An-Yang
See also: anyang, ānyǎng, Anyang, Ānyáng, and An-yang
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 安陽／安阳 (Ānyáng) Wade-Giles romanization: An¹-Yang².
Proper noun
An-Yang
- Alternative form of Anyang
- 1934, “Postscript”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, number 6, Stockholm, page 136:
- There are An-Yang bronzes with inlays of turquoise, and many vessels reported to have come from An-Yang have the deeper parts of the pattern filled with a black, probably bituminous substance which may have served as a kind of inlay purposed to emphasize the details of the design.
- 1954 November, Helen Comstock, “The Connoisseur in America”, in The Connoisseur, volume CXXXIV, number 540, page 220:
- This broad yu came from An-Yang, the final capital of the Yin (also called Shang) Dynasty, which ruled from about 1525 to 1028 B.C., according to the revised conclusions of Dr. Bernhard Karlgren and other scholars.
- 1964, Lee, Sherman E., “Chinese Art of the Shang and Chou Dynasties”, in A History of Far Eastern Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, LCCN 64-11575, OCLC 327329, page 49, column 1:
- In addition to glazed ceramics we have, for the first time, actual remnants of wood — not simply imprints in the earth like those found at An-Yang.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:An-Yang.
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Translations
Anyang — see Anyang
Further reading
- “An-Yang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.