CH’ANG-AN, an alternate name for Hsi-an (Sian) city, China, and for a district in which the city at times has been situated. Another name for Ch’ang-an Hsien (district) seat, a few miles south of Hsi-an, is Wei-ch’ü (sometimes erroneously Wangch’ü or Wangkü). China's capital during many dynasties from the Han to the T’ang was located in Ch’ang-an Hsien. See SIAN.
This rather leisurely journey, consuming almost six months, should be contrasted with Liu Tsung-yüan's trip into exile in 815- it took him a little more than three months to reach Liu-chou in Lingnan from Ch'ang-an.
1968, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China 1936-1945[3], 2nd printing, page 7:
If our spirit is high in Ch'ang-an (Sian), then Chiang will send the Young Marshal back to us.
They calmly kept watch. On the mountain path that wound around from the distant hills to the right, there was no movement. The pass was as flat as Ch'ang-an Avenue in Peking.
As a youth, he had had an uncle, a much younger half brother of his mother, who occasionally took him on exploratory adventures in their home city of Ch'ang-an.
Although Tao-hsin didn’t travel to the capitals of Loyang or Ch’ang-an, he did travel to Nanching on at least one occasion. According to an account in a number of early Zen annals, one day when Tao-hsin was in Emperor Wu’s old capital, he happened to notice the sky above Oxhead Mountain south of the city.
