Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- to love each other
- bit (of a bridle); to hold in the mouth; to harbor (feelings); to link; to accept; rank; title
- Tang emperor Xuanzong's 唐玄宗[Tang2 Xuan2 zong1] reign name used during the Kaiyuan era (713-741), a peak of Tang prosperity
- Kucha, ancient Silk Road kingdom and Buddhist center on the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert (Han-Tang period), in present-day Aksu, Xinjiang
- see 桐廬縣|桐庐县[Tong2 lu2 Xian4]
- 泷 Shuāng: 泷 Shuang1: Shuang river in Hunan and Guangdong (modern Wu river 武水)泷 lóng: 泷 long2: rapids; waterfall; torrential (rain)
- canyon; gill; ravine
- northwest part
- bitter cold; severe winter
- Catalpa, a genus of mostly deciduous trees; old term for Camellia sinensis, the tea plant 茶; also called Thea sinensis; small evergreen shrub (Mallotus japonicus)
- punishment equipment; torture instrument
- lit. like a square peg in a round hole (idiom); fig. incompatible
- incompatible
- money (esp. coins)
- to select and edit; to compile
- length; distance from north to south
- short name for Shaanxi 陝西|陕西[Shan3 xi1]
- antiquity
- to collate
- brush dipped in red ink (used in former times for writing official documents, grading papers etc)
- orpiment; arsenic trisulfide As2S3; make changes in writing; malign; criticize without grounds
- to alter (text); to change by painting over; to correct (with correction fluid)
- Tang dynasty (618-907)
- (of the day) long
- Song Dynasty (960-1279); also Song of Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479)
- 蕃 bō: 蕃 bo1: see 吐蕃[Tu3 bo1]蕃 fān: 蕃 fan1: foreign (non-Chinese)蕃 fán: 蕃 fan2: luxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce; to proliferate
- to put (a criminal) to death; to punish
- to be murdered
- autocracy; dictatorship
- name of job in Imperial bureaucracy; official position
- minister of ceremonies in imperial China
- calligrapher and painter