Children in Chinese Art

Glossary of Chinese Characters

193 Antu shenyin (Identifying the music by reading the notation) baimiao (line drawing in plain black ink) Baiyi Dabeixin wuyinxin tuoluoni jing (White-robed Great Compassion five-mudras dharani sutra) Baiyi Songzi Guanyin (White-robed Son-giving Guanyin) baizitu (hundred-boy picture) Ban Gu (d. A.D. 92) Baocheng (fourteenth-century monk) Baoensi (Baoen Temple) baoping (precious vase) Baotong Jiangjun (General Baotong) Beiji qianjin yaofang (Prescriptions worth a thousand, for every emergency) Bishamen (Vaiśravana) Bixia Yuanjun (Princess of the Dawn Clouds) bolanggu (rattle drum) bubudeng (gourd-shaped glass toy) bucai (without talent) caiquan (guessing game) Caishen Tianwang (Heavenly King God of Wealth) Cao Xun (1098–1174) changmingsuo (long-life locket) changong zhegui (to pluck a branch of sweet olive from the moon; i.e., to become a successful candidate in the imperial exam) chen (your servitor) Chen Hongshou (1598–1652) Chen Mei (active ca. 1730–1742) Cheng Dayue (zi Junfang, 1541–ca. 1616) ( ) Cheng Sui (1605–1691) Chengshi moyuan (Mr. Cheng’s ink compendium) Chongshansi (Chongshan Temple) Chuci (Songs of Chu) Chunyangdian (Chunyang Hall) cong yuan huan cheng ([Shakyamuni] returning from the garden to the palace) Cui Bai (active ca. 1050–1080) cuju (football) Cui Zizhong (d. 1644) Glossary of Chinese Characters Cuisheng Niangniang (Goddess of Swift Delivery) Da ya (Greater odes) Dabeixin tuoluoni jing (Great Compassion dharani sutra) Dai Quheng (1755–1811) dao (true way) daotong (transmission of the sagely way) Dijing jingwu lue (Scenes of the capital) Ding Guanpeng (active ca. 1750–1760) Ding Ling Ding Yunpeng (1547–1621) Dou Yujun (Dou Yanshan, tenth century) ( ) doubaicao or doucao (competitive game played with “a hundred” herbs) or Douzhen Niangniang (Goddess of Smallpox) Du Fu (712–770) Du Hai’er (active 1111–1117) Duanwu (Double Five festival; Dragon Boat festival) Dun Lichen (1853–1911) Duowen (Vaiśravana) Fang Ruhao (seventeenth century) Fang Yulu (fl. 1570–1619) fanxie (“flipping shoes” game) fenben (preparatory sketches) Fenshu (Burning the books [collectanea]) fu (bat) , a pun for fu (blessing) Fuchuntang Fulushou San Xian (Three Immortals of Happiness, Wealth, and Longevity) furong (peony) , a pun for furong (glorious blessings) Fuxi (creator god, husband of Nüwa) Gao Qi (1336–1374) Ge Hong (Ge Zhichuan, 283–343) ( ) gong (public) gong yi (public-minded; the public good) gong zheng cheng xin (public-spirited, upright, sincere, and trustworthy) Gongzhong tu (Women of the court) Gou Jing (Dog Star) Gu Jianlong (1606–after 1686) Gu Kaizhi (ca. 345–ca. 406) Gu Ming (late seventeenth century) guadie mianmian (endless generations of descendants) guan dai chuan liu (official headdress, jade belt, boat, pomegranate) , a pun for guandai chuanliu (official rank passed down to descendants) Guanyin (Bodhisattva of Mercy and Compassion) Gui yuantian ju wushou (On returning to my home and fields) Guifan (Female exemplars) Guifan tushuo (Female exemplars, illustrated and explicated) guihua (sweet olive; osmanthus fragrans) guizi (sweet-olive branch) , a pun for guizi (noble sons) Guizi Mu (Hariti) gujie or guzi (father’s sister) or Gujin lienü zhuan (Biographies of exemplary women in history) Gujin tushu jicheng (Imperial collection of books of all ages) Guo Xi (ca. 1001–ca. 1090) Guo Xu (1456–after 1526) Guo Zhongshu (active ca. mid-tenth century) Han Yü (768–824) he (box) , a pun for he (harmony) he (lotus plant) , a pun for he (peace) He Cheng (1224–after 1315) Glossary of Chinese Characters 194 He Yan (d. 249) Hehe Erxian (Twin Genii of Harmony and Mirth) Heluo Danna Duoluoye (untranslatable name; refers to Guanyin) Honglou meng (Red chamber dream) hongmei jieshi; lüzhu shengsun [shengsun] (the red plum bears fruit; the green bamboo puts forth shoots [produces grandsons]) ; [ ] Houji (God of Agriculture) Hua Guan (active late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) Hua Yan (1682–1765) huagun (fencing pole used in martial arts) Huainanzi (Essays by the Sage of Huainan) Huang Jiayu (fl. 1617) Huang Shangwen (fl. 1603) huang sizi (the fourth imperial son) Huang Tingjian (1045–1105) Huang Yingtai (fl. 1603) Huangting waijing jing (Outer radiance scripture of the yellow court) Huitu lienü zhuan (Illustrated biographies of exemplary women) huiyuan (first-place candidate in the provincial civil service exam) ji (halberd) , pun for ji (propitious) Jialuo Nijia (name of an ancient female spirit) Jiang Shinong (nineteenth century) Jiang Shiquan (1725–1785) Jiang Yuan (mother of Houji) jianzi (shuttlecock) , a pun for jianzi (see sons) jieyuan (first-place graduate of the local civil service exam) Jijialaoli (name of an ancient female spirit) Jingfudian fu (Rhapsody on the Palace of Luminous Prosperity) jinjue (promoted...