Lan-t'ien

English

Map including Lan-t'ien (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 藍田 / 蓝田 (Lántián) Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-tʻien².

Proper noun

Lan-t'ien

1. Alternative form of Lantian
   • 1895, James Legge, “The Lî Sâo Poem and its Author”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society‎^[1], Stephen Austin and Sons, page 85:

     On this king Hwâi called out all the military strength of his kingdom and led it deep into Chʻin, with whose forces another battle was fought at Lan-tʻien.²
     . . .
     ² Meaning "Indigo Fields." A district of the department of Hsî-an still bears the name.

   • 1974, William Watson, Ancient China: The Discoveries of post-Liberation Chinese archaeology‎^[2], New York Graphic Society, →ISBN, page 19:

     We have imagined the habitat of Lan-tʻien Man and his palaeolithic successors to be relatively open terrain of woods and grassland.

   • 1983, Valjean McLenighan, China, A History to 1949‎^[3], Chicago: Children's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:

     The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools.

   • 2008, William Watson, “Wang Wei”, in Jelena Krstovic, editor, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism‎^[4], volume 100, Gale Cengage Learning, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 286:

     Of more importance are Wang Wei's descriptions of landscapes, particularly those at his country home at Lan-t'ien southeast of Ch'ang-an.

Translations

Lantian — see Lantian

Anagrams

• Eltanin, leant in, tan line