Vocabulary: 浮生忆语集
- alarm bell
- 20th century
- (lit. and fig.) stage; arena
- magazine; CL:本[ben3],份[fen4],期[qi1]
- to improve (sth); to reform (a system)
- Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨|国民党 in 1912
- Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
- Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China
- a struggle; fight; battle
- to teach; to be a teacher; to train; to coach
- Southeast University
- late stage; later period
- director; head; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 燮 xiè: 燮 xie4: to blend; to adjust; to harmonize; harmony燮 Xiè: 燮 Xie4: surname Xie
- to discuss and deliberate
- to play the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1], a vertical bamboo flute; (literary) to beg on the streets (abbr. for 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫[wu2 shi4 chui1 xiao1]); (slang) to give a blowjob
- 裴 péi: 裴 pei2: (of a garment) long and flowing裴 Péi: 裴 Pei2: surname Pei
- to grow; to nourish; to increase; to cause; juice; taste; (dialect) to spout; to spurt
- dilatory; to moisten
- used in 芙蓉[fu2 rong2], lotus
- (onom.) ring; tinkle
- friendly
- (literary) acute (of hearing); (bound form) clever; intelligent; sharp
- Wang Wei (701-761), Tang Dynasty poet
- gold
- (of an actor) to retire from acting
- ripple; microwave
- fields; countryside; rural; bucolic
- to impose martial law; to impose emergency measures
- to starve to death; to be very hungry
- to finish (writing a book); to appear in book form; a book already in circulation
- dainty; elegance; elegant
- (literary) to be a good match
- swimming; to swim
- (idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person
- entire book; unabridged book
- to narrate; to recount; narrative
- to pass on amorous feelings; to send one's love to sb
- used in 栩栩[xu3 xu3]; jolcham oak (Quercus serrata)