame
- to cut down; to fell; to dispatch an expedition against; to attack; to boast; Taiwan pr. [fa1]
- the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards; Xionites (Central Asian nomads)
- 春日 Chūn rì: 春日 Chun1 ri4: Chunri or Chunjih township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan春日 chūn rì: 春日 chun1 ri4: springtime
- late (with a task etc); slow
- plants
- Celosia argentea; luxuriant
- barn; granary; storehouse; cabin; hold (in ship)
- harmonious (of music)
- 采 cǎi: 采 cai3: to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather采 cǎi: 采 cai3: color; complexion; looks采 cài: 采 cai4: used in 采邑[cai4 yi4] and 采地[cai4 di4]
- Artemisia stellariana
- 祁 qí: 祁 qi2: large; vast祁 Qí: 祁 Qi2: surname Qi
- (bound form) to ask; to inquire; (bound form) to interrogate; to question; (bound form) news; information
- 获 hùo: 获 huo4: (literary) to catch; to capture; (literary) to get; to obtain; to win获 hùo: 获 huo4: (bound form) to reap; to harvest
- 丑 chǒu: 丑 chou3: clown; 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox; ancient Chinese compass point: 30°丑 Chǒu: 丑 Chou3: surname Chou丑 chǒu: 丑 chou3: shameful; ugly; disgraceful
- non-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out; to exterminate; to tear down; to raze
- then and now; ancient and modern
- books (in a library or bookstore); CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4]
- integrated (as in integrated circuit)
- canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
- 郑 Zhèng: 郑 Zheng4: Zheng, a Zhou-dynasty state in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑[Xin1 zheng4], a county-level city in Henan; abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4 zhou1], the capital of Henan; surname Zheng郑 zhèng: 郑 zheng4: used in 鄭重|郑重[zheng4 zhong4]
- firewood; gather wood
- 姬 jī: 姬 ji1: woman; concubine; female entertainer (archaic)姬 Jī: 姬 Ji1: surname Ji; family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代[Zhou1 dai4] (1046–256 BC)
- son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific)
- Ying, ancient capital of Chu 楚 in Hubei, Jianling county 江陵縣|江陵县
- 春秋 Chūn qīu: 春秋 Chun1 qiu1: Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)春秋 chūn qīu: 春秋 chun1 qiu1: spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles)
- country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)
- cause; reason; because
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- complete; whole; totally; entirely
- 哪 něi: 哪 nei3: which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)哪 né: 哪 ne2: used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [nuo2]哪 na: 哪 na5: (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")哪 nǎ: 哪 na3: how; which
- profound; abstruse; recondite; profoundly
- to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer)
- primogenitor; founder of a school or trade
- descendant