也能称之皇嗣?
“and you call it an imperial heir?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“A bastard who can't be brought into the light,”
也能 称之皇嗣 ?
“and you call it an imperial heir?”
阿娘
“Mother.”
“That bastard has no right whatsoever to be considered imperial blood.”
In dynastic China, an imperial heir's legitimacy required strict ritual sanction; illicit offspring were seen as threats to royal sanctity and clan succession.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
imperial heir; royal descendant
A classical court term reserved specifically for offspring belonging to the royal or imperial lineage.
call it / refer to it as
A concise literary collocation combining the verb for 'calling/referring to' with the classical third-person pronoun.