Cishan

See also: císhàn

English

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 磁山 (Císhān).

Alternative forms

• Tz'u-shan (Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

• enPR: tsûʹshänʹ

Proper noun

Cishan

1. A Neolithic culture in northern China.
   • 1982, Wan-go Weng, Yang Boda, “Ceramics”, in The Palace Museum: Peking: Treasures of the Forbidden City‎^[4], London: Orbis Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81, column 1:

     Major archaeological finds of the last three decades include the earliest known sites along the Yellow River valley. Some of these sites are classified as belonging to the Cishan culture, after the type site in Wu’an, Hebei Province, and others to the Peiligang culture, after their type site in Xinzheng, Henan Province; both are datable between about 5500 and 5000 B.C. […]
     But a few are comb-marked, and at certain Cishan sites, some cord-marked or painted ones have been found. The common vessels are bowls, round-bottomed or with three short legs; deep, wide-mouthed jars; pots with two tiny lugs; caldrons with three or four legs (ding); and, in settlements of the Cishan culture, straight-walled, flat-bottomed jars (yu) and flat-topped, hollow pot supports.

   • 1999, Laurent Sagart, “Agriculture: The Cereals”, in The Roots of Old Chinese‎^[5], volume 184, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 176:

     Domesticated millets — Setaria italica and Panicum miliaceum — appear a little later than rice in the archaeological record, around 6500-5000 BCE in sites of the Peiligang, Cishan and related cultures, in the mid Huang He river valley, the Wei river valley and the upper Han river valley in northern China.

   • 2004, Sarah M. Nelson, “Millet and Pigs in Korea and Manchuria”, in Korean Social Archaeology: Early Villages (Korean Studies Series)‎^[6], volume 27, Seoul: Jimoondang, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:

     In Manchuria, changes in subsistence and sedentism can be traced through time and between regions. Interpretations of millet cultivation in Manchuria vary, but in general the sites are regarded as related to and derivative from the Cishan culture.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Cishan.

Translations

a prehistoric archaeological culture

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 磁山

  Mandarin: 磁山 (Císhān)

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Etymology 2

Cishan District Office Kaohsiung City

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 旗山 (Císhan).

Alternative forms

• Ch'i-shan, Chishan (Wade–Giles)
• Qishan (Hanyu Pinyin)

Pronunciation

• enPR: chēʹshänʹ

Proper noun

Cishan

1. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
   • 2009 August 9, “Typhoon slams Taiwan, China, Japan”, in NBC News‎^[7], archived from the original on 21 December 2021:

     Taiwan Red Cross members escort rescued residents who were trapped following Typhoon Morakot, to receive medical care in Cishan, Taiwan, 12 August 2009. Taiwan soldiers on 12 August found 70 more survivors from a village buried by a mudslide, bringing to 1,000 the number of people found alive in mountain region affected by landslides in the southern county of Kaohsiung.

   • 2009 August 14, “Taiwan leader says more than 500 dead in typhoon”, in Reuters‎^[8], archived from the original on 2023-06-28, World News‎^[9]:

     In Cishan, a storm-ravaged town of 41,000, both road bridges had collapsed, smashing houses and taking down cars. Residents jammed a footbridge which remained standing.

   • 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan‎^[10], 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 206:

     The trail runs relatively wide and flat most of the way, skirting the northern slopes of the deep, V-shaped Cishan River (旗山溪) valley.

   • 2014, KaiHsun Hsieh, Wu YongPei, Lin SuJu, “Investigation of the functional compositions of turmeric collected from Cishan District of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.”, in Crop, Environment & Bioinformatics‎^[11], volume 11, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     We gathered 500 turmeric buds from Cishan District of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan in February 2008.

   • 2015, A Fotiadis, C Vassiliadis, SP Yeh, “Participant’s preferences for small-scale sporting events: a comparative analysis of a Greek and a Taiwanese cycling event”, in EuroMed Journal of Business‎^[12], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     “Bike to Remember” is a cycling event in Cishan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan and has been held for 5 times already. The event is created in memory a typhoon that destroyed a great part of this area. Although the area has now been rebuilt the organizers wanted later generations to know about the disaster and they encouraged participants to write a brief ‘feeling’ paragraph on Facebook after the competitive activity had finished.

   • 2019, Yang Su-min, Evelyn Kao, “Taiwan reports first-ever H5N5 avian influenza case”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[13]:

     Taiwan has confirmed the country's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N5 strain of avian influenza on a duck farm in Cishan District, Kaohsiung, Council of Agriculture (COA) Deputy Minister Huang Chin-cheng (黃金城) said Monday.

   • 2019, Chen Ting-fang, “Da-ai Sewing Workshop”, in Hou Ya-ting, transl., Love Kaohsiung 愛·高雄, number 4, page 6:

     They now have more sewing machines than technicians, so they plan to allow residents from Cishan and Meinong to use them in training programs.

   • 2020, Jason Pan, “Supreme Court rejects final spying case appeal”, in Taipei Times‎^[14]:

     Tu talked about his connections in the Kaohsiung area, and agreed to recruit people in Taiwan’s armed forces to gain access to confidential military material in exchange for money, prosecutors said.
     Tu recruited retired sergeant major Wang Jui-chi (王瑞祺), who was in charge of an ammunition depot in Kaohsiung’s Cishan District (旗山) while he was in the Army Logistics Command, they said.
     Tu introduced Wang to the Chinese officials and Dong gave Tu cash to give to Wang, they said.

   • 2022 September 2, Tom O'Connor, “If China Moves to Take Taiwan, Report Sees 3,500 Potential Targets”, in Newsweek‎^[15], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 September 2022, World‎^[16]:

     Military points of interest named in the report include the Taiwanese navy's Haifeng Brigade, an ammunition depot in Cishan, located near the southern city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's Military Police Command headquarters, and the Army Logistics Training Center.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Cishan.

Synonyms

• Kizan

Translations

district in southern Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 旗山 (Kî-san)

  Mandarin: 旗山 (zh) (Qíshān)

Further reading

• Cishan, Chishan, Qishan, Ch'i-shan, Kizan at Google Ngram Viewer
• 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

Anagrams

• Cashin, Chains, Chians, Chinas, cash in, cash-in, chains, chasin', chinas