Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- weeping willow
- to drift; to wave; to float on the waves; to flutter in the wind
- inner meaning; implication; connotation
- 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
- Jin Dynasty (265-420)
- hermit
- to conceal one's identity; living incognito
- to convert; to turn into (sth else); to adapt (a story to another medium)
- to recognize; to identify
- to omit; to dispense with; to make unnecesary; to save (time, trouble etc)
- to congratulate respectfully; to express good wishes
- convoluted and overelaborate (document); unnecessarily elaborate writing; mumbo-jumbo
- to set off firecrackers
- (onom.) crunch (of marching feet etc)
- to find amusement; to amuse oneself
- lit. spring wind and rain (idiom); fig. the long-term influence of a solid education
- fine rain; drizzle; poem by Tang poet Li Shangyin 李商隱|李商隐
- to wash off
- wives and concubines (of a polygamous man); harem
- throat
- 重重 zhòng zhòng: 重重 zhong4 zhong4: heavily; severely重重 chóng chóng: 重重 chong2 chong2: layer upon layer; one after another
- sparse; rare
- direction; points of the compass; bearing; position; azimuth
- to recommend; to introduce (from outside)
- three of a kind (poker)
- river; stream
- to supply; to provide (goods, services etc)
- spout; spray; belch; to well up; to puff out; to spurt out
- to flow into; to converge (of river); (computing) to import (data)
- study (room); studio; CL:間|间[jian1]
- to play chess
- murmur; babble (sound of water)
- south side; south
- north; north side; northern part; to the north of
- small multi-story building; modest house with two or more floors
- spectacular; magnificent sight
- south side; south face