单词 | tsung |
释义 | tsungn. Chinese Archaeology. A ritual artefact (usually made of a single piece of jade) consisting of rectangular block with a central cylindrical hollow, found esp. in graves of the Shang-Zhou period (16–11th cent. b.c.), and regarded as a symbol of, or sacrificial offering to, the Earth. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > artefacts scyphus1722 ceraunite1814 skyphos1847 shaft-hole1852 ostracon1853 scramasax1862 shard1865 ovate1872 omphalos1884 stop-ridge1894 tsung1904 pygmy flint1907 spacer1907 dotaku1908 yuan1912 roughout1913 rostro-carinate1919 shawabti1922 racloir1923 shoe-last1927 sleeve1929 ard1931 proto-biface1967 1851 E. Biot Tcheou-li I. xviii. 434 Avec la tablette Tsong, de couleur jaune, il rend hommage à la terre.] 1904 S. W. Bushell Chinese Art I. vii. 139 A perforated round symbol (pi) of cerulean tint is used in the worship of heaven, an octagonal symbol (tsung) of yellow jade for earth. 1935 Ashton & Gray Chinese Art 36 The ts'ung was used in the primary ritual of earth-worship and was probably also associated with fertility rites. 1963 K. Chang Archaeol. Anc. China ix. 276 A ceremonial pit was uncovered which contained over twenty stone discs of various sizes and a number of jade and stone ceremonial objects (circular yüan, square tsung tubes, wuan-kui, etc.). 1983 Washington Post 10 Oct. d3/2 The Stone Age jades on view—the highly polished discs, the rings and tsungs and ceremonial axes—were seen..as relatively modern. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1904 |
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