Lan-t'ien

English thumb|Map including Lan-t'ien (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1975) Etymology From en cmn 藍田 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Lan²-tʻien².Lantian man, Wade-Giles Lan-t’ien, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Lantian. en https://archive.org/details/journalofroyalas2718roya/ 1895 The Lî Sâo Poem and its Author w:James Legge w:Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Stephen Austin and Sons 85 https://archive.org/details/journalofroyalas2718roya/page/n104/ On this king Hwâi called out all the military strength of his kingdom and led it deep into Chʻin, with whose forces another battle was fought at Lan-tʻien.². . .² Meaning "Indigo Fields." A district of the department of Hsî-an still bears the name. en https://archive.org/details/ancientchinadisc00wats/ 1974 0-8212-0608-7 Ancient China: The Discoveries of post-Liberation Chinese archaeology William Watson (sinologist) William Watson New York Graphic Society 19 We have imagined the habitat of Lan-tʻien Man and his palaeolithic successors to be relatively open terrain of woods and grassland. en 1983 Valjean McLenighan China, A History to 1949 https://archive.org/details/chinahistoryto1900mcle/ Chicago w:Children's Press 0-516-02754-9 83-14260 33944801 10 https://archive.org/details/chinahistoryto1900mcle/page/10/ The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools. en https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787696023/ 2008 William Watson (sinologist) William Watson Wang Wei Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Jelena Krstovic w:Gale Cengage Learning 100 978-0-7876-9602-3 955125270 286 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787696023/page/286/ Of more importance are Wang Wei's descriptions of landscapes, particularly those at his country home at Lan-t'ien southeast of Ch'ang-an. Translations Lantian References Anagrams en aeilnnt Eltanin leant in tan line