Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Xichuan.
Among these bathing utensils at Hsi-ch'uan, the p’an 盤-shallow basin, i 匜-ladle and chien 鑑-basin are the same as their traditional Central Plains counterparts.
2000 December, Chao-jung Chen, “A Discussion of Bathing and Washing Vessels and Related Issues Based on Bronze Inscriptions and Texts on Ch’u Bamboo Slips: Beginning with Inscriptions on Water Vessels from Ch’u Burials at Hsia-ssu, Hsi-ch’uan”, in Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, volume 71, number 42 more examples
More recently, a Ch’u tomb at Hsi-ch’uan, Honan Province, dated to the Spring and Autumn period, has yielded several bronze vessels with decoration that suggests to the authors of the archaeological report that they might have been cast by the lost-wax method (see WW, no. 10 [1980]: 21–26, especially p. 23, pls. 1–2).
1982, Thomas Lawton, “Bronze Vessels, Fittings, and Weapons”, in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24, column 1Well, my father's ancestral home was not Shantung. His ancestral home was at Hsi-ch'uan hsien, in Nan-yang fu. Honan province. Honan is the central province of China, and, at one time, Loyang, one of the major cities of the province, was the capital. That's where my father's ancestral home was.
1983, “Family Background and Childhood in Chefoo, Shantung Province”, in Regional Oral History Office interview, Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley
Origin
- Mandarin淅川
- EnglishHsi-ch'uan
From Mandarin 淅川 (Xīchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-chʻuan¹.
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