鼎

ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes

thriving / flourishing

flourishing period / golden age

flourishing age / golden age

lit. the three legs of a tripod / fig. three competing rivals

competition between three rivals / tripartite confrontation

lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material / casting pearls before swine

change of dynasties / clear out the old, bring in the new

extravagant food

great / very important

famous / celebrated