Chencang

Ch’en-ts'ang, an ancient name for Tang Feng-hsiang, the modern Pao-chi (Precious Pheasant) county, Shensi. The name derives from the story Wei alludes to: In ancient times, Duke Wen of Ch'in was hunting at Ch'en-ts’ang and encountered the magic bird on the north slope of Ch'en-ts'ang Mountain. It seemed like a stone and was the color of liver. When he returned, he sacrificed to it. It was thought to come from the southeast and possessed a voice like thunder which made all the wild pheasants call.

[1988, Robin D. S. Yates, Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123

A gold tiger fitting from Weijiaya, Chencang District, Baoji City, dating to the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), has decorative spirals on its haunches very much like many of the animals found in Early La Tène contexts—the dogs on the rim of the Basse-Yutz flagons and the hybrid creature on the lid of the jug in Grave 2 at the Glauberg, for example.

2012, Peter S. Wells, “Contacts, Commerce, and the Dynamics of New Visual Patterns”, in How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times, Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 204

The main objective of this study was to apply a statistical (information value) model using geographic information system (GIS) to the Chencang District of Baoji, China.

2014 March 27, Wei Chen et al., “Landslide susceptibility mapping based on GIS and information value model for the Chencang District of Baoji, China”, in Arabian Journal of Geosciences, volume 7, →ISSN, →OCLC