imperial or royal court / government / dynasty / reign of a sovereign or emperor / court or assembly held by a sovereign or emperor / to make a pilgrimage to / facing / towards

morning

dynasty / reign (of a king)

abbr. for 朝鮮｜朝鲜 Korea

in full swing (idiom) / (in a) frenzy / buzzing with activity

at the present / now

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

tomorrow morning / the following morning

Tang dynasty (618-907)

Asahi (Japanese place name, company name etc)

morning sun

toward / to face / to open onto / to turn towards / orientation / exposure / Qibla (Islam)

North Korea / Korea as geographic term / Taiwan pr. [Chao2 xian1]

vitality / dynamism

sitting (currently serving, e.g. board members)

dynasty

Sui dynasty (581-617)

Northern and Southern dynasties (420-589)

Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

court / imperial household / dynasty

from dawn to dusk / all the time

morning and night / all the time

Chaotian district of Guangyuan city 廣元市｜广元市, Sichuan

to have an audience with the Emperor / to be presented at court / to look skyward / to look up

Song Dynasty (960-1279) / also Song of Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479)

laws and discipline of imperial court

the imperial court / the government in imperial times

Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)

Korean ethnic group in China (mainly in northeast China) / the Koreans (major ethnic group on the Korean Peninsula)

Southern Dynasties (420-589)

one day / sometime in the future

Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC)

Resist US, help North Korea (1950s slogan)

all levels of society / the imperial court and the ordinary people

Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on imperial China / Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

full of youthful energy (idiom); vigorous / energetic / a bright spark

the previous dynasty

Zhaoge, capital of the Shang dynasty 商朝 / Zhaoge town in Qi county 淇縣｜淇县, Hebi 鶴壁｜鹤壁, Henan

court councilor

to worship / to make customary deferences to / a pilgrimage

Zhou Dynasty / Western Zhou 西周 (1046-771 BC) and Eastern Zhou 東周｜东周 (770-221 BC)

Sino-Korean / China and North Korea

(idiom) to seize every minute; to make the best use of one's time

Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC)

to make a pilgrimage

to yearn for sth day and night (idiom)

Northern Dynasties (386-581)

morning dew / fig. precarious brevity of human life / ephemeral

Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 BC)

(literary) tomorrow (morning)

Chen of the Southern dynasties (557-589)

lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold

to transition to a new dynasty or regime

at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state / imminent crisis / living from hand to mouth

to make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy (idiom)

Six Dynasties (220-589)

court dress in former times

Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing / also known as Liu Song 劉宋｜刘宋

facing / advancing (towards)

to have an audience (with the Emperor)

to present tribute (to the emperor)

to hold a court audience / to govern from the imperial throne (applies esp. to Empress Dowager or Regent)

the current dynasty

the current dynasty

Chaoyang inner district of Beijing / Chaoyang district, Changchun city, Jilin

Korean Goryeo Dynasty, 918-1392

to give audience (of emperor) / retainers' duty to pay respect to sovereign / hajj (Islam)

serve Qin in the morning Chu in the evening (idiom); quick to switch sides

North and South Korea

early morning sunlight

cautious and diligent all day long (idiom)

a beautiful day / cf Birthday of the Flowers on lunar 15th February and Mid-autumn Festival on lunar 15th August

four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back

Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD)

Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真 people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty

Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)

Wiman Korea (195-108 BC), historical kingdom in Manchuria, Liaoning and North Korea

variant of 朝廷

lit. not to have breakfast until the enemy is destroyed / anxious to do battle (idiom)

to go on a pilgrimage and offer incense (idiom)

Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties / generic term for historic period 220-589 between Han and Sui

lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening / to correct an error very quickly (idiom)

Korean written language

"Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk", a collection of autobiographical essays by Lu Xun 魯迅｜鲁迅

lit. one morning and one evening (idiom) / fig. in a short period of time / overnight

He Chao (active c. 711), Tang dynasty poet

Japan and Korea (esp. North Korea)

(derog.) the Chinese Communist regime (variant of 天朝 Celestial Empire, invented to circumvent censorship)

to visit North Korea

Korean nuclear problem

to suspend business at the imperial court on account of a misfortune

North and South Korea / bilateral Korean relations

TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō (1906-1979), Japanese physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger

bogus dynasty / pretender

to live in the moment (idiom) / to live every day as if it were one's last / to enjoy while one can

Chaoyang district in east and northeast Beijing, a county level district of Beijing municipality / Chaoyang prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省｜辽宁省 in northeast China / Chaoyang district of Changchun city 長春市｜长春市, Jilin / Chaoyang county in Chaoyang 朝陽｜朝阳, Liaoning

to be exposed to the sun / in a position facing the sun

the morning sun

Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD)

reception room for officials (in former times)