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surname Chen / Chen (c. 1045 - 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state / Chen (557-589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝[Nan2 Chao2]

to lay out; to exhibit; to display / to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell / old; stale

surname Dong

east / host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest) / landlord

Character component without intrinsic meaning

metabolism (biology) / the new replaces the old (idiom)

lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion

to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate

to reveal / to confess

Chen Renxi (1581-1636), late Ming scholar and prolific author

to arrange / to spread out / to narrate in detail / to describe at great length / to elaborate

to give an orderly account / a thorough narrative

lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion

to lay out (an argument) item by item / memorandum to a superior

to lie in disarray / to cut across / to traverse

to state one's humble opinion (idiom)

to say straight out / to point out bluntly / to give a straightforward account / to disclose

tarragon

Chen Zhonglin or Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳|许仲琳[Xu3 Zhong4 lin2] (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, to whom the fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods 封神演義|封神演义[Feng1 shen2 Yan3 yi4] is attributed, together with Lu Xixing 陸西星|陆西星[Lu4 Xi1 xing1]

to be nothing to write home about (idiom)

with complex feelings (idiom)

food grains (rice, wheat, barley, beans, soybeans, sesame)

Chen of the Southern dynasties (557-589)

to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate / to go beyond old ideas / advancing all the time

see 推陳出新|推陈出新[tui1 chen2 chu1 xin1]