Vocabulary
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| 六朝 六朝 | Six Dynasties (220-589) | Proper Noun |
| 瓮城 甕城 | enceinte of a city gate; barbican entrance to a city | Proper Noun |
| 市中心 市中心 | city center; downtown | Proper Noun |
| 新县 新縣 | Xin county in Xinyang 信陽|信阳, Henan | Proper Noun |
| 五代 五代 | Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China | Proper Noun |
| 广东省 廣東省 | Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou | Proper Noun |
| 张飞 張飛 | Zhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous as fearsome fighter and lover of wine | Proper Noun |
| 元朝 元朝 | Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368) | Proper Noun |
| 小桥 小橋 | Xiao Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the two great beauties of ancient China | Proper Noun |
| 深圳市 深圳市 | Shenzhen, sub-provincial city in Guangdong Province | Proper Noun |
| 山阳 山陽 | Shanyang District of Jiaozuo City, Henan; Shanyang County in Shangluo, Shaanxi | Proper Noun |
| 城门 城門 | city gate | Proper Noun |
| 城外 城外 | outside of a city | Proper Noun |
| 中秋 中秋 | the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month | Proper Noun |
| 村里 村裡 | village; hamlet | Proper Noun |
| 工部 工部 | Ministry of Works (in imperial China) | Proper Noun |
| 围城 圍城 | Fortress Besieged, 1947 novel by Qian Zhongshu, filmed as a TV serial | Proper Noun |
| 兴化 興化 | Xinghua, county-level city in Taizhou, Jiangsu | Proper Noun |
| 洛阳 洛陽 | Luoyang, prefecture-level city in Henan Province | Proper Noun |
| 康熙 康熙 | Kangxi, title of the reign (1661-1722) of the Kangxi Emperor | Proper Noun |
| 小镇 小鎮 | small town; village | Proper Noun |
| 西游记 西遊記 | "Journey to the West", a Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, also known as "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey" | Proper Noun |
| 龙门 龍門 | Longmen county in Huizhou, Guangdong; mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon | Proper Noun |
| 山村 山村 | mountain village | Proper Noun |
| 长春 長春 | Changchun, sub-provincial city and capital of Jilin Province | Proper Noun |
| 白银 白銀 | Baiyin, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province | Proper Noun |
| 西城 西城 | Xicheng, a district of central Beijing | Proper Noun |
| 中古 中古 | Sino-Cuban; China-Cuba | Proper Noun |
| 黑龙江 黑龍江 | Heilongjiang Province, capital Harbin; Heilong River or Amur River, forming the border between northeast China and Russia | Proper Noun |
| 新城 新城 | Xincheng or Hsincheng township in Hualien County, east Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 复姓 復姓 | to revert to one's original surname | Proper Noun |
| 汉族 漢族 | Han ethnic group | Proper Noun |
| 南朝 南朝 | Southern Dynasties (420-589) | Proper Noun |
| 民国 民國 | Republic of China (1912-1949); used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911) | Proper Noun |
| 楚国 楚國 | the state of Chu, one of the most important of the small states contending for power in China between 770 and 223 BC, located around present-day Hubei | Proper Noun |
| 龙潭 龍潭 | Longtan district of Jilin city 吉林市, Jilin province; see also; Longtan or Lungtan township in Taoyuan county, north Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 约瑟夫 約瑟夫 | Joseph (name) | Proper Noun |
| 美洲 美洲 | America (including North, Central and South America); the Americas; abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 马面 馬面 | Horse-Face, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology | Proper Noun |
| 张旭 張旭 | Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草書|草书 | Proper Noun |
| 西亚 西亞 | Southwest Asia | Proper Noun |
| 汉代 漢代 | the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) | Proper Noun |
| 村寨 村寨 | (stockaded) village | Proper Noun |
| 老城区 老城區 | Laocheng district of Luoyang City, Henan | Proper Noun |
| 北朝 北朝 | Northern Dynasties (386-581) | Proper Noun |
| 金牛 金牛 | Taurus (star sign); Jinniu district of Chengdu city, Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 台山 台山 | Taishan, county-level city in Jiangmen 江門|江门, Guangdong | Proper Noun |
| 龙门山 龍門山 | Mt Longmen, the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin, an active geological fault line; Mt Longmen in Shandong; Mt Longmen in Henan | Proper Noun |
| 名城 名城 | famous city | Proper Noun |
| 天河区 天河區 | Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, Guangdong | Proper Noun |