Fufeng
See also: fúfēng
English
Alternative forms
- Fu-feng (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From Mandarin 扶風 / 扶风 (Fúfēng).
Pronunciation
- enPR: fo͞oʹfǔngʹ[1]
Proper noun
Fufeng
- A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, western China.
- 1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 89:
- Ch'ishan, a second class district city, much resembles Wukung and Fufeng, and seems fairly prosperous for a city of Central Shensi.
- [1982, Robert L. Thorp, “A Primer on the Bronze Caster's Art”, in Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art[4], New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23, column 1:
- A vessel almost identical in every particular was excavated at Lü-chai Village, in Fu-feng County, Shensi, in 1975.]
- [1982, Terrence Douglas O'Byrne, “Notes to Chapter Five”, in Civil-Military Relations During the Middle T'ang: The Career of Kuo Tzu-I[5], Urbana, Ill., →OCLC, page 401:
- He commanded a 3,000-man Shen-ts'e garrison in Fu-feng County, later transferring to Wu-kung County. Ming-chih spent ten years in the Wei valley defenses.]
- 2004, Edward L. Shaughnessy, “Western Zhou Hoard and Family Histories in the Zhouyuan”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor, New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century[6], volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:
- Throughout Chinese history, Qishan county in Shaanxi province has been known as the ancestral homeland of the Zhou 周 people. In reality, the actual site of the Zhou homeland, known as the Zhouyuan 周原 (Plain of Zhou), includes only the eastern edge of Qishan county, where it meets Fufeng county (fig. 12-1).
- 2011 March 13, Nicky Loh, “DOCUMENT DATE: March 13, 2011”, in Reuters[7], archived from the original on 02 June 2022[8]:
- A monk sits beside a security guard inside Famen Temple in Famen town, Fufeng County, 120 km (74 miles) west of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, March 13, 2011.
Translations
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Fufeng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 648, column 3
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fufeng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[9], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1291, column 2