Chencang

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'en-ts'ang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陳倉／陈仓 (Chéncāng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: chǔnʹtsängʹ

Proper noun

Chencang

1. A district of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1988, Robin D. S. Yates, Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910)‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123:

     Ch’en-ts'ang, an ancient name for Tang Feng-hsiang, the modern Pao-chi (Precious Pheasant) county, Shensi. The name derives from the story Wei alludes to: In ancient times, Duke Wen of Ch'in was hunting at Ch'en-ts’ang and encountered the magic bird on the north slope of Ch'en-ts'ang Mountain. It seemed like a stone and was the color of liver. When he returned, he sacrificed to it. It was thought to come from the southeast and possessed a voice like thunder which made all the wild pheasants call.]

   • 2012, Peter S. Wells, “Contacts, Commerce, and the Dynamics of New Visual Patterns”, in How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times‎^[2], Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 204:

     A gold tiger fitting from Weijiaya, Chencang District, Baoji City, dating to the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), has decorative spirals on its haunches very much like many of the animals found in Early La Tène contexts—the dogs on the rim of the Basse-Yutz flagons and the hybrid creature on the lid of the jug in Grave 2 at the Glauberg, for example.

   • 2014 March 27, Wei Chen et al., “Landslide susceptibility mapping based on GIS and information value model for the Chencang District of Baoji, China”, in Arabian Journal of Geosciences‎^[3], volume 7, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     The main objective of this study was to apply a statistical (information value) model using geographic information system (GIS) to the Chencang District of Baoji, China.

   • 2022, Qingzhu Liu, “Archaeological Discoveries and Studies About the Ancient Capitals”, in Jing He, transl., A History of Un-fractured Chinese Civilization in Archaeological Interpretation‎^[4], Springer, Sichuan People's Publishing House, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 216:

     He Zun, an early Western Zhou bronze vessel was unearthed from Jiacun Town, Baoji prefecture in Shaanxi Province (now known as Chencang District of Baoji) in 1963.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陳倉／陈仓 (zh) (Chéncāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can