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Noun The pinyin spelling of Chinese word “江湖” （jiāng hú）. Literally translates as “Rivers and lakes”. It means the cruel, ruthless real world or society that you need to struggle to survive. It is often used in Wuxia novels(martial art stories) in which “Jiang-hu” equals to “the whole world that concerned”. “Jiang-hu” is the whole world minus the tower of ivory. If you are a swardsman, a police, a hobo, a sweat labor works far from home, a doctor secretly works for mafia, an assassin, a prostitute, a thug... or even a common person who have any kind of relation with those people or there affairs, you are in Jiang-hu. We alse call any world runs the law of jungle a “Jiang-hu”.
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