Vocabulary: 过得刚好
- unofficial history; history as popular legends
- the 24 or 25 official dynastic histories; true history, as opposed to fictional adaptation or popular legends
- difference; to distinguish; to discriminate; to make a distinction; CL:個|个[ge4]
- imperial censor
- scribe; court recorder; historian; historiographer
- to write down; to record; written account
- popular tradition; folk legend
- starting point; (fig.) basis; motive
- to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result
- dramatic
- to expose; to unmask; to ferret out; to disclose; disclosure
- profound; deep; deep-going
- (bound form) to raid; to attack; (bound form) to continue the pattern; to perpetuate; (literary) classifier for suits of clothing or sets of bedding
- 制 zhì: 制 zhi4: system; to control; to regulate制 zhì: 制 zhi4: to manufacture; to make
- what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about?
- Zhu Yuanzhang, personal name of first Ming dynasty emperor Hongwu 洪武[Hong2 wu3]
- to found a country; nation-building; the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
- Zhu Di, personal name of third Ming Emperor Yongle 永樂|永乐[Yong3 le4]
- the title of Emperor
- to involve; to relate to; to concern; to touch upon
- to see clearly
- sand table (military); 3D terrain (or site) model (for real estate marketing, geography class etc); sand tray (on which to write characters)
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- to expound (a position); to elaborate (on a topic); to treat (a subject)
- ancestors; forebears
- the Qianlong era; Qianlong Emperor (1711–1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王[Bao3 Qin1 wang2], personal name 弘曆|弘历[Hong2 li4], reigned 1735–1799
- 御 yù: 御 yu4: (bound form) imperial; royal; (literary) to drive (a carriage); (literary) to manage; to govern御 yù: 御 yu4: (bound form) to defend; to resist
- inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times
- see 麒麟[qi2 lin2]
- court; imperial household; dynasty
- to propose (for a job); to nominate; to recommend
- a nobody; a nonentity
- the emperor; Your majesty the emperor; His imperial majesty
- servant; to employ sb for a job; to manage people; to be in need of staff
- personal integrity
- ability; competence
- Kangxi, reign title (1662–1722) of the Kangxi Emperor 聖祖|圣祖[Sheng4 zu3]; the Kangxi Emperor (Qing dynasty)
- Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735)
- banana; CL:根[gen1],把[ba3]
- both; both of them; neither