Tianshui

alternative T'ien-shui

1. A prefecture-level city of Gansu, in northwestern China.

   The spectacular cave shrines of Maichishan in southern Kansu have always been known to the citizens of T‘ien-shui (Ch‘in-chou) about thirty miles to the northwest.

   [1969, Michael Sullivan, “Foreword”, in The Cave Temples of Maichishan, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page vii

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   On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called Tianshuei.[…] Finally we arrived in Tianshuei, an old, old city with impressive walls, 25 feet or more in height and at least 20 feet in thickness, surrounding the rectangular city, which runs about 1 to 2 miles north to south and 4 to 5 miles east to west.

   [2007, “The Years before the End of the War”, in A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical College Alumna, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 35–36

   Smoke was used to make Friday’s drill at Yifu Experimental Middle School in Gansu province more realistic, but the volume generated was too large, said the official Xinhua News Agency. It said Friday’s drill was jointly organized by the school and Tianshui city’s Civil Air Defense Office.

   2015 September 20, “150 students ill in China after breathing in smoke at drill”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2024

   We were still recovering from our Sian getaway, and I was still feeling a bit feverish. So sleep was good. Three hours later, we got off in Tienshui. We were in Kansu province now.

   [2016, Bill Porter, “Tienshui”, in The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33

   I arrived in Tianshui an hour before sunset. Here was a city of flyover walkways and half-built skyscrapers that ran mile after bleak mile along the dirty waters of the Jie River. Tianshui was once surrounded by high gateways and spectacular city walls, whose lines followed the river. Modern Tianshui has lost those walls: Only the very oldest residents remember they once existed.

   2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2020

   Tianshui, the birthplace of Fuxi, and a hub for Fuxi culture, has a long standing tradition of worshiping Fuxi. In 1988, the Tianshui Municipal Government officially initiated the public ceremony for Fuxi worship with its scale and influence continuously growing.

   2025 June 26, Caroline Wu, 0:21 from the start, in Ancient Fuxi culture shines in modern Gansu, CGTN, via YouTube, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2026