Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- misfortune turns to blessing (idiom); to turn an inauspicious start to good account
- to be successful in business; professional success
- to phone; to telegram
- militarization
- common understanding; consensus
- definition; to define
- awkward; difficult; uncomfortable; not agreeing; at loggerheads; gauche
- sickening; corny; sappy; maudlin; fulsome (of praise)
- uneasy; ill at ease
- (coll.) father; dad; CL:位[wei4]
- lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters; good and bad intermingled; It takes all sorts to make a world.
- family member
- to sit in a circle; seated around (a narrator)
- to chat
- of the same age
- (idiom) not amenable to reason; unreasonable
- especially; particularly; even more than usual; extra; additional
- to have expectations; to earnestly hope; expectation; hope
- to force; to compel; to coerce
- Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗[Tang2 Tai4 zong1] (599-649), reigned 626-649
- 征 zhēng: 征 zheng1: journey; trip; expedition; to go on long campaign; to attack征 zhēng: 征 zheng1: to invite; to recruit; to levy (taxes); to draft (troops); phenomenon; symptom; characteristic sign (used as proof); evidence
- Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2] overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
- children's fairy tales
- Rome, capital of Italy
- to comment; a point by point commentary
- to have completed the mourning period (traditional); to have served one's time
- the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century; fig. a long and complicated story
- to dramatize historical events; novel or play on historical theme