Hsi-ch'uan

English Etymology From en cmn 淅川 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hsi¹-chʻuan¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Xichuan. en 1982 Thomas Lawton Bronze Vessels, Fittings, and Weapons 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/ 1 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 1983 Family Background and Childhood in Chefoo, Shantung Province Regional Oral History Office interview https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/record/217626/files/reformchinese00chanrich.pdf Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley Well, my father's ancestral home was not Shantung. His ancestral home was at Hsi-ch'uan hsien, in Nan-yang fu. Honan province. Honan is the central province of China, and, at one time, Loyang, one of the major cities of the province, was the capital. That's where my father's ancestral home was. en 2000 December Chao-jung Chen A Discussion of Bathing and Washing Vessels and Related Issues Based on Bronze Inscriptions and Texts on Ch’u Bamboo Slips: Beginning with Inscriptions on Water Vessels from Ch’u Burials at Hsia-ssu, Hsi-ch’uan https://www1.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/en/Publications/Bulletin/97/Article/152 Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 71 4 Among these bathing utensils at Hsi-ch'uan, the p’an 盤-shallow basin, i 匜-ladle and chien 鑑-basin are the same as their traditional Central Plains counterparts. https://web.archive.org/web/20250524145621/https://www1.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/en/Publications/Bulletin/97/Article/152 24 May 2025 Further reading Hsi-ch'uan, Hsi-chuan, Hsichuan