Lung-shan

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English

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 龍山 / 龙山 (Lóngshān) (Lóngshān, lit. "Dragon Mountain") Wade-Giles romanization: Lung²-shan¹.[1][2]

Proper noun

Lung-shan

  1. (dated) Alternative form of Longshan
    • 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:
      Lung-shan culture takes us to the dawn of recorded history, metallurgy, of rituals involving human sacrifice, of wars, and of a society that was to become increasingly stratified - in other words, to the doorstep of civilization.
    • , Chinese Exhibition Council of the Royal Ontario Museum, →OCLC, page 5:
      Lungshan culture is distributed along the middle and lower Yellow River and belongs to the late Neolithic Period. It is named after the small town of Lungshan in Licheng county, Shantung province, where it was first discovered in 1928.]
    • 1976, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 133:
      After the establishment of the Lungshanoid pioneer farmers in the various areas, a series of local cultures began to emerge. One of these, the Honan Lung-shan culture, was probably the progenitor of the Shang civilization.
    • 1982, Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, Phaidon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:
      The second culture, called Lung-shan, lay to the north-east and east in a broad coastal strip reaching from southern Manchuria through Hopei, eastern Honan and Shantung, and as far south as northern Chekiang. The type site, Chʻêng-tzu-yai, lies in northern Shantung and was discovered in 1931,² the culture taking its name from the hill, Lung-shan, adjoining the settlement.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lung-shan.

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References

  1. ^ Longshan culture, Wade-Giles romanization Lung-shan, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 482: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