Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- (of vision) fuzzy
- Yuan river in Guizhou and Hunan
- Liaodong peninsula between Bohai 渤海 and Yellow sea; east and south of Liaoning province; east of Liao river 遼河|辽河
- governor-general; viceroy; governor
- Wu Sangui (1612-1678), Chinese general who let the Manchus into China and helped them establish the Qing Dynasty, later leading a revolt against Qing in an effort to start his own dynasty
- to rise; to spring up; to burgeon; to be aroused; to come into vogue
- tradition; traditional
- a drama; a play; theater; script of a play
- repertoire; program; song; piece of music
- fragments; bits and pieces
- Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141-87 BC)
- the emperor relatives (idiom); person with powerful connections
- (bound form) to inundate; deluge; torrent
- quicksand; (patisserie) (usu. attributive) semi-liquid filling (typically custard); lava
- Brocade Uniform Guard, imperial bodyguard and secret police force of the Ming emperors
- rope
- (literary) to cast a sidelong glance; (dialect) to see; to look at
- to look askance; cross or wall-eyed
- Zhenjiang, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省[Jiang1 su1 Sheng3]
- in arrears; behind in payments; to default on one's debts
- aged
- Zhejiang Province, capital Hangzhou 杭州市[Hang2 zhou1 Shi4] (short name 浙[Zhe4])
- Jiashan, a county in Jiaxing City 嘉興市|嘉兴市[Jia1 xing1 Shi4], Zhejiang
- to leave office
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam; to admit (a student); to hire (a job candidate)
- Guozijian, the highest educational administrative body in imperial China, in some dynasties also functioning as the highest institution of academic research and learning (Imperial College, aka Imperial Academy)
- (old) candidate who has successfully passed the first grades of the examination system, but not yet the court examination (殿試|殿试[dian4 shi4])
- an examiner (for tests, interviews etc); (old) imperial examination official
- chivalrous person; knight-errant
- to wave sth; to brandish
- ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged); civilian (contrasted with the military)
- capacity; volume; quantitative (science)
- foreigner
- charm; loveliness (of a woman)
- chinaware; porcelain
- to be widely known as
- (coll.) father's older brother's wife; aunt (polite address)
- battle-ax
- 尚书 Shàng shū: 尚书 Shang4 shu1: same as 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] Book of History尚书 shàng shū: 尚书 shang4 shu1: high official; government minister