Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Erlitou.
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Through comparison with the remnants of mud walls on the foundations of the large early Shang palace found in Erhlitou, Yenshih County,⁴ Honan Province, it may be assumed that between the main wooden columns there were smaller wooden posts set close together with weeds and ropes thrust between them, and straw-reinforced mud plastered on top to form "mud walls reinforced with timber rods."
1978, Panlungcheng Excavation Team, “Panlungcheng, the Remains of a Shang City”, in New Archaeological Friends in China (II) More Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution, 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, pages 26, 31
Origin
- Mandarin二里頭
- EnglishErhlitou
From Mandarin 二里頭 (Èrlǐtóu), Wade–Giles romanization: Êrh⁴-li³-tʻou².
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