Meanings
- A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Similar spoons with pendants have been excavated from the graves of China's northern pastoral neighbors west of the Taihang Mountains at Chujiayu, Shilou county, Shanxi Province.
2002, Emma C. Bunker, “Catalogue”, in Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192, column 21 more example
These dwellings are made by digging out a living area from the top of a thick loess deposit. For the Longshan period, such dwellings have been discovered at Chagou in Shilou County, Shanxi, and Zhaojialai in Wugong County, Shaanxi Province, as well as at Taosi.[…] Crocodile-shaped gong vessel. Shilou, Luliang County, Shanxi Province. Shang dynasty. Shanxi Provincial Museum.[…] Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo Shanxi gongzuodui 中国社会科学院考古研究所山西工作队 (1985), "Shanxi Shilou Chagou yuanshi wenhua yicun 山西石楼岔沟原始文化遗存 (The primitive cultural remains at the Chagou site in Shilou, Shanxi),” Kaogu xuebao 考古学报, no. 2;[…]
2005, Kwang-chih Chang, The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 91, 171, 319
Origin
- Mandarin石樓 /石楼
- EnglishShilou
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石樓 /石楼.
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 石樓 /石楼
- 石樓 /石楼county
Chinese Mandarin 石樓 /石楼
- 石樓 /石楼county
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