Meanings
- alternativedatedAlternative form of Deqing.
Tsan-ning was surnamed Kao. His family was originally from the P'o Hai district of present-day Hopei, but at the end of the Sui dynasty (618) they moved to the Te-ch'ing district of Wu-hsing prefecture, in present-day Chekiang.
1987, Albert A. Dalia, “The "Political Career" of the Buddhist Historian Tsan-ning”, in David W. Chappell, editor, Buddhist and Taoist Practice in Medieval Chinese Society, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 1542 more examples
The earliest form of celadon, the Yüeh ware, was produced in the southeast coastal provinces of Che-chiang and Fu-chien around the time of Christ.[…]A number of kiln sites have been found — Chiu-yen and Te-ch'ing in Che-chiang, and Nan-tai in Fu-chien.
1973, George Kuwayama, “Introduction”, in Chinese Ceramics: The Heeramaneck Collection, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9The silk district of Chekiang Province, “one vast rich and fertile mulberry garden,” is a virtually flat floodplain, laced with creeks and canals and studded with residual hills, which appear to a visitor “as if they had been thrown out as guards between the vast plain, which extends eastward to the sea, and the mountains of the west.”[…]In the midst of this thoroughly commercialized district lay the county seat of Te-ch'ing, some twenty miles north of historic Hangchow.
1990, Philip A. Kuhn, “Tales of the China Clipper”, in Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 3
Origin
- Mandarin德清
- EnglishTe-ch'ing
From Mandarin 德清 (Déqīng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tê²-chʻing¹, with the diacritic in Tê-ch'ing omitted.
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