Ching-men

See also: Chingmen

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^[1], →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^[2], volume 1, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:

     A bronze ko 戈 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^[3], →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.

Translations

Jingmen — see Jingmen

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kingmen or Ching-men”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 949, column 1