Xantung

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Xantung

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Shandong
   • 1655, F. Alvarez Semedo, “Bellum Tartaricum”, in The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China‎^[1], E. Tyler, page 266:

     The Tartars hearing of his death (before the China Armie had a new General aſſigned) raiſe the ſiege, ranſack all the Country round about, and after they had made excurſions to the next bordering Province of Xantung, richly laden with all manner of Spoiles, returne to their firſt reſidence in Leaotung.

   • 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[2], London: John Macock, page 226:

     In the chief City of Kingyang are three famous Temples full of Images.
     And in the Province of Xantung, in the chief City of Cinan, are ſeveral.

   • 1693, Robert Morden, “Of China”, in Geography Rectified; or a Description of the World‎^[3], 3rd edition, page 439:

     Xantung may juſtly be eſteemed an Iſland, being waſhed by the Sea on one ſide, and ſeparated by ſeveral Rivers on the other, and is divided into ſix Countries.

   • 1706, Dionysius Kao, A Short Description of the Vaſt Empire of China‎^[4], London, page 168:

     This learned and venerable Confucius lived ſeveral hundred Years (†) before the Birth of Chriſt, was born in the Province of Xantung, as is hinted in the third Chapter, and died according to ſome in the Seventy third, or according to others in the Sixty third year of his Age.

   • 1864, Thomas Lamb Phipson, The Utilization of Minute Life‎^[5], London: Groombridge and Sons, page 68:

     This insect, with whose specific name we are not yet acquainted, is cultivated chiefly in the province of Xantung, like the cochineal in that of Oaxaxa, and there its breed has attained great perfection; but it is also reared with more or less success from the frontiers of Thibet to the Pacific Ocean.

   • 1864 July 23, “Our Little Friends”, in All the Year Round‎^[6], number 274, page 563:

     There is a Chinese coccus that produces from the trees it inhabits tumours as large as a walnut, of a wax-like spermaceti. It begins to appear about June, and is gathered at the beginning of September. In China alone (where it is chiefly cultivated in the province of Xantung) this insect thus produces wax enough for the wants of the whole nation.

Translations

Shandong — see Shandong