Open F2F Class Notes December 21st (Ben)

Vocabulary

冬至 the Winter solstice

先祖 an ancestor = a person in your family who lived along time ago

sweep / swept /swept

Tomb-Sweeping Day – 清明节

nostalgic = that makes you remember the happy past

Hearing Shandongnese makes me feel nostalgic as my grandparents spoke it.

go by = pass

They cried at first but stopped as time went by.

to be reincarnated = 投胎

carn = flesh 肉 (carnivore 食肉动物)

re = again

in = inside

incarnate = in flesh = like a human body

This man is the devil incarnate.

reincarnate = go into flesh again = to become alive again

a monk = 僧人，和尚