Lung-shan
See also: Lung Shan
English
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese 龍山 (Lóngshān, lit. "Dragon Mountain") Wade-Giles romanization: Lung²-shan¹[1]
Proper noun
Lung-shan
- (dated) Alternative form of Longshan
- 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, LCCN 71-86829, OCLC 100249, page 52:
- Lung-shan culture takes us to the dawn of recorded history, metallurgy, of rituals involving human sacrifice, of wars, and of a society that was to become increasingly stratified - in other words, to the doorstep of civilization.
- [1974, Organization Committee of the Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China, editor, The Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China, Chinese Exhibition Council of the Royal Ontario Museum, OCLC 978414, page 5:
- Lungshan culture is distributed along the middle and lower Yellow River and belongs to the late Neolithic Period. It is named after the small town of Lungshan in Licheng county, Shantung province, where it was first discovered in 1928.]
- 1976, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 68-24780, OCLC 308337, OL 10317597M, page 133:
- After the establishment of the Lungshanoid pioneer farmers in the various areas, a series of local cultures began to emerge. One of these, the Honan Lung-shan culture, was probably the progenitor of the Shang civilization.
- 1982, Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, Phaidon Press, →ISBN, OCLC 247602466, page 17:
- The second culture, called Lung-shan, lay to the north-east and east in a broad coastal strip reaching from southern Manchuria through Hopei, eastern Honan and Shantung, and as far south as northern Chekiang. The type site, Chʻêng-tzu-yai, lies in northern Shantung and was discovered in 1931,² the culture taking its name from the hill, Lung-shan, adjoining the settlement.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lung-shan.
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Translations
Longshan — see Longshan
References
- Longshan culture, Wade-Giles romanization Lung-shan, in Encyclopædia Britannica