Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- round-bottomed wicker basket
- highland; upland
- currently existing; currently available
- door; to close; whole
- gate of a village; village
- cemetery; graveyard
- (double-edged) sword (esp. a valuable or famous one); CL:把[ba3]
- palace; CL:座[zuo4]
- clogs (footwear); sabot
- to address or refer to (sb) respectfully (as ...); respectful term of address; honorific title
- river course; river channel
- drainage system
- monograph; specialized text
- Wei of the Northern Dynasties (386-534), founded by the Tuoba 拓跋 branch of Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑
- geographer
- 盘缠 pán chan: 盘缠 pan2 chan5: money for a voyage; travel expenses盘缠 pán chán: 盘缠 pan2 chan2: to twine; to coil
- harmonious; friendly relations; on good terms with one another
- name of a famous Tang dynasty wine; same as 白酒[bai2 jiu3]
- Song dynasty (960-1279)
- scholar of the rationalist school of Neo-Confucianism 理學|理学[Li3 xue2]
- 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
- Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty; posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama
- Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263; Taiwan pr. [Liu2 Chan2]
- (bound form) posthumous name or title; (literary) to confer a posthumous name or title
- 侯 Hóu: 侯 Hou2: surname Hou侯 hóu: 侯 hou2: marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; nobleman; high official侯 hòu: 侯 hou4: used in 閩侯|闽侯[Min3 hou4] (the name of a place in Fujian)
- 富 fù: 富 fu4: rich; abundant; wealthy富 Fù: 富 Fu4: surname Fu
- the state of Chu, one of the most important of the small states contending for power in China between 770 and 223 BC, located around present-day Hubei
- Master Dengtu, a famous historical lecherous character; lecher; skirt-chaser
- to want sex; given to lust; lecherous; lascivious; horny
- Liang of the Southern dynasties (502-557)
- high-ranking military officer
- arms; equipment; to arm; military; armed (forces)
- armed rebellion
- incident; event
- Shaanxi Province, capital Xi'an 西安市[Xi1 an1 Shi4] (short name 陝|陕[Shan3] or 秦[Qin2])
- Weinan, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi Province 陝西省|陕西省[Shan3 xi1 Sheng3]
- Tongguan, a county in Weinan City 渭南市[Wei4 nan2 Shi4], Shaanxi
- to be based upon; to squat
- to start building
- reign name (196-219) at the end of the Han dynasty
- first year of an emperor's reign; first year of an era; first year of a significant time period