Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- in a state of war
- dry land (as opposed to the sea)
- Zoysia pungens
- (reception) hall; living room; office; provincial government department
- wisteria
- red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle); CL:棵[ke1]
- open space; open field
- to collapse; to topple; to capsize
- end of the year
- (literary) money for a journey; travel expenses
- gongs and drums; Chinese percussion instruments
- nightly
- tour guide; guidebook; to conduct a tour
- see 曲江區|曲江区[Qu3 jiang1 Qu1]
- to versify; to compose poetry
- Master Zhu, another name for Zhu Xi 朱熹[Zhu1 Xi1]
- to yearn; to pine
- 搂 lǒu: 搂 lou3: to hug; to embrace; to hold in one's arms搂 lōu: 搂 lou1: to draw towards oneself; to gather; to gather up (one's gown, sleeves etc); to grab (money); to extort
- Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
- 帅 Shuài: 帅 Shuai4: surname Shuai帅 shuài: 帅 shuai4: (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
- apparatus; rites; appearance; present; ceremony
- manger
- manger
- see 城西區|城西区[Cheng2 xi1 Qu1]
- surname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279); Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4]
- see 城北區|城北区[Cheng2 bei3 Qu1]
- Yu Xin (513-581), poet from Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝 and author of Lament for the South 哀江南賦|哀江南赋
- to evade; to flee; to escape
- see 江陵縣|江陵县[Jiang1 ling2 Xian4]
- to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including