Vocabulary: 家
- sin; offense
- to be patient; patience
- firmly; safely
- February; second month (of the lunar year)
- postscript; to trek across mountains
- to prattle; to chatter away; to nag; garrulous; nagging
- to inquire into; to ask after
- to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute
- grieved; pained
- the landlord class
- Western Sichuan
- (geography) basin; depression
- official (in an organization or government); administrator
- property; assets; estate; CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- lazy
- to recover one's power or authority; restoration (of a past regime)
- lit. to go dining, wining, whoring and gambling (idiom); fig. to lead a life of dissipation
- not stopping at anything; all manner of evil
- to construct; to build
- blood
- worker
- wave of enthusiasm; craze; upsurge
- (of a liquid) to boil; (of sentiments etc) to boil over; to flare up; to be impassioned
- 权 Quán: 权 Quan2: surname Quan权 quán: 权 quan2: authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary
- life or death
- peasant; farmer
- military clique; junta; warlord
- all ages
- 孙子 sūn zi: 孙子 sun1 zi5: grandson; son's son孙子 Sūn zǐ: 孙子 Sun1 zi3: Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
- to prompt; to induce; to spur
- Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
- peaceful relations; harmonious
- upright gentleman; man of honor