Meanings
alternative Fu-feng
- A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, western China.
A vessel almost identical in every particular was excavated at Lü-chai Village, in Fu-feng County, Shensi, in 1975.
[1982, Robert L. Thorp, “A Primer on the Bronze Caster's Art”, in Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23, column 15 more examples
Ch'ishan, a second class district city, much resembles Wukung and Fufeng, and seems fairly prosperous for a city of Central Shensi.
1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 89Three pieces of paper which may date back to between 73 and 49 BC were recently found in Fufeng county, Shaanxi province.
1979 July, “2,000-year-old Paper”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, sourced from Xinhua, Xi'an, May 12, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51, column 1He commanded a 3,000-man Shen-ts'e garrison in Fu-feng County, later transferring to Wu-kung County. Ming-chih spent ten years in the Wei valley defenses.
[1982, Terrence Douglas O'Byrne, “Notes to Chapter Five”, in Civil-Military Relations During the Middle T'ang: The Career of Kuo Tzu-I, Urbana, Ill., →OCLC, page 401Throughout Chinese history, Qishan county in Shaanxi province has been known as the ancestral homeland of the Zhou 周 people. In reality, the actual site of the Zhou homeland, known as the Zhouyuan 周原 (Plain of Zhou), includes only the eastern edge of Qishan county, where it meets Fufeng county (fig. 12-1).
2004, Edward L. Shaughnessy, “Western Zhou Hoard and Family Histories in the Zhouyuan”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor, New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255A monk sits beside a security guard inside Famen Temple in Famen town, Fufeng County, 120 km (74 miles) west of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, March 13, 2011.
2011 March 13, Nicky Loh, “DOCUMENT DATE: March 13, 2011”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2022
Origin
- Mandarin扶風 /扶风
- EnglishFufeng
From Mandarin 扶風 /扶风 (Fúfēng).
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Chinese Cantonese 扶風 /扶风
- 扶風 /扶风 (fu⁴ fung¹)county in western China
Chinese Mandarin 扶風 /扶风
- 扶風 /扶风 (Fúfēng)county in western China
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