Tan-feng

English

Map including Tan-feng (Lung-chü-chai) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 丹鳳／丹凤 (Dānfèng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-fêng⁴.

Proper noun

Tan-feng

1. Alternative form of Danfeng
   • 1972, Chang Kuo-tʻao, The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party 1928-1938‎^[1], volume II, University Press of Kansas, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 312:

     The mountainous terrain of the areas on the Shensi-Hupeh border favored us if we should engage the enemy, but the place was so poor that both food and cloth were scarce. So we had to turn our way towards more prosperous districts like Tan-feng, Shang-hsien, and Lo-nan in southern Shensi.

   • 1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Chʻien, edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records‎^[2], volume 1, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:

     ¹⁹²Located southeast of modern Tan-feng 丹鳳 County in Shensi near the intersection of the three modern provinces of Honan, Shensi, and Hupei (Wang Li-ch'i, 6:127n.).

   • [1997, William Watson, Studies in Chinese Archaeology and Art‎^[3], volume 1, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112:

     Several excavated examples are on record, including one from Tan Feng Hsien in Shensi which bears the date 1119.]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tan-feng.

Translations

Danfeng — see Danfeng