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Chencang
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Chéncāng
English
Chencang District
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 陳倉.
Pronunciation
chǔnʹtsängʹ
en Chen cang
Proper noun
en district prefecture-level city/Baoji province/Shaanxi c/China.
en 1988 Robin D. S. Yates Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910) https://archive.org/details/washingsilklifes0000yate/ 0-674-94775-4 87-29642 924980345 2399586M 123 https://archive.org/details/washingsilklifes0000yate/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. on
en 2012 Peter S. Wells Peter S. Wells Contacts, Commerce, and the Dynamics of New Visual Patterns How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times https://archive.org/details/howancienteurope0000well/ Princeton; Oxford w:Princeton University Press 978-0-691-14338-5 2012001534 775897855 204 https://archive.org/details/howancienteurope0000well/page/204/ https://books.google.com/books?id=6R2UtWjhWj8C&pg=PA204 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.
en 27 March 2014 Wei Chen; et al. Landslide susceptibility mapping based on GIS and information value model for the Chencang District of Baoji, China Arabian Journal of Geosciences https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12517-014-1369-z 7 1866-7511 298256609 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20240621041615/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12517-014-1369-z 21 June 2024
en 2022 Qingzhu Liu Archaeological Discoveries and Studies About the Ancient Capitals Jing He A History of Un-fractured Chinese Civilization in Archaeological Interpretation https://books.google.com/books?id=6i-wEAAAQBAJ Springer, Sichuan People's Publishing House 10.1007/978-981-19-3946-4 978-981-19-3945-7 1338666896 216 https://books.google.com/books?id=6i-wEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA216 He zun 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:
Cantonese: yue 陳倉
Mandarin: cmn 陳倉 Chéncāng
Japanese: ja