gāo yao
herbal plaster applied to a wound
Yú yáo
Yuyao county level city in Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Ning2 bo1], Zhejiang
wǔ dì
Five Emperors from legendary times
possibly tribal leaders before the historiographers got working on them
usually taken to be Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4] and four of his sons Zhuan Xu 顓頊|颛顼[Zhuan1 Xu1], Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4], Tang Yao 唐堯|唐尧[Tang2 Yao2], Yu Shun 虞舜[Yu2 Shun4]
xiān wáng
former kings
former emperors
in Confucian writing, refers esp. to the sage rulers Yao 堯|尧[Yao2], Shun 舜[Shun4], Yu 禹[Yu3], Tang 湯|汤[Tang1] and the kings of Zhou
shān yao dàn
(dialect) potato
rube
yokel
gǒu pí gāo yao
dogskin plaster, used in TCM for treating contusions, rheumatism etc
quack medicine
sham goods
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