齐民要术

Essential skill to benefit the people, sixth century encyclopedia of agricultural knowledge by Jia Sixie 賈思勰|贾思勰[Jia3 Si1 xie2]

to demand / to request / to coerce

important / vital / to want / to ask for / will / going to (as future auxiliary) / may / must / (used in a comparison) must be / probably / if

(bound form) to demand; to coerce

to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]) / (bound form) important

method / technique

various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea

(name of states and dynasties at several different periods) / surname Qi

neat / even / level with / identical / simultaneous / all together / to even sth out

surname Min

(bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country