Sanxia

English Sanxia District, New Taipei Alternative forms en Sanhsia Wade-Giles en Sansia Tongyong Pinyin Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 三峽// Sānxiá. Pronunciation sän′shyä′en 1952 Sansia or San-hsia Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1684 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1684/ 3 Sansia or San-hsia (both: sän′shyä′), Jap. [Japanese] Sankyo (säng′kyō), en San xia Proper noun en district city/New Taipei c/Taiwan. en 1982 Stevan Harrell Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan<t:zh 犁舌尾> https://archive.org/details/ploughsharevilla0000harr/ Seattle; London w:University of Washington Press 0-295-95946-0 82-8333 8452134 184, 217 https://archive.org/details/ploughsharevilla0000harr/page/184/ The festival is organized on four levels. The highest of these includes all the inhabitants of the southern Taibei Basin who are of Anxi origin: everyone in Sanxia township; people living in those parts of Shulin township that are closest to, and formally part of, the economic as well as the ritual hinterland of Sanxia, including all of Shitouxi, Shanzijiao, and Pengcuo; all of Yingge township; and that area known as Zhongzhuang, which is actually located in Taoyuan County, but was settled by residents of the Sanxia and Yingge areas. The ritual center for this level of organization is the Tiong-hok Giam, an imposing temple in the heart of Sanxia town that houses fifty or sixty carved wooden images of the black-faced deity Co-su Kong. Sanxia (M) [Mandarin] zh 三峽 Translations district Chinese: Cantonese: yue 三峽 Mandarin: cmn 三峽 Sānxiá References