Ch'eng-tu

Chengtu English thumb|Map including zh 成都 CH'ENG-TU (Army Map Service AMS, 1958) Etymology From en cmn 成都 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chʻêng²-tu¹.Chengdu, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’eng-tu, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Chengdu. en 1919 John Calvin Ferguson John C. Ferguson Outlines of Chinese Art https://archive.org/details/outlineschinese00ferggoog/ Chicago w:University of Chicago Press 877423366 116 https://archive.org/details/outlineschinese00ferggoog/page/n134/ There is a portrait of Confucius at Ch’ü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she t’u, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Ch’êng-tu, Sze-ch’uan. en 1971 Albert Richard Davis w:Tu Fu https://archive.org/details/tufu0110davi/ w:Twayne Publishers 70-120514 656147176 131 https://archive.org/details/tufu0110davi/page/131/ In many poems whose titles suggest that travel is their subject, it proves to be only a minor theme. An exception, however, is the series of poems which Tu Fu wrote during the journey in 759 from Chʻin-chou to Tʻung-ku and on to Chʻeng-tu. This long journey carried out in a short period over strange and extremely difficult terrain powerfully engaged the poet's mind and moved him to commemorate it in a continuing series of immediate impressions. Read together, these poems may be seen as a poetical yu-chi. There are more than twenty poems in all. With the exception of the first, the following come from the second stage from Tʻung-ku to Chʻeng-tu. en 2012 Michael Kenyon A Year at River Mountain https://archive.org/details/yearatrivermount0000keny/ Thistledown Press 978-1-927068-04-5 795756453 26651463M 124 https://archive.org/details/yearatrivermount0000keny/page/124/ Tu Fu's translated poems on the floor. Meanwhile, in Ch'eng-tu, beyond the Ch'in Ling Mountains, Tu Fu found his thatch hut. The year 766 - Western count - Tibet about to invade again. Translations Chengdu References Further reading Ch'eng-tu Ch'eng-tu Ch'eng-tu