Ching-men

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English

Map including CHING-MEN (JINGMEN) (DMA, 1985)

Etymology

From Mandarin 荆門 (Jīngmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Ching¹-mên².

Proper noun

Ching-men

  1. Alternative form of Jingmen.
    • 1923, Shigeyoshi Obata, transl., Li Po, the Chinese Poet, →OCLC, page 40:
      Here a few feet
      Seem a thousand miles.
      The craggy walls glisten blue and red,
      A piece of dazzling embroidery.
      How green those distant trees are
      Round the river strait of Ching-men!
      And those ships-they go on,
      Floating on the waters of Pa.
      The water sings over the rocks
      Between countless hills
      Of shining mist and lustrous grass.
    • 1972, Chang Kwang-chih, “Major Aspects of Ch'u Archaeology”, in Early Chinese Art and its Possible Influence in the Pacific Basin, volume 1, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:
      A bronze ko and a bronze sword of the late Chou type were found in Ching-men 荆門, some 90 km north of Chiang-ling (Wang Y.P., 1963a);
    • 1993, Ralph D. Sawyer, transl., The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 315:
      Hsiao-kung wanted to attack him, but Ching said: "You cannot! Shih-hung is a stalwart general, while those below him are all courageous men. Now when they have newly lost Ching-men, they will all be full of ardor to oppose us. This is an army which can rescue the defeated and cannot be opposed.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ching-men.

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