单词 | shang |
释义 | Shangn.1 The name of a dynasty which ruled China during part of the second millennium b.c., probably from the 16th to the 11th century b.c. Also attributive or as adj. Also called Shang-Yin n. [ < the place-name Yin in Honan Province, the dynasty's final capital] ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > specific Chinese or Mongol members of Song1657 Tang1669 Sui1736 Yuan1788 Qin1790 Ming1795 Wei1952 Shang-Yin1958 1669 J. Ogilby tr. J. Nieuhof Embassy E.-India Company xviii. 281 [Then] arose the family of Xanga, whereof the Emperor Tangus, in the year before Christ's Birth 1766, was the first who called it Xanga, from a Lordship of the same name he possessed. 1736 R. Brookes tr. J.-B. Du Halde et al. Gen. Hist. China I. 298 (heading) The Second Dynasty, called Chang, which comprehends the Lives of Twenty Eight Emperors in the Space of 644 Years. 1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 653/1 The whole of their [sc. of the Chinese] emperors..are comprehended in 22 dynasties, mentioned in the following table... 2. Shang, or Ing. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 259/2 Confucius's own ancestry is traced up, through the sovereigns of the previous dynasty of Shang, to Hwang-ti. 1933 R. Fry Let. 15 Dec. (1972) II. 686 Some..accomplished pre-Cheou bronzes: Shang they say but anyhow earlier than anything I knew. 1939 Burlington Mag. Feb. 85/2 Practically everything is problematical... This applies to the use of Shang weapons, though their date seems fairly safe. 1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. iii. 108 Writing in Shang-Yin times may have been more widespread through society than was at first believed. 1972 S. H. Hansford Gloss. Chinese Art & Archaeol. (ed. 2) Ku..is applied especially to objects attributed to the..Hsia, Shang-Yin and Chou, and the Han Dynasty. 1978 New Archaeol. Finds in China II. 2 Shang relics have been newly discovered in regions other than the Central Plains. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shangn.2 A unit of land measurement in China, equivalent to approximately 15 mu in most areas of the northeast, and 3 or 5 mu in the northwest (1 mu = 0.0667 hectares). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > Chinese units mou1836 shang1887 1887 Chinese Times 1 Oct. 786/3 The summer crops on over 40 shang of ground give no promise of harvest. 1966 F. Schurmann Ideol. & Organization in Communist China vii. 421 One laborer can plow and sow fifteen shang of land each year. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11669n.21887 |
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