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1 Shangyu county level city in Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴[Shào xīng], Zhejiang

1 so I have heard (idiom)

2 the beginning clause of Buddha's quotations as recorded by his disciple, Ananda (Buddhism)

1 winter plowing

1 (bird species of China) black kite (Milvus migrans)

1 Zai Yi (1856-1922), Manchu imperial prince and politician, disgraced after supporting the Boxers

1 to sow seeds

2 sowing

3 seed

1 to provoke

2 to tease

1 lit. chrysanthemums after the Double Ninth Festival (idiom)

2 fig. outdated

3 thing of the past

4 dead letter

1 marriage counseling

1 to return home with honor

1 (literary) nightfall

2 night

1 almost

2 nearly going to

1 an all-rounder

2 good at everything

1 to have in one's possession and use when required

1 lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod

2 tripartite confrontation or balance of forces

1 stumble

1 Khalkha, largest subgroup of Mongol people

1 not amenable to reason

2 unreasonable

1 army, navy and air force

1 lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it

2 fig. to misinterpret the original meaning

3 to pile up errors

4 refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"