Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- code name
- 恒 Héng: 恒 Heng2: surname Heng恒 héng: 恒 heng2: permanent; constant; fixed; usual; ordinary; rule (old); one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (䷟)
- Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青[Jiang1 Qing1], Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥[Zhang1 Chun1 qiao2], Yao Wenyuan 姚文元[Yao2 Wen2 yuan2], Wang Hongwen 王洪文[Wang2 Hong2 wen2], who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
- focus; direction; purpose; relevance
- modern people
- not only; not just
- to be corrupt; corruption; to embezzle
- anti-corruption (policy)
- everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess; obscene; dirty; filthy
- to suppress; to muzzle; to gag
- repulsive; vile; hateful; abominable
- to bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails; innovation
- to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration); to turn back the clock; neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文; retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
- to waste one's life; to fail to make the most of one's life
- Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子[Zhu1 zi3], Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism
- to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge; (bound form) to govern; to rule; (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)
- lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom); fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- to plaster; whitewash
- Confucius' school (i.e. his direct disciples)
- one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding; trying; troublesome; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- bring order out of chaos; set to rights things which have been thrown into disorder
- to restore to the original state; to reconstruct (an event); reduction (chemistry)
- forward (direction); positive (thinking, mood, values etc)
- same type; category 1 (i.e. class A)
- Confucian scholar (old)
- additional; annex
- to misread; (fig.) to misunderstand; to misinterpret
- to paint; to smear; to apply (makeup etc); to doodle; to erase; to obliterate
- idol
- prejudiced; narrow-minded
- sectarian bias; parochialism
- sinner
- group; sect; clique; faction; school