Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- extremely
- the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)
- republic; republicanism
- (literary) to establish; to found (a country etc); to initiate construction (of sth large-scale, e.g. a palace, university etc)
- a ruler and his ministers (old)
- (literary) shackles
- to clear up; to wipe out; to eradicate
- dislike; hate
- to steal
- prisoner
- constant; persistent; long-lasting; eternal
- 荀 Xún: 荀 Xun2: surname Xun荀 xún: 荀 xun2: (archaic) name of a plant mentioned in ancient texts; name of a state that existed during the Zhou dynasty in present-day Shanxi
- Gong Zizhen (1792-1841), Chinese man of letters, calligrapher and poet
- to pay respects to the dead; to mark sb's passing
- gate of a village
- clear; bright
- mound; small hill; (used in place names)
- to wander about unhurriedly; to linger; to loiter
- to spend one's last years
- incomparable; none to compare with at that time
- 漓 lí: 漓 li2: pattering (of rain); seep through漓 lí: 漓 li2: to seep through漓 Lí: 漓 Li2: name of a river
- overcast and rainy
- hoary head; old age
- married man; husband (as a social role)
- 孙子 Sūn zǐ: 孙子 Sun1 zi3: Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]孙子 sūn zi: 孙子 sun1 zi5: grandson; son's son
- Republic of China
- (formal) a full month