Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Anlu.
Some idea of the activities of an urban landlord may be had from the following two passages, both written by natives of An-lu in Hupeh.
1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1314 more examples
In 303 the harvest had been abundant in the region of Chiang-hsia 江夏 (the modern An-lu 安陸 in Hupei), and, as a result, thousands of vagebonds^([sic – meaning vagabonds]) had flocked there together.
1959, E. Zürcher, The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →OCLC, →OL, page 347He had visited Tung Ting Lake, Hsiang Yang, Nanking, Yangchow and other places, and came to An-lu ostensibly to visit Yun Meng which Szema Hsiang-ju wrote about in Tse Hsu Fu. In An-lu, he found himself married.[...]After a few years in An-lu, Li Po was apparently bored with the life he was leading and set out once again to visit Lo-yang.
1964, Lai Ming, A History of Chinese Literature, London: Cassell, →OCLC, page 150About 726 he married the grand-daughter of Hsü Yü-shih, who had been Chief Minister in 657, and lived for some years at the family residence of the Hsüs in An-lu, north of Hankow.
1969, Arthur Waley, The Poetry and Career of Li Po, 701-762 A.D., London: George Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9In the fourth year of the reign of the Emperor Hsiao Wu [r. 372-396] of the Chin Dynasty [265-420], Hsüeh Tao-hsün of An-lu County in the Chiang-hsia Commandery [in Hupeh Province] was twenty-two.
1985, Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic: Selections from the Third to the Tenth Century, Hong Kong: Joint Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135
Origin
From Mandarin 安陸／安陆 (Ānlù) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-lu⁴.
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