Ching-men
See also: Chingmen
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 荆門 (Jīngmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Ching¹-mên².
Proper noun
Ching-men
- Alternative form of Jingmen
- 1923, Shigeyoshi Obata, transl., Li Po, the Chinese Poet, →OCLC, page 40:
- Here a few feet
Seem a thousand miles.
The craggy walls glisten blue and red,
A piece of dazzling embroidery.
How green those distant trees are
Round the river strait of Ching-men!
And those ships-they go on,
Floating on the waters of Pa.
The water sings over the rocks
Between countless hills
Of shining mist and lustrous grass.
- 1972, Chang Kwang-chih, “Major Aspects of Ch'u Archaeology”, in Early Chinese Art and its Possible Influence in the Pacific Basin, volume 1, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:
- A bronze ko 戈 and a bronze sword of the late Chou type were found in Ching-men 荆門, some 90 km north of Chiang-ling (Wang Y.P., 1963a);[...]
- 1993, Ralph D. Sawyer, transl., The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 315:
- Hsiao-kung wanted to attack him, but Ching said: "You cannot! Shih-hung is a stalwart general, while those below him are all courageous men. Now when they have newly lost Ching-men, they will all be full of ardor to oppose us. This is an army which can rescue the defeated and cannot be opposed.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ching-men.
Translations
Jingmen — see Jingmen
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kingmen or Ching-men”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 949, column 1
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