an old monk sitting in meditation

Regular course of official duties

Coarse food and coarse clothing

salient points

Homeless and wandering from place to place

all-out and sweeping

have a forbidding manner(look severe)

make several cross-examinations

A scene of bustling activity

act according to circumstances(trim one's sails to the wind)

the imperial palace

charming manners of a well-be-haved and dignified country girl

Years pass by quickly.(Youth slips away like flowing water.)

found a state and bring peace to it

Death of a sovereign

as it ought to be

for the sake of formality only

Measure the time

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