Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Liaocheng.
An Ch'ing-lan of Liao-ch'eng was a government student at an early age, but did not pass the provincial examination until many years later.
1962, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry, Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 2032 more examples
YANG I-tsêng 楊以增 (T. 益之, 至堂, 東樵), Oct. 26, 1787-1856, Jan. 25, official and bibliophile, was a native of Liao-chʻêng, Shantung.
[1944, Hiromu Momose, “YANG I-tsêng 楊以增”, in Arthur W. Hummel, Sr., editor, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912), volume II, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 888, column 1The following five-character regulated verse, one of two entitled "Twelfth Month, Sixth Day,"²⁸ was written by Yuan Hao-wen while under house arrest in Liao-chʻeng. The empire still full of arms, At this edge of the world, the year again renewed. The dragon has shifted, leaving fish and turtles lost; The sun eclipsed, unicorns are fighting. Brambles amid grasses, these desolate hills are snowy; In my old garden, mist and flowers mark the spring. Here in Liao-chʻeng, a moon out tonight, I feel disconsolate still away from home.
1989, Yoshikawa Kōjirō, translated by John Timothy Wixted, Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650, Lawrenceville, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35
Origin
- Mandarin聊城
- EnglishLiao-ch'eng
From Mandarin 聊城 (Liáochéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Liao²-chʻêng².
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