Ch'ü-fu

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See also: chúfú

English

Map including Ch'ü-fu (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 曲阜 (Qūfù), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻü¹-fu⁴.[1]

Proper noun

Ch'ü-fu

  1. Alternative form of Qufu
    • 1919, John C. Ferguson, Outlines of Chinese Art, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 116:
      There is a portrait of Confucius at Chʻü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she tʻu, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Chʻêng-tu, Sze-chʻuan.
    • 1962, J. S. Cummins, The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete, 1618-1686, volume II, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 209:
      He is bury'd in a stately Sepulcher in the same Town where he was born.¹
      [...]
      ¹ The temple-tomb at Chʻü-fu in Shantung ; it is about a mile from the modern city ; this 'stately Sepulcher' was at that time in a delapidated state of repair.
    • 1971, Betty Kelen, Confucius: In Life and Legend, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
      Soon after the old man's death, the mother of Confucius took him to live closer to the state capital, Ch'ü-fu- a town which still flourishes as a modern city in southwestern Shantung.
    • 1973, D. Howard Smith, Confucius, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 33:
      It is recorded that the Duke of Chou sent his eldest son, Po Ch'in, to take charge of a large fiefdom in the east in what is now the prefecture of Ch'ü-fu in Shantung.
    • 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare, Basic Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 143:
      Next in the traditionally accepted sequence of Shang capitals is Yen, tentatively identified with a site out in Shandong amid the Tung Yi, near what would eventually become Ch'ü-fu in the state of Lu.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ch'ü-fu.

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References

  1. ^ Qufu Wade-Giles romanization Ch’ü-fu, in Encyclopædia Britannica