Vocabulary: 浮生六记
- Northern and Southern dynasties (420-589)
- period; phase; CL:個|个[ge4]
- filial piety or obedience; mourning apparel
- 穆 Mù: 穆 Mu4: surname Mu穆 mù: 穆 mu4: solemn; reverent; calm; burial position in an ancestral tomb (old)
- Southern Dynasties (420-589)
- (literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪[kan1]); (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven); land; territory; (literary) carriage; (literary) sedan chair; palanquin; (bound form) the multitudes; the people; the public
- to be adept in; to excel at
- to enjoin; to grant (a title)
- political commentary
- multipurpose; having several uses
- parallel and antithesis (paired sentences as rhetoric device)
- arrangement; order; tidiness
- accuracy; exact; precise; refined
- footbridge; toll, levy; monopoly
- 扬 yáng: 扬 yang2: to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing; scattering (in the wind); to flutter; to propagate扬 Yáng: 扬 Yang2: abbr. for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州[Yang2 zhou1] in Jiangsu; surname Yang
- ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc
- crossbow
- original meaning; literal sense
- to extend (the meaning of a word, an analogy etc); derivation
- arrow; CL:支[zhi1]
- range; scope; limit; extent; CL:個|个[ge4]
- article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning; CL:篇[pian1],段[duan4],頁|页[ye4]
- level of mastery (of a skill or area of knowledge); (archaic) to pay a visit to sb
- to reach; to achieve; to attain
- level (of achievement etc); standard; level (surveying)
- Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
- Du Fu (712-770), great Tang dynasty poet
- Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡[Bao3 ji1], Shaanxi; Venus
- "immortal of poetry", epithet of Li Bai 李白[Li3 Bai2]
- "sage of poetry", epithet of Du Fu 杜甫[Du4 Fu3]
- therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- a real person; Daoist spiritual master
- to make a general reference; to be used in a general sense
- good looks; beauty; good-looking
- to despise; small
- human habitat
- skin; flesh; fig. close physical relationship
- ice and snow