The Mystery of the Song Dynasty Painting (30 page)

Authors: Adeline Yen Mah

dai zhao	imperial attendant
Dian Yue	Music Managers
Fo Ni	Northern Song Dynasty Buddhist nun, the religious name of Zhang Mei Lan
Gao Bi Zi	‘tall nose’
Gege	older brother
Han Lin Hua Yuan Shang Shu	Director of the Royal Academy of Art
Hu Bu Shang Shu	Minister of Revenue
Huizong	Eighth Emperor of the Song Dynasty ( AD 1082–1135; reigned AD 1100–1126)
Jiang Fei Fei	a friend of CC’s Big Aunt
Lao Ban	proprietor, boss
Lao Lao	maternal grandmother; although Mei Lan would normally only call her birth mother’s mother Lao Lao, she uses this term for her stepmother’s mother too
Lao Ye	Old Master (term of address)
Lei Wei	renowned Tang Dynasty instrument maker, whose name means ‘Mighty Thunder’