Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- Lishui River in north Hunan, flowing into Lake Dongting 洞庭湖[Dong4 ting2 Hu2]; surname Li
- ancient office title; rich and important person
- to thank with a gift
- restaurant
- 庄 Zhuāng: 庄 Zhuang1: surname Zhuang庄 zhuāng: 庄 zhuang1: farmstead; village; manor; place of business; banker (in a gambling game); grave or solemn; holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)
- 柳 lǐu: 柳 liu3: willow柳 Lǐu: 柳 Liu3: surname Liu
- 毂 gǔ: 毂 gu3: the hub of wheel毂 gū: 毂 gu1: used in 轂轆|毂辘[gu1 lu5]
- to pull up (stop one's vehicle); to park; (of a machine) to stop working; to stall
- familiarity at first sight
- to spread out; to develop; to overflow; to amplify; superfluous
- to establish; to set up; to found
- temple name of a deceased Chinese emperor
- to be born
- feed a horse with grain; horse feed
- Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
- to be adept in; to excel at
- literature
- calligraphy; handwriting; penmanship
- Jingling, former name of Tianmen 天門|天门, Hubei
- to gather; to unite; to unify; whole
- fish bone; bone stuck in the throat; sth one feels obliged to speak out about; candid speaker
- to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh
- Tang dynasty (618-907)
- Li Yuan, personal name of first Tang emperor Gaozu 唐高祖[Tang2 Gao1 zu3] (566-635), reigned 618-626
- to trust; to have confidence in
- grandnephew
- Tang Emperor Xuanzong (685-762), also known as Emperor Ming of Tang 唐明皇[Tang2 Ming2 huang2], reign name of seventh Tang emperor 李隆基[Li3 Long1 ji1], reigned 712-756
- then (as in "the then chairman")
- good fortune; official salary
- later period; end stage; terminal
- Emperor Gaozong of Tang, reign name of third Tang emperor Li Zhi 李治[Li3 Zhi4] (628-683), reigned 649-683
- chancellor (of a monarchy); cabinet minister
- important general; generalissimo
- see 洛陽市|洛阳市[Luo4 yang2 Shi4]