- Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] and creator of agriculture
- to teach; to give lessons
- all day long; the whole day
- reverie; daydream; to be lost in wild and fanciful thoughts
- to be just like
- brash; insolent; frantic
- a few; a little; a bit
- neighbor; neighborhood
- fellow countryman (from the same village); local people; villager; the folks back home
- sth that people like to chat about; topic of idle conversation
- entrance door; to enter a door; to learn the basics of a subject; introduction (to a subject); (attributive) entry-level
- to make reference to; to mention
- happy
- main key (of a musical composition); keynote (speech)
- straightforward; outspoken
- to visit (as a customer)
- to defend oneself; self-defense; self-preservation
- It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.; Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)
- item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc
- to overstep the bounds of what is proper; to take sth too far; (of a measuring device) to go off the scale
- 周游 zhōu yóu: 周游 zhou1 you2: to travel around; to tour; to cross周游 zhōu yóu: 周游 zhou1 you2: to travel around
- to answer; to respond
- to copy; to produce sth after a model; to counterfeit
- to rock back and forth; (fig.) to act ostentatiously; to brag; to show off
- wooded mountain; mountain forest
- to live in seclusion; reclusive; hermit; recluse
- marketplace; town; the street (urban milieu); the haunts of the common people
- ignorant; stupid
- to observe; to obey; to follow; to comply with
- chief; head; outstanding; exceptional; stalwart
- to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules; to mess with sth; to make a hash of things; to cause trouble
- to gather together; to assemble (in one place)
- the late Qing; late 19th and early 20th century China