Longshan
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English
Alternative forms
- Lung-shan (all senses)
- Lung Shan (mountains)
- Mount Long (mountains)
- Mount Lung (mountains)
Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of Mandarin 龍山／龙山 (Lóngshān) (Lóngshān, lit. "Dragon Mountain")
Proper noun
Longshan
- A neolithic culture along the Yellow River in China, named for its type site
- 2004, Xiaoneng Yang, “Introduction”, in New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44, column 2:
- Many identified the Yangshao culture, or the Painted Pottery culture, as the remains of the Xia nation; and the Longshan culture, or the Black Pottery culture, as the remains of the Shang nation.
- 2020 June 5, Stephen Chen, “Prehistoric ancestors of modern-day Chinese favoured rice over millet, study says”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 June 2020, Science:
- Han Chinese, who make up more than 90 per cent of the population of China, are genetically closer to the Longshan people, who are known to have farmed rice, the study said.
- , archived from the original on March 12, 2024:
- The Lungshan culture of Shantong was spread around the middle and east of Shantong Province, and the Huaibei area in Jiangsu Province, 4,500 to 4,000 years ago. […] From archaeological information we know that society in the Lungshan culture period had a clear hierarchy, and a special craftsman was in charge of pottery making.]
- Various mountains in China
- Various placenames in China and Taiwan
- , archived from the original on 15 October 2022:
- Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, sponsored by the Ministry of Education organized "Friendly Taiwan - foreign student homestay development program," in cooperation with Longsan community in Chiku District, Tainan.]
Translations
culture; locations
References
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 483: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Lung-shan (Longshan) 龍山”
Etymology 2
From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 隴山／陇山 (Lǒngshān).
Proper noun
Longshan