1 legendary

2 fantasy saga

3 romance

4 short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty

1 strange

2 odd

3 to marvel

4 to be baffled

1 miracle

2 miraculous

3 wonder

4 marvel

1 magical

2 mystical

3 miraculous

1 forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031

2 cf 辛亥革命[Xīn hài Gé mìng], Xinhai Revolution of 1911

1 not at all surprising (idiom)

1 to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)

1 lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)

1 fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)

1 to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations

2 with difficulty

3 after some effort