Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Luotian.
Yü San-sheng came from Lo-t’ien in Hupeh, and was the son of a merchant.
1972, Colin P. Mackerras, The Rise of the Peking Opera 1770–1870, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 1842 more examples
Yuh ying kia pi 育嬰家祕, "Domestic Mysteries regarding the Rearing of Children", a work by Wan Ts'üen 萬全, alias Mih-chai 密齋, a native of Lo-t'ien 羅田 in the extreme east of Hupeh, who lived under the Ming dynasty.
1901, J. J. M. de Groot, The Religious System of China, volume IV, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2023, page 92Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).
1986, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51
Origin
- Mandarin羅田 /罗田
- EnglishLo-t'ien
From Mandarin 羅田 /罗田 (Luótián), Wade–Giles romanization: Lo²-t'ien².
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