"Tradition" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 chuán tǒng tradition / traditional / convention / conventional / CL:個|个[ge4]
 xí sú custom / tradition / local tradition / convention
 jì chéng to inherit / to succeed to (the throne etc) / to carry on (a tradition etc)
 wǔ shù military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL:種|种[zhong3]
 chuán chéng to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
 xiāng chuán to pass on / to hand down / tradition has it that ... / according to legend
线 duàn xiàn (of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off
 bí zǔ the earliest ancestor / originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
 zhēn chuán authentic tradition / handed-down teachings or techniques
 yí fēng tradition or style from the past / old ways / surviving tradition / relic
 Xū mí Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原[Gu4 yuan2], Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues
 mín jiān chuán shuō popular tradition / folk legend
 Liáng Shù míng Liang Shuming (1893-1988), modern philosopher and teacher in the neo-Confucian tradition
 mén fēng family tradition / family principles
 Guān Hàn qīng Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 / tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
 bào cán shǒu quē to cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom) / conservative / stickler for tradition
 Mǎ Zhì yuǎn Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧[za2 ju4] tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家[Yuan2 qu3 Si4 Da4 jia1]
沿 yán along / to follow (a line, tradition etc) / to carry on / to trim (a border with braid, tape etc) / border / edge
 wén huà chuán tǒng cultural tradition
·  Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
 Bái Pǔ Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 / tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
 Zhèng Guāng zǔ Zheng Guangzu, Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 / tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
 Xū mí shān Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原[Gu4 yuan2], Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues
  legal tradition
 Tuō mǎ sī · A1 kuí nà Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
 qí mén dùn jiǎ ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
· Tuō mǎ sī · A1 kuí nà Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
 Zhào gōng yuán shuài Marshal Zhao, aka Zhao Gongming or Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
 Zhào Gōng míng Zhao Gongming, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
 Zhào Xuán tán Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
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