Meanings
An-yang1
- alternativeAlternative form of Anyang.
By early in the second millennium B.C., states had developed indigenously in North China. An-yang, the last capital of the Shang dynasty, was excavated first in the later 1920s and remains one of the best-known early Chinese cities.
2008, Theron Douglas Price, Images of the Past, 5th edition, McGraw Hill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4334 more examples
There exist specimens from An-yang, the capital of the later kings of that dynasty, which can only be dated to that period of bronze decoration to which Professor Yetts has applied the term "First Phase," historically the latter part of the Shang-Yin and early part of the Chou dynasties (Antiquity, vol. 12, 1938).
1939, C. G. Seligman, “The Roman Orient and the Far East”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Government Printing Office, page 549Barnard, basing his researches on former investigations of Orvar Karlbeck, Shih Chang-ju, and others and on recent Chinese mainland archaeological reports, has dealt with early Chinese furnaces, crucibles, and ingot molds discovered at An-yang and other early sites in China.
1969, Rutherford John Gettens, The Freer Chinese Bronzes, volume 2, Washington, D.C.: Meriden Gravure Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16Fieldwork was resumed soon after the establishment of the communist regime in 1949, and during the following eighteen years archaeology in all its phases of operation flourished in China as never before. With a few notable exceptions- Chou-k'ou-tien and An-yang, among others- the bulk of the most important archaeological material for the ancient period has been uncovererd during this interval as must be clear from a scrutiny of the footnotes of this book.
1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, published 1976, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12During the following decades the bones were traced to a field near An-yang, around three hundred miles southwest of Beijing. During the 1920s and '30s, some twenty-five thousand oracle bones were excavated there, from what may have been a palace archive.
2002 December 1, Dick Teresi, “'Lost Discoveries'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2017
An-Yang2
- alternativeAlternative form of Anyang.
In addition to glazed ceramics we have, for the first time, actual remnants of wood — not simply imprints in the earth like those found at An-Yang.
1964, Sherman E. Lee, “Chinese Art of the Shang and Chou Dynasties”, in A History of Far Eastern Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49, column 12 more examples
There are An-Yang bronzes with inlays of turquoise, and many vessels reported to have come from An-Yang have the deeper parts of the pattern filled with a black, probably bituminous substance which may have served as a kind of inlay purposed to emphasize the details of the design.
1934, “Postscript”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, number 6, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 136This broad yu came from An-Yang, the final capital of the Yin (also called Shang) Dynasty, which ruled from about 1525 to 1028 B.C., according to the revised conclusions of Dr. Bernhard Karlgren and other scholars.
1954 November, Helen Comstock, “The Connoisseur in America”, in The Connoisseur, volume CXXXIV, number 540, →OCLC, page 220
Origin
An-yang · proper noun
From Mandarin 安陽／安阳 (Ānyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-yang².
Full word history & related roots →An-Yang · proper noun
From Mandarin 安陽／安阳 (Ānyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-Yang².
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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