Pao-chi
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 寶雞／宝鸡 (Bǎojī), Wade–Giles romanization: Pao³-chi¹.[1]
Proper noun
Pao-chi
- Alternative form of Baoji
- 1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, OCLC 13180751, page 41:
- According to the hair-dress it is probably that of a woman. There are some 102 slight traces of polychromy on the white slip. Other heads possessing similar qualities were dug up from early Han tombs in Pao-chi district, Shensi Province.
- 1981, Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, “The Ma-chia-yao Tradition”, in The traditions of Chinese neolithic pottery, number 53, Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, ISSN 0081-5691, OCLC 1761032, page 44:
- As has been established by recent excavations, the Pan-p’o tradition extended at least as far west as Pao-chi on the Wei River in Shensi.”)
Among the Pan-p’o material excavated at Pao-chi was found a small squat water jar with a baluster-like head; painted on the surface of this vessel is the outline of a dragon-like creature (Figure 143).
- 1982, Robert L. Thorp, “A Primer on the Bronze Caster's Art”, in Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, LCCN 82-8018, OCLC 8473783, OL 3488358M, page 11:
- Sometime during the ninth century B.C., in a small Chinese state called San—situated near modern-day Pao-chi in western Shensi Province—an earl commissioned a set of ritual vessels.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pao-chi.
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Translations
Baoji — see Baoji
References
- Baoji, Wade-Giles romanization Pao-chi, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- Pao-chi at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Pao-chi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “Pao-chi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.