@teatyranny: 江湖 means "rivers and lakes" — but no English word fully covers it. It started with Zhuangzi's fish, became where Fan Li vanished to escape the court, then the taverns and back-alleys of Tang poetry, then the outlaw society of Water Margin — and today it's the closest thing China has to "the streets" or "the game." What's a word in your language that shifted this much? #china #chinesehistory #jianghu #wuxia #language #learnchinese #chineseculture #History