南柯记

南柯記

Nánkējì

proper noun

Meanings

1 The Southern Bough, Tang Xianzu's 1600 play about a man who lives a whole career in a dream of an ant kingdom

HSK 4

《南柯记》是汤显祖的“临川四梦”之一。

《 Nánkējì 》 shì Tāng Xiǎnzǔ de " Línchuān sì mèng " zhīyī.

The Southern Bough is one of Tang Xianzu's Four Dreams of Linchuan.

HSK 7-9

《南柯记》里的淳于棼在梦里做了二十年的官，醒来才发现那个王国只是一个蚂蚁窝。

《 Nánkējì 》 lǐ de Chúnyú Fén zài mèng lǐ zuò le èrshí nián de guān, xǐnglái cái fāxiàn nàge wángguó zhǐshì yí ge mǎyǐ wō.

In The Southern Bough, Chunyu Fen serves as an official for twenty years in a dream, then wakes to find the kingdom was only an ants' nest.

history

Finished in 1600, it is based on the Tang tale 南柯太守传 by 李公佐, which also gave the idiom 南柯一梦 'a Nanke dream', a short-lived dream of glory.

usage

南柯 'southern bough' is the branch of the locust tree under which the ants' kingdom lay, and the name of the province Chunyu Fen governs in his dream.

南 nán

柯 Kē

记 jì