Honan

honan hönan Ho-nan English <dab!> Etymology 1 thumb|Map including part of HONAN PROVINCE zh 河南省 (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) From the en zh-postal - of the Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect en cmn 河南 Hénán [land] south of the river. Pronunciation hō′năn′Honan 797 2 Honan (hō′năn′, Chinese hŭ′nän′)Ho·nan or Ho-nan 322 2 en Ho nan Proper noun en dated en Henan, in its various senses. en 1671 Arnoldus Montanus w:John Ogilby Atlas Chinensis https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_atlas-chinensis-being-a_dapper-olfert_1671/ nl London Tho. Johnson 11283434 507 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_atlas-chinensis-being-a_dapper-olfert_1671/page/507/ THe fifth Province of Honan, hath receiv'd its Name from the Situation of the place, for Honan ſignifies The South ſide of a River ; for it lies on the South Shore of the Yellow River, which flowing from Eaſt to Weſt, ſeparates it from the Province of Xanſi and Peking, though to the Eaſt, toward the ſide of Peking it hath ſome Towns. en https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117169/ 1693 Of China Geography Rectified; or a Description of the World 3rd w:Robert Morden 439–440 https://archive.org/details/geographyrectifi00mord/page/439/ The Province of Honan, by the Chineſes thought to lie in the middle of the World, becauſe it lies in the midſt of China ; it is divided into nine Territories or Countries, having one hundred and eight Cities. en 1701 Joan Luyts; w:Herman Moll A System of Geography, Part the Second https://archive.org/details/systemofgeograph00moll/ London 6460837 48 https://archive.org/details/systemofgeograph00moll/page/48/ The Province of Honan lies on both ſides the River Hoang, and (according to the Opinion of the Inhabitants) in the Centre of the Terreſtrial Globe ; abounding with Rivulets and all manner of Delights, the Air being very Temperate, and the Soil exceeding fruitful : Inſomuch that it is reputed a kind of Paradiſe by the Chineſes, and upon that Account it was heretofore choſen at ſeveral times, for the Seat of the Imperial Court : It is divided into nine Parts, whoſe chief Towns are Hoaiking ; Honan ; Caifung, the Capital City ; Changto ; Queite ; Guihoei ; Juning ; and Nanyang ; a hundred more principal Cities ſtand in this Province. en https://archive.org/details/twentyfiveyearsi0000mcke/ 1913 Twenty-five Years in Honan Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie, D.D. Hunter-Rose Co. Toronto 1 https://archive.org/details/twentyfiveyearsi0000mcke/page/1 "THE MIDDLE KINGDOM" was one of the earliest names given by the Chinese to designate the land which they inhabited. The use of this name with reference to China dates from the period of the Chow dynasty, about B.C. 1150. The Imperial family gave the name to its own state Honan, because it was central to all the other states. As the empire grew the name remained and for many centuries this was one of the titles given by the natives to the entire territory ruled by their Emperor. China was believed to be central to all other nations, Honan was central in China, and it was easy to conclude that the Chinese were the most important people of the world. During the eventful millenniums of China's chequered history, rulers and statesmen deemed it wise no fewer than seventeen times to change the situation of the nation's capital. It says something for the importance of Honan that seven times out of the seventeen the honour of having one of its cities chosen as capital feel to this province. en https://archive.org/details/handbookofchines00medl/ 1965 A Handbook of Chinese Art for Collectors and Students Margaret Medley Horizon Press Publishers 71 https://archive.org/details/handbookofchines00medl/page/71 Ju is an imperial ware of the Sung Dynasty, that takes its name from the district in Honan where it was first developed; the kiln site has not yet been firmly identified. The ware is generally believed to have been made for the Northern Sung court only from A.D. 1107 to 1127, the latter date coinciding with the enforced withdrawal of the court to Hang-chou in the south, as the result of the Chin Tartar invasion from the north. en https://archive.org/details/treasuresfromrie0000brin/ 1980 Treasures from the Rietberg Museum Helmut Brinker; Eberhard Fischer (art historian) Eberhard Fischer 0-87848-055-2 132 https://archive.org/details/treasuresfromrie0000brin/page/132 Perhaps the most important monument of Chinese Buddhist sculpture in the Rietberg collection, this stele was acquired by Baron von der Heydt before 1924, after having been in the possession of C.T. Loo, Paris. It is most likely the work of a metropolitan sculptor's atelier located in the vicinity of present Cheng-chou in Honan Province. en 1982 Thomas Lawton Chinese Art of the Warring States Period https://archive.org/details/chineseartofwarr00lawt/ w:Smithsonian Institution 0-934686-50-5 82-600184 13520365 8390737M 24 https://archive.org/details/chineseartofwarr00lawt/page/24/ More recently, a Ch’u tomb at Hsi-ch’uan, Honan Province, dated to the Spring and Autumn period, has yielded several bronze vessels with decoration that suggests to the authors of the archaeological report that they might have been cast by the lost-wax method (see WW, no. 10 [1980]: 21–26, especially p. 23, pls. 1–2). en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-11-20_24_46/ November 20, 1983 Fighter Pilot Reaches Freedom In ROC Free China Weekly XXIV 46 Taipei 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-11-20_24_46/ Wang, a native of Honan Province, told government officials he had taken off from an airfield in Taishan, an island 75 miles southeast of Shanghai on the east coast of mainland China.. . .As the news of the freedom flight hit the streets of Taiwan, rounds of firecrackers could be heard exploding throughout the cities, and residents put up posters to both announce the news and express their welcome for the young pilot from Honan Province. en https://archive.org/details/fivehundredyears00yosh/ 1989 Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650 Kōjirō Yoshikawa Yoshikawa Kōjirō John Timothy Wixted w:Princeton University Press 35 https://archive.org/details/fivehundredyears00yosh/page/35/ It was about this time that Emperor Ai-tsung, who had fled Kai-feng in hopes of mounting a counteroffensive, committed suicide in Tsʻai-chou, Honan. en January 3, 2022 Dishan Joseph Understanding Chinese heritage and culture https://web.archive.org/web/20220102211703/https://www.dailynews.lk/2022/01/03/features/269138/understanding-chinese-heritage-and-culture 02 January 2022 w:Daily Mail The central territory of the Shang realm lay in north-western Honan, alongside the Shansi Mountains and extending into the plains. It was a peasant civilization with towns. The Shang state had its centre in northern Honan, north of the Yellow river. en Etymology 2 Reduced Anglicized form of en ga Ó hEoghanáin descendant of Eoghanán, a personal name derived from a diminutive of ga Eoghan. Pronunciation en Proper noun s en Irish. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Honan is the 24305th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1032 individuals. Honan is most common among White (94.57%) individuals. References Further reading pn