[春秋, chūn qiū, ㄔㄨㄣ ㄑㄧㄡ]spring and autumn; four seasons; the year; a person's age; Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), with many states contending for hegemony; Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State 722-481 BC, the earliest surviving Chinese history in the form of a#7093[Add to Longdo]
[九州, Jiǔ zhōu, ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄓㄡ]division of China during earliest dynasties; fig. ancient China; Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands#21810[Add to Longdo]
[三皇五帝, sān huáng wǔ dì, ㄙㄢ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄨˇ ㄉㄧˋ]three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend; the earliest system of Chinese historiography#91298[Add to Longdo]
[tomo](prt) (1) certainly; of course; to be sure; surely; (2) even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); though; although; (3) (with neg. verb) without even; without so much as; (4) (after an adverb) (See 遅くとも) at the (least, earliest, etc.); (5) (sometimes esp. an emphatic form of the particle と) (See と・1, と・2, と・3, と・4) emphatic particle; (P)#841[Add to Longdo]
[しょどう, shodou](n) (1) initial response (e.g. to a crisis); action in the earliest stages; (2) initial shock (e.g. of earthquake); preliminary tremor[Add to Longdo]