Fufeng

See also: fúfēng

English

Alternative forms

• Fu-feng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 扶風 / 扶风 (Fúfēng).

Proper noun

Fufeng

1. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, western China.
   • 1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 89:

     Ch'ishan, a second class district city, much resembles Wukung and Fufeng, and seems fairly prosperous for a city of Central Shensi.

   • 1979 July, “2,000-year-old Paper”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XVIII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51:

     Three pieces of paper which may date back to between 73 and 49 BC were recently found in Fufeng county, Shaanxi province.

   • [1982, Robert L. Thorp, “A Primer on the Bronze Caster's Art”, in Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art‎^[3], New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23, column 1:

     A vessel almost identical in every particular was excavated at Lü-chai Village, in Fu-feng County, Shensi, in 1975.]

   • [1982, Terrence Douglas O'Byrne, “Notes to Chapter Five”, in Civil-Military Relations During the Middle T'ang: The Career of Kuo Tzu-I‎^[4], Urbana, Ill., →OCLC, page 401:

     He commanded a 3,000-man Shen-ts'e garrison in Fu-feng County, later transferring to Wu-kung County. Ming-chih spent ten years in the Wei valley defenses.]

   • 2004, Edward L. Shaughnessy, “Western Zhou Hoard and Family Histories in the Zhouyuan”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor, New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century‎^[5], volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:

     Throughout Chinese history, Qishan county in Shaanxi province has been known as the ancestral homeland of the Zhou 周 people. In reality, the actual site of the Zhou homeland, known as the Zhouyuan 周原 (Plain of Zhou), includes only the eastern edge of Qishan county, where it meets Fufeng county (fig. 12-1).

   • 2011 March 13, Nicky Loh, “DOCUMENT DATE: March 13, 2011”, in Reuters‎^[6], archived from the original on 02 June 2022‎^[7]:

     A monk sits beside a security guard inside Famen Temple in Famen town, Fufeng County, 120 km (74 miles) west of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, March 13, 2011.

Translations

county in western China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扶風 / 扶风 (zh) (Fúfēng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fufeng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1291, column 2