Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- custom; tradition; local tradition; convention
- former southernmost province of the Chinese Empire, now northern Vietnam
- to address sb deferentially; title; honorific
- steps; flight of steps; step (over obstacle); fig. way out of an embarrassing situation; bench (geology)
- a shout; fig. opinion or demand, esp. expressed by a group
- Korean Peninsula
- alliance; union; coalition
- 5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon; ancient Chinese compass point: 120°
- Silla, Korean kingdom that existed between 57 BC – 935 AD, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, later allied with Tang China to defeat its rivals Baekje 百濟|百济[Bai3 ji4] and Goguryeo 高句麗|高句丽[Gao1 gou1 li2] to form Unified Silla; see 新羅區|新罗区[Xin1 luo2 Qu1]
- North Korea; Korea as geographic term; Taiwan pr. [Chao2xian1]
- Korean language (esp. in context of South Korea)
- huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- leader
- homology (biology); a common origin
- (honorific) to present; to give as a present
- 方丈 Fāng zhang: 方丈 Fang1 zhang5: one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals方丈 fāng zhang: 方丈 fang1 zhang5: square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square); monastic room 10 feet square; Buddhist or Daoist abbot; abbot's chamber
- all nations
- Lu Zhaolin (637-689), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰[Chu1 Tang2 Si4 jie2]
- divine by stalk
- to plow; to till
- (lit. and fig.) puppet
- a thorny tree; sugarcane; Cudrania triloba; three-bristle cudrania (Cudrania tricuspidata); Chinese mulberry (Cudrania)
- fickle in love; unfaithful; heart of a flower (pistil and stamen)
- a flourishing period; period of prosperity; a golden age
- to obey (an order); to comply; to defer
- to enlighten; to civilize; to indoctrinate; to train (an animal)
- brocade from Sichuan
- slander; slanderous report; calumny; false charge
- other people; others; other person
- disparaging remarks; unkind things said about sb
- to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge
- Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
- saliva; to spit
- resentment over unfair treatment
- drink heavily; drink in company
- to advance; in advance; beforehand; to prepare
- see 太康縣|太康县[Tai4 kang1 Xian4]
- the state of Chu, one of the most important of the small states contending for power in China between 770 and 223 BC, located around present-day Hubei
- to take prisoner; prisoner of war
- to connect; to tie up
- to forgive; to help; profound