Read Along the River Online

Authors: Adeline Yen Mah

Tags: #China - History - Song dynasty; 960-1279, #Psychology, #Hypnotism, #Reincarnation, #Body; Mind & Spirit, #Juvenile Fiction, #Asia, #Fiction, #Historical, #People & Places

Along the River (30 page)

 
dai zhao
 
 

imperial attendant 

 
Dian Yue
 
 

music managers 

 
Fo Ni
 
 

Northern Song Dynasty Buddhist nun, the religious name of Zhang Mei Lan 

 
Gao Bi Zi
 
 

“Tall Nose” 

 
gege
 
 

older brother 

 
Han Lin Hua Yuan Shang Shu
 
 

Director of the Royal Academy of Art 

 
Hu Bu Shang Shu 
 

Minister of Revenue 

 
 
  
 
Huizong
 
 

Eighth Emperor of the Song Dynasty ( 
AD
1082—1135; reigned
AD
1100—1126)

 
Jiang Fei Fei
 
 

a friend of CC’s Big Aunt 

 
lao ban
 
 

proprietor, boss 

 
lao lao
 
 

maternal grandmother; although Mei Lan would normally only call her birth mother’s mother Lao Lao, she uses this term for her stepmother’s mother too 

 
Lao Ye
 
 

Old Master (term of address) 

 
Lei Wei
 
 

renowned Tang Dynasty instrument maker, whose name means “Mighty Thunder” 

 
Li Jie
 
 

famous Song Dynasty architect 

 
Lin Ling Su
 
 

Taoist priest and Huizong’s spiritual advisor 

 
Liu Gong Quan
 
 

Tang Dynasty master of calligraphy ( 
AD
778—865)

 
Mencius
 
 

Chinese philosopher ( 
c
. 372—289 BC)

 
nai ma
 
 

nanny, wet nurse 

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