Chishan

See also: Chìshān

English

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 赤山 (Chìshān).

Proper noun

Chishan

1. A village in Wanluan, Pingtung County, Taiwan
   • 2012 December 31, Iok-sin Loa, “FEATURE: Pingtung villages’ Christmas parade a hit”, in Taipei Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-01-03, Taiwan News, page 3:

     Most people may not have expected it, but for residents in Pingtung County’s two small villages of Wanjin (萬金) and Chishan (赤山) — with a combined population of about 5,000 — Christmas is the most important festivity of the year, since about 80 percent of the villagers are Catholics.

   • 2017 January 11, “Thousands of People Crowded to Wanjin to Celebrate the Christmas”, in Ping Tung County Police Bureau [屏東縣政府警察局]‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-06-28:

     On Dec. 24th Christmas Eve, Wanjin Christmas Festival opened on the weekend made the district crowded with people and cars. In the evening, there were more and more people came to the place to visit. This year, Wanjin Christmas Festival scattered in Wanjin village, Chishan village and Wulaluzi tribe.

   • [2020 March 27, Steven Crook, “Highways and Byways: Pingtung’s back country by bike”, in Taipei Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-27, Features, page 13‎^[6]:

     Near Chihshan (赤山), I stumbled across a stretch of old Taiwan Sugar Corporation (台糖, TSC) railroad that’s being converted into a bicycle path. Avoiding the heart of Neipu (內埔), I joined County Road 48-1 (屏48-1), a route I hoped would go through quiet yet quaint villages.]

   • (Can we date this quote?), “Wanjin Catholic Basilica”, in Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Center [原住民族委員會原住民族文化發展中心]‎^[7], archived from the original on 2023-06-28‎^[8]:

     In December of the 8th year of Tongzhi (1869), a solid church was built in the Chishan area (now Chishan Village and Wanjin Village of Wanluan Township)

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Translations

village

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 赤山 (Chìshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 旗山 (Qíshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻi²-shan¹.

Proper noun

Chishan

1. Alternative form of Cishan (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
   • 1975 December 28, “New process is making banana waste into paper”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[9], volume XVI, number 51, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:

     The proposed plant will be located in Chishan, Kaohsiung, near the large banana plantations. It will have a daily capacity of 15 tons of paper at the first stage.

   • 1983, Burton Pasternak, “Lungtu Before the Japanese”, in Guests in the Dragon: Social Demography of a Chinese District, 1895-1946‎^[10], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:

     En route the Japanese sent men to gather intelligence in Hsishih and Fanshuliao (now Chishan, just to the west of Meinung).

   • 1984 November 1, “Kuanmiao crafts comfort for the world”, in Taiwan Today‎^[11], archived from the original on 11 September 2023:

     According to Tu, two hundred years ago the nearby mountains furnished livelihood substitutes for the scanty farmland of Kuanmiao. At that time, bamboo forests grew from Lungchi to Chishan, in Kaohsiung.

   • 2007 February 11, Marie Feliciano, “CHT expanding education program for migrants”, in Taiwan News‎^[12], archived from the original on 06 October 2022, Society:

     Last year, CHT-I organized training sessions for foreign moms in various parts of the country, particularly in remote locations such as Chishan in Kaohsiung County, Pingtung, Wuku in Taipei County, and Taitung.

   • 2013 February 2, Ching-hua Tsai, Jake Chung, “Greater Kaohsiung renews contract with band Mayday”, in Taipei Times‎^[13], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 August 2019, Taiwan News, page 3‎^[14]:

     He then took a banana from his pocket, took the first bite and then passed it to the other band members, who each took a bite out of it to signify that the bond between them was “ru jiao sih ci (如膠似漆),” as thick as thieves, and also promoting the bananas grown in Greater Kaohsiung’s Chishan District (旗山).

   • 2016, Chia Hung Jen et al., “The Impact of Typhoon Morakot in 2009 on Landslides, Debris Flows and Population in the Chishan River Catchment, Taiwan”, in Geomorphology and Society‎^[15], →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76:

     The result shows that the areas with most population change between 2012 and 2008 are in Chishan and Meinong, and both in the landslide 'coldspot'.

   • 2020, “110 學年度外國學生申請入學招生簡章 [2021-2022 Admission Brochure for International Students]”, in Shih Chien University‎^[16], archived from the original on 11 September 2022, page 42:

     The Shih Chien University Kaohsiung Campus is located at the junction of Neimen and Chishan [Qishan]. The following information will direct you to our campus：
     1. Travel by car
     Situated at the boundary between Neimen and Chishan, the Kaohsiung Campus is only about 10 minutes’ drive from the Chishan terminal of National Highway No. 10 and is easily accessible […]

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Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kishan, Chishan, or Ch'i-shan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[17], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 955, column 3
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chishan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[18], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 785, column 2

Etymology 3

From Mandarin 稷山 (Jìshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Chi⁴-shan¹.

Proper noun

Chishan

1. Alternative form of Jishan (Shanxi, China)
   • 1973 [1960 April 6], Chen-lin Tan, “Strive for the Fulfillment, Ahead of Schedule, of the National Programme for Agricultural Development”, in Second Session of the Second National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (Documents)‎^[19], AMS Press; Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87:

     The tremendous achievements of the movement for eliminating the “four pests” and promoting hygiene are well known and universally acclaimed. For example, Chishan County in Shansi Province and the city of Foshan in Kwangtung Province have emerged as the model county and city where the “four pests” have in the main been wiped out.

   • 1973 November, Hua-wen Hsin, “Commune Hospitals Grow”, in China Reconstructs‎^[20], volume XXII, number 11, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

     Chishan county in Shansi province, a model in medical and health work, has 11 commune hospitals. From 1952, they rallied the masses in prevention and treatment work and cut the incidence of infectious diseases from the early post-liberation 10 percent to 0.5 percent.

   • 2003 August, “A New Achievement in China's Medical Field”, in P.S. Yau, transl., edited by P.S. Yau, Scalp-Needling Therapy‎^[21], Revised and Enlarged edition, Medicine & Health Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1:

     An analysis of 600 cases handled by the Chishan County People’s Hospital in Shansi province, where the young physician works, shows that needling certain points on the scalp is useful in treating paralysis caused by pathological changes of the brain.

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Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsishan or Chi-shan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[22], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1954, column 1

Etymology 4

From Mandarin 岐山 (Qíshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻi²-shan¹.

Proper noun

Chishan

1. Alternative form of Qishan (Shaanxi, China)
   • 1973, Michael Sullivan, “The Chou Dynasty (1127?-256 BC)”, in Chinese Art: Recent Discoveries‎^[23], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 16:

     Since 1966 a number of superb early Western Chou bronzes have been unearthed, such as the unique creature from Chishan County in Shensi, found in 1970, and the group of late Western Chou vessels found at Ching-shan, Hupeh.

   • 1977, “Children's Life”, in China Pictorial‎^[24], number 351, Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 1:

     The Little Red Guard road maintenance team of the Yunglo Primary School in Chishan County, Shensi Province, was formed in 1972 to commemorate the ninth anniversary of Chairman Mao’s inscription: “Learn from Comrade Lei Feng." It has grown in number from 3 to the present 24.

   • 2011, Amit Bhattacharyya, “A Note on the Sources”, in The Chinese Civilization Hsia to the Ch'in Dynasty 2207 BC-206 BC‎^[25], Rachayita, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:

     Then in the Da Yu ting there is the record of a man who received land and grants of a chariot and horses, clothing and a horde of slaves. Some bronze vessels of the Western Chou period unearthed in 1966 at Chishan County near Sian, Shensi Province, bear inscriptions.

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Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kishan or Ch'i-shan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[26], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 955, column 3