S2E09 | Whole Lotta Love | 琴瑟和鸣
Saying: “The Qin and Se play their sounds together”
Pinyin: Qín Sè Hè Míng
Chinese: 琴瑟和鸣
Laszlo tells a story of true love between two literary famosas from the Song Dynasty. Theirs was the perfect love that contained all the ingredients of marital bliss except length of years together.
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Terms in Episode
| Pinyin/Term | Chinese | English/Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Ài Lán Xuān | 艾兰轩 | A collection of poems written during the Yuan Dynasty that followed the fall of the Song |
| Eastern Zhōu Dynasty | 东周 | The latter half of the Zhou Dynasty. Eastern Zhou ran 770-225 BCE |
| Gōngxǐ nǐ | 恭喜你 | Congratulations! |
| Huīzōng | 徽宗 | Tragic emperor of the Northern Song, a great artist too |
| Hángzhōu | 杭州 | Capital of the Southern Song 1127-1276, called Lin’an back then. Today the capital of Zhejiang Province |
| Hè | 和 | to join in the singing or to chime in with others |
| Hēilóngjiāng | 黑龙江 | One of the three provinces of Manchuria in the northeast |
| Jī Míng Gǒu Dào | 鸡鸣狗盗 | Crow like a cock and Snatch like a dog…use low-handed tricks to get what you want |
| Jīnshí Lù | 金石录 | a 30-volume work on ancient Chinese epigraphy credited to Zhao Mingcheng with the assistance of Li Qingzhao |
| Kāifēng | 开封 | Capital of the Northern Song (not called Kaifeng back then) |
| Luk Yu Teahouse | 陸羽茶室 | Famous restaurant and tea house on Stanley Street in Hong Kong, established in 1933. They always seat me upstairs |
| Lǐ Qīngzhào | 李清照 | One of China’s greatest poets of Imperial times. She lived from 1084-1155 |
| Míng | 鸣 | The sound of an animal, a musical sound |
| Northern Sòng | 北宋 | The first half of the Song Dynasty that ran from 960 to 1127 when the capital was at Kaifeng |
| Nánjīng | 南京 | Later, the capital of the Ming Dynasty and Republic of China, today the capital of Jiangsu Province |
| Qín | 琴 | a general term for a stringed instrument, today referred to as a seven stringed gǔqín （古琴） |
| Qín Sè | 琴瑟 | The Qín and the Sè |
| Qín Sè Hè Míng | 琴瑟和鸣 | The Qin and Se play their sounds together, marital bliss |
| Shāndōng province | 山东省 | Northern coastal province, the land of Qi and Lu |
| Shāng Dynasty | 商朝 | China’s first dynasty (1600-1046 BCE) for which written records exist |
| Spring & Autumn Period | 春秋 | First half of the Eastern Zhou, approximately 771-476 BCE |
| Sè | 瑟 | a larger instrument with 25-50 strings |
| Sū Dōngpō | 苏东坡 (Sū Shì 苏轼) | Famous Northern Song era statesman, politician, poet, calligrapher, causeway builder and gastronome extraordinaire |
| Warring States Period | 战国 | The second half of the Eastern Zhou, 475-221 BCE |
| Zhào Míngchéng | 赵明诚 | 1081 to 1129, giant in the field of Ancient Chinese epigraphy, husand of Li Qingzhao |
